Jungle Monkeys Pokies
Bananas, coconuts and mangos may be the favourite food for a monkey, but when they line up across the reels of the Jungle Monkey pokie, they will become firm favourites for players as well, with these tasty treats paying out some of the bigger winnings.
Developed by Ainsworth, Jungle Monkeys is a classic 5-reel game, with symbols in 3 rows and an impressive number of 100 paylines running across the game, which should make it easier for players to land a few wins on the way to a rewarding bonus game where the friendly monkey can help them to win even more.
Playing Jungle Monkeys
A bet range that starts at just 0.01 and runs all the way up to 75.00 should make Jungle Monkeys suitable for all players, although the minimum stake will activate just a single payline and means that on average, 29 out of 30 winning combinations that appear on the screen won’t actually count. So it’s usually worth activating all of the lines, which in this case costs 0.30 and thereby collecting all the wins that land across the reels.
The game itself has a rather dark and dingy looking picture of the jungle serving as a background to the reels, so we’ll quickly skip that and see what symbols can be expected to appear during the game.
Wins come in the standard way, with players looking to get 3 or more of the same type of symbol across any active payline, running on adjacent reels from left to right. Smaller value wins come from the 9, 10, J, Q, K and A symbols that are identical to the ones used across most of the Ainsworth range, and whether that’s a good or a bad thing depends on the players point of view.
It’s a bit predictable having the same old symbols in play, but at least it’s obvious which will pay out the lower wins, with all playing card symbols being worth 5x the line bet when 3 land across one, while 4 of them on a line will pay out 15x and 5 of them will be worth 100x the line bet.
The different picture symbols pay out more, and in order of value we have the bananas, coconuts, a coconut tree and a parrot, with the mango being the most rewarding and being worth 20x, 100x or 1000x the line bet for 3, 4 or 5 of them.
These are all quite colourful pictures, making up for the dull background image, and with the playing card icons all being in different colours, it’s a nice appearance overall.
Jungle Monkeys
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Bonus Features
This pokie wouldn’t be much good unless a monkey turned up somewhere, so here he is, acting as a wild symbol, which doesn’t have anything to do with being untamed, but instead means that he will acts as any other standard symbol if he can complete winning lines.
He swings onto the middle 3 reels, so he can even extend lines of 3 matching symbols into higher-value lines of 4, although there’s no value to just a line of wilds.
Monkeys and barrels go together like death and taxes, so it’s no surprise to see a barrel in this game. It’s a scatter symbol, so it can land anywhere to pay a prize, and rather than multiples of the bet per line, it’s worth 2x, 10x or 100x the total amount staked per spin when 3, 4 or 5 appear.
Once the scatter win has been paid out, it’s time to enter a free spins game, with 3 scatters triggering 8 spins, 4 scatters will launch 12 of them and if the maximum of 5 appeared, players will enjoy 20 free games, plus of course, that nice 100x prize.
To make the free games potentially more lucrative, the wild will change positions, and now appears on reels 1, 3 and 5. This should make it even easier for it to replace other symbols and therefore complete winning combinations, and if 3 more scatters land at once during the free games, there’s even more chances to win, as an extra 5 spins are added to the total.
The Verdict
Jungle Monkeys is a fairly straightforward game that doesn’t really offer much new, and the only real innovation is the fact that the wild symbol appears on different reels during the bonus games. But that just means it’s a nice, easy game to play, where familiar symbols land the majority of the wins and some pictures of jungle fruits and animals are there to pay out the bigger ones.