Play Big Top Circus for Free

What isn't to like about the circus? Acrobats performing daring stunts, animals showing off with amazing tricks and clowns making fools of themselves. The whole thing is designed to entertain, and that very same aim is shared by Big Top Circus, a colourful slot machine which allows gamblers to experience all of the fun of the circus within a set of reels that are filled with showmen, showgirls and a few magnificent critters.

You will see jugglers, trapeze artists, tightrope walkers, clowns, magicians, sword swallowers, sea lions, elephants and a wild lion icon – all of which spin around the reels to potentially form some of those all important winning combinations.

There are also a couple of scatter symbols – a magician's assistant tied to a knife-throwing board and a human cannonball daredevil. Both of these special icons could possibly award prizes and trigger bonus features without having to fall into payline patters.

Visually, this slot machine is suitably colourful with bright red and yellow striping to imitate the classic big top theme while the icons themselves are rendered in two-dimensional cartoon form. While the imagery may not be on the same par as other slot machines which use incredible 3D graphics and fancy animated effects, the game is more than pleasant to behold with loads of humorously designed characters and animals to give the game a novelty feel.

Apart from the game's two bonus triggering scatter icons, all other icons can be lined up across the five reels to make prize winning sequences. Whenever this happens, a payout will be given in relation to a couple of variable factors. First of all, the size of the bets on the winning line will determine how much prize money is returned and players can alter this factor by choosing 1 to 5 coins per line of the following sizes: 0.01, 0.02, and 0.05. Secondly, the amount that is awarded in winnings depends on how many of which symbol is aligned upon an active payline.

So, if you were to line up three matching jugglers on a payline, you would receive the slot's smallest prize that is 4x the size of the line bet. On the other hand, five lions on a payline will award the game's biggest payout – a line bet multiplier worth 5,000x. You can see every possible winning combination in-between those two extremes in the paytable below:

Players can play with as little as 1 payline if they want to limit their losses or they can go all out with 20 active paylines for maximum winning opportunities.

Big Top Circus helps spinners to find as many wins as possible with a conventional wild icon. This is depicted by the lion symbol, which will effectively replace all non-bonus symbols to make successful winning lines.

Punters can also benefit from some free spins with tripled wins – 13 in fact – whenever they find three or more scatter icons which depict the knife-throwing target board. What's more, this scatter also pays out total bet multiplier prizes up to 100x whenever it appears on the reels, whether it is on a payline or not. The game's other scatter – the human cannonball icon – won't pay any prizes directly, but it will offer players the chance to have 3, 4, or 5 picks in a bonus game with random bonus prizes.

Big Top Circus is a fun novelty slot machine by Parlay Games. With some cartoon style symbols and a brightly coloured aesthetic, this game is sure to appeal to a wide range of gamblers out there – as long as they're not afraid of clowns! However, with a somewhat low range of betting options which limit players to a maximum line bet of 0.25 credits, perhaps this game isn't best suited for high-rollers looking for the big wins.