Burning Hot Pokie
A basic 5 reels and 5 paylines are featured in the Burning Hot video pokie from EGT. This simple type of game has remained popular over the years with players looking for steady, reliable wins and little in the way of bonus rounds to interrupt them, and other than an optional gamble round and the potential to trigger a progressive jackpot game, there’s not much to do here other than pick a bet size and spin up some wins.
A soft green colour palette is used throughout, which makes the reds, purples and oranges of the fruit symbols stand out and in traditional fruit machine style, we have red 7’s, bells and stars in the mix as well. All 5 paylines are active at all times, and the minimum stake is therefore 0.05, although high rollers can raise this to the high limit of 100.00, and creating a winning combination is a matter of landing matching symbols across any line, on adjacent reels from the left side.
The game title doesn’t have an immediately obvious connection to the fruit theme, but once a winline is formed, any symbols within it will get surrounded in flames to highlight which ones have created the prize.
Playing Burning Hot
A review of the pay table will help players to understand what symbols are each worth, but it’s such an easy to learn pokie machine that they may want to skip this and just spin the reels to see what happens. However, for those who want to know, the lowest-value symbols are oranges, plums, lemons and cherries, which are all worth 10x, 30x or 100x the amount staked per line when landing across 3, 4 or 5 reels.
A bell will pay out 20x, 50x or 200x, and a juicy slice of watermelon and a bunch of grapes each pays out some tasty prizes of 40x, 100x or 500x. Red 7’s are usually the highest-value symbols in a classic pokie and here, players only need to land the 7 on reels 1 and 2 from the left to get a win of 10x the line bet, with 3, 4 or 5 of them being worth 50x, 200x or the best payout of 3000x respectively.
There’s a lucky four-leaf clover that’s not worth anything on its own, but it’s the games wild symbol, so when it lands in the right places on reels 2, 3 or 4, it will substitute for any standard icon to help complete winning lines.
Burning Hot
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Scatter Symbols
It won’t be able to replace the purple star, or the Dollar icon however, as these are both scatter symbols which will award prizes when landing in any positions on a reel. The Dollar will need to be on connected reels from the left however, but when it turns up on 3, 4 or 5 at once, players win 15x, 100x or 500x the line bet.
Unusually, the star only pays out when it appears on reels 1, 3 and 5 at once, with an award of 100x paid out. There’s no bonus features as such, but there are a couple of extras that are found on all EGT pokies.
Gamble Game
Any time players get a win of 175 coins or less, they will be offered the chance to enter a double or nothing gamble round. The triggering bet is doubled if they correctly pick if a playing card will be a red or black suit, with a further option to collect the boosted win, or try again if they get it right.
These are true 50/50 gambles, but getting it right several times in a row can be tricky, so many punters choose to play them with smaller bets that won’t be missed if they get it wrong at any point.
Jackpot Cards
Above the reels, players will have noticed 4 boxes, each containing a playing card suit and a steadily rising progressive jackpot value. The Jackpot Cards round is randomly triggered after any spin, and once it starts, a win is guaranteed. 12 playing cards are laid out, and players click them to reveal the suits, winning whichever jackpot is linked to the first suit found on 3 cards.
The Club jackpot is quite small, but the values rise through Hearts and Diamonds to the Spade prize, which can be quite substantial.
The Verdict
The Burning Hot video pokies game is going to appeal to fans of traditional casino pokie machines, rather than those looking for lots of bonus features. It’s a high volatility game, where wins may not be that frequent, but when they come, they tend to be worth a decent amount.