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Fifty Lines on a Four-by-Four Grid
Candy Bars is a slot. It is IGT driven. Line wins pay left to right across the reels.
This 4-reel, 4-row slot takes wagers spanning from 0.75 to 375. I played 370 spins at the top of that range, 375.00 per spin, starting from a balance of 100,000.00. It arrives with 50 fixed pay lines, but regrettably, the theoretical return to player is merely 93.85%, and this is frequently a warning sign. Those 370 spins returned 85,425.00 against 138,750.00 wagered, a session return of 61.6%. It is something that, as a straight consequence, will culminate in the forfeiture of points in my closing judgment. The balance finished at 46,675.00, after touching a low of 45,250.00.
Sevens, Candy and a Gumball That Doubles
Candy Bars arrives with a lineup of standard symbols. Only the highest win on each payline is paid. The lineup contains the candy low-value symbols as well as the Red 7 and Blue 7. Four Blue 7s on a line pay 0.67 times the stake, a line of mixed 7s pays 0.13 times, and candy symbols pay 0.13 times for four and 0.07 times for three. The Red 7 is of highest value, handing you a return of 1.33 times the stake for 4 of a kind. With 50 lines in play, several 7s lines can pay on the same spin, and those line wins are added together.
The 2x Gumball Wild symbol, however, doubles any win it is part of, and it surfaces on reels 2 and 3 solely, while the remainder of the bunch surfaces stacked one the reels, which signifies you can hit a full-screen of Red 7s to a combined win of 333.33 times the stake. The Gumball Wild substitutes for all other symbols in a line win, and two of them in the same winning line quadruple it.
Filling All 16 Positions
During my test, I did not hit a full screen. A Blackout Win needs all 16 positions filled with a single symbol or with any mix of Red 7s and Blue 7s, and it is paid on top of the line wins from the same spin. The largest win was 21 times the stake, and regrettably, the returns are dismal and will not award more than 333.33 times the stake outside of the progressives. That 21x came on spin 178, and the next best were 17x on spin 4 and 16x on spin 223.
Chocolate Bars and Three Progressives
The bonus arrives in the shape of progressive jackpots, and covering reel 2, reels 2 to 3, or reels 2 to 4 with chocolate bars wins the Snack-Size, King-Size, or Giant-Size jackpot correspondingly. The Gumball Wild's multiplier does not apply to Blackout Wins or progressive awards. Now, merely the highest is awarded. A Blue 7 blackout pays 166.67 times the stake, and a mixed 7s or single candy blackout pays 66.67 times.
Minty’s Closing Thought: A stated 93.85% met a session that handed back 61.6%, and with no feature on the reels the base game had nowhere else to make up the difference.
What 370 Spins at 375.00 Returned
Candy Bars, regrettably, lacks novelty, drive, and most crucially, respectable win potential, and the returns in the base game are very low. Only 79 of my 370 spins paid anything, and 13 of those returned less than the stake. There is no bonus game to compensate for it with the 333.33x max win potential. The longest run without a win lasted 15 spins, ending on spin 28, and the balance peaked at 104,875.00 on spin 4. Even in the ever-shifting terrain of iGaming, there will probably forever be space for dated retro-style slots. But something that will never shift is the strong pull and allure of slots capable of doling out super mega wins. IGT appears to have undervalued it here.