101 Candies

NetEnt sets 101 Candies against a countryside backdrop, with the game's 7x7 cluster-pays grid fixed to the side of a parked vehicle, continuing the confectionery streak the studio has run through titles like Cupcakes and Milkshake XXXtreme since its move under the Evolution umbrella. Released in September 2023, it drops 49 symbols onto the board each round, and a win forms whenever five or more matching symbols connect vertically or horizontally.

Six plain candies fill the lower end of the paytable, while three symbols shown inside wrapped packets make up the premiums. A five-symbol cluster returns 0.05 to 0.15 times the stake, climbing to 2x-30x once a cluster reaches 12 symbols or more. Winning clusters clear from the grid through an Avalanche mechanic, with new symbols dropping in from above to refill the gaps, and the chain continues until a spin produces no further win.

Running above the reels is the Wild Conveyor, a strip stocked with wild symbols carrying multipliers between x2 and x101. Every Avalanche pushes the wild at the conveyor's left end down onto the grid in place of an ordinary symbol, shifts the rest of the row along, and slots a fresh wild in at the far end — later arrivals tend to carry higher multiplier values than the ones that came before them. A wild landed this way substitutes for any regular symbol and multiplies whatever cluster it joins; where two or more wilds land in the same win, their multipliers are summed before being applied to the payout.

Four Feature Coin symbols can appear on the grid during an Avalanche before disappearing again: Upgrade lifts every wild's multiplier by one, up to the x101 ceiling; Destroy strips five wilds off the conveyor; Scramble reorders the wilds currently queued on it; and Transform selects one random regular symbol on the reels and swaps every copy of it for a different symbol.

Landing three or more scatters — on an initial spin or during an Avalanche — opens the free spins round, with the scatter count deciding the award: three brings 10 spins, rising step by step to 15 for eight scatters. The conveyor's reset behaviour changes for this round: rather than clearing before every spin as it does in the base game, it locks in for the whole round from its first spin and keeps its accumulated wilds through to the end of it. A buy option is available for 100 times the stake, delivering 10 to 15 free spins immediately.

101 Candies carries a top RTP of 96.08%, configurable down to 88.02% across five settings, with low-to-medium volatility and a 3,580x maximum win. Stakes run from 0.20 to 120 per round, and with 49 symbols dropping onto a 7x7 board each spin, the length of an Avalanche chain often has more bearing on a round's result than the size of any single cluster.