Bugs Money – Yggdrasil

 

Summer came early! Yggdrasil’s new release Bugs Money is a vibrant and colorful summer themed slot with cute cartoonish graphics depicting the many bugs and critters you would find from your local park during those beautiful warm summer days. And its not just pretty graphics what this game offers, as there are quite the solid bunch of features included behind it all – so without further ado, lets dive straight in and take a closer look of them!

 

Overview

Bugs Money actually has a very classical feel to it, and we mean that in the best possible way, meaning that there are no overly complicated mechanics, thousands of winlines or never-seen-before features in this game. Instead what you get is a simple classical style slot game, which focuses on the basics and combines it all into this beautiful package that just works wonders.

The game has a very basic layout consisting of five reels with three rows on each of them, giving the player a total of 10 winlines. It also comes with a quite lucrative maximum win of 55,028x your stake, which is made possible by the win multipliers and Wild features the game has.

The Wild-symbol in this game is nothing special in itself, as it works just like you would expect one to work – it can land on any reel and replaces any other normal symbols in order to create a win for the player. The real fun comes with the Glow Wilds feature, which can randomly trigger on any spin. When this happens, the game will dash out a random amount of Wild symbols all over your reels, with the minimum being three added Wilds.

Win Multiplier comes into play during the Free Spin feature of the game, which is triggered by landing minimum of three Scatter-symbols anywhere on your reels. The Free Spin feature works exactly like the main game does, but now there is also an additional honey comb meter above your reels which rolls a random Win Multiplier for you before each spin. The possible outcomes for the Win Multiplier are decided before the whole Free Spin feature starts, as you have four different options to choose from with varying number of Free Spins and Win Multiplier possibilities;

Option 1: Get 3 Free Spins with random win multiplier of 5x, 10x, 20x or 50x
Option 2: Get 7 Free Spins with random win multiplier of 3x, 5x, 10x or 20x
Option 3: Get 10 Free Spins with random win multiplier of 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x
Option 4: Get 15 Free Spins with random win multiplier of 1x, 2x, 3x or 5x

All of these options are always available to choose from when you just land the three Scatter-symbols needed to activate the Free Spin feature, so the number of Scatters wont affect your choices in any way. No matter what option you pick, there is also a special Queen Bee symbol in the Free Spin feature and if that lands on your reels, the current win multiplier for that spin will get a 10x boost!

Finally the game also has a Golden Bet feature that you can activate during the base game. This increases your stake by 50%, but it also doubles your Chanz of triggering the Free Spin feature.

 

Chanz verdict

All in all, we feel like this is just an all-round feel-good type of classical slot game. It’s bit like how nearly all slots used to be just 10 years ago, before the game providers started to come up with all kind of complex features and weird reel setups that might not even make any sense at first glimpse. In one way it almost feels refreshing again, to not have any of those things included and instead just being able to enjoy a good gaming session with a normal easy-to-understand slot machine! Due to that we can also easily recommend this to absolutely everyone, its easy to play, easy to enjoy and easy to try by heading to Chanz.com right now!

 

Play responsibly. 18/21+.

The Race – Big Time Gaming

 

Before loading this slot up on your screen for the very first time, you might expect to see some sort of shiny fast sports cars competing against each other on a race track or something along those lines. And we can’t really blame you for that, because that is exactly what we initially thought as well just reading the name of the game. However, that assumption couldn’t be more wrong, as this brand new release from Big Time Gaming is actually more like a gameshow type of slot, where the only thing racing will be your heart from all the excitement of it! Now that we have cleared that up, lets take a closer look of its features.

 

Overview

First of all, this game utilizes the super popular Megaways mechanic, which I am sure many of you readers are already very familiar with – but despite that lets quickly recap what it means. The game is built on six reels where the symbol rows are dynamic, meaning that on any spin each of the reels can have anywhere between 2-7 symbols. At its best this would of course mean that you could have each of the six reels filled with 7 symbols, creating a 6×7 sized area with a massive amount of winlines – 117,649 in total to be exact. Additionally in a traditional Megaways-style when you land a win, the winning symbols will be removed from the reels and new ones will be dropped to replace them, and this goes on for as long until no new wins are created with the newly dropped symbols.

