Chocolates

Get to spin sweet treats and luscious pralines on the slot from Big Time Gaming. Chocolates is the sequel to the equally sugar-drenched Donuts slot and while the format has been kept, it features now up to a staggering 65,536 ways to win on a mere 4×4 game grid. The mystery boxes make a return on the reels, revealing up to four symbols while a Golden Ticket Wild will award an x6 multiplier. Enter the free spins and the boxes will turn sticky to trigger extra spins and deliver wins of up to 65,536 times your bet on a single free spin.

Update 28th September 2020: The game will be exclusive on Microgaming’s Quickfire platform starting 12th October 2020 and should be available at all online casinos offering Microgaming slots. It will go global on 28th October 2020.

Slot Details

Chocolates is a 4×4 video slot with 256 to 2,401 ways to win in the base game. Although the format will remain unchanged in the free spins, the number of ways will range from 256 to 65,636 due to sticky mystery boxes (more to that shortly). Pays are awarded for three to four matching symbols landing on adjacent reels from left to right only. You can devour the sweet treats on desktop, tablet or mobile from 0.10 to 20 credits per spin. The game has high volatility with an RTP of 96.60%.

BTG opted for a cliched scenery for their visual design, putting a wooden cuckoo clock in front of a typical Swiss mountain landscape. Lush greenery and snowcapped mountains on a sunny day create an idyllic setting for the chocolate filled reels with the cuckoo making an appearance when you trigger the bonus feature. Various chocolate pralines wrapped in typical BTG colours are there for the taking during your reel journey to the Swiss alps. Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo!

The pay symbols start at the low end with the usual card royals from 9 through to A, awarding 0.1x to 0.2x your bet for a single four of a kind. Worth noting is that there are no pays for 3-of-a-kind combinations of royals. The premiums are a variety of chocolates wrapped in gree, blue, red and purple colours. Four across the reels will yield 0.3x to 1x your stake.

The game has two rainbow wilds that can land on reels two to four only – regular and Golden Ticket wilds. The latter is awarding an x6 multiplier when it is part of a combo with more than one in view being multiplied by each other. Both wilds perform the usual substitution duties. Praline Boxes marked with BTG are mystery boxes that will reveal two, three or four chocolate symbols at random when they land on the reels. Lastly, a turning clock acts as the scatter. Landing three or four will pay a coin win of 6x and 20x your bet respectively.

Chocolates Slot Features

If you never played Donuts from Big Time Gaming, you might wonder how a 4×4 slot can deliver up to a 2,401 in the base game and even up to 65,536 in the free spins. At first sight, that seems purely impossible. Cue in the creative folks at BTG and you will know that nothing seems impossible when it comes to design out-of-the-ordinary games. Let’s see how it all works out on Chocolates.

Chocolates Slot – Win with opened Mystery Boxes and Golden Ticket Multiplier Wild

Core to the entire gameplay are the BTG-marked Mystery Chocolate Boxes. They can land on any reel and will reveal 2, 3 or 4 chocolate premiums once the dust has settled, thus increasing the bet ways. All boxes in view will always unveil a common symbol. In our screenshot above, boxes landed on reels one, three and four, revealing 2, 3, 3 purple chocolates, increasing the win ways by 2x3x3 = x18. The extra x6 multiplier leads than to a total of 108 ways. The maximum number of ways in the base game peaks at 2,401.

Speaking of extra multipliers, things are further sweetened by Golden Ticket Wilds as seen on Danger! High Voltage. They can appear on reels two, three and four only and will award an x6 win multiplier for each combo they are part of. Having one on each reel will get you an x216 multiplier which can further increase should you land them in combination with mystery boxes.

Chocolates Slot – Free Spins Feature

Hitting three or five scatters anywhere on the reels will trigger 7 and 10 Free Spins respectively, which cannot be retriggered as such but you can win extra free spins as the feature progresses. The cuckoo will appear and turn one or more of the triggering scatters into Sticky Mystery Chocolate Boxes for the duration of the round. Any Mystery Chocolate Box landing on a free spin will be locked in as well. For each reel filled with four sticky boxes, an extra +3 free spins are awarded, up to 12 for a single bonus round.

Key to scoring big wins will be to have sticky boxes on each reel as early as possible in the bonus round as it will guarantee sizeable wins on every following free spin. Remember, each reel with four sticky boxes can unveil up to 16 chocolate symbols, leading to a maximum of 16x16x16x16 = 65,536 ways. Theoretically, uber-lucky players revealing four purple chocolates on a full screen of sticky boxes will score a win of 65,536 times their bet in a single free spin. Sweet!

Final Verdict

What a pleasant surprise from Big Time Gaming. This slot creation stayed somewhat under the radar as it has been overshadowed by the blockbuster releases for their Megacluster and Megaquads games. Yet, Chocolates is a superb slot with ample unexpected twists and turns when sufficient mystery boxes and/or Golden Ticket wilds land. Danger! High Voltage fans will recognize the x6 multipliers as well as retriggers in the free spins when they fill up a reel with mystery boxes (wilds on DHV). Hit multiple sticky boxes early in the free spins and you’ll be in for a sugar-drenched payout. Yummy!

Last Update: 28th September 2020

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