Candy Land Extreme is a home-made variation on the rules of Candy Land that makes games go faster (hooray!) and adds game balance. Ever notice the unfairness of "draw the pink ice cream and automatically win"? Has your three-year-old cried when drawing the gumdrop just before winning? No more.
SETUP:
1. Shuffle and deal 4 cards per player.
TAKE TURNS:
1. Draw TWO cards into your hand.
2. You may play one OR MORE cards of the same color by placing them face up on the table.
3a. Any opponent may "zap you out" by playing a single card of the same color.
OR
3b. Any opponent may play a pink card. It becomes their turn, and they now own the face-up pile of cards. You may not play pink on a zapped-out pile.
4. You may "zap yourself back in" by playing one or more cards of the same color - return to step 3.
5. If you are "zapped out" do not move. If you are "zapped in" then move the total dots on ALL cards played. But never more than nine cards may be combined in this way.
6. Discard all the played cards into a discard pile.
PINK CARDS
* Pink cards must be played one at a time, and may not be zapped out.
* Instead of moving to the picture on the pink card, move to the NEXT pink square.
* Pink cards may not win - the final square does not include the color pink.