That is pretty much how every single Megaways-slot usually work, but there are some additional special features included here as well. There is a Wild symbol in this game, which works just like you would expect it to work replacing any other symbols on the grid to help you create wins. But any time you land a Wild symbol on your reels, you can also randomly trigger the Wild Duplication feature. When this happens, all the other normal symbols that are above your Wild symbol(s) will also turn into Wilds.

Now the real kicker in this game is definitely within its Free Spin feature, which is called the Heart Bonus Round and triggered with three Scatter symbols. This is where the gameshow theme of the game really shines through as well, as it first starts with a minigame which decides how many lives you get for the Free Spin feature. The minigame is played on a 4×5 sized grid where you get three initial spins to start with, and now only Heart symbols or blanks can land on the reels. Each Heart symbol that you land will stay on its place and reset the spin amount back to the initial three, and the minigame ends when you either run out of spins or when the whole grid is filled up completely with only Heart symbols. These Hearts will then be collected at the end of the minigame and they serve as your lives in the actual Free Spin feature – meaning that with a full grid of Heart symbols you would start with 20 lives.

The actual Free Spin feature is really quite innovative and awesome, since technically you have unlimited number of Free Spins. Yep, you read that completely right. There is no set number of Free Spins for the feature, and instead you can spin as long as your lives last. Otherwise the Free Spin feature works exactly like the base game, but now there is also a Win Multiplier included which starts at 1x and increases by one with every win that you get. The win multiplier has no upper limit either, so again, you are only limited by the number of wins you manage to rack up. There is one symbol that you absolutely don’t want to see on your reels however, and that is the Heart Remover symbol. You might have already guessed it, but when this lands you will lose a life – and of course the Free Spin feature ends when all your lives have been used.

Finally there is the Win Exchange feature, which will trigger when you win at least 100x your stake during the base game. When this happens, you can exchange your win to trigger the Heart Bonus Round directly. Additionally, if you get a win of 25-99x your stake, you can choose to gamble your win for the possibility of triggering the Heart Bonus Round.

 

Chanz verdict

We can admit straight on that this might not be the most interesting looking slot out there, as the graphics are really quite basic and somewhat similar to all the other games from Big Time Gaming. However, the features this one packs in it really surprised us in a good way and we had really fun time playing it. Like we mentioned, the Heart Bonus Free Spin round is really where all the action is, and that indeed does get your heart racing while you are just hoping that the feature continues indefinitely like it theoretically could. Head to Chanz.com to get in on the action yourself!

 

Play responsibly. 18/21+.

Iron County Outlaw – Games Global

 

Ah, the good old Wild West is a theme in slots that just seems to stay super popular year after a year no matter what. Luckily we here at Chanz are big fans of good westerns and can totally see why the genre is so popular! There really is that certain something when you imagine yourself strolling on your horse in the scorch of the desert heat, along the busy main dirt road which is sided by wooden buildings with saloons, blacksmiths and hopefully even the sheriffs office… These images in mind, lets take a closer look of Games Global’s brand new release Iron County Outlaw, which takes us there and does it with quite unique features included!

 

Overview

While the Wild West theme is really nothing new, some of the features in this game are definitely innovative and a proper breath of a fresh air. The base game is built on a 5×4 setup, meaning that there are five reels with four rows of symbols on each of them. This can be expanded too, but we go over that in detail bit later on. The most valuable symbols are depicted by all the things you could easily associate with the Wild West, such as revolvers, bison skulls, horseshoes and money bags.

The most important symbol of the game however is the Lady Sheriff symbol, which acts both as a Wild and a collector symbol. All the normal symbols can randomly have a Coin attached to them, and you will need to land this Lady Sheriff collector wild in order to collect all the visible Coins. These will then be added to your Coin meter which is counting the total amount of all the collected coins. This meter is really the backbone of the whole game, as once it is filled enough you will unlock the games full potential and get some really nice extra features added in the game. These features wont reset between spins either, so once you have unlocked them, you can enjoy them with all your spins afterwards. Here you can find all the three levels of special features that can be unlocked;

30 Coins collected: Lady Sheriff Wild symbol will be upgraded to a Stacked Wild symbol that always covers the whole reel it lands on.
60 Coins collected: Lady Sheriff Stacked Wild now also comes with a random Win Multiplier of either 2x, 3x or 5x.
90 Coins collected: Unlocks the sixth reel, where only high paying symbols or Wilds can land. The Lady Sheriff Stacked Wild will now stay locked to its reel until the next losing spin occurs. Additionally, if any of your Wild symbols are part of a win, the random Win multiplier in them will get a 1x increase, unless the multiplier is already at 10x which is the maximum it can reach.

