Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse

Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse: Slot Overview

Come gather around, players, and join in the retelling of a tale meant for kids, but one with a sinister undertone. This time we're dealing with Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse from developer Red Tiger, a slot which takes on the famous story collected by the Brothers Grimm about two children abandoned in the woods, then captured by a witch who lived in a house made of gingerbread and candy, presumably made that way the better to lure young-ins in. The witch then planned to fatten Hansel up before cannibalising him but was foiled by Gretal, who pushed her into the oven before the kids escaped with the witch's loot.

A bizarre story, and again you might wonder about the appropriateness of fairy tales for young kids. But hey, Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse ain't for kids; it's an online slot built for the purposes of adults trying their luck and, if successful, getting some of the witch's loot for themselves. Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse looks like a game that will enchant certain folk, where the gingerbread house sits to the centre-left of the screen, with giant toadstools to the right and what looks like candy sprinkled about the place. The music is equally mysterious, and with many of the symbols referencing the story as well, Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse makes for a successful transfer from book to reels.

Brave players in the mood for taking on Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse and its enchantments can do so by betting 10 p/c to $/€10 on each spin or making use of the game's various feature buys. Should you bet the default way, the game's RTP is 95.73%, and when buying features, it drops a tiny smidgen to 95.72%. With a medium-high volatile math model, Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse is played on a 5x3 gaming matrix with 25 fixed paylines.

Onto symbols and for low pays, Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse has the four card suits, clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades designed like rich, sugary desserts, then a broom, some boots, Gretal, Hansel, and the witch as the 5 high pay symbols. Hitting a 5 symbol winning line awards 2 times the bet for the card suits and 4 to 12 times the bet for the premium symbols. Popping up on all reels is Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse's cauldron wild which substitutes for all paying symbols. Wilds also pay out up to 40x the bet for a 5-cauldron wild winning line.

Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse: Slot Features

Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse has three features for inspection, namely, Sibling Reels, free spins, and feature buys.

Sibling Reels

On any spin, 2, 3, 4, or 5 reels may get marked as siblings. When reels are Sibling Reels, they all show the same set of symbols when the spinning stops.

Free Spins

In the base game, scatter symbols may only land on Sibling Reels. Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards 10, 12, 15 free spins, respectively. While free spins are active, the reels that scatters landed on are Siblings Reels for the whole free spins round. Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters in the round retriggers 10, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively. Free spins scatter symbols only appear on Sibling Reels.

Feature Buys

Clicking Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse's feature buy button provides 4 options. These are Sibling Reels guaranteed on reels 1, 2, and 3 for 4x the bet, 5 Sibling Reels for 15x the bet, a free spins trigger for 90x the bet, or free spins with 5 Sibling Reels for 500x the bet.

Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse: Slot Verdict

Just the other day, we were remarking on the prevalence of fairy tales in online slots while reviewing Foxium's slot 9 Enchanted Beans, and here we are at it again, in a different tale of kids and a dubious character. As far as transferring the story from page to reels goes, Red Tiger has done a decent job, and Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse certainly looks the part, with plenty of storybook elements making their way into the game. Red Tiger has a knack for creating a certain look in its slots, and Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse is another example of this sort of magical, mystical, mysterious quality the studio is good at conjuring up.

Despite having moments, Red Tiger arguably isn't always quite so renowned for its ingenious mechanical devices, though. Not casting aspersions on the studio, but the features the team sometimes employ, even when they are unique, don't tend to be massively groundbreaking, and so it is in Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse. The main event is synced reels, which aren't anything to complain about, but nothing to go wild and crazy about, either. However, synched reels or as they are labelled in Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse Sibling Reels, are boosted in free spins since marked reels synchronise on every single spin. This can be surprisingly useful, as Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse is good for wins of up to 6,962x the bet. Also, if you've got the right reels marked as siblings or have bought the more expensive free spins option where all reels are marked, free spins basically turn into win spins.

To sum up, Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse is a nice-looking game with a trick it can put to good use during its free spins round if you're lucky. Still not so sure about these fairy tale-themed games, but Hansel & Gretel Candyhouse is set up with mature online gamblers in mind and may appeal to those in the mood for some synced reel shenanigans.