Balloonies Farm Slot Machine

Rise to riches with Balloonies Farm, a brand new novelty slot machine from IGT software featuring some a number of unique bonus features for some silly video slot action. The 5-reel slot machine has 20 permanent paylines, upon which punters can hope to line up a combination of matching farmyard animals for line bet wins up to 1,000x.

This is far from being a low volatility slot machine but spinners can rely on a number of special gamplay elements to help them stack up some wins. These extra features include a floating reels system, a star multiplier feature and free spins with bonus multipliers.

Farmyard Slot

If you are familiar with the world of slot machines then you may well have played the original Balloonies slot machine by IGT software. The slighly silly slot machine was based on some cheeky balloon animals from exotic climes, including monkeys, elephants, giraffes and lions. This new update of the game offers players the chance to spin with some animals that are a bit closer to home by looking toward the farmyard environment for its animal characters. As such, the slot machine features some cows, sheep and pigs – some wildlife that is a lot more recognisable to the average UK punter!

As far as the design and style of the game goes, players can expect much of the same aesthetic as the original slot machine. That is because Balloonies Farm uses some simple cartoon graphics to depict the animal shaped balloons on the reels. Indeed, the game might not appeal to every spinner in the world with its childish colours and somewhat immature characters but then again, the slot is perfectly clear and sharp to the eye with a contemporary feel to the overall design.

Harvest those Wins

Even though this game looks like childsplay, spinning the reels of Balloonies Farm isn't all fun and games. In fact this is a relatively high variance slot machine, meaning that players will need to practice a bit of patience before the wins start coming their way.

Normally, a slot machine with high volatility will pay bigger prizes when the combinations do begin to line up. However, that is not necessarily the case for this game, because the biggest line bet multiplier on the paytable is worth 1,000x whenever five blue balloon characters line up on one of the 20 fixed paylines. After that, the wins keep on getting lower with a 500x line bet prize for five little piggies, 400x for five sheep icons and 300x for five cows symbols.

Perhaps the one thing that makes this game appear more attractive to big prize hunters is the fact that players can place up to 100 coins on each of the 20 paylines. That means that the maximum possible bet is worth a whopping 2,000 coins with a line bet jackpot in the base worth a decent 100,000 credits. The smallest wager that a player can place is 20 credits – which is far from being ideal for casual spinners.

Balloon Bonus

One way in which punters can hope to harvest some decent wins from this IGT slot machine is with one of the rewarding bonus features, ranging from wild wins with multipliers to free spins and floating reels. Here is everything that you need to know about the special gameplay elements of Balloonies Farm:

• Star multiplier feature: the star icon in this online video slot acts as the game's wild symbol, substituting for all other icons apart from the scatter bonus balloon. This wild star appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 and they will award prize multipliers worth 2x, 3x and 5x to boost the overall value of the final win.
• Free spins bonus: whenever three bonus scatters appear on reels 2, 3 and 4, a free games bonus game will be initiated. Players will have a choice of 15, 12, 9 or 5 free spins with different wild multiplier icons in play. The fewer free spins that are chosen, the higher the wild multiplier icons be going up to a maximum value of 10x.
• Floating reels feature: this gameplay element occurs after every winning sequence in normal play and during free spins and it cause the winning icons in question to disappear before new icons rise to fill in the gaps. This special feature is similar to the rising reels of Star Lanterns by IGT software.

Silly Spins with Serious Wins

Balloonies Farm may look like a silly slot machine but it offers some very serious betting action. The maximum total bet of 2,000 credits makes this game ideal for punters who are just playing around when it comes to placing some serious wagers on the reels. Plus, with a range of special gameplay features - from floating reels to free spins with multipliers – there is always a chance that spinners could come away with a harvest of big wins.