Cool Stone Age Slot Machine
There are some funny touches to this cave-man themed slot, including stone laptop (complete with cave paintings on the screen) and a 4-stone drive car (a pun on 4-wheel drive). This is a 5 reel slot from Octopus Gaming and has a break out bonus game, free spins round and the chance to win big (10,000 coins) from regular play.
Visually, it has a cartoon appearance, with enough animations to bring the game to life without getting too crowded or hectic. There is a dinosaur bird on top of the reels (wearing red headphones) which hops around and flies up when you win. You’ll find nice small touches too, for example hovering your mouse over the pay table cracks the dino-egg. On the reels you will find cave men and women, a bathing brontosaurus, stone shoes, laptop, stone TV and a T-rex. There is a happy tune which plays when you spin. Animations are mostly flashing and colour changes, though the brontosaurus stands up and smiles when involved in a win.
Setup and Play for Cool Stone Age
You can choose up to 20 lines for this slot, and bet from 1c up to $5 per line. This gives a wide range of spin costs from 20c to $100, assuming that you go with the default 20 lines option. Settings allow you to control the sounds and animations, which can be useful for mobile devices or slower connections. You can also use auto-play.
The biggest win by a considerable margin comes from the older caveman holding what looks like a green test tube. Get 5 of these on a win-line and you’ll be awarded 10,000 coins. There is a jump down to 400 coins for 4, 300 coins for 3 and 20 for 2. Next in the prizes list comes the caveman with the spear (1000 for 5), cave woman (500 for 5), t-rex (250), purple mammoth (150) and then the stone age computer equipment which makes up the smaller wins.
There are 3 special symbols also on the reels. First the brown brontosaurus is the wild. This grinning guy will substitute for any of the regular symbols covered above to make winning combinations. The bonus symbol is a car with stone wheels. 3 of these trigger the ‘caveman cruiser’ bonus round. The pink house is the scatter symbol, 5 of these anywhere on the reels gets you 20 free spins, 4 gets you 10 and 3 gets you 5 spins.
Cool Stone Age Bonus Games
Caveman cruiser (triggered with 3+ bonus symbols) is a pick-em game with some amusing animations. You are in a car, and face a long open road ahead with mountains in the background. You will drive to a fork in the road, and get to choose whether you turn left or right. Along the way you pick up strange things (looked like a washing machine one time, and a radio), these award you coins. Sometimes you will meet a mammoth (no prize, though you carry on) or a dinosaur which ends the game. At the end of the bonus you’ll get a screen showing your total win and return to the main reels from there.
Free spins are fairly ordinary, the top of the reels shows how many spins you have remaining in place of the usual logo, and the game simply auto-plays through your spins. Again you’ll hit a screen showing your total wins before you go back to the main reels. The free spins can be retriggered while you play with up to 20 extra spins at a time.
Cool Stone Age – Conclusion
I enjoyed this game a lot and felt like it has a nice balance between the humour and the game-play. Those little touches in the animations and generally upbeat tone give this slot a lot of character. When you combine that with the opportunity to win up to 10,000 coins from any one spin – then you’ll find a game with a winning formula.
The free spins game is welcome, though nothing unique or special. I enjoyed the driving break-out bonus game a lot more. This takes you out of the main game for a while, and gives you the chance to accumulate some coins in a different setting. I’ll be back to play this one again at some point down the line – check it out for yourself soon.
