Hula Girl Slot Machine
The chilled out atmosphere of a Hawaiian surfing beach is a place that most of us want to visit sometimes, but if the budget won’t stretch to a Pacific island paradise, maybe a wager on the Hula Girl video slot from Gameplay Interactive will suffice. You won’t get a suntan, but then you won’t get wiped out by the giant waves that can hit these shores, and maybe that’s why the surfboards that make up a background image to this slot game are all stacked up by the bar, rather than being tossed about in the sea.
This 5-reel, 20-line online slot has symbols across 3 rows and a standard format where players need to land matching symbols across a line running form the left side to get a prize. There’s up to 50 free spins to trigger, where payouts are tripled, while the attractive Hula Girl herself is a stacked wild symbol who greets players with extra winning combinations. Symbols such as guitars, drums and cocktails bring the relaxed holiday spirit to online casinos that carry the Gameplay Interactive range, all of which is certified for fair play, licensed and can be played on iPhones, iPads, Android devices and desktop PC’s with no change to the gameplay, high payouts, or rewards.
The Gameplay Interactive casino games range includes hits such as Zeus, King of Gods, Little Monsters and Fortune Dice, all produced from their Asian studios, but the games all come with an international perspective and can be played in multiple languages and currencies. It goes without saying that all Gameplay Interactive titles are trusted, reliable, and come with great returns, so spinners can pick up plenty of wins along the way.
Off to the Beach
Although playing card symbols 9 through to A are familiar from many other casino slot machines, each of the ones in this game are draped with garlands of flowers so look like they belong on a Polynesian beach. The 9 and 10 will each pay you the equivalent of 2x the stake per line when either stops on reels 1 and 2 across any of the 20 paylines, while 3, 4, or 5 of a kind will be worth 5x, 8x, or 10x. Seeing the J or Q across 3, 4, or 5 reels of a line will result in wins of 8x, 12x and 20x being paid out, while the top prize for landing the K or A is 30x the line stake.
Both the guitar and drum are given values of 10x, 20x, or 40x, and the green cocktail pays out a maximum of 60x the line bet. The sickly-looking peach cocktail is the most valuable standard symbol, returning wins of 15x, 50x, or 100x, while the Hula Girl of the game is worth even more, while also being a wild symbol.
Land this icon on reels 1 and 2 to win 2x the line bet, or 3, 4, and 5 Hula Girls to claim wins of 15x, 50x and 300x. She is able to act as any other, apart from the tiki head scatter icon if she’s then able to complete a winning line of symbols, and because the wild is stacked 3 high, for a full-length view of the girl dancing, it can be quite easy to see her in the right places to bridge any gaps in a run of matching symbols.
Tiki Treats
There’s a colourful tiki head sculpture that grimaces at you in a nice animation whenever it appears and landing this cartoon creation in any 2 places on consecutive reels at once is worth a prize equal in value to the total triggering bet. You also get 3 free spins, while 3 tiki heads will pay 3x the stake before 8 free games play out, 4 of this scatter symbol pays out 10x, followed by 20 bonus games and the best scenario sees 5 or more appear, which is worth an initial award of 20x the bet, plus 50 free spins.
No matter how many bonus games are triggered, any wins during the round will be tripled in value, while more scatters will retrigger these games, with any new ones starting as soon as those left in the current feature have played out.
Betting on the Beach
While the Hula Girl video slot comes with just 20 paylines, the low limit bet on each of them is 0.03 per line, giving punters who play for real cash stakes of at least 0.60 a spin. There’s also free Hula Girl video slots, but you’re not going to actually win anything that way.
The maximum wager is an impressive 1,000.00 per spin, which is going to appeal to high rollers looking to land massive rewards. Other options include an Auto function that spins the reels for up to 100 times on their own, and you can also listen to a music track that’s typically Hawaiian and that makes you feel closer to the beach as you play.
Playing in Polynesia
There’s a few other slot games based on Pacific island culture, where tiki heads, garlands of flowers and palm trees decorate the landscapes. One of the biggest slots of the genre is Aloha! Cluster Pays, that comes from the very un-tropical Swedish studios of NetEnt. It’s a unique game, where you are looking for clusters of symbols to stop on horizontal or vertical lines, and any that are part of a win will stay locked in place while the rest of the reels spin. If the cluster grows in this re-spin, they spin again, on and on until no extra symbols are added to any clusters. Giant tiki heads, wild substitutions and free spins are also featured in this beautifully designed game.
NetEnt have also brought out their Tiki Wonders video slot, where cocktails, beautiful women and even a beach bar setting will be familiar to punters who have played Hula Girl. Even the free spins with 3x multipliers are very similar, but this online slot game also comes with 2 progressive jackpots, making this into a real South Seas stunner.
A Beach Based Bonanza?
A riot of colourful symbols, exotic style and engaging gameplay all help to turn the Hula Girl video slot into a tropical paradise that can be enjoyed on the coldest of Winter days. Sharp graphics and a suitable soundtrack add to the appeal, but it’s the winning potential that comes with a stacked wild symbol and free games with multipliers that are going to attract a lot of players.
While the minimum stake of 0.60 could put off those on tiny bankrolls, it’s got a high return to player percentage, so on average virtually all stakes will be claimed back as winnings. The huge top stakes can equal massive returns to cash out if the right combinations appear in this mobile optimised slot that’s sure to be a hit at sites that feature the Gameplay Interactive portfolio.
