Random Candy Generator: 100 Candies From Gummy Bears to Gaz: how it works
One hundred sweets sit behind this random candy generator: gummies and jellies, boiled sweets, chocolate, toffee and fudge, nut sweets and liquorice. It deals five at a time, each with one checked line on what the candy is made of, or where and when it began. Sixty-two belong to one place, and the card names it.
Six kinds of candy, and a second row that stacks on top
The Type row keeps the draw inside one kind: Hard, boiled and fizzy has 24 candies, Toffee, fudge and soft sweets 22, Chocolate 16, Gummies, jellies and fruit sweets 16, Liquorice and anise 9. Nut and seed sweets has 20, seven of them shared with another type. The Only row combines with it: Chocolate with Holidays and celebrations leaves five, from chocolate coins to szaloncukor.
Sweets that belong to a day or a place
Holidays and celebrations holds 23 candies tied to a date: candy corn and bonfire toffee for Halloween, sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead, chocolate letters for Sinterklaas, barfi and kaju katli for Diwali. Regional sweets holds 62, among them cuberdon from Ghent, gaz from Isfahan and tablet from Scotland. Twenty-seven cards carry a year or a century, from turrón in the 1400s to bubble gum in 1928.
Tips
Filling a party bowl? Tap Holidays and celebrations, draw 10 and lock the ones your season calls for.
Writing a quiz round? Tap Regional sweets and Hide all facts, draw 5, and ask which country each belongs to.
Playing an alphabet game? Type a letter in the starts-with box: C alone has 16 candies.
Questions and answers
Are these brands or types of candy?
Types, almost all. Milk chocolate, gummy bears and peanut butter cups appear as kinds of candy, with no bar or bag names. A few regional sweets are made by one firm or protected by name, such as Anis de Flavigny and Ptasie mleczko. Those are written as plain text, and this site has no tie to any maker.
How were the origin stories checked?
We read every line against the candy's own English Wikipedia article on 18 September 2026. Where the article hedges, the card does too: the candy cane's start in Cologne is a common story, and the dropped tray behind liquorice allsorts supposedly happened. Claims missing from the article, such as a birthplace for candy corn, stayed off.
Is Nut and seed sweets an allergy filter?
No. It is our own sorting of candies built around a nut or a seed, such as marzipan, chikki and halva. Candies under every other chip can contain nuts, seeds, milk, egg or gluten, and recipes differ between makers. Read the packet, or ask whoever made it.
BocadilloGuava pulp cooked with panela and wrapped in bijao leaves. Vélez in Colombia is a major centre for it.
ChurchkhelaGeorgian: walnuts or hazelnuts threaded on a string, dipped in thickened grape must and hung to dry.
CuberdonA purple cone from Ghent in Belgium, with a gum arabic crust and a soft raspberry-flavoured centre.
GumdropsSugar-coated pectin domes in fruit and spice flavours. The spiced ones are also called spice drops.
🐻Gummy bearsHans Riegel, a confectioner in Bonn, Germany, made the first ones in 1922 on a base of gum arabic.
Haw flakesThin pink discs of Chinese hawthorn fruit, packed in small cylindrical stacks.
Jelly babiesBaby-shaped jellies first made in Lancashire, England, in the 19th century; sold as Peace Babies in 1918.
Jelly beansBean-shaped shells with a gel centre, tied to Easter in the US since the 1930s for their egg shape.
🌰Marrons glacésChestnuts candied in sugar syrup and then glazed. Their origin is given as France or Italy.
PastilaA traditional Russian fruit sweet, light and airy, made in the 19th century from sour Antonovka apples.
PethaA translucent soft candy made from ash gourd. The Indian city of Agra is known for it.
Quince pasteA sweet, tart, thick jelly of quince pulp, known in Spanish as dulce de membrillo.
Turkish delightLokum, a gel of starch and sugar, traditionally flavoured with rosewater, mastic, bergamot or lemon.
Wine gumsA firm British gum introduced in 1909. Each piece is usually labelled with the name of a wine.
YōkanA Japanese block of red bean paste, agar and sugar, eaten in slices.
ZefirA Russian sweet of whipped fruit purée, mostly apple, with sugar and egg white. It is close to marshmallow.
Hard, boiled and fizzy 24
Bêtises de CambraiFrench boiled sweets from Cambrai, said to have been invented by accident. Bêtise means a stupid mistake.
Bonfire toffeeA hard, brittle treacle toffee made in the UK for Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night.
🍬ButterscotchBrown sugar and butter. Early mentions tie it to Doncaster in Yorkshire, and a recipe was printed in 1848.
🍎Candy appleA whole apple in a hard sugar shell, a treat at Halloween and on Guy Fawkes Night.
Candy caneThe peppermint stick of Christmas. A common story starts it in Cologne in 1670; records begin in 1866.
