Candy Corner

Theme and Design

Pragmatic Play have created many sweet-themed slots over the years so they know how it’s done. The backdrop is not quite as saccharine as you see in games like Sugar Rush 1,000 or Sweet Bonanza 1,000 but it’s still a delightful landscape of pinks and blues with blue skies and fluffy clouds hovering over a gingerbread house. The plinky piano soundtrack is standard stuff too, upbeat and happy. Why mess with what works?!

RTP and Variance

There are three available RTP rates for casino operators in the UK. They are 96.50%, 95.50% and 94.50%. There it not much between those but when you’re playing to win every little helps, so we recommend finding slot sites where the RTP rate is at the optimum 96.5% setting. In our own research we’ve found MrQ from Lindar Media to be a good option. They always run Pragmatic Play slots at the highest RTP rates.

HINT: You can check the RTP rate for yourself wherever you play by hitting the ‘I’ button under the reels and scrolling through the game rules pages until you see Return to Player.

It’s no surprise to find that Candy Corner is also a volatile slot. Most of Pragmatic’s sweet-themed slots are. That means it can be a streaky play with an uneven win distribution. Setting a low stake level will help to ride out those dry spells.

Maximum Win

The max payout is capped at 10,000x, also typical of Pragmatic Play slots. That’s not a bad top win, giving you £1,000 from a 10p bet if you get that lucky. Bigger wins are available in our list of Pragmatic Play slots with the highest max wins.

Symbols and Paytable

Candy Corner is a grid slot played on a 7x7 square with cluster pays wins. That means you need to land clusters of SIX of more identical symbols to complete a win. The fun part about cluster pays games of course is that you can potentially build huge clusters of 30 or more symbols worth big money.

There are 8 pay symbols to match up. They are the banana, blueberry, water melon, kiwi, green sweet, blue sweet, doughnut and red sweet. They are valued at from 0.2x for 6 bananas up to 200x for 30 to 45 red sweets.

The game also has a Wild – represented by the letter W – that can substitute for pay symbols to complete clusters. It can appear anywhere on the grid.

Features and Gameplay

As well as tumble wins, the features to look out for through both base game and free spins are the modifier corners which bring extra wilds, multipliers and instant wins into play. Here is how it works:

Tumbles After Every Win

As with many cluster pays slots, Candy Corner uses a tumble wins mechanic. That means after each win, all symbols in winning clusters are removed from the grid. The remaining symbols drop into spaces left behind and new ones drop in to fill the final spaces. This process may create more winning clusters, in which case it repeats. Until no more winning clusters are formed.

Modifier Corners With Multipliers, Instant Wins and Wilds

The games gets its name from the Modifier Corners feature. Each of the four corners of the grid has an empty space at the start of a spin. Those spaces MAY get filled by a random modifier symbol from this list:

• Instant Win Symbol – a chocolate block displaying a prize of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x or 50x.
• Win Multiplier – a green sweet displaying a multiplier to be applied to all wins from the current spin. The multiplier values may be 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 75x or 100x.
• Add Wilds – A canon adds between 2 and 8 wilds randomly onto the grid.
• Big Wild – an expanded wild sized 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 is added in a random position on the grid.

NOTE: In the base game only ONE of each type of modifier can land on any spin.

Free Spins and Golden Free Spins

There are 2 versions of the free spins round - a standard one and a Golden Free Spins. Which you get is decided at random. Both give you an enhanced gameplay.

You need to land at least 3 scatter symbols – the sweet with ‘Scatter’ written on it – to trigger the round. You get 6, 8, 10, 12 or 14 spins for 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 scatters.

The big difference is the now up to FOUR of the SAME modifier can drop into the Modifier Corners on any spin, except for the Big Wild, of which only TWO can drop on the same spin. Also, a new modifier symbol is available, an Extra Free Spins one that can add 2, 3, 4 of 5 more spins to your total for the round.

And during free spins you are GUARANTEED to get at least TWO modifier symbols on every spin.

The Golden Free Spins round has one further addition. Before the round starts one modifier symbol is chosen to land on every spin as a third GUARANTEED modifier. This can be the new Free Spins modifier, but it that lands then you just get 10 more spins and the standard two guaranteed modifiers per spin.

These are significant enhancements to the base game round and show Pragmatic Play have teed up some big win potential for the free spins phase of the game!