Jellycious DoubleMax

Theme and Design

Yggdrasil are famous for their impressive graphics, so I perhaps had an unfair expectation of them before starting up this slot. However, Jellycious DoubleMax falls a little flat in terms of a candyland filled with wonder and fantasy. Sure, it’s pink, the symbols are all on-theme and neatly illustrated, the castle in the background is pink too. It ticks the boxes, but it doesn’t go much further than that.

For a smaller or newer developer, it would score well. It looks like a candy-themed slot game, it’s crisp and clean, but from Yggdrasil, I can’t help but feel like we deserve something a little more exciting.

RTP and Variance

Perhaps the biggest category where Jellycious DoubleMax falls down is this one. Its default RTP is 94% though there is also a 90.05% version as if 94% wasn’t bad enough. As well as this, the volatility is rated as not just high, but super high. So, any hopes of ticking through your bankroll slowly are gone. This slot has big swings, and a pretty poor RTP to match. Sure, the top prize is more than worth shooting for, but for those on a smaller bankroll, this combination stings a little.

Maximum Win

With a top payout of 25,000x, Jellycious Double Match pitches itself solely at the jackpot chasers. It’s a tempting top prize, but with volatility like this it’s going to be unattainable for many. 

If you’re on a smaller budget then don’t panic, there are hundreds of candyland themed slots out there. Sugar Rush 1000 has the same top payout, but a much friendlier 97.5% RTP.

Symbols and Paytable

Played on 5 reels and 3 rows, Jellycious has 243 ways to win. Wins are made by landing 3 or more identical symbols on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel going right. 

There are 8 pay symbols plus a wild and a scatter. The low value symbols are biscuits topped with clubs, diamonds, spades, and hearts. These award 0.5x the bet for 5 of a kind. The premium symbols are candies, ice cream, cupcake, and gummy bear awarding from 1x to 2.5x the bet for 5 of a kind. The wild can substitute for all normal pay symbols. 

Features and Gameplay

Playing slots with the DoubleMax mechanic is always exciting, but Jellycious has a couple of other interesting features too. Let’s take a look at how they work.

Dropdown Wins & Multiplier

Every time you form a win, those symbols are removed from the reels and in the empty positions left behind one wild symbol is placed. Then, the remaining spaces are filled by other symbols. If a win is made then the dropdown mechanic kicks in again until no new wins are made. Every win doubles the win multiplier (applied to all wins). It begins at 1x and increases accordingly on every new spin in the main game. Once no more wins are formed, it returns to 1x.

Note: In the free spins round, wilds can only be added to the first three reels.

Free Spins

If you land 3, 4, or 5 scatters then you start the free spins round with 7, 9, or 11 spins respectively. The free spins will only start once the drop down sequence has finished. In this round the win multiplier still starts at 1x but it does not reset, only growing until the free spins feature has finished.

Golden Bet

If you’re happy to increase your stake by 20% then you can turn on the Golden Bet. This doubles your chance of triggering the free spins round.