Candy and Fruits Introduction
Candy and Fruits is a five-reel and 10-payline pokie available for online play from Merkur. It’s one of a lot of free pokies we’ve got listed but probably the simplest game of all of them. This fruity throwback is not messing around. So why not check out how simple a pokie games can be with this this tasty little cherry?
How to Play
Players need to set their coin value and their paylines to get started and then just hit spin. There is a max-bet button that will choose all your lines and put on the max-bet, but there is no auto-spin. If you want to win cash prizes in this game, you’re just going to have to sit there and hit spin every three seconds - just like your grandfather had to do! They really should have just called this game ‘Fruits’ because there’s no candy in sight.
Five lines of spinning fruit, including cherries, lemons, grapes, plums and a watermelon, plus the ice, make up all the combination symbols. All these are up for three-, four- or five-in-a-row combination wins, with the watermelon paying the highest and the cherries the lowest. There is also the basket of fruit acting as the wild.
But aside from these symbols, there are literally no other symbols - no playing-card figures, no scatters, no bars and no 7s.
Bonus Features
The bonus features are the wild and the gamble options. The wild, as mentioned, is the basket of fruit, and it will substitute for all the other fruits and the ice or the uncut diamond - or whatever it is. We’re going to go with ice, because why would a huge uncut diamond be sitting in a basket of fruit? However, the wild doesn’t have a combination value of its own, so there is no need to look out for five of them.
The other feature is the gamble, which also couldn’t be simpler if it tried. Players have two options to choose from here. The first option is a classic card game, where players just need to press ‘black’ or ‘red’ to predict the house card. If you get it right, you’ll double your money and can play again indefinitely. If you get it wrong, you’ll lose your winnings and be kicked back out into the reels.
The second option is represented by something that looks like a movie reel. In this game, a stack of numbers, low to high, are flashing, and you are charged with hitting the button when it is high in order to make the next set flash higher up. Keep hitting gamble until you lose your nerve. If you make it to the top, you get fireworks to celebrate the max win.
Overall
This game really is very simply laid out. For those players who like the classic look, it is ideal. The music is a little simple, but the plink-plink sound effects are nice. So why not come on in and get munching?
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