Candy Links Bonanza 2 Slot Review
A meadow of mint-green hills, ice cream cones standing taller than the ridgelines, lollipops planted in the grass and a pale blue stream running through it all. Stakelogic‘s Candy Links Bonanza 2 looks like the sweetest thing on the menu, but the reels are barely where the game happens. The real slot is the grid beside them, quietly banking coins across dozens of spins while the candy spins above. Most games in this family pay you and move on; this one makes you wait, stack, and then collect.
It plays on a 5×5 grid with mid to high volatility, and the top of the ladder is the 1000x GRAND jackpot. If the sweet tooth sounds familiar, it sits in the same bracket as Candy Wild Bonanza Hold & Spin and Candyways Bonanza 2 Megaways, with Candyways Bonanza 3 rounding out the family.
The Coin Grid and Its Boosters
Coin symbols land on every reel except the centre position, and there are five types of them, each carrying a fixed value. Every coin is collected into the matching position on the Coin Grid that sits alongside the reels. A coin dropping into the top-left of the reels lands in the top-left of the grid.
If a coin lands where a coin already sits, the two values are added together rather than one replacing the other. The grid is persistent, so it fills up across spins rather than resetting every round. That’s the long game here: a position that’s been fed three times pays three stacked values the moment it becomes part of a winning line.
The wild is the exception to all this coin traffic. It appears only on the centre reel position, substitutes for everything except the Bonus and coin symbols, and can carry a multiplier of up to x3 during Free Spins, applied to every win.
Four booster symbols exist purely to manipulate the coins already on the grid:
- Rocket – lands with a value and adds it to every coin on the Coin Grid.
- Double Rocket – lands with a value and adds it to all coins within a 3×3 area of the grid, twice.
- Coin Chest – doubles the value of one to five different coins on the grid.
- Coin Machine – doubles a single coin on the grid, up to five times.
A Rocket sweeping the whole grid is the plainest of the four. A Double Rocket hitting a stacked cluster twice, or a Coin Machine repeatedly doubling one fat coin, is where the grid’s arithmetic starts to run away from you.
The Coin Chest is the least predictable, since you don’t choose which of its one to five coins it doubles. The gap between a freshly landed coin and a three-times-stacked one being picked is considerable.
The boosters only touch the Coin Grid, never the reels. They can’t build a payline, extend a win or substitute for anything. Everything they do is stored value, waiting on the grid until a line of five forms.
Hurricane Links and the Wheel of Fortune
The Coin Grid isn’t just a piggy bank. Any vertical, horizontal or diagonal line of five coins on the Hurricane Link Collection triggers a Hurricane Links win, paying out every coin amount in that line. Multiple lines can pay in a single spin, so a grid that’s been filling for a while can settle several lines at once.
A line can run up, down, across or corner to corner, so a well-fed grid has eight directions to work with. Once the lines have been paid, the Hurricane Links card resets and the collection starts again from empty. That reset is what makes the grid a cycle rather than a one-way climb: fill, complete, cash out, refill.
One quirk sits alongside the cycle, and it concerns the stake. The grid is tied to your bet size, so changing your stake resets it to whatever you’d previously collected at the new bet level. Holding one bet level while the grid fills is the sensible way round it.
Lines that include the middle bonus wheel icon don’t pay as lines at all. They trigger the Wheel of Fortune instead, which is three wheels stacked one after the other. The first carries Mini, Upgrade, 5x, 10x and 20x prizes; Upgrade is what carries you deeper into the bigger wheels. Landing a straight multiplier on the first wheel ends the trip there, while an Upgrade keeps it moving.
The jackpot ladder sits alongside all of this, and those multiples hold at whatever stake you’re running:
- GRAND – 1000x the bet.
- MAJOR – 100x the bet.
- MINI – 30x the bet.
Free Spins
Three, four or five Bonus symbols award the round, and more symbols mean more spins:
- 3 Bonus symbols – 10 Free Spins.
- 4 Bonus symbols – 15 Free Spins.
- 5 Bonus symbols – 20 Free Spins.
Bonus symbols can land on all five reels, and there’s a nudge built in for the near miss. With two on the reels, the game pays any wins, then respins just the middle position while everything else is held. If the third Bonus lands there, the round triggers on the spot.
Inside the round, the wild’s x1 to x3 multiplier feeds a cumulative meter, and every reel win has that running total applied to it. The meter only climbs, so the later spins carry the heaviest multipliers. That meter is the round’s whole engine, because free spins cannot be retriggered. What you walk in with is what you get, so a fast start matters more here than in most rounds of this type.
Buy Bonus
For players who’d rather skip the wait, a Buy Bonus button sits to the left of the reels in the base game. There’s no fixed pricing for it here, so the cost is whatever your chosen casino charges at the time, and it’s worth checking before you commit.
One thing the button can’t shortcut is the Coin Grid. Bought spins land you in the round, but the grid’s stored value still depends on the stake you’re holding and the coins you’ve already banked at it.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Playing this is less like spinning a candy slot and more like tending a small garden: most spins do very little, and the pleasure is in watching the grid fatten coin by coin until a line finally closes. That slow accumulation is the reason anybody picks it over the flashier Candyways games.
Its strength is that the grid resets after paying, so a good session settles lines repeatedly rather than cashing you out once. Its weakness is the free spins: with no retrigger and a meter that needs time to build, the round too often ends before it gets going.
This is for players who enjoy a long build at a steady stake and don’t need five-figure ceilings to stay interested. If you want the big hit now, the meadow will test you; if you like watching value stack up, it’s a sweet place to sit.
Candy Links Bonanza 2 FAQs
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How does the base game respin work in Candy Links Bonanza 2?
With two Bonus symbols on the reels, the game pays any wins, then respins just the middle position while everything else is held. If the third Bonus lands there, the Free Spins round triggers. -
Is Candy Links Bonanza 2 high volatility?
It’s a mid to high volatility game, so expect stretches without much between the meaningful payouts. -
What is the grid size of Candy Links Bonanza 2?
A 5×5 grid, with coin symbols excluded from the centre reel position and collected onto a persistent Coin Grid. -
Can you buy the bonus on Candy Links Bonanza 2?
Yes. A Buy Bonus button sits to the left of the reels in the base game. Pricing isn’t fixed, so check what your casino charges before using it. -
When is Candy Links Bonanza 2 released?
Candy Links Bonanza 2’s release date is 19 February 2025. -
Who makes Candy Links Bonanza 2?
Stakelogic. -
Can Free Spins be retriggered in Candy Links Bonanza 2?
No. Free spins cannot be retriggered, so the number you trigger (10, 15 or 20) is all you get. The cumulative multiplier meter has to do its work within that count. -
How do you trigger the Wheel of Fortune in Candy Links Bonanza 2?
Complete a Hurricane Links line of five coins that includes the middle bonus wheel icon. That trades the line payout for entry into the three-wheel bonus, where the first wheel offers Mini, Upgrade, 5x, 10x and 20x prizes.
