Stars n' Sweets Hold & Win

Isoftbet sets Stars n' Sweets Hold & Win against a night-sky backdrop, pairing a candy-shop symbol set with an upbeat, fruit-machine-style soundtrack rather than anything overtly cosmic. Five reels and three rows carry 20 fixed paylines, and matches build from left to right using hard candies as the low-value symbols, with jellies, doughnuts, ice creams and cupcakes filling the higher tier. Five-of-a-kind results pay 1.5x to 5x the stake for a low pay and 7.5x to 25x for a high pay, while a star-shaped wild fills in for every symbol except the two scatter types.

Stakes run from 0.20 up to 200 per round, and the game carries a rated volatility of 4.5 out of 10 (low-to-medium) alongside a 96% RTP and a 34.4% hit frequency. The headline figure is a 2,578x maximum win.

Away from the paylines, a base-game modifier called Sweet Rocket Wilds can fire after any spin: a rocket releases up to five bomb symbols onto the grid, and each one detonates into a wild, though scatters and star symbols are immune. A second modifier, Sweet-eor Shower, can activate when a losing spin leaves exactly two free-spins scatters in view — one reel gets an extra respin, giving the round a chance to land a third scatter and unlock the free-spin round proper.

Landing three of those scatters awards eight Sweet Sticky Wild Free Spins. Each spin that completes adds a wild to one of the five reels, and that wild stays locked in place for the rest of the round carrying a 2x, 3x or 5x multiplier; where more than one sticky wild multiplier contributes to the same win, the values are summed rather than multiplied together. The free-spin round itself cannot be retriggered.

Five or more Star Symbols anywhere on the grid instead trigger the Hold & Win Feature, opening with three respins. Any star that lands during a respin resets the counter back to three, and the round only ends once no further stars appear, at which point every value currently on the grid gets paid out. Alongside plain stars carrying a straight bet multiplier, three tiered jackpot symbols — labelled Minor, Major and Grand — can also land, worth 30x, 50x and 200x the stake respectively. Two UFO symbols add extra variance to the feature: one absorbs the value of every star in view into its own running total, while the other multiplies each star currently on the grid by two, three or five times before it flies off, leaving any collector symbol untouched.