The Candy Bar Game {So Much Fun!} (2024)

Note: The game I’m sharing today involves stealing wrapped candy bars from one another. The Christmas candy bar game that I’ve shared previously involves using a butter knife and fork to try to cut pieces of chocolate off a large frozen bar while wearing oven mitts. Click here for those instructions.

What You’ll Need

You only need a couple things to play the Candy Bar Game:

• First, you need a variety of candy bars or other individually wrapped snacks or treats. How many candy bars you play with is up to you, but it’s most fun if you have 2-3 candy bars per person playing (or more if it’s a small group). If you are playing with a very large group and the cost for the candy seems to high, you can still have a blast playing with just one candy bar per person, plus a few extras. And you want as many different kinds of candy bars as you can find. I try not to duplicate any candy for this game. Head to a store that has a good candy aisle, or order a variety snack pack from Amazon, like this one, that comes with lots of different candy and snack items.
• Second, you need a brown lunch sack for each person.
• Finally, you need a single die. If you are playing with a large group, you can play with two dice instead of one.

All Different Kinds of Candy

How to Play

Have everyone sit at the table. If you have too many people to fit at a table, have everyone sit in a circle on the floor. Place all of the candy in the middle of the table (or circle) and give each person a lunch sack.

Round One

To begin the game, the first person rolls one die. If they roll a one or a six, they get to grab a candy bar from the pile in the middle and hide it inside their sack. If they don’t roll a one or six, they pass the die to the next person. Keep passing the die clockwise, with each person rolling it once, until all the candy bars have been taken from the middle and placed inside people’s sacks. That’s the end of round one. Remember to pay attention during round one – you want to keep track of your favorite candy bars because you’ll need to know who is holding them in order to steal them in round two!

Round Two

Round Two is where things get exciting – it’s the “steal” round. At this point all the candy bars are hidden inside people’s lunch sacks, so you can’t see what anyone else has. Set a timer for as long as you’d like the round to last, and start playing again. This time if you roll a one or six, you can steal a candy bar from someone else. BUT you have to ask a specific person for a specific candy bar that you think they have in their sack. If they have that candy, they have to give it to you. But if they don’t have the candy you asked for, you’re out of luck until it’s your turn to roll again. This means you have to keep track of who has your favorites at the end of round one AND who is stealing the ones you want in round two.

Variations

Make it easier for younger kids: If you’re playing with mostly younger kids, you have a couple options to make the game easier. You can have everyone wait until the end of round one to put their candy in their sacks OR you can choose not to hide the candy at all. Explain to kids before the game starts that candy bars will be stolen during this game so they know what to expect and don’t cry the first time something is stolen from them. It’s a good idea to have a couple of extra candy bars to distribute to anyone who doesn’t have any candy in their sack at the end of the game – and you can let kids know that no matter what, they will get at least one candy bar at the end. Alternately, the person who ends up with the most bars can share one with someone who doesn’t have one at the end.