Finally the game has a Replace Feature, which can happen randomly on any losing spin where there is a Wild symbol anywhere on your reels. When this feature activates, all the normal symbols will be removed from the reels leaving only the Wild(s) there, and new symbols will be dropped in to replace them with a guaranteed win.

 

Chanz verdict

This was a really fun game to play and we enjoyed it immensely. Even if you don’t particularly love the Wild West theme like we do, we think that this game is still definitely worth a try just for the cool innovative features alone. It takes a while to unlock them all, but once the game shows its full colors there is a potential for some pretty huge wins as well! Sounds good? Head to Chanz.com to start your own Wild West adventure today!

 

Play responsibly. 18/21+.

March Treasure Hunt 2023 Winners:

 

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100 EUR = Irina K #irinak27

50 EUR = Pekka H #pekkah15

10 EUR:

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Jari K	jarik49
Susanna V	susannav74
Satu E	satue68
Madis K	madisk97
Kristi M	kristim96
Katriina G	katriinag83
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Hiie M	hiiem53
Patrik K	patrikk351
Ville P	villep263
Pille U	pilleu11
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Elve H	elveh24
Jaanika O	jaanikao776
Edgar K	edgark89

 

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Congratulations!

 

18/21+ Play responsibly.

 

Winterberries 2 – Yggdrasil

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Yggdrasil’s brand new release Winterberries 2 is a sequel to the original Winterberries from the same game developer, and one that has been certainly long-awaited! Well, to be honest, we are not sure if anyone was even waiting a sequel any more at this point, since the original game was released nearly a decade ago… Either way, all what really matters is that the follow-up is now here whether you were waiting for it or not, so its time to take a closer look into it!

 

Overview

The base game is built on five reels with three rows of symbols in each of them, creating a total of 20 winlines for the player. However, there is also a Golden Bet option included, and by enabling that feature you will unlock a sixth reel. This doesn’t come free of course, as enabling the Golden Bet will also increase your bet size by 50% compared to the normal bet.

There is also bunch of other improvements included in the Golden Bet option besides the extra reel, as it also doubles your Chanz of triggering the Free Spin feature and unlocks the highest possible win multiplier of 32x. The win multiplier is really the backbone of the game and it can easily be considered as one of the most important features in the game, which makes the Golden Bet option quite lucrative to use.

So how it all really works and plays out then, you might ask? Well, after each spin your winning symbols will be frozen to their place, while rest of the symbols on your reels will get a respin. If you land more matching symbols during the respin, those will be frozen as well and you get another respin – and this goes on for as long as there are no more matching symbols landing or when your reels are already full of symbols. After the respins are done, your frozen symbols and the win from them will be paid out. This is also where the multipliers really come into play, as you can see them above your reels and each multiplier will be activated when the reel below it is completely full of frozen symbols. What is important to note here though, is that you can’t just jump directly into the highest multiplier, but instead you need to activate them in the sequential order. This means that in order to activate the third multiplier for example, your first and second reel must be full of symbols already with their multipliers activated before that can happen.

Finally we have the Free Spin feature, which is triggered in a very traditional way simply by landing a minimum of three Scatter symbols anywhere on your reels. This awards you with either 10, 12, 15 or 20 Free Spins depending on the amount of Scatter symbols you landed. The last option of 20 Free Spins is only possible if you have the sixth reel unlocked and land a total of 6 Scatters on your reels. The Free Spin feature itself works exactly like the base game, but all the multipliers are doubled from the base game. Additionally there are special Scatter symbols that you can land during the Free Spin feature; Silver, Gold and Diamond Scatters. Each of these will give you just one extra Free Spin per landed Scatter, but the Silver Scatter also increases all of your multipliers by 1-3x, Gold Scatter by 4-8x and the Diamond Scatter by 10-15x.

