Hansel and Gretel get the pub fruity treatment in Candy Cottage

On the Candy Cottage paytable, we note that two of the most valuable symbols, namely the siblings, pay a jackpot when at least two of the same symbols are in a row, rather than the more common three aligned symbols on many other games.

The most common feature to be triggered is the expanding-wild furnace icon that appears only in reel three. The expansion takes it through all three lines and thus connects the first and second reels to the fourth and fifth. Three or more gingerbread house icons yield 10 free spins, and any wins during this time are tripled. Free spins can re-trigger.

Three or more cage icons trigger an engrossing video bonus round, where the player moves the mouse left and right to take the boy backwards and forwards across the screen to try to catch the falling sweets in his open mouth. Each candy swallowed earns coins but it gets a bit tricky because you have to click to capture at the same time as you move from side to side.

Back for a while to a long-ago childhood in this complicated and stressful world with Rival's Candy Cottage fruit machine? We’ll settle for that, warty old witch and all!