Bikini Beach Slot Machine
Get in the mood for summer with Bikini Beach from WorldMatch. This slot game makes you feel like basking on a balmy beach under some palm trees with a cocktail in your hand, or even stretching out on the sofa as the symbols turn your living room into an exotic holiday destination!
There are 5 reels and 25 paylines here along with wild symbols, magic spins feature and bonus round. This is a relaxing game with simple graphics and theme, which will give a gentle, summery feel whatever the time of year.
Getting Beach Ready…
Before heading to the beach, it’s time to decide on your bet. There are 25 paylines in this slot and you can play 1, 5, 10, 15 or all 25 paylines by clicking on the ‘lines’ button. You can also alter your ‘bet level’ by clicking to choose a level from 1 to 5 to give a minimum bet per line of €0.10 and a max bet per line of €2.00. This means you total bet per spin will cost from €0.10 up to a maximum of €50.00. This range should suit all players, from the more cautious gamer to the high rolling slots fan.
The theme is simple and relaxing with lilting music in the background along with the sounds of waves lapping at the shore. In the background are palm trees and a golden beach, while the blue sea stretches into the horizon to meet the sky with white fluffy clouds. This really is an idyllic setting which brings the peaceful beach feel to life, despite the relative simplicity of the graphics. The reels are set out within a wooden stall on the beach and feature a range of symbols related to the theme.
Symbols include two bikini-clad women, one dark and one fair, a couple of cocktails, a pineapple, flip flops, sun lotion bottle, a pile of cash, a drinks can with a straw, and some red lips – though we are not sure why lips are associated with beach holidays in particular!
Getting Hold of Your Holiday Money
The payouts here are reasonable with the wild symbol paying the highest reward at 5,000 coins for 5 symbols together on the reels. The pile of cash is the second-best paying symbol, rewarding players with 1,000 coins for 5 symbols. The red lips pays 750 coins for 5 symbols, the flip flips symbol pays 500 coins for 5 symbols, and the sun lotion bottle and drinks can with straw both pay 300 coins for 5 symbols.
Strangely, the lowest paying icon in the game is the bikini-clad dark-haired woman. Considering she is the namesake of the game, we would have though this icon would attract the highest reward.
The wild symbol in the game is of course the substitute, so this stands in for all the other symbols, except the bonus symbol, to create more potential wins.
Treasure Chest Bonus Round
When you spin at last 2 of the bonus symbols, you can begin the Treasure Chest bonus game. Simply click the button at the bottom of the screen that says ‘start bonus game’ to be transported to a new beach scene. Here you are confronted with a series of treasure chests. We would love to know which beach in the world has wooden chests filled with gold coins waiting for innocent holidaymakers to stroll past!
The treasure chests on this beach each have a different value hiding inside – and some chests could also be empty. Whatever you find in the treasure chests gets added to your balance. This is a simple bonus game with no special features, but one which could potentially reward you with a pleasant haul of gold.
Magic Spins
Another feature in the game is the Magic Spins round. This is triggered when you hit a Magic Spins symbol anywhere on the screen. The number of free spins awarded will show in the toolbar and the screen will reduce vertically to show only one row of symbols, while the music becomes louder to up the level of excitement.
The special reels used during this round are supposed to be filled with more frequent winning combinations, however, there are no guarantees of big wins here and in one of our Magic Spins rounds, we won absolutely nothing!
A Relaxing Holiday, but No Rich Returns
Bikini Beach slot game sounds promising with a holiday theme always a popular choice. The game is simple with pleasant music and colourful graphics and the feel is certainly relaxing and summery. However, the bonus round and free spins rounds offer only intermittent rewards and you could find yourself winning nothing from many of the treasure chests. The magic spins round is equally as hit and miss.
The theme has a great sunshine vibe and many players will like the holiday atmosphere, but without more winning chances and better features, this is probably not a holiday destination that would entice a repeat visit.
