Spring Break Pokies
It’s time for a party with Microgaming’s Spring Break pokie, a 5 reel, 9 payline game that’s packed to the brim with images of people chilling out on the beach and the delicious food and drinks that make their days go by in style.
Based around the American tradition of heading to the sun and getting wasted with members of the opposite sex, Spring Break features some decent bonuses like wild substitutions with multipliers, scatter wins, a gamble game and a free spins round that pays out some handsome rewards.
Putting A Spring In Your Step
A pokie based around fun vacations should be packed with colour and players won’t be disappointed by the sights they will see here. All done in a cartoon style that’s typical of Microgaming, there’s images of beers, burgers, barbies, beach babes, beach bums and bonuses. Plus other stuff that doesn’t begin with ‘B’.
There’s a fairly plain blue background to the reels and on each side we see colourful payline indicators that show how each line runs from left to right, while below it all is a control panel that’s used to adjust the bet size per spin.
Players can try out the game on a single line for just 0.01, although this means any winning combinations that land on other lines won’t count, so the minimum stake needed to have the whole game in play is 0.09.
It’s then possible to increase the amount staked on each line to a maximum of 10.00, for an overall highest bet of 90.00 per spin. Players win whenever 3 or more symbols of the same kind stop across an active line, on adjacent reels running from the left side, except for scatter wins which can be in any positions.
There’s a paytable that details just how many times the bet per line will be won with each of these combinations, while it also briefly explains how the bonus features work.
Spring Break
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Spring Break Payouts
All of the symbols in Spring Break are theme-related, so the playing card icons that feature in so many others are replaced by items of food and drink. The lowest value symbol is the ice lolly and only 2 examples of this need to be on a line for players to win 2x the line bet, while landing 5 of them right across the reels will be worth 100x.
Moving up in value we see beers, pizza, guacamole and chips, a huge burger and a tasty-looking wrap that’s the most rewarding food item and pays out between 10x and 125x when landing on a line.
Bigger prizes come from the barbecue, a nice image of a pier at sunset, sunbathing girls, a chilled out guy in the pool and some surfers in their truck who are valued at 3x when 2 land on a line and 750x when they stop right across all 5 reels.
Beach Bonuses
Like most Microgaming pokies, Spring Break comes complete with some bonus symbols that trigger extra rounds. One potentially rewarding round can be played after any winning spin, with players having the option to double the amount just won by correctly guessing if a playing card will be red or black, while they can quadruple it by guessing the right suit.
Getting it right means they can collect the win or go again for an even bigger prize, but these gamble games can be very risky, as a wrong guess at any stage loses the triggering bet and anything gained in the gamble.
The Spring Break logo is a wild symbol that will act as all but the scatter to help complete winning lines, doubling the value of whatever the symbol would normally be worth, while also paying up to 10,000x when it makes a full line by itself.
The other bonus game starts when the Beach Party scatter symbol appears in at least 3 positions at once. This will be the trigger for 15 free spins, with any wins throughout them being tripled, although standard reels are used so there’s no actual guarantee of a winning spin.
The scatter also pays multiples of the total bet, with 2x, 5x, 20x or 500x awarded for landing 2, 3, 4 or 5 of them.
The Verdict
An actual Spring Break is a fun pastime for American youth to enjoy, but the Spring Break pokie is probably better suited to anyone over 21 looking for a quality Poker game that looks good and plays well.
Bonus rounds may be fairly standard, but that’s not to say they are bad in any way, just that similar ones have been seen on other Microgaming titles. If the theme and images appeal, then this is a good pokie to go for.