Flowers Pokies
Roses, sunflowers, bluebells and lilies are the colourful symbols filling the reels of Net Ents’ Flowers video pokie, that should appeal to horticulturalists and anyone who likes an eye-catching game. These are no ordinary plants however, as each has a cartoon face with their own personality, from the dopey-looking bluebells to a vicious venus flytrap complete with big teeth and a bad attitude.
These bad blossoms are joined by playing card symbols and whenever 3 or more of the same type stop across any of the 30 paylines, on adjacent reels from the left side, players win a prize. The Sun shines a light on wild substitutions, while fluffy clouds won’t rain on anyones day when they trigger a rewarding free spins bonus game where all wins are multiplied in value.
Although there’s 30 lines, players have the option to activate any number, only winning if symbols stop across a line that’s in play. This gives a low limit bet of 0.01 per spin, or 0.30 to get the whole game activated, while the high limit is 75.00, or risk-averse gamblers can try free Flowers video pokie rounds if they want to simply test out how it all works. The action unfolds in a sunny garden where the reels are surrounded by grass and a wooden fence that also forms a backdrop to the pay table.
Playing Flowers
Anyone picking Flowers should review this pay table to see what they can expect to happen when lining symbols up or triggering bonus features. Although the main symbols are very well presented, the playing card J, Q, K and A are somewhat standard and don’t really fit in with the theme, but as they will tend to create the majority of winlines they are welcome to plant themselves across the reels at any time. Payouts for these range from the J that’s worth 5, 15 or 100x the line bet when it lands on 3, 4 or 5 reels, to the A that returns 5, 20 or 200x.
The flowers come in single and double forms, with the doubles counting as 2 symbols. This makes it possible to get lines of 10 across just 5 reels, and also has the effect of creating a winning line of 3 on just reels 1 and 2. Landing 3 bluebells, either singles on 3 reels, or a single and a double on 2 reels, will be worth a prize of 10 coins and a complete run of double bluebells pays out 1200.
Pink lilies, the flytrap and some laughing sunflowers are worth steadily higher rewards and the highest value wins in normal play come when the moody-looking roses stop across a line. Everything should be coming up roses when payouts of between 20 and 2000 coins are awarded by this symbol, but the Sun can give players a warm feeling when it pays the top prizes of up to 5000x.
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Bonus Features
The Sun is also the wild symbol of Flowers, so it’s able to act as all others, apart from the clouds, to compete winlines. Additionally, it won’t replace double symbols, but should still help players land some all-important extra awards.
The clouds can also be in single or double formats but unlike others, they won’t need to be in any particular places so a scatter of clouds across the reels will pay out coin awards and also trigger a free spins bonus feature. The number of bonus games that will play out depends on how many clouds floated onto the reels in the first place, and as these can be double symbols, up to 8 can appear at once.
Just 4 clouds will equal 10 free spins, while 5, 6, 7 or 8 will award 15, 20, 25 or 30 respectively. No matter how many play out, any winnings will be tripled in value and to help bring those prizes in with a greater frequency, the wild symbol will be stacked across any reel that it lands on. Any 4 or more clouds will retrigger the free spins, adding the new games on to the end of any still left in the current round.
The Verdict
Flowers is a popular pokie from the Net Ent range, so popular in fact that a Christmas-themed sequel has been released. Apart from the plain old card symbols, it’s got an excellent design and has clearly been created by a team with a sense of fun.
The bonuses are unusual, if not unique, and the way that double symbols can in effect create lines of 10 across the game is a good way of landing some big wins, while the free spins, multipliers and stacked wilds are sure to keep this mobile-optimised pokie firmly rooted as a favourite game.