Candy Blossoms was the third of ten slot tournaments in GameArt's Yeet&Sweet 2024 programme, set in the calendar of ten tournaments between Sweet Greens and Lucky Loser.
It ran from Friday 19 April 2024 at 10:00 UTC to Sunday 28 April 2024 at 20:59 UTC, for real money only.
GameArt announced a €100,000 prize pool per tournament, or €1,000,000 across the whole 2024 season.
The score added up each win's multiplier times 100 over a 30-spin cycle, and only the best cycle counted.
The minimum bet was €0.20 per spin. The stake size made no difference to the score, and the Gamble feature was left out of the count.
The selection brought together ten games, including the new releases 20 Hot Super Fruits and 7s Fury 40, plus five pillars shared by the early legs of the season.
Candy Trouble was the only slot with a confectionery theme, and six of the ten games were rated low or very low volatility.
Online gambling is regulated country by country, so whether a player could legally take part depended on where they lived.
The tournament was not renewed. In 2025, GameArt moved on to 10K Double Heat, with €10,000 in cash prizes.
GameArt's Candy Blossoms tournament: ten slots and €100K in April 2024
Spring 2024 tasted of icing sugar at GameArt. Less than a month after the green tournament of mid-March, the studio reopened its leaderboards under a confectioner's sign: Candy Blossoms. Behind the wrapper, though, the reels smelled more of the orchard and the number 7 than of candyfloss.
Candy Blossoms was the third of the ten slot tournaments in GameArt's Yeet&Sweet 2024 programme. It ran from Friday 19 to Sunday 28 April 2024 and was played for real money. Ten of the studio's games made the line-up, with an announced prize pool of €100,000. The idea fitted on one line: post the biggest total of win multipliers in thirty spins.
Two and a half years on, this tournament deserves more than a poster. Time to look back at what the shop window really held, what the scoring rewarded and what it ignored. And to see why the blossom never came back.
When was the Candy Blossoms tournament played?
The tournament kicked off on Friday 19 April 2024 at 10:00 UTC, which was noon Central European Summer Time. The leaderboard froze on Sunday 28 April at 20:59 UTC, or 22:59 CEST. Ten days exactly, Friday to Sunday: every leg of the season came out of the same mould.
Within the season, Candy Blossoms came third, after Sweetheart Dragon (9 to 18 February) and Sweet Greens (15 to 24 March). Twenty-five days of downtime separated it from the previous leg, the most common gap of the year. Only eleven days separated it from the next one, Lucky Loser, which opened on 10 May. That was the shortest break of all ten tournaments. In spring, GameArt's roulette wheel was spinning fast.
The announcement came on Tuesday 19 March 2024, exactly one month before the opening. Its title: “Candy Blossoms Will Bloom in One Month!” On the same day, the fruit slot maker unveiled 20 Hot Super Fruits, the new release set to top the bill.
How was the Yeet&Sweet leaderboard calculated?
A network tournament is a competition run by a game provider and offered at the casinos that carry its titles. GameArt sums it up in a single sentence: its tournaments bring together operators and their players. The rules posted on the studio's Yeet&Sweet page applied to every 2024 leg and boil down to six points:
Real money: only real-money bets counted, and only on the games designated for that leg.
Bet: €0.20 minimum per spin, or the equivalent in another currency.
Cycle: thirty spins made one cycle, and players had to complete at least one to appear on the leaderboard.
Score: each win was divided by the bet, then multiplied by 100. The cycle score added up these points.
Best cycle: players could play as many cycles as they liked, and only the best one stayed on the board.
One game at a time: players could switch between the ten slots, but never run two at once.
Thirty spins for a single score
Take a cycle played at the minimum bet. A €0.20 spin that pays €2 shows a multiplier of 10, so it is worth 1,000 points. A losing spin is worth zero. After the thirtieth spin, the total gives the cycle score. The player can then open a second cycle, a tenth, a fiftieth. The board only keeps the best one.
This detail changes everything. A failed cycle costs no points, only stakes. So the scoring ignores bad luck and rewards the peak. Candy Blossoms was less a marathon than a high-jump contest: nobody asked you to clear the bar often, only to clear it high, once.
Twenty cents or twenty euros: same scale
The win multiplier is the ratio between what a spin pays and what it cost. Because the score rests entirely on that ratio, the size of the bet carries no weight in the ranking. A €0.20 spin that pays €4 and a €20 spin that pays €400 are worth exactly the same: a multiplier of 20, so 2,000 points. Betting big doesn't lift you up the leaderboard. It only lifts the bill.
Volume still sneaks in through the back door. The number of cycles was uncapped, so each new cycle offered one more chance to improve your best score. At the minimum bet, one cycle puts €6 on the line (30 spins at €0.20). Ten attempts, €60. A hundred attempts, €600. That money is staked, not necessarily lost, but the wallet is what buys the extra attempts. A scoring system that looks fair on paper can therefore favour whoever plays longest.
