There’s a Hawaiian celebration waiting to be joined in the Aloha Party video pokie from EGT, where players can enjoy the sight of cocktails on the beach, along with beautiful flowers, equally beautiful locals and some pretty attractive payouts when the high-value symbols stop across the reels. Hawaii is famous for the warm welcome given to visitors to this tropical paradise, and Aloha Party greets players with some extra features such as wild substitutions, free spins, multipliers, and the 4-stage Jackpot Cards progressive prize that’s found across all EGT pokie machines.
A lot of care has gone into the design of this game, and the symbols are highly realistic, as is the background image a sandy beach and blue skies. This sits behind 5 reels where the symbols are in 4 rows and instead of paylines, there’s a 1024 ways to win format, which sees winning combinations formed by matching 3 or more symbols in any positions across adjacent reels running from the left side.
Below these, we see a series of control buttons that give players the option to stake from a low limit of 0.40 per spin up to a high limit of 80.00, or they can test the game for free before deciding whether or not to play for real money at most online casinos where the Aloha Party by EGT pokie is carried.
Although the majority of symbols will need to land across at least 3 reels to form a winning line, the male and female characters pay out prizes when stopping on just reels 1 and 2. The handsome man will return 5, 50, 100 or 500 coins when he lands on 2, 3, 4 or 5 reels respectively, while the attractive woman is worth 5, 25, 75 or 300 coins. Two types of flowers are each worth 20, 50 or 250 coins when landing on 3, 4 or 5 adjacent reels, while some tasty-looking cocktails pay 15, 40 or 200. The classic playing card symbols 10, J, Q, K and A fill out the reels and although they pay the smallest wins, these will tend to be the most frequently-occurring ones seen in the normal run of play.
Helping to boost the frequency of wins however, is a special wild symbol, which sees a surfer riding some of the famous breakers of Hawaii. He only appears on the middle 3 reels, and isn’t worth anything on his own, but if there’s a break in the sequence of symbols, and he’s able to fill in the gap, players will still get a win. As symbols don’t need to be on any set paylines, this is actually quite easy to do, and he’s also able to extend a winning line across to reel 4, which will return a bigger reward.
Any win of 1400 coins or less can be gambled in an optional round. Players will need to click on red or black buttons as a playing card flashes between the colours, and if they time it right, the win is doubled and they can either end the round or try to double it again. A wrong pick at any stage, however, loses the gamble.
The last symbol we see is a couple of tribal drums which pay 200, 800 or the top jackpot of 2000 coins when landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels from the left side. Once these have been paid out, 12 bonus spins will begin, during which the wild symbol has some special properties.
If the wild lands on reel 2 from the left and is part of a winning combination, the value of that win will be doubled, and if it helps make up a win when landing on reel 3, the amount won will be subject to a multiplier of 5x. Seeing the wild stop on reel 4 and complete a line, will result in a multiplier of 15x the base value being paid out, and lastly, if the wild appears on reels 2 and/or 4 during the free games, but doesn’t contribute to a win, it will be held while the other reels spin once more for free.
All EGT online casino pokies share a 4-stage progressive jackpot round that can be randomly triggered after any spin. Players will see 12 cards and need to click them to reveal their suits. Once 3 of a kind have been found, they win the jackpot associated with that suit, from the smaller Club prize, to the biggest Spades award.
Those who can’t quite make it to the shores of Hawaii can still have a relaxing time playing Aloha Party video pokies, and with some reliable wins along the way, including those big multipliers in the bonus games, they could have plenty of reasons to party.