Lil’ Lady Pokie
The Lady of the title is a ladybird beetle and she’s the star of an online pokie from IGT that has 5 reels, 40 paylines, plus some nice features like stacked wild symbols and a free spins round to enjoy. Filled with a variety of other critters, all designed with care to look more like a Pixar movie than a pokie, Lil’ Lady is bursting with colour as well.
There’s a vine surrounding the reels and an animated background image of the long grass that our friendly bugs like to call home, and underneath it all is the control panel that’s used to set wagers from just 0.01 to a maximum of 200.00 per spin.
Like all IGT games, it’s fair, with a good return to player ratio and has the potential to pay out some impressive prizes. Lining up 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols on adjacent reels on an active line will be enough for a win, although the line will need to start on the left side. To help further, there’s a scatter symbol that pays out wherever it lands, and the wild will help create extra winning combinations when it stops in the right places.
Playing Lil’ Lady
Like many games, the 9, 10, J, Q, K and A symbols taken from playing cards will create the smaller wins and therefore the most frequently-occurring ones. Some players like to see familiar symbols on the reels, as they know what they will be worth in relation to each other, while others think it’s a shame that everything isn’t related to the theme, but it’s just a matter of personal preference and at least the ones in Lil’Lady are colourful.
The 9, 10, J and Q are all worth the same amount, paying 5x the line stake when landing on a line across 3 reels, while 4 or 5 of them on a line will pay 20x or 100x respectively. Then it’s on to the K and A that are worth 5x, 50x or 150x for the same combinations, with pictures of a flower and a mushroom each paying out 20x, 75x or 250x.
Towards the top of the table we see the Lil’ Lady herself, and a male ladybird (Lordbird perhaps?) each returning 25x, 100x or 400x the amount bet per line when 3, 4 or 5 turn up across one. The biggest payouts come from a picture of the red and black ladybird shell and this can win players up to 1000x, plus it’s a wild symbol.
Lil’ Lady
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Bonus Features
Being wild means that the shell can substitute for others, although not the bonus symbol, and in this way, it can complete winning lines or extend 3 or 4 of a kind combinations across more reels, which will lead to higher wins. The wild can be stacked across an entire reel which makes the job of completing lines, or even multiple lines at once, a lot easier.
The bonus symbol only appears on the centre 3 reels, but when at least 3 of them stop there at once, players will be paid 2x the triggering bet amount and then awarded 5 free spins. Now 5 spins doesn’t sound like much, and to be honest it isn’t, but to help make up for it, extra stacked wilds are added to the reels along with extra bonus symbols.
This makes it easier to re-trigger the round and get another 5 free games added on to the end of any still left in the current spins, potentially over and over again to a maximum of 225 of them.
The Verdict
Few players are going to bugged by any lack of features in Lil’ Lady, as it’s got a number of treats in store, particularly during the free spins. Although getting the full 225 extra games is pretty unlikely, thanks to the extra bonus symbols on the reels, it’s still possible to retrigger them a couple of times over.
Additional stacked wilds should also see a couple of winning spins in the free games, so having just 5 playing out isn’t as bad as it first looks. Even if the free spins are not triggered for a while, there’s still lots to like about this pokie, from the pleasing design, to the little animations that play out when the bugs become part of a winning line, so anyone who likes the overall theme should buzz on over to their nearest IGT casino or find it online.