Fruit Case Pokies
Many people will look at the title of the Fruit Case video pokie and think it’s just another machine filled with traditional images of watermelons, cherries, oranges and plums, but they couldn’t be more wrong as those inventive Swedes at Net Ent have developed it and made it as imaginative as the rest of their range.
The fruit in question are a crazy mix of cartoon strawberries, lemons and pears all trying to avoid being turned into the contents of the jam jar symbols that represent the lower value playing cards, while a blender triggers some bonus games and Net Ents’ special Free Falls feature will lead to lots of extra winning chances along the way.
There’s a simple but effective design to this game where the overall theme seems to be related to squishing the fruit into juices and a series of pipes behind the reels serve to emphasise the point. It’s a 5-reel pokie which has symbols in 3 rows and there are 20 paylines across which players will want 3 or more of the same symbol on adjacent reels running from the left side to get a standard win. There’s only 7 main symbols in play so landing a few reliable wins shouldn’t be too difficult and free Fruit Case video pokie games are offered at most casinos which gives punters the chance to try it out at no risk to their bankrolls. Once happy with it all, the low limit bet is just 0.15 while the most that can be staked per spin is a generous 100.00.
Fruit Case
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Playing Fruit Case
A review of the paytable is all that’s needed to see what each symbol is worth and rather than the standard playing card symbols, Net Ent have cleverly adapted them into jars of jam, or maybe smoothies, but whatever they are, it looks good and fits in with the theme. Just 3 jar symbols are in the mixture here and they are all worth 5 coins when landing on reels 1, 2 and 3 across a payline, while 4 on a line is worth a prize equal to 10 coins and a full run across the game pays out 50x.
Each of the pear, lemon, orange and strawberry symbols is a fun cartoon character pulling a weird face, which is probably understandable if they are about to be turned into jam. Values range from 10, 20 or 100x when the pear stops on 3, 4 or 5 reels across a line, to a much juicer 50, 200 or 2000x for the strawberry.
Bonus Features
Several Net Ent games have the Free Fall system where symbols that make up a winning combination disappear leaving empty spaces into which any symbols from above will drop down in to. With the Fruit Case pokie, the symbols are first squashed by a press before vanishing and only then is the new combination formed, with new ones dropping down from above the reels. This can and often does, lead to a further winline being created, effectively giving players an extra payout at no cost.
The Fruit Case logo, printed on the side of a wooden crate, is a wild symbol that will act as the jars and fruit images if it can then complete a combination, either bridging any gaps between matching symbols or extending a run across further reels. It may not be worth anything on its own, but there’s a special multiplier attached to the wild that can lead to wins being up to 8x their base value. If a Free Fall combination included the wild, it will pay out at 2x the base rate, but if a new winning line is created and it also has a wild symbol in it, the value of the win will be 4x the standard rate, while subsequent combinations that include wilds will be subject to 6x and 8x multipliers.
Free Fall
If the Free Fall blender symbol appears on 3 or more reels from the left side in any positions, players are awarded 10 bonus games. Rather than the more conventional spins, these are simply extra Free Falls and any coin wins during them are subject to a 3x multiplier, while extra Free Falls will be triggered in the same way as in the base games, so players could end up with lots more than the initial 10.
The Verdict
Anyone used to Net Ent games will be familiar with both the fun style and the extra rewards in the bonus features, which seem to be specialities of this company. It may look simple, but the potential for some decent wins is always there and the mobile-optimised Fruit Case video pokie is one that we are more than happy to recommend.