CANDY STARS

HOW TO PLAY CANDY STARS SLOT

Candy Stars is played on a strange 5×3 grid in which the middle three reels actually have 4 rows each. This somewhat increases your chances of making winning combinations, which can be done in 576 different ways.

To clarify, the goal of Candy Stars is to arrange matching symbols from left to right, starting with the first reel. However, unlike many other online slot games, the arrangement itself does not matter. All it takes to win is to have identical symbols on at least 3 connected reels. That’s why the bonus rows at the top are so helpful.

The only thing you need to do as the player is set your stake using the plus and minus buttons at the bottom right and hit Spin.

The Candy Stars slot also comes with a Tumbling Symbols feature, which allows you to win more than once with a single spin. Essentially, every time you make a winning combination, the winning symbols are removed from the game. Any symbols above these tumble down to the bottom, and new symbols appear from the top to replace them. Tumbling continues until no more winning combinations are possible.

Casino Bloke Best tips for Candy Stars Slot

• 1Free Spin multipliers go up to 128x. However, all wins in this game are capped at 5,000x. If you end up winning more in a single free spin round, the round immediately ends and you receive your winnings.
• 2You can Buy free spins for 80x the total stake. Click the big red button on the left to do so.
• 3Buying free spins actually decreases the RTP of the game down to 96.26%

PAYOUTS

Pragmatic Play Candy Stars is unusually volatile for what it is, relying on the Wilds and their multipliers to do most of the heavy lifting. Without them, you’ll be playing at a loss most of the time.

There are 8 regular symbols in the game. The four card symbols can be considered low-paying, while the candy pays more (though the blue candy is barely better than an Ace.)

Surprisingly enough, our recommendation is not to buy the free spins. Scatters are surprisingly common in this game, and purchasing free spins actually increases the house advantage in this case.

CANDY STARS (PRAGMATIC PLAY): CASINO BLOKE’S VERDICT

To be frank, this game is likely to be forgotten among the hundreds of slots Pragmatic Play releases. It’s not a bad game by any means, and it certainly has some fun ideas with the extended reels. However, the overall impression is that those ideas are not fully realized and don’t affect regular gameplay all that much.

It’s a solid enough release for what it is, but it’s nothing all that special considering how many creative, unique games have been released in recent months.