Gamble left out of the count
Most games in the selection offer a Gamble feature. This double-or-nothing option lets you double, or even quadruple, a win by betting on the colour or suit of a card. The rules neutralise it: only the original win counts towards the score, and any points added through Gamble are cancelled. A €1 bet with a €10 win scores 1,000 points. Trying to double that win afterwards changes nothing. In a tournament, hitting Gamble means risking money with nothing to show for it on the leaderboard.
Which GameArt slots made up the selection?
Ten games, two families. The press release of 19 March 2024 set apart five titles specific to this leg and five titles billed as the series' best performers. Just like at a sweet shop counter, there were the day's new treats and the classics from the jar.
Five pillars billed for the whole season
Greek Pantheon Megaways™, 40 Super Blazing Sevens, Lucky Coins, Buffalo Sunset and Frozen Joker formed the core. In the Joker's Sweets announcement published on 14 May 2024, GameArt even calls them “the top five games featured across all ten tournaments in Yeet&Sweet 2024”. On paper, it was a reassuring common thread. Players found familiar landmarks from one leg to the next.
The thread held for at least four legs, from Sweet Greens to Joker's Sweets, before snapping at the summer leg played from 26 July to 4 August 2024.
In the Fruitish press release dated 26 June 2024, the top five keeps only 40 Super Blazing Sevens and Lucky Coins. They are joined by Great Buffalo Hold'n Win, Clover Goes Wild and Xtreme Hot. Three of the five pillars changed mid-season. Nothing scandalous for a promotional campaign, but the line “across all ten tournaments” deserved an asterisk at the bottom of the poster.
Five rotating titles
Around the core, five spots in the line-up changed from one leg to the next. For Candy Blossoms, GameArt picked two new releases, one recent release and two classics from late 2023. The table below brings the ten games together, with the volatility the studio itself states on each game page.
Game
Role in the selection
Release
Grid
Stated volatility
20 Hot Super Fruits
New release
19 Mar 2024
5 × 3, 20 lines
Low
7s Fury 40
New release
9 Apr 2024
5 × 4, 40 lines
Very low
Hot Glowing Fruits
Recent release
27 Feb 2024
5 × 3, 10 lines
Low
Candy Trouble
Classic
28 Nov 2023
5 × 6, cascading reels
Very high
10 Lucky Sevens
Classic
7 Nov 2023
5 × 3, 10 lines
Low
Greek Pantheon Megaways™
Pillar
26 Sep 2023
6 reels, up to 117,649 ways
Very high
40 Super Blazing Sevens
Pillar
11 Jul 2023
6 × 4, 40 lines
Very low
Lucky Coins
Pillar
26 Nov 2019
5 reels, 25 lines
Medium
Buffalo Sunset
Pillar
18 Apr 2023
5 reels
Medium
Frozen Joker
Pillar
7 Feb 2023
3 × 3, 5 lines
Low
Sources: GameArt press release of 19 March 2024 and official game pages, checked on 26 October 2026.
20 Hot Super Fruits came out on the day of the announcement. Its Wilds expand across the three middle reels and stay sticky during respins, for a maximum win of 3,000x the stake. 7s Fury 40 launched on 9 April, ten days before kick-off. It stacks its symbols on a 5 × 4 grid where the 7 acts as the Wild and the star as the Scatter. Hot Glowing Fruits, out in late February, pays its stars anywhere on the reels. Lucky Coins was the old-timer of the group: released in November 2019, it was more than four years old by the time of the tournament.
Candy on the poster and fruit on the reels
I admit I smiled while drawing up the list. Reading “Candy Blossoms”, I expected barley sugar, pink petals and cascades of sweets. The selection mostly served up a fruit basket. Only one slot truly embraces the confectionery theme: Candy Trouble, a 5 × 6 cascading grid where Candy Bombs multiply wins. Five others are classic fruit-and-sevens slots: 20 Hot Super Fruits, 7s Fury 40, Hot Glowing Fruits, 10 Lucky Sevens and 40 Super Blazing Sevens. The name dressed the shop window. The orchard wrote the recipe.
Six games out of ten with low or very low volatility
Volatility describes how a slot spreads its wins. Low volatility means frequent but modest wins. High volatility spaces them out and makes them bigger. Of the ten Candy Blossoms games, GameArt rates two as very low volatility, four as low, two as medium and two as very high.
In a scoring system that only keeps the best cycle, that split is anything but trivial. A single spin paying 500x the stake is worth 50,000 points, enough to crush thirty spins of small wins. The most volatile games produce the spectacular scores, and the zero cycles too. Greek Pantheon Megaways™ is a case in point, with wins advertised at up to 30,000x the stake in free spins. Fruit slots, for their part, fill the board with small and steady numbers. Every table regular knows the flip side: chasing the peak means accepting more cycles, and therefore more stakes.
