Smile Slots
If you've been feeling a bit under the weather and you miss some positivity in your life, the Smile video slot is here to cheer you up. Proving that online slot machines don't have to be too serious to be enjoyed, the Smile slot will bring a dose of silliness to your online casino sessions but also a few decent payouts that hide inside its various extras. And for a small dose of cheers wherever you go, the slot is also available for playing on an Android or iOS phone or tablet.
The Smile slot was designed by British-based game makers Fuga Gaming who specialise in HTML5 and Flash slot machines. Like a number of recent online slot games, or the ridiculous Emoji movie, this slot is inspired by web emoticons. The pay table of the game is thus filled with smiley symbols that represent different characters while the backdrop of it all is a grassy field that offers clear views of sunny blue skies. If the symbols alone weren't enough to cheer you up, this online slot also has a silly fairground soundtrack that plays in a loop while you spin, which can always be turned off by tweaking the slot's settings.
While playing, you'll be given a chance to line up multiple winning combinations across the slot's 5 reels and 20 paylines as well as trigger a number of random wild-based bonuses. And even though the slot doesn't sport any cash mini-games or free spins rounds, it can still produce nice rewards thanks to these special features. Learn more about how the game works by reading the complete review.
Grin as You Spin
The Smile slot has fixed paylines, so you won't be able to choose which paylines you want to pay for. The minimum line bet is 0.01 credits, which makes the lowest bet in the game 0.20 credits for a spin. With the help of the +/- controls, you can also boost your payline bet to 50 credits and play with 100 credits per spin. And if you don't want to always manually press the spin button during a longer session, you can also set up the AutoPlay controls and leave the game to go through a certain number of spins on its own, or until your balance reaches a specific win/loss limit.
This slot only pays for winning combinations that are lined up on an existing payline starting from left to right, except for combinations that trigger bonuses, in which case you will be able to trigger a winning from both ways. There are 8 symbols in total on the pay table: 4 emojis that pay the best prizes and 4 card symbols that pay the same small prizes.
The best emoji to collect will be the girl emoji, which pays 40-400x your line bet for 3-5-symbol combinations, giving the slot a theoretical jackpot of 8,000x. Following the girl are the cap-and-goatee-wearing guy, another smiling face, and a nerdy-looking emoji, which between them can pay 10-20x a line bet for 3 of the same symbols or 100-200x if you get all 5 on a single payline. And finally, you have the 4 card symbols (Ace to Jack) which pay 5-50x prizes.
The bonuses at the Smile slot begin with the smiley faces, which can group together to form clusters and trigger special features. Namely, if you collect all 4 emojis in a 2x2 square, the game will randomly trigger 1 out of 3 special Cluster Features. And should you collect more 2x2 squares with the same symbols, in any order, the different clusters will share the special features between them.
The first of the Cluster Features turns all symbols from the cluster into wild cards that can substitute for any symbol currently available on the screen to produce the best possible payouts. The second feature likewise turns all symbols into wilds but it also adds a 2x multiplier to the winnings. If there are more clusters present, the multipliers will be added together for a maximum multiplier of 12x. And the third and final feature will turn the cluster symbols into wilds as well as trigger reel re-spins that move the symbols to give you more than one shot at claiming prizes.
The best part of the reel re-spins is that they continue to move clusters down the reels one line at a time until they completely leave the reels, allowing for multiple re-spins and more than one shot at collecting wild-triggered wins. But even when you don't get the cluster re-spin, you can still enjoy a "correction" on the screen with the Smile Re-spin, which happens when any 5 or more emoji characters appear without triggering wins or forming clusters. In this case, the emoji symbols will stay sticky during the re-spin.
Free Like Your Phone Emojis
One of the best things about playing online casino games today is that you can have a go at any game for free before spending money on it. The Smile slot can likewise be found as a free slot demo in a number of casinos online where games from Fuga Gaming are offered. If you want to play for free, simply visit a Fuga Gaming casino, sign up for an account, and switch to a “free play/play for fun” mode before playing. Or, you can simply try our free Smile slot right here, along with other new slot machines that are free to play.
And when you are ready to spend real cash on this emoji slot game, you will only need to deposit some money into a casino that has the slot, after creating an account if you already don't have one. To make sure you stay safe while gambling, before you make a deposit at an online casino see first whether the site is secured and licensed to offer online casino games. You should also check whether the casino has banking options that are suitable for you before you play for real money, as well as see what kind of payout policy the casino has, i.e. whether it charges fees or has small withdrawal limits.
What's With the Re-Spins, Fuga?
Looking at its bonuses and design, the Smile slot really looks like a Fuga Gaming product as it re-uses some of the ideas that have found their way into a number of slots from the studio. Consider the free Just a Game slot you can find on our page, for starters. That leisurely fruit machine also has 5 reels, 20 paylines, the same bet sizes, as well as randomly-activated bonus features that trigger wilds, wilds with multipliers, as well as reel re-spins. Re-spins bonuses can also be found in the Spell Wood slot as well as plenty of other 5x3 slots from Fuga Gaming, making them one of the most popular extras this software company uses in its games.
Will You Just Smile?
In all fairness, the Smile slot doesn't really have a captivating theme, but what it lacks it makes up with other features. This medium-variance slot offers affordable playing as well as a decent base jackpot of 8,000x, which will be more than enough to convince many punters to try it, while its wild bonuses and re-spins are only another extra that make the game worth your money.
