Prepare yourself for some sweet spins courtesy of casino software provider Swintt‘s latest online slot title, Candy Gold, which is the very first game in the Swintt Select collection to utilize a cluster pays mechanic and cascading wins in lieu of conventional pay lines.
Described as a “wildly ambitious” title, the spinner is highly volatile, with a 94.48 percent RTP, and plays out across a huge 7-reel, 7-row game board, on which players collect clusters of at least five matching symbols to form winning lines on the way to a x7000 max win.
The way the mechanic works in this innovative video slot is as soon as a winning cluster is paid, it is cleared from the gameboard and new symbols drop down to fill the empty positions. And if these new symbols form clusters, their win is added to the current pay out. The process repeats itself until such time as there are no new wins, which means that wins in the base game can really pile up.
Candy Booster Meter:
Players can get even more help on their way to more sweet treats by using one of six special power-up Candy Busters, which can be awarded randomly by filling the Candy Booster meter, or by purchasing them directly for the cost of an extra wager via the “Buy Booster” button located to the left of the game board.
The six modifiers include:
- Candy Gold – a random symbol turns wild
- Super Candy Gold – a cluster of four symbols turn wild
- Mega Candy Gold – a cluster of nine symbols turn wild
- Candy Bomb – a cluster of nine symbols will be replaced with any one high-value symbol randomly anywhere on the board
- Candy Rocket – a rocket will fly across the game board converting corresponding row and reel symbols to any high paying symbol
- Ultra Bomb – can explode anywhere on the screen, converting all reel symbols to any high paying symbol
Locking Wild Symbols:
If these bonbon-busting boosters weren’t enough, the game’s regular wild symbols, which appear during base gameplay, substitute for all regular symbols to help create winning clusters while also locking in place throughout the round. If three wilds land, free spins are activated.
A new multiplier meter becomes visible when free spins are activated. Multiplier values increase after every sequential cascading win – starting at 2x up to a 8x max – and only rest when no new winning clusters form. The goal here is to fill the meter to the brim, to potentially score huge wins of up to 7,000x the bet.
The Sweet Spot:
Commenting on the latest release, David Mann, Chief Commercial Officer for Swintt, said…
“Here at Swintt, we’re always looking for new ways for our slots to capture players’ imagination – and in our exciting new Candy Gold release, we’ve really hit the sweet spot where innovation meets playability.
“The first game in the Select line-up to utilise a cluster pays mechanic and cascading wins, Candy Gold already had the potential to create huge combination pay outs during each new round. However, not content to stop there, we added a bumper line-up of bonbon-busting boosters as well as free spins with progressive multipliers to really put the cherry on top of one of our tastiest slot treats to date.”