 

Chanz verdict

This is actually a really solid and enjoyable game all around. The theme of it is a bit silly one since you know, berries are usually not growing during the winters at all, but that is really nothing new in the world of slots. What matters the most to us are the actual game mechanics and those work really well in this release, and with all the respins and win multipliers things very rarely get boring! It might still be a winter, but you can get yourself a plate of these fresh berries right now at Chanz.com!

 

Play responsibly. 18/21+.

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Gold Mine Stacks 2 – Games Global

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Ah, the good old gold mining theme is just something that seems to never get boring! Gold Mine Stacks 2 is a sequel for the debut release of the game developer Nailed it! Games, published by Games Global. This time there is a little fun twist to it though, as the game takes us to the freezing landscapes of the far north – which is something that we think we haven’t seen before in these type of games. Time to start digging up some gold to keep warm!

 

Overview

The game is built on a same setup as the first version of Gold Mine Stacks, consisting of five reels that have three rows in each of them. This pretty basic configuration creates a total of 20 winlines for the player, and makes the game extremely easy to follow as there is never too much happening on the screen at the same time.

Just like with the first game in the series, the main feature here is the Wild Stack Respins, which will automatically trigger when you land a reel full of Wild-symbols on at least one reel. Once that happens, the reel or reels will become frozen and stickied to their place, while the rest of the reels spin again for a respin. If you happen to land more Wild-reels during the respin, those too get stickied and a new respin happens – until either there is no more Wild-reels landing on the new spin or all of your reels are already Wild. Getting all the five reels full of Wild-symbols will yield a solid big win of 400x your stake.

There is also a Free Spin feature in the game that goes by the name Gold Mine Stacks Bonus Round and again, if you have played the first version of Gold Mine Stacks, you already know how it works as not much has changed here when it comes to the actual functionality of it! There are some major differences too though, as this time you will have 16 levels to upgrade through instead of the 4 levels that the first game had.

The Gold Mine Stacks Bonus round is triggered when you land a minimum of three Bonus-symbols anywhere on your reels during the base game. As the feature starts, additional randomizer reel is spun first which gives one of the Cash Prize symbols a boost of up to 20x multiplier – or if you land the Safe symbol, then all of the Cash Prize symbols will get boosted with the 20x multiplier. Now the bonus round itself works in the spin and hold style, meaning that you have three spins or lives to start with, and only Cash Prize symbols or empty slots can land on your reels. If you land only empty slots you will lose one life, whereas landing even a one Cash Symbol on the reels will reset the lives back to three.

Any time that you manage to fill up a whole reel with Cash Prize symbols during the bonus round you will be upgraded to the next level. As already mentioned earlier, there are total of 16 levels and each level comes with better, more valuable Cash Prize symbols than the previous one. Reaching level 16 will automatically result in a huge payday, as this triggers the 50,000x your stake win, which is also the maximum win that you can get from this slot.

 

Chanz verdict

We think that overall this is a prime example of a good sequel game. It has a lot of similarities when compared to the first version, so the players who enjoyed that game will surely like this one as well! All the things we loved in the first game are still there and the changes that have been made to it are just positive changes, like the addition of the 12 new levels in the bonus round. Try it out yourself at Chanz.com!

 

Play responsibly. 18/21+.

Peggy Sweets – Red Tiger

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Red Tiger’s new slot Peggy Sweets takes us to a retro-style American roller skating diner, or rather roller skating bakery perhaps, as the menu seems to be consisting only of sweet items such as doughnuts, pancakes, jellos and milkshakes, which are depicted in the major pay symbols. Either way, it has a nostalgic 50s retro-vibe to it with some flashing neon lights and funky pop music. Beneath the pretty surface it also has some great gameplay features baked into it, so lets take a closer look at those!

 

Overview

The game uses a 5×5 symbol grid system where wins are paid from the amount of matching symbols instead of their position on the grid. In other words, you don’t need to land your symbols in any kind of formation such as clustered and grouped together, and simply landing 8 or more symbols anywhere in the grid will pay out a win even if the symbols are not adjacent to each other. After a win all the symbols that were part of it will be removed to allow new symbols drop in and this continues as long as there are no new wins generated with the new symbols.

