Jumanji Slot – Free Demo

Rhinos, vines and monkeys in the base game

Four features can fire in the main game with no trigger condition at all: Sticky Vines, Monsoon Wilds, Monkey Mayhem and Wild Stampede, the last of which sends rhinos across the screen and leaves 4 to 9 Wilds behind before the wins are read. Software studio NetEnt may have existed for quite a lengthy time. It's conceivable that there used to be an era when a supplier could crank out anything with 5 reels and 3 rows and still fare just fine, but times are harsher now, the competition is growing increasingly tough, and there's also been a change in market appetite as players have grown more informed and conscious of what they're genuinely playing.

Slots like this don't truly need any nearer introductions. It has been on the shelves since 20 June 2018. But in order to adhere to protocol and for the sake of uniformity, here it goes: Jumanji is a 5-reel slot with a 3-4-5-4-3 layout and 36 fixed pay lines, it is playable on all devices, and the bet size begins at 0.10 credits. Sticky Vines awards re-spins and holds every winning symbol plus every Wild from the initial spin while the rest of the grid spins again, and Monkey Mayhem pays what landed, shuffles all the symbols at random into a guaranteed win, then pays that too.

Two reels of Wilds and one board box

In Jumanji, players are pursuing the Jumanji board box which functions as the scatter, and the Wild stands in for everything except the Scatter. Monsoon Wilds covers one or two whole reels in Wilds while the reels spin, and it is not possible for the fifth reel to be the only one covered. Wins are paid left to right in sequence. With the first two reels covered top to bottom, every line starts on two Wilds, and a grid that shape paid 396 coins — 39.60 credits at a 4.00 stake. Only the largest win per line is counted. Narcos and Vikings are the other NetEnt machines whose main game is run by features that fire without a trigger.

Six rolls, seven rolls, eight rolls

Three or more Jumanji board box symbols anywhere in the main game grants the Board Game, and three scatters yields 6 rolls, four yields 7 and five yields 8, rolled with two six-sided dice at true odds. The Scatter does not appear once the board opens, and the token is purely cosmetic, so the two dice decide everything. Landing on the board carries you to Coin Wins worth the bet times the value displayed, to Extra Rolls, or to the Mystery Feature. That is a carousel of free spin features, coin wins of x2 to x10 the bet and 2 extra rolls. The four free spin features sit at the corners of the board, and one is activated when the token lands on either of the two locations in front of it. My five board rounds paid between 44.00 and 156.00 credits each, on spins 186, 193, 277, 289 and 297.

The free spin features are Vines at 10 spins, Monsoon at 7, Monkey at 6 and Stampede at 5. Each carries its main-game mechanic into every spin, though Monsoon cannot cover the same reels on two consecutive spins and Vines holds Wilds for the duration of the whole feature rather than a single re-spin. Each of them can be won only once per Board Game round, and none of the counts are retriggerable. 125 of my 300 spins paid something, 69 of those less than the stake, and the longest dry run was 12 spins, ending on spin 78.

Minty’s Final Note: The board rounds paid 428.00 credits across my 300 spins, 26% of everything won, and the rest of it came out of a base game that keeps handing out Wilds without being asked.

What five board rounds looked like

My own 300 spins were gentler than the first half suggested: the first Board Game took until spin 186, but four more came before spin 300, and the five of them paid 428.00 credits between them, 26% of everything I won. The best spin of the run was 195, worth 560.00 credits at 140x the stake with no bonus attached, and the balance closed at 1,427.60 after a low of 665.60. But who knows, perhaps in time I'll find a reason to amend my review.