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Cupcakes can only appear at the beginning of a game round and are always positioned at the bottom of the playfield. Cupcakes can only appear on certain reel pairs, too – specifically reels 1+2, 3+4, and 5+6. Up to four cupcakes can appear in each game round.

Each cupcake takes the colour of a gumdrop, and any winning combinations of gumdrops of the same colour will be collected by matching cupcakes when they are removed from the reels. Each cupcake has a multiplier value of between 2x and 100x. If a cupcake is filled with ten winning gumdrops, your winnings will be multiplied by the value shown on it.

The gumdrop collection feature is the key to winning more than the very low values shown on the paytable, but there is a small problem – cupcakes are removed from the playfield after you have filled them with gumdrops. This means that eventually, there will be no more cupcakes available to fill, limiting your ability to keep winning consecutively. On the bright side, if you manage to eliminate all visible cupcakes, their values will be multiplied before being applied to your win.

The conditions for triggering the Crush Feature are reasonably complex, and even if you meet those conditions, it is still a matter of chance whether the feature will activate. 

To be in with a chance, you need to have at least five winning gumdrops in one of the three symbol pairs (1+2/3+4/5+6) that do NOT already contain a scatter or more than one cupcake. The feature will also not activate if four cupcakes are visible on the screen. 

If you meet all those conditions, the game will randomly decide whether to award you the Crush Feature – that’s generosity for you! When activated, the Crush Feature will cause an additional cupcake to drop onto the playfield before attracting all the gumdrop symbols of matching colour. 

The Crush Feature is effectively just a free multiplier, but during my testing of the game, I frequently found that it showed up at the perfect time to keep my current win streak going, so it’s a hit as far as I’m concerned!

You’ll need to hit three or more scatter symbols to trigger the main bonus round. A three-scatter trigger awards ten free spins, while four or five scatters award 13 or 16 free spins, respectively.

The free spins feature plays out very similarly to the base game, with one crucial difference: any multipliers collected in this mode are not lost between each spin! Any multipliers collected from cupcakes in this mode will instead be added to the total of multipliers accumulated during the previous spin, potentially allowing you to reach some crazy multipliers by the end of the bonus round.

You can win additional free spins by hitting further scatters whilst the bonus round is in play. The machine is a little less generous here, though, compared to the base game, with three, six, or nine additional free spins being granted for three, four, or five scatter symbols, respectively.

If you want to bypass the base game and go directly to the free spins feature, you may do so at the cost of 100x the normal price per spin. The number of triggering scatters is determined randomly after making the purchase.

I’m generally not very keen on slots which use the same value for every symbol on the paytable, regardless of how those winnings are boosted later. NetEnt hasn’t done anything to change my mind on that with Cupcakes, and I feel as if the unusual payout structure takes away from what may otherwise have been a more enjoyable game. I can’t knock the presentation of this slot, but the gameplay lets it down.

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