Play Sweet Alchemy for Free

A screen of purple clouds and pastel-coloured candy assaults your senses. A candy-striped witch holds a spell book and watches over a cauldron of swirling blue liquid. She has a child-like voice and a cute giggle. This slot is certainly heaven for the sweet-toothed online gambler.

A large biscuit base reel set is stacked full of pastel coloured sweets in a 5x5 grid. The reels are surrounded by function buttons, and an online tutorial tells you there's plenty to get your head round. It's a prime slot to get to grips with by playing for free, before you commit your real cash. You can test it out in our collection of free casino slots.

Players need to make combinations of four or more symbols that touch each other across the reels. It's a gameplay style made popular by the Candy Crush Saga and is great for high energy play.

As winning combinations dissolve, further symbols drop into place with the potential to create more combos. This cascading reels action continues until no more wins can be made.

Payouts for symbol combinations then, are lower than you'd expect to see in a traditional payline format. The paytable lists all prizes for each bet level you place. Let's look at the example of a 1.00 total bet. Here, you can expect payouts from 0.10 - 1.50 for 4OAK of the eight colourful sweets.

Payouts increase to maximum of 8OAK or more, where you can expect real cash prizes of 2.00 - 30.00. For eight or more golden stars on a max bet you can achieve the game's top fixed payout of 3000.00.

So far, so simple. We're all use to cascading reels and this gameplay format. However, the unique bonus feature takes a little more unravelling.

The Mix the Elixir Bonus offers three stages to achieve bigger wins. The more you trigger the bonus, the more you stand to win. Meters all over the screen clock up consecutive wins that all trigger prize potential at different levels.

To the left, a meter registers wins that fill a treasure chest. On the right, a meter's dial swings up to award increasingly rewarding wilds.

Ultimately, it takes thirty-eight consecutive wins to trigger the Mix the Elixir Bonus. If your winning streak continues above thirty-eight, points count towards candy spells.

This three stage bonus now takes you to an enlarged grid of 9x9 sweet treats. Here your candy spells will help you achieve multiple winning combinations. These are accumulated as real cash prizes and contribute to a further meter, beneath the cauldron.

You must achieve at least two gold stars on the meter to trigger the second and third stage of the bonus. The second stage is a chocolate pick 'em game. Three matching potions can award you multipliers of your bet. The multipliers increase up to a max of 10x, if you have three gold stars.

The final stage of the bonus is a treasure trail map. Each time players trigger the map you'll progress along it. You can land on treasure chests where you'll win a portion of the treasure chest we mentioned from the base game wins.

This whole process triggers surprisingly often and can reward incredibly well. Once you've mastered the process, gameplay is a breeze. The meters build drama and a fast pace and the Sweet Alchemy video slot becomes a truly sweet experience.

Fans of candy-themed slots will already have spotted that Sweet Alchemy bears a strong resemblance to Betsoft's brilliant Sugar Pop. This all-ways sugar rush is choc- full of features to keep the sweet treats coming.

If you still haven't had your fill of sugary sweetness, then Quickspin's Sugar Trail with super-sized gummy bears should do the trick.

If, however, you're ready for something a little more savoury, then Yggdrasil's ultra-urban Incinerator would be ideal. It still features cascading reels and bonus features for consecutive wins. However, the theme of industrial waste couldn't be further from the saccharine yumminess of Sweet Alchemy.

Play a few rounds of the Sweet Alchemy video slot's mind-boggling bonus structure and it all reassuringly falls into place. What at first seemed confusing, quickly becomes a thrilling, fast paced game. Players will find it can be both really entertaining and fantastically real cash rewarding.

Play 'N GO have, once again, produced a great looking slot full of fun and unusual features. What will ultimately dictate if you play is whether you can resist all the sugary, pink delights before diving for the sweetie tin.