Tivoli Slot Machine

Roll up, roll up, it’s all the fun of the fair. If you’ve spent any time gambling at all, Tivoli won’t be the first fairground-themed slot you’ve played and if we’re being realistic it probably won’t be the last. That’s not to say that this effort doesn’t have its own unique charms; simply that we’re treading over familiar ground. Tivoli, of course, is the name of the famous and beautiful fairground at the heart of Copenhagen. Finnish developer PAF has carved out a market in Scandinavia focusing on countries such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Perhaps then it is no surprise to find them borrowing the name of Tivoli for this amusement-themed slot.

This is most definitely a slot that will appeal to anyone who likes to stake a little more cautiously with the minimum wager being as low as 0.30 coins and the max bet as high as 6. The game has 20 active paylines by default but if you can convince yourself that less really is more you have the option to reduce this to as little as one. The game itself has a quirky cartoon feel which doesn’t completely capture the feel of the historic 19th century Tivoli, but instead resembles a more modern Tivoli created largely from the design team’s imagination. One fair is much the same as another though is it not?

Fair Enough

Set against the scenery of a winding roller coaster, the game board makes a home for itself amongst circus tents and flags fluttering in the breeze. A monkey is sleeping in the corner of the screen but he reluctantly wakes from his slumber when you press play. For punters of this mobile-compatible slot, the sacrifice you must make in search of personal profit is an end to simian dreams.

If you don’t like rolling reels you’ll love the way this video slot rolls. The symbols of cakes, chips, sweets, a banana, ghost, hand and a toadstool house burst from the 5 by 3 board only to be magically replaced with new ones every spin. If you’re the sort of gambler who doesn’t like to waste any time, simply select max bet and jump right in. It’s not reckless when you’re only staking 6 coins a time, and with greater stakes come greater rewards anyway.

Trigger the Monkey

The bonus game in Tivoli by PAF is triggered when an active payline lands two or more bananas at any one time. Upon hearing the sound of this trigger, the formerly lazy monkey frantically dashes around the screen in order to collect prizes for you. The means by which this is achieved is through the fairground game in which you have to hit a target with a hammer in order to make a bell ring. If you have a great aim and enough strength to do so you make the bell ding and you win a prize. Once you get the monkey to do the work for you, his monkey muscles are put to work and he keeps hammering away while you watch your credit meter rise. In this regard, monkeys are just the same as most animals; getting them to do exactly as you want is just a question of training and motivating them properly.

If at any point you manage to land 5 green-haired clowns on any payline you will earn 30,000 with the max bet selected. The dice symbol and french fries however will land you much more modest sums. It is clear that the symbols and iconography of the free Tivoli slot have been designed with Android and iPhones in mind. There is a simplicity to the design and features which lends itself to the more constricted space as there are no unnecessary bells and whistles cluttering the playing screen.

If simplicity is genius, then this is most definitely the Stephen Hawking of fairground-themed slots. But for other similarly clever creations, PAF have a number of equally interesting offerings including Beach Party, Travel the World and Hockey Heroes.

Pick Up Sticks

When it comes to simple and straightforward online slots you can play for money or for fun, Tivoli certainly fits the bill in every sense. It’s not an overly complicated game by any stretch of the imagination. The bonus hammer game makes for a nice point of interest in an otherwise standard slot, as does making the monkey do the work for you. A fairground slot may not exactly be the most innovative idea to appear in the world of online gambling, but this one does the job better than fairly well and at a maximum stake of 6 coins it won’t break the bank.