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In the mood for something sweet? Pragmatic Play’s Sweet Powernudge is here to deliver all of the chocolates, jellies, and other eye candy your sweet tooth can handle! You won’t need to make that trip to the candy shop; you can get your sugar fix and maybe even win up to 5,000x your stake with Sweet Powernudge!
Betting Options and Bonus Features
The theme of this slot is inspired by sweets – think “Candyland.” The whimsical background, the nice images on the reels, and the well-done animations that trigger when you hit a win or spin several Scatter symbols on the same reel reflect that. So does the upbeat, candy-sweet soundtrack, although it is a loop and can get a bit repetitive.
Other than the theme, the real star of this six-reel slot is the return of the popular PowerNudge feature – this time, with a sweet twist! Whenever you land 5 or more matching symbols in a group, all of those winning symbols are automatically “nudged” downwards on their respective reels instead of disappearing like they would in most slots. This new reel configuration can and often will result in another win on the same spin!
The feature means the individual payouts are smaller, but it also means you get a lot more of those sweet wins so it makes up for it. The Multiplier Reel feature is another exciting aspect of this online slot. Located on the rightmost reel and displaying multiplier values ranging from 1x to 10x, this feature is not always active during the base game but can be activated randomly.
Once active, the reel nudges along with the winning reels, and the multiplier value in the middle position is added to the total win multiplier displayed above the reel. This total win multiplier is applied to every win per nudge and resets after each spin.
Sweet PowerNudge also includes Scatter symbols. Whenever you spin four of them, regardless of where they fall on the reels, you get taken to an ultra-high stakes bonus round where you get 7 free spins.
During those free spins, every Scatter symbol you rack up is stored near the top of the screen. If you store 4 Scatter symbols during the Sweet PowerNudge free spins feature – whether or not they appear at the exact same time – you get a retrigger and 3 additional bonus round spins. The multipliers spun on the seventh reel stack during the bonus round, often resulting in some HUGE wins.
As with most Pragmatic Play titles, the game features a few optional bonus buy features. You can opt for the Ante Bet feature that costs 25% more per spin. Using this doubles your chances of entering the free spins bonus round or you can skip the base game entirely for 100x your stake.
Roshtein’s Take
I’m not going to be taking to the rooftops and shouting my praises for this slot because it doesn’t do anything extraordinarily well. That being said, it is solid and doesn’t drop the ball in any area. None of the mechanics are especially innovative, but they’re well-implemented. The theme is probably the strongest point, in fact, because it is bright, happy, and does a better job of keeping me absorbed than the vast majority of slots out there.
