Candy Paradise

Candy Paradise: Slot Overview

Perhaps it was a reaction to all of the fruit used in slots, but however the phenomenon occurred, candy is big in the online gambling world. Making its contribution to the pick 'n' mix of options is Games Global studio Just For The Win with the slot Candy Paradise. Not only is Candy Paradise a potential paradise for sweet-toothed gamblers, but it may suit those who favour collection features, prize wheels, free spins, respins, and wild multipliers on the reels.

Candy Paradise is Just For The Win's first sweet-themed game, and it presents players with a fairly typical-looking candy slot world. That is, a sweetie-adorned zone with pink cotton candy clouds, soft colouration, and a relaxing yet rhythmical tune. Not much more to say about Candy Paradise's outer wrapper other than it's appealing without being extraordinary like a lot of these kinds of games often are.

When peeling away the wrapper, we find a highly volatile math model producing a default return to player figure of 96.02%. When picking a stake, the options range from 20 p/c to $/€50 per spin, and the action takes place on Candy Paradise's 5x4 gaming grid housing 30 paylines. Winning combinations pay left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

You'll never guess what makes up the majority of Candy Paradise's symbols – oh, you got it, candy, and there are 8 candied objects as the regular paying symbols. They are shaped like clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, grapes, orange segments, cherries, and sevens, and pay 1 to 10 times the bet for a 5-of-a-kind win. Wilds appear on all reels too. Wilds and Wild Swirls are able to substitute for any regular pay symbol and have the same value as the 7 symbols.

Candy Paradise: Slot Features

Features in this candy-coated world include Wild Symbols Collection, Wild Respins, the Bonus Wheel, free spins and the Free Wild Swirls feature.

Wild Symbols Collection.

Wild symbols are one of Candy Paradise's most important symbols. Each wild that hits is collected by the Wild Collection meter, and when the meter is full, 1 Wild Swirl is added to the Wild Counter. Then the meter resets to 0. The Wild Counter cannot collect more than 9 Wild Swirls in the base game. In free spins, more Wild Swirls can be awarded from the Bonus Wheel.

Wild Respin Feature

Collecting 1 or more wild symbols gives a random chance of triggering the Wild Respin feature. This feature is only available in the base game, and only the wilds collected on the current spin contribute towards the chance of a trigger. During the Wild Respin, the number of Wild Swirls in the Wild Counter is randomly distributed on the reels. If Wild Swirls land on top of each other, they become multiplier wilds increasing the multiplier by 1 up to x5. Any wins containing a multiplier are multiplied by the multiplier, and if more than one is used, wins are multiplied by the product of the multipliers. Wilds may land during the Wild Respin feature, which may be collected and added to the Wild Collection. Wild cannot land on Wild Swirls, and a Wild Respin cannot be triggered within a Wild Respin, nor are there any free spins scatter symbols or bonus symbols on the reels during one.

Bonus Wheel

Landing 2 bonus symbols in the base game or free spins, which appear on reels 1 and 5, triggers the Bonus Wheel. From the Bonus Wheel, players may win a cash prize of 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 15x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 750x, or 5,000x the bet, 7, 10, or 15 free spins, or +25 wilds to the Wild Collection meter. After 9 Wild Swirls are collected, the +25 wilds are replaced with 10 free spins. The possible prizes from the Bonus Wheel during free spins are a cash prize of 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 15x, 50x, 500x, or 5,000x the bet, 2, 3, 5, 7 free spins, or 1, 2, or 3 extra Wild Swirls to the Wild Counter.

Free Spins

Scatter symbols appear on reels 1, 3, and 5 in the base game. Hitting 3 scatters awards 7 free spins, or free spins can be won from the Bonus Wheel. The number of Wild Swirls in the Wild Counter is distributed randomly on the reels for each spin and can create multipliers as described above when landing on top of each other. Should bonus symbols land in the same space as Wild Swirls, both symbols are active. When the feature ends, the Wild Swirls count is set to 0.

Free Wild Swirls Feature

When returning from free spins to the base game, the Free Wild Swirls feature is awarded. Players pick from 3 objects to reveal 2, 3, 4, or 5 Wild Swirls for the Wild Counter.

Candy Paradise: Slot Verdict

After a look back over Just For The Win's catalogue, it appears that Candy Paradise is the studio's first candy slot, which was kind of surprising. A sensation emphasised since the game the studio released before this one was the blood-drenched vampiric slot Eternal Widow. Aside from trying a new theme on, much of the execution and features felt classically Just For The Win, though, only with sweets and swirls this time.

And so, not sure if it qualifies as an actual paradise, but Candy Paradise has something to offer the sweet-toothed gamblers out there. Better if they're the sort of players who like collecting objects from the reels for use at a later stage rather than letting any spin be as randomly wild as any other. The longer you can collect, the better, too, as one of the principle goals would be triggering free spins with the full number of Wild Swirls stacked up on the meter. Doing so this way theoretically maximises Wild Swirls' substitution abilities while also hopefully stacking multipliers on the reels too. Maybe don't expect a huge amount of multiplying, though, since you need Wild Swirls landing on top of each other to do so, adding +1 for each stacking Wild Swirl.

The other main goal in Candy Paradise is triggering the Bonus Wheel, where the game's max win of 5,000x the bet can be instantly won, or, one of its lesser runner-up prizes - something which can occur in the base game or in free spins. When adding everything up, Candy Paradise didn't feel like a particularly astounding candy slot, and its gameplay was okay without being remarkable, but if wild adds, wild multipliers and a bit of Bonus Wheel action sound of interest, then Candy Paradise probably has something of value to offer.