Giant Riches Slots
Climb the beanstalk and bring home some Giant Riches with this 2by2 Gaming slot machine that has been recently released on Microgaming's distribution platform Quickfire.
The game has 5 reels just like any good video slot. However, players of this fairy-tale themed game might just be pleasantly surprised to discover that those reels do not work like most ordinary video slot games, thanks to a unique expanding icon feature which applies to all of the symbols on the screen. What's more, spinners will be able to benefit from some other extra gameplay features in Giant Riches such as free spins with doubled wins.
Fee-fi-fo-spin!
Everyone who was ever a child (which is everyone) will be familiar with the fairytale of Jack and the Beanstalk. The popular English folk tale has appeared in a number of guises throughout the history of literature, theatre and cinema. In fact, some folklorists have reason to believe that the tale can be traced back to stories from 5,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest popular narratives in the world, even older than Coronation Street.
This age-old fairy tale has even been known to appear in a number of other slot machines, such as NetEnt's Jack and the Beanstalk game. This effort by 2by2 Gaming isn't quite as spectacular on the visual front, offering some rather rudimentary cartoon illustrations in 2D to make up the game's symbols. Those icons depict all of the essential characters from the story, including Jack himself climbing the beanstalk as well as the ogre-like giant and a goose laying golden eggs.
Players will find a set of props and locations from the tale too, such as golden coins, a golden harp, the magic beans and a castle in the clouds. Despite the simplistic nature of the graphics, players will be able to appreciate the way in which the game emulates the look of traditional storybooks, giving the aspect a pleasantly nostalgic vibe.
Giant Gameplay
Giant Riches may not look as smart as similarly themed games on the market, but it will certainly appeal to punters who like their slot machines to offer unique and newfangled gameplay. That is because the game doesn't play like most other video slots due to its extending symbols which give punters the chance to create multiple winning combinations at once over the 60 paylines. In fact, players can hope to find symbols on the first two reels that are vertically extended to be six reel positions in size. Meanwhile, icons on the third, fourth and fifth reels can be stretched to cover three positions.
The symbols that can be stacked are Jack, the giant, the golden coins, the goose, the golden harp and the magic beans, and they will be stretched completely at random. With that in mind, every spin promises to be an exciting prospect with many potential prizes up for grabs.
60 Ways to Win
Prizes in this game will be awarded as line bet multipliers whenever two or more matching symbols appear on any of the 60 fixed paylines. You can take a look at those prize multipliers in the table below, all of which will be applied to the chosen value of the wagers per line. Spinners can opt to play with 1 to 20 coins of the following denominations: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20.
Big Bonus Action
With randomly expanding symbols throughout the base game, players might not need any extra gameplay features. However, this magical fairytale slot still has more to offer in the bonus department, starting with a simple wild icon – represented by the game's logo – which will substitute for all line bet multiplier paying symbols to complete wins.
There is also a scatter symbol – the castle – which will appear up to eight times on the reels, awarding total bet prizes from 0.5x to 30x depending on how many appear, regardless of position in relation to the payline. This scatter icon will also trigger up to 50 free spins, during which all wins will be doubled in value.
Happily Ever After?
Giant Riches may not be the most impressive game in the world in terms of graphics. Plus, players may be slight underwhelmed by the not-so-giant size of that 12.5x line bet multiplier jackpot. However, this slot machine does have its merits, most notably the fact that it allows punters to enjoy some unique spinning action with the chance to trigger many of the 60 paylines for large accumulated winnings.
