Willy Wonka Everlasting Gobstopper Slot by Light & Wonder

The reels sit inside the Inventing Room of Wonka's factory, with copper boilers, brass piping and lollipop wheels turning behind the grid. Oompa Loompas in white coats line a balcony above, holding multi-color star-shaped Gobstoppers and red-and-white peppermints. The premiums step down from a top-hatted Gene Wilder portrait to Charlie's mother, then Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee in his cowboy hat, then candy props - lollipops, chocolate bar, candy cane. The multi-color star Gobstopper is the standout, paying 10x bet for six on a line during base play, which is unusually high for a non-jackpot symbol.

The bonus tree is the same engine that powers Willy Wonka Dreamers of Dreams, so if you've played that one the rhythm here will feel familiar. The base game runs 25 lines across six reels and four rows until the Oompa Loompa Feature randomly fires - then the reel set physically stretches downward to 6, 8 or 10 rows mid-spin, with multiplier wilds landing at 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x and combining additively when more than one lands on the same line. Two or more Bonus scatters trigger a respin where each scatter expands to fill its entire column, which is the cheapest way to reach the main bonus.

Three or more Bonuses opens the Candy Pour Bonus, a pick-style screen that funnels you into one of eight sub-features: Grab Bag Free Spins, Fizzy Lifting Free Spins, a Wheel Bonus or a triggered Oompa Loompa round, each with a Super variant attached. Regular Candy Pour values pay 4x to 30x bet, but the Grand Pour tier reaches up to 1200x - the headline number inside the bonus before the endgame.

That endgame is the Golden Ticket mini-game, played out by unwrapping Wonka chocolate bars to reveal credit prizes or the ticket itself, which awards the 500x top prize. The signature Everlasting Gobstopper acts as a sticky symbol that persists between spins once it lands, holding its position while the reels keep moving around it. Buy Pass is available for players who want to skip straight to the Candy Pour without grinding scatters. The licensed 1971 film art and the Wonka logo in red, yellow and blue lettering carry the nostalgia, but the Candy Pour and its eight branches are where the actual session lives.