Wild Turkey
Thanksgiving is not complete without the traditional turkey and while this custom does not date back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth, who created the foundations of modern day America, the Thanksgiving turkey is a core component of the holiday in most American households. The turkey has come to be known internationally as the symbol of Thanksgiving, and Wild Turkey slots brings a tribe of the animals to the reels while giving you the chance to win big.
The game, developed by NetEnt, is themed upon a wild tribe of turkeys including a warrior, a shaman, a leader, and a healer, all of whom can help you land enormous payouts.
The game format is a typical 5-reel, 20-payline slot, with wild cards that can land stacked during the bonus spins. Behind the reels is a background filled with thatch built huts in a forest setting, the reels are framed with hanging vines and the paylines are marked with carved square stones. In the background, you will hear the tribal drums playing to keep with the atmosphere.
The lower value symbols are royals with the values of 10, J, Q, K and A; that are engraved into the stones. High value symbols are the members of the tribe themselves; a brown turkey brandishing a spear is the lowest value character, followed by a higher value white female turkey adorned in a blue headdress, earrings and a tribal column necklace. Above her is the turkey shaman, with a skull on his head and dressed in green embroidery. Next up the line is the orange and brown turkey, a tribal warrior, with a bone piercing in his beak, and the highest value symbol is the leader, who wears a bright headdress and pendant.
The game features wild cards, with a bronze turkey face, but also wild stacks that are pieces of a picture, and when you collect them all, they then reveal themselves to be a large turkey totem. The stacked wild cards can give you bonus spins that help you win bonus payouts.
Wild Turkey does not have any separate bonus symbols but it does offer free spins, which are triggered by the wild symbol. Landing three, four or five wild symbols will award you 15, 30 or 60 free spins, respectively. The free spins come with stacked wild symbols, and when a reel is fully covered by a stacked wild, two additional spins are awarded.
There are 10 bet levels with 20 fixed bet lines, and coin values ranging from 0.01 to 0.50. The minimum bet you can make is 0.01 and the maximum is 100.00, with the maximum coin jackpot at 800,000.
The Great Chicken Escape
Sticking with the theme of birds, you could try Great Chicken Escape slot; a game based in a chicken prisoner camp, clucking with free spins and a handful of bonus features.
The Great Chicken Escape, developed by Pragmatic Play, is a 5 reel, 20 payline slot game. It features the standard royal symbols 10, J, Q, K, A and four chicken characters, the highest being the sergeant chicken, who rewards you with 1, 5 or 15 times your stakes, on a 3, 4 or 5 combination. The main chicken, Charlie, is the wild card, substituting for any other card.
There are many random features, such as the Wild Dog guards, where 4 to 9 additional wild dog cards are placed in the reels, or Chicken Run wilds, where 2 to 4 reels can transform into staked wild cards and the Care Package feature, where stacked golden eggs are added to the reel and once spinning stops, they transform into a random symbol.
The bonus symbol is a map and landing three or four of them will trigger one of five features at random, while landing five will always trigger the Big Money bonus. The five bonus features are:
- Secret Tunnel - You open one of three chests that appear on the screen, with prizes including cash, collect (which ends the feature) or a Mystery Tunnel, which triggers one of the other features.
- Poultry in Motion – Pick golden eggs to work your way along a map collecting prizes until you reach “Collect”.
- Get Clucky Free Spins – You win ten free spins with an extra wild that boosts the payout multiplier by x1 every time that it lands.
- To The Other Side – You win ten free spins during which all wild symbols are collected and stored. On the final spins, the wilds are placed back on the reels in random positions.
- Big Money Bonus – Spinning barrels are awarded randomly and you can collect the prizes until they land on ‘Collect’.
Best of all, each of the bonus features offers a consolation cash prize if you fail to hit anything.
With its huge amount of bonus features, you may think that the odds of winning are low. However, that’s not the case with the Great Chicken Escape, where the RTP (Return to player) is 96%, which is the industry average, and it is a medium volatility slot, which means that the wins should be very regular.
Be sure to check out the game if you love the thrill of free spins and bonus side games offering increasing multipliers and huge jackpots.
Sizzling Spins
Any barbeque lovers out there should be sure to try Sizzling Spins slots, created by Play'n Go, for a mouth-watering experience. This game is themed around the grill, where you have, in order of value, corn, onion, tomato, cucumber and mushrooms as lower value symbol side dishes. For your main course, you can enjoy ribs, sausages, chicken thigh and shrimp symbols, from highest to lowest in value. These symbols are all spun on a 5 x 3 reel that sits in an outdoor grill.
If you see the hot chili pepper symbol, these are the scatter symbols that may award free spins, and the tin foil blockers are used as wild cards.
On each spin, one vertical reel of 3 symbols turns hot, these are the Hot Reels, where foil blockers become wild cards that hold the reel and trigger respins. If the respin lands another Hot Reel, it will create more respins. If you get lucky and have 4 of these respins, then the wins on all the spins are doubled.
Landing three chili peppers anywhere on the reels awards free spins. First, you need to choose one of the scatters to reveal if you have won 8, 12 or 15 spins. During the free spins, an extra row is added to the reels, which increases the number of ways to win from 243 to 1,024.
Better yet, the respin feature is still active during the free spins and it comes with an additional x2 multiplier, this is increased to a x3 multiplier when you landed 6 chili peppers for the free spins, and x5 if you landed 9 chili peppers.
You can start playing Sizzling Spins for free, for a taste of the game, and when you are ready to turn up the heat, you can play for real money. The game has a user-friendly interface which makes gameplay all the more simple, with an option for autoplay, when you want to shoot off some quick fire spins,.
With the potential to award some massive wins, every spin of the reels is packed full of excitement. Turn on your grill and start sizzling your spins today!