The ever-growing rise of online casinos has seen classic brick-and-mortar games, like Roulette, Blackjack and Slots, evolve massively. There are now so many different versions of the popular games, it’s getting harder and harder to choose what you want to play.
Slots have, without a doubt, seen the biggest change since the invention of the online industry. Gone are the one-armed bandits with watermelons, 7’s and ‘bar’ spinning within their reels, and in with the video game-esque graphics that transport you to Ancient Greece and are powered by Zeus and Hercules.
Online Slots pages are jammed-packed with tons of different games, some offering six-figure jackpots, with themes ranging from mythology and movies to sports. Animals are also a popular theme, so we’re going to give you an insight into a couple of the best animal games out there.
Giant Grizzly
Set in the natural beauty of the woods, with the Rocky Mountains in the backdrop, birds soaring in the sky, and a small wooden cabin with smoke bellowing from the chimney in the foreground – this is a trip to the forest you’ll surely not forget. This reel takes a slightly different formation than usual, as it is arranged into 4-3-3-3-4 stacks. It stars a cast of appropriate symbols, including deer, rabbits, salmon, fungi, berries, and the classic card icons cut from trees.
Match any three of the above from left to right across the 432 ways to win and you’ll land cash prizes topping 250x your line bet. However, it’s the Giant Grizzly wild and scatter you want to keep your eye out for. There are two different types of wilds: action and expanding. Roll in an action wild and it will act as any symbol apart from the scatter, whilst landing the icon behind a winning combination inside a highlighted area will bag you an instant cash prize.
Expanding bears have the ability to cover a section measuring 3X3 reels. Land one of these and the bear will let out a ferocious road and anything it lays it paws on has the power to become a winning combo. To make things more interesting, standard wilds are replaced by a rampaging wild. This icon can increase and make on-the-spot wins as you fly through up to 15 free spins.
Every time you land a winning combo in this free spins bonus, the winning symbols vanish and are replaced with different ones – meaning you could more than once on a single spin. What’s not to love?
Buffalo Blitz
One of the most popular online Slots, in Buffalo Blitz you’ll be inundated with ways to win. A green prairie surrounded by snowy mountains makes up the backdrop of this mightily powerful game.
A variety of Animal symbols also stack in these reels, including moose, racoons and bears. Match any of these three, from left to right across the 4,096-ways-to-win slot, and you could win up to 300x your line bet. However, it’s the highest-paying symbol, the golden buffalo, you really want to see lighting up your reels. Land six of these icons across the same payline to win a whopping 300x maximum jackpot.
The ‘Free Games’ symbol, which acts as the scatter icon, is your key to kicking the game into life. Land three or more across the half-a-dozen reels and you’ll unlock eight free spins, the amount of free spins you win will increase with the numbers of scatters you land, with the maximum six symbols landing you a mouth-watering 100 re-spins. If that’s still not enough, locking in six more ‘Free Games’ icons during the free spins can land you another 100.
The glistening diamond is the wild symbol. This will appear in every reel apart from the first. This can multiply win by up to 5x your coin bet, at random, during re-spins.
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