A shop window for spring 2024 releases
The tournament also served as a display stand. From 6 February to 19 March 2024, GameArt's news feed announced a new slot every Tuesday for seven weeks in a row. The run went from Dragon King Megaways™ to 20 Hot Super Fruits. Six of them later found a place in Sweet Greens, Candy Blossoms or Lucky Loser. Think of a pastry chef laying out new creations on the counter before opening time.
Tournament
2024 dates
New releases in the spotlight
Five-game core
Sweet Greens
15 to 24 March
Great Buffalo Hold'n Win, Shining Royal 40, Clover Goes Wild
40 Super Blazing Sevens, Lucky Coins, Great Buffalo Hold'n Win, Clover Goes Wild, Xtreme Hot
Sources: GameArt press releases of 15 February, 19 March, 12 April and 26 June 2024.
The mechanism is plain to see. Tuesday's new release enters the next tournament and, if players take to it, can climb into the core. Clover Goes Wild was released on 12 March 2024 and showcased in Sweet Greens. It later appeared among the top five games announced for Fruitish, just like Great Buffalo Hold'n Win. The two headliners of Candy Blossoms, 20 Hot Super Fruits and 7s Fury 40, are missing from that summer top five. Spring had its early blooms, and its buds that never opened.
Could anyone join a slot tournament like Candy Blossoms?
Not everywhere. Online gambling is regulated country by country. The European Commission's page on online gambling in the EU is clear on this point: there is no sector-specific EU legislation, and each country organises its gambling services its own way. Frameworks differ widely. A growing number of EU countries run licensing systems open to several operators, while some have set up monopolies. So whether a player could legally take part in a network tournament like Candy Blossoms depended on the country they lived in.
If you live in a country where these games are legal, four habits apply to any slot tournament:
Licence: check that the casino holds a licence issued by the regulator of your country of residence.
Budget: count in cycles rather than spins. At €0.20, each thirty-spin attempt puts €6 on the line.
Terms: read the operator's terms to find out who is eligible, which currency applies and how prizes are paid.
Gamble: leave it alone during the tournament, since it earns no points.
And if the leaderboard starts to matter more than the evening, close the game window. No tournament is worth a struggle to pay the bills.
Did Candy Blossoms bloom again after 2024?
No. The 2024 Yeet&Sweet season closed with Ultimate 100, from 27 December 2024 to 5 January 2025. In 2025, GameArt switched to a very different scale. Its 10K Double Heat tournament was announced on 5 May 2025 and split into two rounds: 5 to 15 June, then 26 June to 6 July. The prize was €10,000 in cash and thousands of free spins. That is 1% of the million put up a year earlier.
As of 26 October 2026, the studio's Yeet&Sweet page still lists Ultimate 100 as the next tournament, like a forgotten poster in the window of a closed sweet shop. Candy Blossoms remains a one-season flower, to be filed among the network promotions the studio has sown over the years.
Will it ever come back? Nothing points that way, and I'm careful not to predict it. One lesson holds well beyond GameArt's sweet shop. In a best-cycle tournament, the poster sells sugar and the scoring sells altitude. The wallet always pays for the lift. Read the rules before you bite into the wrapper.
FAQs:
What is GameArt's Candy Blossoms tournament?
It was the third of the ten slot tournaments in the Yeet&Sweet 2024 programme. Run by GameArt in April 2024, it was played for real money on ten of the studio's games, with an announced prize pool of €100,000.
When did the Candy Blossoms tournament take place?
From Friday 19 April 2024 at 10:00 UTC to Sunday 28 April 2024 at 20:59 UTC, or from 12:00 to 22:59 CEST.
What was the Candy Blossoms prize pool?
GameArt announced €100,000 for each of the ten Yeet&Sweet 2024 tournaments, for a total budget of €1,000,000 over the season.
Which slots were part of the Candy Blossoms tournament?
20 Hot Super Fruits, 7s Fury 40, Hot Glowing Fruits, Candy Trouble, 10 Lucky Sevens, Greek Pantheon Megaways™, 40 Super Blazing Sevens, Lucky Coins, Buffalo Sunset and Frozen Joker.
How were points calculated?
Each win was divided by the bet, then multiplied by 100. The score of a 30-spin cycle added up these points, and only the player's best cycle stayed on the leaderboard.
Did betting more help you climb the leaderboard?
No. The score was based on the win multiplier, not on the amount staked. A €0.20 spin and a €20 spin that pay the same multiplier are worth the same number of points.
Did the Gamble feature earn points?
No. Only the original win counted towards the score. Points gained by doubling or quadrupling a win with Gamble were cancelled.
Could anyone take part in the Candy Blossoms tournament?
Only at casinos offering the tournament, and only where online casino games are legal. Online gambling is regulated country by country, so eligibility depended on the player's country of residence.
Was the Candy Blossoms tournament renewed?
No. The 2024 Yeet&Sweet season ended with Ultimate 100 on 5 January 2025. In 2025, GameArt launched 10K Double Heat, with €10,000 in cash and free spins.
