Play Sevens Kraze for Free

Modern slot machines come in all sorts of shapes and sizes with novelty themes and extravagant bonus features. In fact, it's sometimes easy to forget that slot machines used to be nothing more than a simple set of spinning reels with some basic fruit icons which would land upon a solitary payline.

You can still find those vintage one-armed bandits in land-based casinos today, and you'll even find plenty of them recreated for the online betting market. This slot machine isn't quite a bona-fide classic, but it does take much of the same aesthetic charm and mingle it with some of the gameplay features and visual flair of a video slot.

So, on the reels players can expect to see a whole range of classic fruit icons such as cherries, strawberries, raspberries, plums, oranges and lemons as well as a few stars and lucky 7s thrown into the equation. However, these symbols aren't just your everyday 2D cartoon-like images, because they are rendered in a contemporary style to look all shiny and realistic – almost good enough to eat. Pus, every time that one of these symbols in involved in a winning combination, it will be perform a little bouncy jig and will be glossed over with light for some subtle eye-catching action.

As well as bringing some snazzy visual effects to the table, this classically inclined slot machine also offers up a couple of special bonus features courtesy of its two non-fruit icons – the star and the big lucky 7. First of all, the 7 icon acts as a wild symbol, meaning that it will help punters to achieve wins by substituting for all fruit icons.

The star symbol cannot be replaced by the wild 7 for the fact that it is a scatter symbol which doesn't need to appear on any paylines to offer prizes. In fact, spinners can find total bet multipliers worth 2x, 5x, 10x and 50x whenever two, three, four or five appear in any position on the reels. On top of that, anytime that three or more of these starry scatters appear on the reels, players will be treated to 15 free spins of the reels. There aren't any overly complicated gimmicks involved in these free games, but there will be more wild 7 icons available in stacked formations for bigger potential wins.

When it comes to spinning this fruity slot machine, players will have to put a little bit more thought into it than they might with a good old simple one-armed bandit. That is because punters can choose to play with a variety of different paylines, with options of 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10. Plus, the game comes with a number of different bet per line possibilities, ranging from line bets as little as 0.01 credits to 1.00 credit. So, there is ample room for manoeuvre for spinners to play with different strategies, from a minimum total bet of 0.01 to a maximum overall stake of 10.00 credits.

Knowing how much you have placed on each active payline is important since all of the symbols in Sevens Kraze pay their prizes as line bet multipliers (except for the scatter icon). The biggest line bet prize is a 1,000x multiplier, which is awarded whenever five matching sevens appear on a payline but you can see all of the other potential wins in the table below:

Players also have the chance to boost their smaller wins up to 140 credits with two gamble games – a double or nothing card game or a unique ladder game of increasing prize values.

Sevens Kraze by Merkur Gaming offers a refreshing twist on the classic slot machine genre. Admittedly, it's not going to blow you away with any spectacular bonus features, but it will give retro slot machine fans a chance to try out some video slot style gameplay without sacrificing any of the timeless fruit machine design.