Most cascade slots remove the winning symbols. Chocolate Deluxe does the opposite: a winning group of sweets stays on the 6x6 board and everything around it is cleared, so the group can only grow until nothing new joins it. The chocolatier's shop opened in PG Soft's catalogue in November 2024. At 6.00 a spin my 100 demo spins paid 45 times, mostly small change, and ended 381.00 up thanks to a free spins round on spin 5 and an x20 praline on spin 61.
Same game, real money
Cafe Casino runs the same Chocolate Deluxe with the same math and adds a welcome bonus for players from the United States:
300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays freeForty-five wins, six that mattered
The 600.00 I bet turned into 981.00, a final balance of 100,381.00. Six spins carried the session: the bonus, spin 61 at x20, spin 6 at x4 and three more multiplied spins worth 72.00, 64.80 and 48.00, together 749.40. Twenty-eight of the 45 wins paid 6.00 or less, so the balance spent most of the session drifting slowly down from its early high of 100,372.60 before the x20 brought it back.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | November 2024 |
| Grid | 6 x 6, groups of 5+; winning groups stay, the rest refills |
| Bet | 0.30 to 90.00, base bet 10 |
| Multipliers | x2 to x100 on sweets, added up when they win |
| Free spins | 10 for 3 scatters, +2 per extra; multipliers collected for the round |
| RTP | 96.75% (PG Soft) |
| Max win | 5,000x the bet |
Groups that grow instead of falling
A spin runs in rounds, and the rules turn the usual cascade inside out:
- Five or more identical sweets touching side by side or above one another make a winning group.
- The group stays. The losers are cleared away instead, and fresh sweets drop into the empty cells.
- If a group grows or a new one forms, the board clears again; when a round adds nothing, every group is paid by its final size.
- Wilds and scatters stay on the board until the spin is over.
The paytable runs from groups of 5 up to 35 or 36, the whole board. With a base bet of 10, my 6.00 stake valued a point at 0.60. The same keep-the-winners rule had already appeared in Alchemy Gold in 2022, on a 5x5 board.
| Group size | Gold truffle, red bar | Teal bonbon | Shell praline | Spade, heart | Club, diamond |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | 30 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 8 |
| 20 | 150 | 100 | 100 | 75 | 55 |
| 35-36 | 2,500 | 800 | 600 | 360 | 300 |
Multipliers on the sweets
Any sweet can land carrying a multiplier from x2 to x100. It counts only if that sweet ends up in a winning group; at the end of the spin the multipliers of the winning sweets are added together and applied to the whole win. On spin 61 a group of shell pralines grew around one marked x20, and the game showed it in the centre of the board.
The groups were worth 7.80 together, and at x20 the spin paid 156.00, 26 stakes. Spin 6 worked the same way on a different board: 27.00 of groups that included two x2 sweets, paid at x4 as 108.00.
A bonus on the fifth spin
The scatter is a white-haired chocolatier; three of him open 10 free spins and a fourth or fifth is worth two more each. I had three on the board when the game flashed "One more scatter", but the fourth did not come. The base spin itself paid 7.20 at x10, 72.00, and then the round began.
In the free spins every multiplier that is part of a win goes into a box under the reels and stays there until the round ends. Halfway through, a group of spades with a x6 sweet paid 4.80 at x6, 28.80, and the box kept that x6.
On the last free spin three more multipliers, x6, x12 and x8, landed on teal bonbons that won. Added to the x6 already in the box they made x32, and a 6.00 win became 192.00.
The ten spins paid 228.60, and with the 72.00 trigger spin 5 came to 300.60, almost a third of everything the session returned.
Chocolate Deluxe FAQ
Why do winning symbols stay on the board in Chocolate Deluxe?
How are the multipliers combined?
What changes in the free spins?
How many symbols make a win?
Another 6x6 PG Soft game with multipliers that are summed is Supermarket Spree, where eight matching groceries anywhere on the grid make a win.
The other PG Soft demos I have recorded are listed on the home page.