Play Bear Buzz™ for Free

Spinning the reels, the Bear Buzz™ online slot can pay steady wins, and it gets a respectable 95.83% return to players figure. The bet range is from 0.2 to 360 credits, so whether you are a casual player of higher stakes gambler, there will be a level to match your bankroll. Regular wins come from matched symbols over any of 40 paylines, but as we shall see, it’s an online slot with lots of bonus features –

Wild Bear – A highlighted Hot Zone sits on the middle row of the middle reel. The bear can only land here and he’s a wild symbol who can substitute for others, helping to fill any gaps in winning combinations.

Cash Prize Collections – Green, purple, pink, and yellow jars of honey hold money values. If the bear is in his Hot Zone, he collects all jars in view, and this feature triggered multiple times as I played the Bear Buzz™ slot online. I actually won more from this that I did from payline wins.

Respins – Land a bonus symbol at the same time as the wild bear and you get three respins where only more jars or blanks appear. Jars lock in place then reset the spin counter and this runs until there are three respins with just blanks or jars fill the reels.

1UP symbols in the base games increase jar values by 1x, to a 10x maximum and these apply during the respins. Fill the grid to win a Grand prize of 5,000x the bet, although this is the maximum possible and it replaces any other payouts from the respins round.

I triggered respins within minutes, winning 8.5x the stake, which isn’t a huge amount and I’m glad I didn’t take the option to buy into the feature for 20x upfront. The downside of early entry to respins is that I didn’t have time to build any multipliers from 1UP symbols in the base games.

Golden Hive Features – Randomly, jars pay Special Prizes of matching colors and different values that sit at the top of the reels. The green, purple, and pink jars boost their respective prizes by 0.1x, and the yellow jar adds 0.25x to its Special Prize.

It turns this into an online slot with progressive jackpots, although the base values are small, at 7.5x for the green, 20x for the purple, 100x for the pink, and 200x for the yellow prizes. Values max out at 50x, 100x, 250x, and 500x in that order.

Here’s how many times the bet each symbol pays when matched from left to right over any of the 40 lines -