💌Conversation heartsSmall sugar hearts printed with messages for Valentine's Day. Printing sayings on candy began in 1866.
DalgonaMelted sugar and baking soda, pressed flat and stamped with a shape. A South Korean street snack.
Deuk deuk tongA hard Hong Kong maltose candy with sesame and ginger. Deuk is Cantonese for chiselling.
GobstopperA jawbreaker in Canada and the US. Layers are panned onto a core one by one, which takes several weeks.
Honeycomb toffeeBaking soda foams the hot sugar. Also called cinder toffee, sponge toffee, seafoam or hokey pokey.
HopjesDutch coffee and caramel sweets from The Hague, named after the 18th-century Baron Hendrik Hop.
KonpeitōTiny bumpy Japanese sugar candies. The name comes from the Portuguese word confeito.
🍭LollipopOne book credits George Smith of New Haven, Connecticut, who began making them in 1908.
🍐Pear dropsA British boiled sweet. The old-fashioned kind is half pink, half yellow and the size of a thumbnail.
PolkagrisA red and white peppermint stick invented in 1859 by Amalia Eriksson in Gränna, Sweden.
Popping candyBubbles of pressurised carbon dioxide are trapped in the sugar, and they crackle as it melts on the tongue.
Rock candySugar left to crystallise on a string or stick for about a week, until the crystals are large.
Seaside rockA British peppermint stick. In the 1830s Morecambe was the first town to run letters through it.
Sherbet powderA fizzy powder of sugar, sodium bicarbonate and tartaric acid, eaten off a lollipop or a liquorice stick.
🐭Sugar miceMice made of boiled fondant, a traditional British sweet, especially at Christmas.
💀Sugar skullsSkulls of moulded sugar made in Mexico for the Day of the Dead.
TanghuluChinese hawthorn fruits on a bamboo skewer under hardened sugar syrup, popular across northern China.
Vichy pastillesWhite octagonal pastilles invented in 1825 in the French spa town of Vichy.
ZaotangA Chinese maltose candy offered to the Kitchen God late in the twelfth lunar month.
Chocolate 16
Belgian pralinesA chocolate shell around a softer filling, first introduced in Belgium by Jean Neuhaus II in 1912.
BrigadeiroBrazilian balls of condensed milk, cocoa powder and butter, rolled in chocolate sprinkles.
🪙Chocolate coinsFoil-covered chocolate discs, given as Hanukkah gelt and hung on Christmas trees.
Chocolate lettersIn the Netherlands people are given their own initial in chocolate for Sinterklaas in early December.
Chocolate trufflesA ganache ball rolled in cocoa powder, named for its likeness to the fungus. First made in Chambéry in 1895.
Dark chocolateAlso called plain chocolate. It has a higher cocoa percentage than milk chocolate.
GianduiottoAn ingot-shaped, foil-wrapped chocolate from Turin, made with hazelnut gianduja.
MendiantsFrench chocolate discs topped with nuts and dried fruit for the four mendicant orders, made at Christmas.
🍫Milk chocolateFirst made in 1875 by Daniel Peter in Switzerland, and now the most consumed type of chocolate.
Modica chocolateA Sicilian chocolate with protected status, ground by hand and not conched, so it stays grainy.
MozartkugelCreated in Salzburg in 1890 by Paul Fürst: pistachio, marzipan and nougat under dark chocolate.
Peanut butter cupsA moulded chocolate cup with a peanut butter filling, among the most popular candies in America.
🐦Ptasie mleczkoA Polish chocolate-covered sweet with a marshmallow-like centre. The name means bird's milk.
Rocky roadMarshmallows, nuts and dried fruit set in melted chocolate. In Australia it is tied to Christmas.
🎄SzaloncukorHungarian fondant sweets coated in chocolate, wrapped in shiny foil and hung on the Christmas tree.
White chocolateCocoa butter, sugar and milk solids, with no non-fat cocoa solids. First sold as a bar in 1936.
Toffee, fudge and soft sweets 22
BarfiA milk-based sweet of the Indian subcontinent with a fudge-like texture, served at Diwali and Holi.
BeijinhoA Brazilian birthday sweet of condensed milk and coconut, topped with a clove. The name means little kiss.
Bubble gumWalter Diemer made it in Philadelphia in 1928. It is pink because red was the only dye he had to hand.
🌽Candy cornThree-coloured kernels, a Halloween staple in North America since the 1880s, first called Chicken Feed.
CaramelsA soft, dense chew made by boiling milk or cream with sugar and butter.
Chewing gumThe Maya and the Aztecs chewed chicle. John Colgan of Louisville made the first flavoured gum in the 1860s.
🥥CocadaA traditional coconut sweet found across Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina.
