Candy Rush Slot (Pragmatic Play)

The Candy Rush slot is played on a 7x7 grid with Cluster Pays. To form a winning cluster, you need a minimum of 5 matching symbols, connect horizontally or vertically. With the top payout per symbol awarded for 15+ in a cluster, you can form multiple winning clusters.

With a 20p minimum bet per spin, the top bet in the UK is £5 per spin or £2 if you’re under 25: there are plus and minus buttons to allow to change the bet amount. Outside the UK, there are 2 Turbo Mode settings as well as Autoplay.

The Candy Rush RTP rate is 96.58%: this is a lot higher than the online slot game average of 96% and marginally above Pragmatic Play’s average RTP of 96.5%. However, there are 95.57% and 94.53% RTP variants. If you had a £20 balance and played at 20p a spin, below is the number of expected spins you’ll play before running out of funds for each RTP version:

• 96.58%: 2,895 spins
• 95.57%: 2,235 spins
• 94.53%: 1,810 spins

Low volatility, a winning cluster will form every 1 in 2.83 spins as the hit frequency rate is 35.34%. To trigger the Free Spins feature, it will take 431.97 spins. Both are average numbers.

Candy Rush comes with 15,000 x bet max win potential: the max win probability is 1 in 43,859,649 spins with your chances of landing 1,000 x bet, 5,000 x bet or 10,000 x bet wins (or higher) at 1 in 55,807, 1 in 2,535,497 or 1 in 14,619,883 spins, respectively.

With a candy/sweets theme, the Candy Rush slot follows a long line of similarly-themed games, such as Sweet Bonanza, Sugar Rush and Candy Corner. Set in a confectionery wonderland, the visuals are bright and easy on the eye.

With palm trees, clear blue skies and candy-covered hill surrounding the volcanic island setting, there is a volcano in the distance where rainbow rivers flow. The soundtrack is gentle and upbeat and reminiscent of the Candy Crush mobile game.

On the 7x7 grid, you’ll come across 7 different candy symbols. The red star candy symbol is the best paying, awarding 150 x you total bet for 15+ in a cluster. There is also a Lollipop Bonus Scatter which can appear anywhere on the grid and is the key to triggering the free spins.

Candy Rush Mobile

Made with HMTL5 technology, Candy Rush can be played on mobile, desktop and tablet devices. If you play on an iOS or Android smartphone, you’ll play in Portait Mode.

Candy Rush benefits from tumbles, a Multiplier Underlay up to 7x7 in size with a doubling multiplier value up to 128x, free spins and super free spins features.

Tumbles

As is the case with the majority of Cluster Pays slots, every winning cluster triggers the Tumble feature. Winning symbols disappear with the remaining symbols falling into the empty grid positions. New symbol then fall from above the fill the newly vacated positions. This gives you the opportunity to create new winning clusters with the process repeating as long as you keep winning.

Multiplier Underlay

In the base game, randomly, a 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, 6x6 or 7x7 Multiplier Underlay will appear on a random position on the grid, under the symbols.

The Multiplier Underlay carries a 2x multiplier: this applies to any symbol part of winning clusters in positions above it. If at least 1 winning cluster lands above the Multiplier Underlay, the multiplier doubles after the tumble: the multiplier can double up to 128x. Finally, the Multiplier Underlay disappears with the multiplier resetting at the end of the tumble sequence.

Free Spins

Landing 3 or more Lollipop Bonus Scatters will trigger the Free Spins feature or Super Free Spins feature: 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 Scatters will result in 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 free spins respectively.

• Free Spins: 1 Multiplier Underlay of a random size is guaranteed to hit on every free spin
• Super Free Spins: 1 Multiplier Underlay of 7x7 in size is guaranteed to hit on every free spin

Landing 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 Lollipop Bonus Scatters will result in a retrigger and 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 additional free spins respectively.

Ante Bet, Super Spins & Bonus Buy

Candy Rush comes with a variety of Special Bets and Bonus Buys. With Special Bets available to UK players, Bonus Buy options are not unfortunately. Below, there are details on every option:

• Ante Bet: costing 4 x bet, there is a 10 x chance of triggering the free spins (RTP is 96.58%)
• Super Spin 1: costing 10 x bet, you are guaranteed a Multiplier Underlay with a 2x to 8x multiplier (RTP is 96.53%)
• Super Spin 2: costing 100 x bet, you are guaranteed a 7x7 Multiplier Underlay with a 2x, 4x or 8x multiplier with a 2x to 32x multiplier (RTP is 96.55%)
• Free Spins: costing 100 x bet, you will trigger the standard free spins (RTP is 96.56%)
• Super Free Spins 1: costing 300 x bet, you’ll play the Super free spins with a 7x7 Multiplier Underlay (RTP is 96.56%)
• Super Free Spins 2: costing 750 x bet, you’ll play the Super free spins with a persistent Multiplier Underlay between free spins (RTP is 96.56%)

Candy Rush Slot

Rating: 3.7/5

Candy Rush focuses a Multiplier Underlay mechanic where wins on top of it build the multiplier up to 128x, for up to 15,000 x bet max wins.

Chris Taylor

If like games like Sugar Rush and Sweet Bonanza, the Candy Rush slot will be for you. Colourful and inviting, it’s a typical Cluster Pays title with tumbles. However, Pragmatic Play introduces a Multiplier Underlay that doubles the multiplier up to 128x.

The Multiplier Underlay varies in size, up to 7x7. Beginning with a 2x multiplier, winning symbols with the Multiplier Underlay underneath double the multiplier, up to 128x. This means that any part of the winning cluster with the Multiplier Underlay underneath will see the multiplier double.

Then you have the main bonus feature, the free spins: you’ll randomly play the standard or Super version. In the normal free spins, a randomly-sized Multiplier Underlay appears on each free spin whilst the Super free spins guarantees a 7x7 Multiplier Underlay.

I wish that the Multiplier Underlay’s multiplier value was persistent between free spins but this is only available from 1 of the Bonus Buy options (not available in the UK though).

With 15,000 x bet max wins and a high 96.58% RTP rate, Candy Rush can deliver big payouts but you need to build up the Multiplier Underlay multiplier by landing successive tumbles on a free spin to do so.

In summary, Candy Rush is another decent sweets/candy-themed game from Pragmatic Play but it doesn’t stand out enough against its predecessors. If you like the theme, my guide to the best candy slots will do nicely.

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