Sugar Rush Slot Machine
Get your sweet tooth ready and come help the people of Candy Street prepare for their annual festivities in Sugar Rush – a syrupy 5 reel, 20 fixed payline slot from the team at Octopus Gaming.
Filled with sugar, spice and all things nice, the game bears more than a passing resemblance to the hugely successful mobile block-busting game, Candy Crush, and draws on many of the same themes and elements to decorate its gameboard. What’s more, the slot features gingerbread wilds, gummy scatter symbols and a super sweet cupcake bonus round to keep players’ sugar levels topped up.
Sweet Layout
As mentioned above, Sugar Rush is a 5 reel, 20 fixed payline game, meaning that the only thing players need concern themselves with is how much to wager on each spin. With bets of 1-10 coins available per line and coin sizes varying from $0.01-$0.50, the game can be played from as little as $0.20 a spin or as much as $100 for those with a taste for high stakes action.
In terms of the payouts available in Sugar Rush, the minimum award players will pick up is 5x their stake per line for matching three of the game’s lowest value icons on a valid payline, but this number jumps to 10x your line bet once you start getting to the unique icons and further still to 30x for the highest value symbol. This icon also serves up a tasty 450x your bet should you find five-of-a-kind.
On top of that, the game’s gingerbread wild icons are stacked – meaning they often fill entire reels – and can be substituted for any regular symbol, while the game’s bonus round can pay out anywhere between 20x your bet per line and 9,000x given a perfect run at the game’s maximum playing level.
The Candy Shop
If you’re familiar with the Candy Crush series of mobile apps, you’ll know exactly what to expect from Sugar Rush. The game features cutesy graphics and palette of pastel colours are used to decorate Candy Street, which provides the saccharine backdrop to the slot’s sweet-filled reels.
In terms of symbols, the game does feature regular ace, king and queen icons at the lower end of its payout scale, which is disappointing given the huge scope of confectionary the artists had to work with. Nevertheless, once you move beyond those video slot staples, you’ll find a variety of allsorts, bon bons, gummy stars and hundreds and thousands marshmallows completing the game’s line-up.
The sound effects used in Sugar Rush are, again, suitably cute and sound more like something from a children’s toy than a slot machine, while the bonus round features its own unique piece of music.
Tower of Treats
While the standard payouts in Sugar Rush are pretty consistent, it’s fair to say that a 450x regular jackpot is not particularly mind-blowing. Thankfully, however, the slot addresses this in the form of its Candy Shop bonus round, which offers far greater prizes if players are lucky enough to trigger it.
Activated by finding three consecutive cupcake symbols on any valid payline, players are whisked away to a second screen where a tower building game begins. With a number of sweet treats moving across the top of the screen, players must select which one they want to drop onto their base, with most snacks awarding a cash prize. Be careful, however, as some items will be booby-trapped – and if you find two of these before your tower is completed, the bonus round is over.
In addition to this fun feature, Sugar Rush also gives away up 20 free spins whenever three or more gummy bear scatter symbols appear anywhere on the gameboard. With 10 free spins awarded for matching three scatters, 15 on offer for four and all 20 available for finding a gummy bear on all five reels, this feature comes around quite often and is well-complimented by the slot’s stacked wilds.
Cherry On Top
One of the most popular slots in the Octopus Gaming catalogue, it’s not hard to see why Sugar Rush has spawned numerous sequels over the years. The game looks and sounds great and utilises a popular theme that most players are already subconsciously familiar with, while also providing enough in the way of bonus features to keep the more serious slot grinders happy.
