Candyland

The much-beloved children’s board game Candyland provides the theme for the latest 5-reel slot from ThunderSpin. This sweet-seeming slot offers a downright wholesome bonus feature, with win multipliers up to 4x and potentially endless free spins.

Theme

Candyland’s world seems made of sugar and spice, and everything nice. Visual design is almost oppressively positive: sunbeams rotate behind the translucent reels, happy cartoon animals dart around the game screen, and clouds pass by relentlessly blue skies. New Orleans-style, old-time jazz will keep players’ spirits swinging during gameplay.

Gaming symbols include a variety of sweet treats, such as candy canes, popsicles, lollypops, donuts, and sugary renditions of the playing card values ace through jack. Soda bottles in three colors act as wild symbols, substituting for others to form winning combinations. The combination of all three soda bottles on the reels triggers the free spin bonus.

Betting Options and Functions

AGames is a subsidiary of the Malta-based company BOSS., which offers complete casino packages to its clients. Though not a fully independent designer, however, AGames delivers consistently excellent games on par with anything coming out of industry giants such as Microgaming or NetEnt.

Their excellent design team has seen to every detail in Candyland. There are 10 paylines, all paying from left to right. Bet level is adjustable from 1–10, with coin value adjustable from 0.01–1.00 for an overall per-spin bet range of 0.10–100.00 times the betting currency.

Autoplay is available for up to 500 spins, with optional win and loss limits if the feature is engaged through the settings menu, which also allows players to adjust sound and image options, as well as quickspin. The overall theoretical return to player ratio sits at about the industry average at 95.0%.

Features

If base play in Candyland is sweet, bonus play is sweeter still. When all three soda bottles appear on the reels a the same time, free spins begin.

Big bottles of soda appear on reels one, three, and five during bonus play, acting as special stacked wild symbols. Each win involving a big bottle adds 7 free spins to the total. Big bottle bonus wins also receive a win multiplier of 2x, 3x, or 4x, depending on how many big bottles triggered the win.

Our Take

As is often the case with sugary treats, Candyland is a slot best enjoyed in small doses. The bonus feature is truly appealing, but is not easily triggered, and a median level of RTP isn’t enough to justify taking the time. Better odds are on offer in another slot from AGames, the underwater-themed Gold Sea.