Coconut candyVietnamese kẹo dừa, made mostly in Bến Tre from coconut milk and coconut cream.
Cotton candyThe spinning machine was invented in 1897 by a dentist and a confectioner, and shown in 1904 as Fairy Floss.
DodolA sticky, chewy Southeast Asian sweet of coconut milk, palm sugar and rice flour, simmered slowly.
🐉Dragon's beard candyA handmade Chinese sweet of fine pulled strands around peanuts, sesame and coconut.
FudgeSugar, butter and milk cooked to the soft-ball stage. It began in the US in the 19th century.
🐄KrówkiPolish milk toffees, crisp outside and runny inside when hand-made. The name means little cows.
🍁Maple taffyBoiled maple sap poured onto snow and lifted with a small wooden stick, a Canadian sugar shack treat.
MarshmallowsSugar, water and gelatin whipped until soft. Ancient Egyptians made a sweet from the mallow root.
NougatSugar or honey whipped with egg white and nuts. Montélimar in France made it famous in the 19th century.
PashmakPersian candy floss from the city of Yazd in Iran, served with fruit, cakes and ice cream.
Salt water taffyA soft pulled taffy first sold in the Atlantic City area of the Jersey Shore in the 1880s.
Soan papdiFlaky cubes of gram flour, ghee and sugar from the Indian subcontinent, a traditional Diwali gift.
TabletScottish: sugar, condensed milk and butter, set to a brittle, grainy bite that is harder than fudge.
TameletjieOne of South Africa's oldest sweets: a hard homemade toffee, sometimes with almonds, pine nuts or coconut.
ToffeeAn English sweet of sugar and butter cooked to the hard crack stage, 149 to 154 °C.
Nut and seed sweets 13
AlegríaA Mexican sweet of amaranth seeds and honey, made mainly in Santiago Tulyehualco. The name means joy.
CalissonFrom Aix-en-Provence: candied melon and ground almonds under a thin layer of royal icing.
ChikkiAn Indian sweet of nuts set in jaggery. Groundnut chikki is the most common kind.
GazA nougat from the Isfahan region of Iran, with pistachios or almonds, rosewater and egg white.
GozinakiA Georgian sweet of walnuts fried in honey, made for New Year's Eve and Christmas.
HalvaA broad family of sweets found from North Africa to South Asia, made with tahini, flour or sunflower seeds.
Jordan almondsSugar-panned almonds in pastel colours, given as wedding favours, often in fives.
Kaju katliAn Indian cashew sweet cut into rhombus shapes, often decorated with silver foil and eaten at Diwali.
MarzipanSugar and ground almonds, shaped into small animals for New Year and Christmas in some countries.
PaçocaA Brazilian sweet of ground peanuts, sugar and salt from São Paulo, common at the Festa Junina.
🥜Peanut brittleFlat broken pieces of hard sugar candy set with peanuts, usually less than a centimetre thick.
PralinesFrench pralines are firm: almonds or hazelnuts in caramelised sugar. American ones add pecans and cream.
TurrónA Christmas sweet of honey, sugar, egg white and toasted almonds, known in Jijona, Spain, since the 1400s.
Liquorice and anise 9
Anis de FlavignyAn aniseed in a sugar shell from Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in Burgundy, first made by Benedictine monks.
Aniseed ballsA hard, shiny comfit flavoured with aniseed oil, normally built up around a single rapeseed.
Black liquoriceFlavoured and coloured with extract from the root of the liquorice plant, Glycyrrhiza glabra.
Liquorice allsortsFirst made in Sheffield, England. In 1899 a salesman supposedly dropped his samples and mixed them up.
Liquorice comfitsSmall pieces of liquorice in a coloured sugar shell, sometimes sold as torpedoes.
Liquorice root sticksThe dried root itself, chewed as a sweet. In the Netherlands it is sold as zoethout, sweet wood.
Pontefract cakesSmall black liquorice discs from Pontefract in West Yorkshire, stamped with an emblem of the castle.
Red liquoriceChewy ropes or tubes shaped like liquorice that contain no liquorice extract.
Salty liquoriceSalmiakki: liquorice flavoured with ammonium chloride, common in the Nordic countries and Benelux.
How this list was compiled: We chose the 100 candies and wrote every line ourselves, generic types first; the few trade names are plain text. What each candy is made of, and every place, date and name on a card, was checked on 2026-09-18 against the candy's own English Wikipedia article, read through https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php (article index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_candies). Where an article hedges an origin story, the card hedges too. The six type chips, and the Holidays and celebrations and Regional sweets tags, are our own sorting. Regional sweets marks candies that belong to one country or region, which the card names. Nut and seed sweets sorts candies by what they are built around. It is not an allergy guide: candies under other chips can contain nuts, seeds, milk, egg or gluten. The rock candy line was read again on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work