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Slot Review: Candy Cottage

If you are over the age of three, then it’s likely you have heard the story of Hansel and Gretel. This plucky brother and sister pair were dumped in the middle of the woods by parents who were no longer able to feed two extra mouths. So they wandered deep into the woods and found a candy cottage owned by an evil and vicious witch. The triumph of these siblings over the brutal sorcerer is the stuff of fairy tales – literally. Hansel and Gretel was first shared by the Brothers Grimm and has been included in collections of fairytales ever since. The Candy Cottage slot machine will be a sweet treat for punters looking for a fun little confection to keep them occupied between playing the big money slots available on the World Wide Web. This is far from the most lucrative online slot out there, but the frequency of its wins, its great design, and its strong graphics all lend it its very own charm. Take a bite out of this Candy Cottage! It was just released a few weeks ago, and it’s abundance of yummy sweets – including a chocolate bunny! – makes it perfect for the Easter system.

Candy Cottage comes to us from Rival, a preeminent maker of slot machine casino games on the internet. It is a five reel and twenty payline online slot, which means that there is plenty for you to look at with this online slot. Coin values start at one cent and range upwards to twenty-five cents. Max coins is set at a value of two hundred (ten per payline) for a maximum per-spin wager of fifty dollars. That’s not at all bad by web slot standards! The jackpot is twenty-five hundred coins, or six hundred twenty-five dollars. We wish that the wager-to-jackpot wager were a bit more favorable, but it can’t be denied that a game with such a small top prize pays out often! There is a free practice mode for those players who like to sample the wares before committing to sample their bankroll on a slot title. There are over thirty winning combinations associated with this title, meaning that if you aren’t a winner on your first few spins, you will probably be one soon!

The bright graphics of this slot game provide a lot of extra appeal, and really added to our enjoyment of Candy Cottage. You’ll see that the background of this game is a cottage of sweet gingerbread, just like the one from the fairy tale that game this game its theme! Striped candy canes line the top and bottom of the screen, and cheerful rows of gumdrops set in icing frame the reels. There are nothing but pictures on the reels, which we like – you’ll see icons of the cherubic Hansel and Gretel themselves, along with the evil, hook-nosed witch in her bonnet and diabolical smile, a goose, a basket, and a pile of tasty-looking sweets that virtually pop through the screen! Let us put it this way – if Hansel and Gretel could see what this slot game looked like, we guarantee that they would feel the need to take a bite of the monitor! Great sound effects also go far towards enhancing the theme. You’ll enjoy certain animations that add greatly to the story – the hot stove (in which Hansel and Gretel push the evil witch at the end), the wild symbol, expands to fill the whole screen when it is activated!

As just mentioned, the hot stove is the wild symbol for this online slot game. When the stove expands at the point of activation, it creates even more winning combinations… which means even more money for you, the player! The scatter symbol is the gingerbread house icon. Get at least three of these symbols on any one screen at a given time to trigger the free spins feature for this specific game. You’ll win ten free spins at a triple multiplier!

The symbol of the cage in which the witch stuffs Hansel and Gretel is the bonus icon. Get at least three of these to be taken to the bonus game for Candy Cottage. Hansel (the boy) is locked up in the cage as falling candy pelts him from above. Can you guide his cage back and forth to get the goodies in his open mouth? If you can, those candies will translate into more coins for you! This bonus game is definitely one that requires a little patience and skill to master, but the rewards are great for you if you can pull it off!

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