Candy Bars Introduction
Drum beats start the minute you click on this pokie from IGT that offers a unique experience with a classic feel. It is a fun four-reel poke based around chocolate and sweets, as the name suggests. The title is a chocolate bar with a bite taken out, hinting at the sweet stuff on offer if you can fill the reels with milk chocolate bars.
If you have a sweet tooth, you will appreciate all the sugar on offer here, from lollipops and gumdrops to peppermints, on a bright blue background. You will really feel like a kid in a sweetshop with all the tempting treats waiting to be won when you spin the reels.
Even the spin button is a wrapped sweet and the sweetie symbols have funny faces, with the lolly looking shocked, the red and white striped peppermint grinning furiously, and the green gum looking grumpy. The reels, which have a massive 50 fixed paylines, are framed by a candy-striped pole and the game settings sit at the bottom in green and white.
The usual markers for lines, coins, coin value and total bet sit to the left of the spin button, while the win and balance are on the right.
Sweet stuff
Old-school red and blue 7s are the highest-paying normal symbol, with the red 7 on a blue background paying out 100 for four and the blue 7 on a red background awarding half this number. The sweet symbols pay 10 for four and five for three, with all line wins paying left to right on the reels.
The gumball acts as the wild in Candy Bars and will give you a double payout when used in a line win. If you are lucky enough to spin two gumballs, your win is quadrupled. This symbol only appears on reels two and three and substitutes all other symbols in a line win, apart from in blackout or progressive wins. A blackout win happens when the whole reel grid is filled with a single icon.
What you really want to spin is the red 7s again, as they will give you 25,000 coins. A blackout with blue 7s will bag you 12,500, while a candy blackout awards just 5,000. You can even win with a mixture of blue and red 7s, which pays 5,000. Any blackout win is multiplied by the coin value and pays out on top of regular line wins.
Progressive Jackpots
The exciting progressive jackpots are Snack Size, where you must fill reel two with chocolate; King Size, where reels two and three are filled, and Giant Size, where the three middle rows are filled. Candy Bars is unusual in that it has a four by four layout rather than the usual five reels and three symbol rows.
This unusual layout and the fun screen will appeal to all types of players and should hold your interest for some time with its offering of endless sugar and big wins.
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