Baker’s Treat: bothway lines, per-reel collection and the Bake Off
Baker’s Treat was released on 12 April 2018 and remains one of the few Play’n GO machines to use bothway paylines. The grid runs five reels by three rows for fifteen fixed lines that pay in both directions: a combination starting on the fifth reel and running left is validated exactly like a conventional one. The stake runs from €0.15 to €75 per spin, which works out to €0.01 to €5 per line. The low-value symbols are not playing cards but macarons in several colours, which helps the whole thing hold together visually. Above them sit five premium pastries, each tied to a specific reel: the cupcake on the first, the blueberry pie on the second, the carrot cake on the third, the lemon cheesecake on the fourth and the strawberry sponge on the fifth. The wild is a triple-berry layer cake and substitutes for all ordinary symbols. The engine of the game is a token system. When a full stack of the assigned cake occupies its reel, a token is added to that pastry’s counter. Three tokens of the same cake trigger the matching Flour Power Spins: three free spins played with a single modifier, the one belonging to the pastry that filled its counter. The five modifiers are not worth the same. Cupcake Power synchronises two reels so they display identical symbols. Blueberry Pie Power turns a whole reel wild. Carrot Cake Power converts every visible carrot cake into a wild. Lemon Cheesecake Power expands wilds across the full height of their reel. Strawberry Sponge Power unifies the macarons into a single type, which mostly helps complete lines of low-paying symbols. The headline feature is the Bake Off. It requires all five pastries to appear in full stacks on their respective reels during the same spin, a demanding condition that explains how rare the round is. The game then awards five to ten free spins depending on how the stacks landed. On each spin a Flour Power modifier activates and stays active until the end: the effects accumulate, and the final spins are played with all five modifiers running together. Maximum win is 5,000x the stake, or €375,000 at €75 a spin. There is no bonus buy. The reference return to player is 96.04%, but a 94.03% version exists and circulates widely: several databases even publish it as the default figure, which makes it worth checking in the game rules before your first spin.





