Prime Property Pokie Machine
The theme of moving house is certainly an unusual one, but as it can be such a big event in people’s lives it makes perfect sense to have an online pokie based on it. Some people are fascinated by property values and how much they can make in equity and so on, while others are bored to death by it all, so an appreciation of this pokie largely depends on their opinion of the whole subject matter.
Some colourful images of houses and estate agents, along with for sale signs and removal vans fill the 5 reels and 40 paylines of the game and the bet range is pretty good, while fairly straightforward bonus features help to raise interest rates.
Has it Got Kerb Appeal?
Developed by Microgaming, Prime Property is presented for viewing with cartoon images and a backdrop to the reels that shows off a nice neighbourhood. The reels are topped off with a roof and the control buttons underneath them are set into a brick wall, with each one looking like a house number display.
Those buttons are used to adjust the amount staked on each spin, with players able to activate any number of lines, from just a single one to all 40, although should winning combinations land on lines that haven’t been activated they won’t count.
Coin sizes can be set from 0.01 to 0.25 and between 1 and 5 coins can be placed on each active line, so at maximum bet, players will be wagering 50.00, which isn’t particularly high but should be fine for most.
All winning combinations are created by matching symbols landing across adjacent reels on an active line running form the left side. The exception is when the scatter symbols land, as these can be anywhere, while at least 3 of the same type of symbols are needed to get a win.
The payout table lists what symbols equal what payouts, and all of them are part of the theme, with several different houses, from a humble bungalow to an extravagant mansion, being the lower paying ones.
The estate agents, who are all grinning in that cold way which only estate agents and car salesmen can do, pay out the bigger rewards.
Prime Property
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Bonus Features
The Prime Property logo, displayed on a for sale sign, is the wild symbol of this game, substituting for any base symbol if that will help to complete a line and being worth a nice reward when it lines up on its own, with 12,000x the line bet being the payout for landing a full set of 5 wilds right across the reels.
The removal truck is a scatter symbol which rather than paying out multiples of the bet per line, will instead be worth the total bet per stake, with 3, 4 or 5 of them paying out 2x, 20x or 100x respectively.
While a single scatter symbol is enough for most pokies, this one features a second that triggers the bonus game although it has no value on its own. The newspaper opened on the property pages will start off a free spins game with multipliers when at least 3 appear at once.
Players get an initial 1 spin at a 1x multiplier, 2 spins with a 2x multiplier or 3 spins at a 3x multiplier when 3, 4 or 5 of the newspaper symbols land, which sounds very poor until they are taken to a second screen where they will see 18 houses across the property pages and pick on them to uncover extra spins and higher multiplier values.
Up to 40 spins can be won and each win throughout them can be multiplied by up to 8x if the right houses are selected before they uncover the one that starts the round.
Boom or Bust?
Prime Property is a nicely designed pokie that may have an odd theme, but it’s actually a surprise that it’s not more popular, given that so many people are enthralled by house prices. While some players like to see lower value symbols made up of the playing card icons, many others will enjoy seeing the different types of house spinning up some wins, and of course, who doesn’t like to see smarmy estate agents being gently mocked?
Bonus rounds are fairly good, with the way the players unveil the number of free spins and multipliers that subsequently play out being a real highlight, although there’s always the chance that the very first pick will be the one that starts the spins off, which is why they are always given a spin or 3 even before the round commences.