Jammin’ Jars Slot Machine
Travel back to the glorious 70s with funky pop music, glittering disco balls, and classic fruit symbols on Jammin’ Jars, a high-volatility slot creation from rising star Push Gaming. It is only the developer’s second cascading grid slot, filled with a colorful mixture of juicy fruit and wild jar symbols in an 8x8 game window. Catchy 70s music will get you swinging to symbol clusters and unlimited wild win multipliers which lead to mega wins going into the thousands of times your stake.
Push Gaming made its first appearance on the online gaming stage in 2010. Ever since it was founded, the developer focused on mobile-optimized video slots in HTML5 format with a distinct entertainment factor, unique pay mechanics and high win potential. Some of the most popular slots in its arsenal are Fat Rabbit, Turn It Up! and Wild Swarm. These can all be found on many a list of favorites from players around the world.
The Funky Slot Reels
Get ready to swing to funky 70s beats when you load the Jammin’ Jars for the first time. A disco ball is placed on the left of the game window and spotlights are centered on the 8x8 game grid. Juicy fruits and rainbow-colored jars cascade from the top and collapse when clusters of five or more matching symbols appear to make room for new symbols to drop into place. Crisp graphics and seamless animations are proof of Push Gaming’s pursuit to create high-quality games.
Jammin’ Jars has six regular pay symbols and one wild symbol. In ascending order of value, these consist of blueberries, plums, apples, raspberries, oranges and strawberries. Rainbow-colored jars represent the wild symbol, which will have an increasing win multiplier attached when they are part of consecutive winning clusters. At the same time they act as scatters, with three needed on the grid in one cascading sequence.
The Jammin’ Numbers and Stats
Jammin’ Jars is a cascading grid slot with an 8x8 format, wild substitutions, unlimited win multipliers, a random rainbow feature and a free spins round with wandering wilds. The RTP of this high-variance game is set at 96.8%. Pays for clusters of 25 or more symbols range from 10x to 100x the bet. Stake sizes range from 0.20 to 100 credits.
Auto play allows players to set up to 100 consecutive spins, with a range of mandatory options as to when the run should be stopped. While it’s mobile-optimized, the slot can be played on desktop and tablet as well as across any OS platform, courtesy of the modern HTML5 format.
Symbol Cascades and Collapses
Instead of spinning reels, the slot will cascade 64 symbols onto the grid at the beginning of every spin. Clusters of five to 25 matching symbols or in combination with wild symbols will award wins according to the pay table. Any winning cluster will collapse, making room for more symbols to cascade into place. The sequence will continue until no new winning clusters land on a new cascade.
The Random Rainbow Feature
Watch out for the change in music and lighting after a non-winning cascade or collapse, as it could signal the moment in which the random feature on this slot is triggered. A rainbow will cover the entire grid and drop one to three giant symbols onto the grid to create larger winning clusters. The sizes can be 2×2, 3×3 or even 4×4 symbols. Once they have settled on the grid, they will reveal a randomly chosen common pay symbol. Wins are then evaluated and paid out. Wild symbols cannot appear in giant sizes, but they will add to the size of the cluster if they land adjacent to a giant symbol.
The Unlimited Wild Win Multiplier
If the wild jam jar forms part of a winning cluster on a cascade, it will not collapse with the regular pay symbols. Instead, it will move to an adjacent vacant position prior to the next symbol cascade of the same sequence. All jam jars on display are held in place when a collapse occurs, and they will override any new dropping pay symbols.
The kicker, though, is the attached unlimited multiplier. It increases by 1 every time a wild jar is part of a winning cluster. The increased multiplier is applied if a new winning cluster drops into place on the next cascade that contains the wild jar. Multipliers from different jars are multiplied by each other. The multiplier will not increase if the wild jars are not part of a winning cluster, but it will stay in position until the end of the cascade sequence. They will disappear before the next spin starts.
The Jammin’ Free Spins
Get three Jammin’ Jars anywhere on the grid in one cascading sequence to trigger six free spins. The triggering wild jars will now remain on the screen and will increase the multiplier on each occasion when they are part of a winning combination. Any further wild jars landing during the feature will also remain on the screen until the end of the free spins. After each collapse and cascade, they move to the next adjacent vacant reel position.
Other Multiplier and Collapsing Reels
Win multipliers are being used on a large range of games, as they increase the suspense as to whether they will increase enough to award mega wins. Feel the excitement when you play on Moon Princess from Play’n GO or Bonanza from Big Time Gaming.
Our Jammin’ Verdict
Jammin’ Jars is definitely full of action, as something seems to happen during nearly every cascade. The classic theme has been transferred well into the 21st century. The win potential is hard to determine, as the highest win multiplier we scored in our test runs was 24x. That would translate into a payout of 2,400x the bet for a minimum of 25 strawberry symbols – surely not the end of the scale. Either way, it’s something any slot player would take home any time of the day. Some caution is recommended on the bet size, though, as the high volatility can at times ruin balances without hesitation.
