Play Hot Africa for Free

Although the usual playing card symbols are all here, SYNOT have made them look like colourful African-style carvings, so they fit in very well with the overall theme. Landing either the 10, J or Q across 3, 4, or 5 reels of a payline will return 1x, 2x or 8x the total stake, while the K and A are valued at 1x, 3x and 20x.

Gazelles and giraffes will each pay 2x, 10x, or 40x the stake when they stop on 3, 4, or 5 reels of a payline, and players will be trumpeting the arrival of the elephant symbol when it earns wins of 3x, 15x and 75x. We’re not lion when we say that the big cat pays the top wins in normal play, as he’s worth 5x, 20x and 100x the total stake.

The mask is able to act as any of these symbols, which can lead to additional winning lines being created if it’s in the right places and there’s a nice animation of the eyes opening up when it completes a combination. The best payouts also occur when the mask lands across a line. Rewards of 10x the triggering bet are paid if it stops on 3 reels, while the prize for 4 wilds on a line is 50x and a full set right across the reels is worth 250x.

A nice view of a mountain, that could be Kilimanjaro but we’re not sure, is a scatter symbol that’s worth 1x the bet amount when it lands in any 2 places at once. Anyone seeing 3, 4 or 5 scatters at once will win 5x, 25x or 100x their stake back, but also trigger a free spins bonus game that starts as soon as the scatter award has been paid.

There’s 15 free spins and any wins during them will be doubled in value, but a colourful map of Africa becomes a second wild that can appear on the centre reel in the bonus round. If it becomes part of a winning line, the base value is multiplied by 4x or 8x.

Landing 3 or more scatters in any free spins retriggers the bonus games and another 15 spins will begin as soon as any left in the current round have played out.

Any win can be doubled in value when players correctly guess if a card is going to be revealed as being from a red or black suit. If it’s a correct pick, the gamble can be played again, potentially over and over, or punters can cash out the win, although getting it wrong at any stage loses the triggering bet along with any gamble wins so far.

There’s further options to gamble just half the win, which could be a good choice, as all is not lost if the wrong decision is made, but like all of these 50/50 gamble features there’s a limit to how many times you can get it right, so be careful!

This is a great-looking online casino slot machine, that has realistic animal symbols and comes complete with a nice African drums soundtrack. The animations include clouds moving across the background picture, as well as on the scatter symbol, and we particularly like the smiling mask when it completes a win-line.

Bonuses can be quite rewarding and a generous 15 free games with the extra wild in play should hopefully see punters picking up a few multiplier wins before the round ends.

The Hot Africa video slot is fully mobile-optimised, so the reels of this attractive animal themed slot machine can be spun across the screens of desktop PC’s, laptops, smartphones and tablet computers and because of the design, with symbols floating above the background image, very little detail is lost when you play it on the smaller screen of mobile devices.