The Sweetest: Cash Collect Slot by Playtech

Pastel hills of pink frosting, swirled lollipops and gumdrops set the scene, with jelly beans, a blue swirl lollipop, a gold star and a red gummy heart filling the reels. The candy-cane W wild subs for everything except the Cash Collect symbol and the coins themselves. But the sweets are just wrapping. The coin economy underneath does the work.

A Cash Collect symbol lands on reel 1 or reel 5, sometimes both, and sweeps up every coin on screen at once. Two kinds float around the grid: gold Cash coins holding a straight cash value, and blue Free Game coins carrying a + number. Gather the blue ones and you drop into the free games, with your spin count set by the sum of those + values. Once inside, Cash Collect symbols can land on any reel and stick for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 spins, pulling in coins every spin they stay.

A Cash Spreader scatters extra random coins across the reels, then turns into a coin itself. On a base spin that would otherwise miss, a Cash Collect can nudge into view to force the collect. Marshmallow characters ride in on coins and upgrade them when a Cash Collect is present, and in the free games they stretch a sticky symbol out toward the full 10 spins. Land a Diamond next to a Cash Collect and you take one of four prizes at random, Mini, Minor, Major or Grand, each fixed to your bet and repeatable.

Impatient players can use the buy feature to jump straight into the free games, while an Extra Bet lifts your stake for better trigger odds. Honest bit: strip off the candy and this is the same Cash Collect engine Playtech has bolted onto plenty of other themes, so if you've played one, the rhythm here will feel familiar. The base game runs cold between coin drops, then pays in bursts when a Cash Collect finally sweeps a loaded board.