Candy Bars Pokies
With just 4 reelsand symbols laid out across 4 rows, Candy Bars is already looking like an unusual pokie, and that’s before players take a closer look at what it’s got to offer. Wild multipliers, huge wins created by all positions filled with the same symbol and some tasty progressive jackpots make this a distinctive game and the choice of sweets as symbols makes it a very colourful one as well.
It’s part of the IGT range, which means it can be trusted to deliver a fair return on wagers and can be found at the many casino that carry games and software from this popular developer.
Playing Candy Bars
This is an eye-catching pokie, where the vivid colours of various sweets contrast with the red and white stripes of the reel surrounds and bright blue patterned background image. Above the reels is the game logo, set in a chocolate bar, alongside details of the Snack, King and Giant-sized progressive jackpots that can be won by landing more chocolate bars across them.
Underneath, players will see the control buttons which give them the option to wager as little as 0.75 on a spin or as much as 75.00, giving them a decent range that should be adequate for just about everyone.
Landing 3 or 4 of the same symbol type across any of the 50paylines, on adjacent reels will be enough to win a prize in the normal run of play, with the smallest wins coming from the bright green jelly, stripy sweet and a somewhat unappetising purple candy each being worth 5x or 10x the line bet when 3 or 4 land.
Rather than filling the game with more sweets, IGT have decided to make the higher value symbols red and blue 7’s set on contrasting backgrounds, and let’s not sugar-coat things, it’s a bit of a let-down after seeing the bold colours of the other symbols.
Landing a mix of the red and blue 7’s will be worth 5x or 10x the line bet, but the biggest payouts in the base game come from matching 7 symbols, topped by the red that pays 15x or 100x the line bet when 3 or 4 stop across a line.
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Bonus Features
Although the prizes from simple lines of identical symbols might not be that big, a couple of wild features can create extra winning lines. Any sweet symbol with a chocolate bar background will substitute for any other sweet, although these only appear on the middle 3 reels, so players won’t be able to get a full line of them.
There’s further multiplier wilds in play as well, and these pink and blue candies land on reels 2 and 3, doubling the value of any win created by a single wild and quadrupling the value if 2 wilds are part of the combination.
Landing an entire game full of the same type will bring in some tasty prizes in a bonus feature called Blackout Wins. If all 16 spots on the reels are filled with any of the sweet symbols, or a mix of blue and red 7’s, the payout will be 5,000x the line bet, but if the blue or red 7’s fill all positions on their own, players win 12,500x or 25,000x respectively.
This is an interesting bonus feature, and although it won’t get triggered very often, the potential rewards are substantial, so it’s well worth waiting for.
As if these weren’t enough, there’s also the potential to win any of the 3 progressive jackpot prizes whenever the chocolate bars fill entire reels.
If reel 2 gets the chocolate bar stacked right through it, the Snack progressive is instantly won, while filling reels 2 and 3 wins the King Size prize and anyone who sees all of reels 2, 3 and 4 filled with this symbol will be able to get their teeth into the Giant Size jackpot that can be worth tens of thousands of Dollars.
The current value of the progressive jackpots is always displayed above the reels in sweet jars, so players know what they can win if they are lucky enough to get the perfect combinations.
The Verdict
Although pokies themed around sweets have been seen before, few of them come filled with as many bonus features as Candy Bars. Landing wins in the base game is fairly easy, thanks to there only being 4 reels, but it’s the wild substitutions and multipliers that really make the normal run of play potentially rewarding.
Add the bonus features on to this, and we have a pokie with a distinctive design and fun gameplay to tempt players to its colourful reels.