There’s no scarcity of fruit-themed video slots, and we suspect such a scarcity won’t ever present itself within the neon-lit world of casinos. Playtech is one software program firm serving to to make sure fruit-based video slots not solely stay a mainstay of the market, however flourish because the years go by.
Funky Fruits is a progressive slot performed out on a 5×5 grid fairly than the customary 5×3 set-up. In Funky Fruits, the identical fruit ‘characters’ who made Funky Fruits Farm such a preferred title return, and so they’re simply as god darn funky as ever – although the lemon continues to be cheesed off by the look of his phizzog.
On common, Funky Fruits is claimed to pay out a progressive sum as soon as each three months, and the jackpot is often within the seven determine bracket. Good!
Chillin’ on the seaside
On this lighthearted recreation, our funky fruit are on the seaside. Within the background of the wood board reels, we see the golden foreshore, the ocean and a wonderfully blue sky. To the fitting, occupying an empty glass with a straw, you’ll see the jackpot calculator together with controls for autoplay, guess and win. On the other finish of the board, there’s an data tab caught to a surfboard.
Funky Fruits is a feel-good, summery recreation with slick graphics and pleasing animations. The comically confronted symbols embrace cherries, lemons, oranges, pineapples, plums and watermelons, and the item of the sport is to land at the very least 5 of 1 fruit on adjoining reels. You don’t must land these zany symbols horizontally, both – you possibly can land them vertically, or a combination of the 2. Diagonal doesn’t rely, although. Once you hit 5 or extra of the identical symbols, you’ll win a multiplier of your guess quantity, with a better multiplier given for every further icon you uncover.
Relying on how a lot you guess, you’ll be in play for a unique proportion of the jackpot. Guess one credit score to win 10%, two to win 20%, 5 to win half and 10 to be in with an opportunity of successful the entire package and caboodle.
Common symbols
The non-jackpot symbols are linked with some really large pay-outs as soon as you possibly can land 9, ten, 11 or extra symbols. Probably the most beneficiant is the grumpy lemon. Land 5 for a x7.5 multiplier, six for x12.5, seven for x25 and eight for x50. Thereafter, with every successive lemon you discover, the pay-outs soar fairly steeply. It’s x100 for 9, x150 for 11, x250 for 13 and a staggering x5,000 for 16+.
Much less rewarding is the watermelon, which pays simply x2 for ten, x7.5 for 13 and x50 for 16+. Touchdown 16 or extra of the opposite symbols wins you multipliers akin to x100 for plums, x50 for pineapples and x1,000 for oranges. There aren’t any wild or scatter symbols on this recreation, and nor are there any free spins up for grabs. Actually, the gameplay is fairly featureless – though frequent reasonable wins are the norm.
Hittin’ the jackpot
Because you’ve nonetheless little doubt received that seven-figure jackpot in your thoughts, I’ll let you know that matching eight or extra cherry symbols is what’s wanted to assert a portion of it. As acknowledged, you possibly can win the entire thing in the event you land eight or extra cherries whereas betting 10 credit. There are nonetheless some epic cherry wins in the event you land lower than eight, although. Should you hit seven, you’ll declare x2,000. Hit six for x500 and 5 for x50.
Dem fruit so funky
We anticipated quite a bit from this slot, so we’re glad that Playtech didn’t, ahem, funk it up. Funky Fruits is a barrel of snickers, with cute, cheery icons that soar out the display screen at you. The 5×5 grid creates the potential for frequent pay-outs, even when the eye-popping wins are trickier to return by.
It’s kinda robust evaluating Funky Fruits to Funky Fruits Farm. The previous has a large progressive jackpot, which the latter lacks, however Funky Fruits Farm does have free spins and multiplier bonuses. Actually, you possibly can win 33 free spins with a x15 multiplier within the farm-based slot. That stated, if these cherries line up excellent, you’re speaking about life-changing cash on this one. We name it a draw. Strive it out and see in the event you agree.