
- A nice-looking slot offering big multipliers
- Each tumble increases sticky wild multipliers
- Guaranteed wilds in the free spins bonus
Candy Stars slot from Pragmatic Play is a sweet-inspired game from the popular developer, offering the chance to get some big wild multipliers up to 128x. It’s quite volatile and offers a maximum win potential up to 5,000x. I like the design, it’s simple but colourful and vibrant. There are 5 reels and 3 rows, along with an extra row on top with just 3 reels. In total you have 576 ways to win. Just look for the base symbols and try to get a win using them. These are as follows, ranked in ascending order based on their value:
- Jack
- Queen
- King or Ace
- Blue Sweet
- Green Sweet
- Red Sweet
- Purple Sweet
There is a wild symbol as well that substitutes for all other in a winning combination, apart from the scatter. It appears only on the top row of reels 2, 3 and 4.
Candy Stars Slot Bonuses and Features
Tumble. This game has tumbles, meaning winning symbols are removed from the screen to allow new ones to fall in from above. If this creates another win, the same will happen, and keep happening until there are no more wins. All this happens in the same spin.
Sticky Wilds. If a wild symbol lands, it will stay in place until all tumbles have finished. In addition, it starts with a 1x multiplier, but each tumbles will increase it by 1x, up to a maximum up 128x. The multiplier applies to all wins the wild is part of.
Free Spins bonus. To trigger this you need 3 or more scatter symbols, giving you 8 free spins. During these, a wild symbol is guaranteed to land on the top row for each spin. They always land with a 2x multiplier, and after each tumble, the multiplier doubles, up to a maximum of 128x still. You can also land 3 or more scatters during the bonus, giving you 5 more free spins.
Bonus Buy. Outside the U.K., you can buy the bonus for 80x your stake, giving you 3, 4 or 5 scatter symbols and triggering the bonus.
Conclusion
Candy Stars slot from Pragmatic Play is a sweet (pun intended) game from Pragmatic Play with the potential for huge wild multipliers up to 128x. Don’t bank on getting this in the base game as you’d need 128 tumbles in a single spin – good luck with that. However, in the free spins bonus, the multiplier starts at 2x and doubles for each tumble, so you can get there much quicker. It’s not a global multiplier so bare that in mind, and aside from this and the free spins, there’s not much else going on. It’s a straight-forward game that is by no means bad, but I don’t think it does enough to really stand out and there are better alternatives out there.