Tracy Mumford

The Times has a series called Overlooked, which features obituaries of remarkable people whose deaths originally went unreported in The Times.

In the latest one, my colleagues covered the life of Eleanor Abbott, the creator of a very famous board game.

She designed the colorful game during an outbreak of polio in the 1940s.

She wanted to give all the kids stuck in the hospital something to take their minds off their dreary surroundings.

What game did she create?

The answer?

Candyland?

The game hit shelves in 1949 and cost a whole dollar.

If you can track down one of the original boards, the artwork includes what some think is actually a nod to its origins.

It has a drawing of a boy with a thin line running down his leg, which looks a lot like the brace some kids had to wear after getting polio.

Up until Abbott's death in the 1980s, she donated much of her royalties from Candyland to children affected by the disease.

And that was not a small amount of money, since the game was a runaway hit.

According to one estimate, more than 60% of American households with young kids own Candyland.

All hail Lord Licorice.

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I'm Traci Mumford.

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I'm Tracy Mumford.