Tricky Treats Slot Review

Introduction to Tricky Treats

Tricky Treats is Push Gaming's Halloween themed cluster slot that feels like a sugary spin on the spooky season. Played on a 6x9 grid with cascading wins, it throws pumpkins, ghosts, and monsters at you while hiding a serious 10,000x max win under the cute exterior. From my first few hundred spins, it felt like a mash up of their retro grid titles, only dressed up as a haunted funfair.

Theme, Gameplay & Payouts in Tricky Treats

Tricky Treats uses a 6 reel, 9 row layout with no paylines, so everything works on clusters of five or more matching symbols touching horizontally or vertically. Each spin clears the grid, then symbols drop in and keep collapsing after wins, so you can chain several clusters from one paid spin. The layout suits the candy coated Halloween theme well, with the abandoned carnival backdrop tying the whole screen together.

The paytable in Tricky Treats is layered. Blue and light blue ghosts sit at the lower end, then green and purple ghosts cover the mid range, and the chunky orange and red monsters are the premiums. Land seventeen or more of the top symbols in one cluster and you can bank up to 500x your stake. Stakes start at 0.10 per spin and run up to 100, so there is plenty of room to scale.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	17+	x500
	15+	x100
	7	x1.5
	6	x1.2
	5	x1
	17+	x500
	15+	x100
	7	x1.5
	6	x1.2
	5	x1
	17+	x25
	15+	x10
	7	x0.8
	6	x0.6
	5	x0.5
	17+	x25
	15+	x10
	7	x0.8
	6	x0.6
	5	x0.5
	17+	x5
	15+	x3
	7	x0.3
	6	x0.2
	5	x0.1
	17+	x5
	15+	x3
	7	x0.3
	6	x0.2
	5	x0.1
	Special
	Collect
	Wild

Special Features & Slot Mechanics in Tricky Treats

The slot leans heavily on interconnected mechanics, and you feel it from the first session. Cascading and collapsing symbols reset the grid every spin, then remove winning clusters so new symbols can fall into the gaps. On a lively sequence the whole screen keeps shifting for several wins in a row. It has that rolling rhythm where you are always looking for one extra symbol to drop in and turn a small hit into something meaningful.

Pumpkin Wilds are the workhorses in Tricky Treats. They substitute for most symbols and start with a 1x multiplier, then climb by one each time they help a cluster. In the base game they drop off the grid when the avalanches stop, yet while they stay, they keep stacking value. Wild Multiplier symbols then appear with values between 1x and 5x and spread that value to every Pumpkin Wild in view before turning into an Instant Prize.

Instant Prize symbols come with bet multipliers from 1x up to 1,000x, but they only pay when five or more connect in a cluster. An Instant Prize Multiplier can land with 2x, 5x, or 10x and applies its value to every Instant Prize on the grid before changing into another cash symbol. Collector symbols then pull four to nine matching symbols towards themselves, often including Wilds or prizes, to form new clusters under the Cluster Link system.

Bonus Buy Feature

Normal Free Spins The standard Free Spins feature offers the possibility of landing up to 6 Wild symbols worth 120 times your base bet.
Feature Cost:	x120 Bet
RTP:	96.37%
Volatility:	-
Super Free Spins The super Free Spins feature offers the chance to land up to 6 Wild symbols and a random Wild Multiplier symbol worth 400 times your base bet.
Feature Cost:	x400 Bet
RTP:	96.34%
Volatility:	-

Tricky Treats Free Spins Feature

Free spins in Tricky Treats trigger when three to six Pumpkin Wilds land in the base game, giving you 6, 8, 10, or 12 spins. Any Wilds and Instant Prize symbols from the trigger spin carry over and stick for the whole bonus, so strong setups feel very rewarding. During the round, new Wilds, Wild Multipliers, Instant Prizes, Instant Prize Multipliers, Collectors, Extra Spins, and blanks can drop into any empty positions.

Every Extra Spins symbol adds one or two spins before turning into another Instant Prize, which then stays on the grid until the feature ends. All Instant Prizes that have landed are added together at the end and then multiplied by any linked Pumpkin Wilds, so a screen packed with candy values and fat pumpkins can explode into a serious payout. From experience, this round is where the slot shows its real teeth.

Push Bet & Bonus Buy in Tricky Treats

Push Bet and Bonus Buy options in Tricky Treats give you ways to force the action. Push Bet 1 doubles your stake and guarantees one Pumpkin Wild each spin, while Push Bet 2 triples it for two guaranteed Wilds. If you prefer straight entry, you can buy regular free spins for 120x your bet or Super Free Spins with a mystery Wild Multiplier for 400x, though in my tests those big buys felt swingy.

RTP, Payout, and Volatility in Tricky Treats

On the numbers side, Tricky Treats runs at 96.32 percent RTP in its standard setting, with some casinos offering a reduced 94.38 percent configuration. The max win caps at 10,000x your bet, which is very much in line with Push Gaming's other large grid titles. Feature buys and Push Bets nudge the theoretical return a touch but do not turn it into a low variance farm.

Volatility in Tricky Treats sits firmly on the high side. In my runs, the base game often ticked over with small ghost clusters and the odd Instant Prize, then suddenly flared up when Wild Multipliers and Collectors lined up. The Cluster Link system means a single good spin can carry a whole session, but if you chase the bonus buys too hard, the swings can chew through an unprotected bankroll quickly.

Final Thoughts on Tricky Treats

For me, Tricky Treats sits in that sweet spot where a Halloween slot can look playful yet still demand proper bankroll discipline. The pumpkins, ghosts, and neon carnival backdrop keep things light, but the mechanics are sharp enough to keep me locked in for long sessions. The mix of sticky Wild pumpkins, Instant Prizes, and Collectors gives almost every decent spin a sense of build up rather than one and done payouts.

I do find the base game can drag when the pumpkins refuse to land, and some of the bigger feature buys feel pricey, yet the overall package works well once you accept the swings. If you enjoy high variance cluster slots where multipliers and collectors carry most of the weight, Tricky Treats is an easy pick for Halloween sessions and beyond, especially if you like to think a couple of spins ahead.

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