Slots Adventures

now, to me, this is new stuff!  i had been talking with my wife about some of the English “fruit machines”, and she confused me.  i shook my head, made some noises, and that was the end of that. i never got farther than AWP stands for Amusements With Prizes.  what that means exactly, i dunno.

at intercasino there are a list of games they call fruit machines, even though there aren’t any fruit on the symbols.  the machines themselves are totally different than traditional slots.  they are like half feature-filled slot game, and half bonus games.

the Fruit Fight slot is the first of these games I’ve tried.  here’s a quick snapshot of the game . . .

the slot itself is a three reel, single payline.  the paytable is pretty basic, no WILD symbols or multipliers to be found.  the slot itself though, has a lot of features built into it. 

the first is the HOLD button.  from time to time, you will be allowed to hold a reel in place.  some machines have hold buttons and respins built into them, so you can always hold a reel, and you’re always respinning.  this game has them as a “feature is active when lit” option.  so, they are active from time to time, not all the time.

the second cool feature of the Fruit Fight fruit machine is the NUDGE Button.  this is another option that is active when lit, so you can’t rely on it.  it shows up once in a while.  It allows you to “nudge” the reels down a notch.  And when it is lit, there can be anywhere from one to four nudges available. 

so, if there are four nudges, you can nudge one reel four times, or two reels twice, or whatever.  you’d get four total nudges, use them however works best.

what are you nudging for?  well, you’re trying to either land a winning combo on the payline, or get three symbols with “KO” on them to appear (one in each column) so you can move on to the bonus game.  these symbols do not have to line up, just appear, one on each payline!

what’s the bonus game like?  well, there are lots of bonus games on this slot!

you can see in the picture that there is a superKO game on the left, and a super HeavyWeight feature on the right.  the games are like board games.  you roll the dice, and move around the board, performing whatever action is written on the square you land on. 

those actions could be things like, unlocking another bonus game.  like the lucky dip game . . .

at the end of most rolls you’ll have the option to choose hi or low.  that’s a wager on whether the next dice roll will be higher or lower than the last.  if you guess right, you’ll have the option to play a higher paying bonus game.  the bonus games are listed on the screen.  they go from the lucky dip and cash attack games up to “saved by the bell” and  “power punch”.

this slot is truly something else!  all of these bonus games and features really take advantage of the video screen to add more games of chance to one slot than i’ve ever seen.  the machine doesn’t have coin sizes you can change on the fly.  instead, you choose the coin size before you start spinning. if you want to change coin sizes, you’ll have to back out to the game lobby to choose a different version of the machine.

i don’t have a lot of cryptologic powered casinos on my computer, so i’m not sure if this machine is found at every one of them, but i know it’s found at intercasino.  these machines are certainly something else, and now having tested one and gotten a feel for them, it’ll be interesting to test out some more of them.