The three hostess girls named Peggy, Tina and Lisa really have the spotlight in the game as each of them have their own unique twists and features to serve. The features will be randomly triggering when the girl in question is active, and at least one of them always is. The currently active girl will be displayed on the top right corner of the slot and here are all the different features explained:

Make it large (Pink girl) – Changes one of your lower tier symbols to a higher tier symbol
Get one free (Blue girl) – Doubles one of your symbols so that each instance of that particular symbol counts as two symbols instead
Win multiplier (Yellow girl) – Gives a random multiplier between 2-5x which is also applied to any respin wins that may occur when the first winning symbols are removed and replaced with new symbols

There is also a Free Spin feature which is triggered from the base game by landing three Free Spins Scatter symbols anywhere on your grid. You get 8 free spins to start with, and now the lunch time rush hour has apparently started at the bakery, as all the hostesses are active instead of just one of them. This means that any of the three unique features can now trigger on any spin, and the features will be triggering more frequently overall than during the base game. The win multiplier from the Yellow girl feature also wont reset between the spins and now it can grow all the way up to 30x.

Additionally now there is a progress bar above your grid which is filled by collecting winning symbols, and it awards you with 8 more free spins once it is completely full. Each symbol that is part of a win gives +1 point to the progress bar, or +2 points if the symbols are doubled with the Blue girl feature, and you need total of 36 points in order to fill up the whole bar.

 

Chanz verdict

Peggy Sweets might not be the most original slot out there when it comes to its features, but they all work very nicely together here. We really liked that the wins are paid regardless of where your symbols are on the grid if you just have enough matching symbols, and the three rotating features make even the base game grind quite exciting and enjoyable. Have a bite yourself at Chanz.com!

 

Play responsibly. 18/21+.

Pilgrim of Dead – Play’n GO

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It’s hard to even try to think of a slot series that would be a more popular and well-known than Play’n GOs “of Dead” series of games. Book of Dead is probably the most famous one of them all in the line-up, but to be honest we have already lost count of how many “of Dead” sequels there are in total by now. Anyway, that is not to say that there wouldn’t be room for one more – so here comes the latest and greatest, Pilgrim of Dead.

 

Overview

Pilgrim of Dead follows very much on the same footsteps as all the earlier games in the series, having the usual setup which is built on five reels that have three rows on each of them, giving you a grand total of 10 fixed winlines. All of the usual features and charasteristics from the “of Dead” games are present in this release as well; you have the ancient Egypt theme and the Golden Tomb symbol, which acts both as a Wild symbol and a Scatter symbol.

Most notable changes compared to the sister games can be found from the games Free Spin feature. You need to land a minimum of three Golden Tomb Scatters anywhere on the view to trigger the feature, and it always starts with five free spins. Once the Free Spin bonus is triggered, one of the symbols is randomly chosen at the start of it to act as a Special Expanding symbol for the duration of the feature – and again, this is something that hasn’t really changed from the earlier games, so all the true fans of the series will certainly be very familiar with this mechanic already. There is a little twist to it this time however, as now you have the option to reject the first randomly selected symbol if you want. If you choose to do so, a new symbol will be randomly selected and the free spins will begin.

The Special Expanding symbol has another feature to it that is unique for this iteration of the series, and that is the fact that now the first Special Expanding symbol landing on each reel during the feature will become sticky, meaning that it will stay on the same position where it landed on the reel for the duration of the free spins. This is certainly a very welcome change, but it’s also probably at least part of the reason why the Free Spin bonus starts now with only five free spins instead of ten like in many of the other “of Dead” slots. Either way, you can still collect more Free Spins during the feature if you manage to land more Golden Tomb Scatter symbols. Logic with them is the same as during the base game, so landing minimum of three of them will give you five additional free spins – up to a maximum of 30 spins.

 

Chanz verdict

All in all, this is a very solid “of Dead” game and surely a welcome addition to the series. However, that is also exactly all that it really is and nothing more. Not that much have changed compared to the other instalments in the series, but then again, we are also pretty sure that it is completely intentional that way, as there are tons of players who simply love the mechanics and features we are already so used to see in these games. You cannot change too much, or it just wouldn’t be the “of Dead” game everyone is expecting to get. This is a great title to get familiar with the series if you haven’t played any of the games before, and if you are an old fan already, then you are in for a treat! Head to Chanz.com to test it out yourself!

 

Play responsibly. 18/21+.