Super Jackpot Party Pokies
There’s always a good reason to have a party, and most online casino players will find a good reason to play Super Jackpot Party, one of the original pokies from WMS Gaming, that’s still proving to be as popular as a beer keg at the office Christmas do. Laid out over 5 reels and in 3 rows, the colourful symbols are mostly connected to the party theme and include balloons, a punch bowl and one of those annoying paper whistles that everyone thinks it’s a good idea to blow right down your ear.
But as this symbol is the key to the bonus features, we won’t complain when it turns up and takes players to cash awards and multiplier payouts. Bright, vibrant colours fill the game with cartoon style images, and there’s a blue background covered in multicoloured circles to off-set the symbols. The control panel sits below the reels, and players have the option to stake a low limit of just 0.01 per spin. But this will activate a single payline, and with 20 lines running across the game, most will choose to play them all, which equals a minimum stake of 0.20, and this can be adjusted up to the max bet of 100.00 per spin.
Wins come whenever 3, 4 or 5 of a kind lines are landed across an active line, on connected reels from the left side, while anyone who just wants to test the game before playing for real can sample free Super Jackpot Party video pokie games at many casinos.
Playing Super Jackpot Party
The pay table reveals what each of the symbols is worth when they make up a winning combination, and a review of this shows the paper cups to be valued at 5x, 15x or 80x the amount staked per line when they stop across 3, 4 or 5 reels. Next up is the punch bowl, then the balloons and the wrapped present returns prizes of 15x, 40x or 200x the line stake when it lands in the right places.
Higher value symbols are mainly made up of the number 7 in various colours, starting with the purple 7 that’s worth 20x, 80x or 400x the line bet, then rising up through the green 7 to the multicoloured 7 that pays 50x, 300x or 1000x. he 7’s can pay out reduced amounts if they are mixed on a line.
The most valuable standard symbol however, is the Super Jackpot Party video pokies logo, and when this stops on just reels 1 and 2 across an active payline, players are rewarded with 10x the line bet, while 3, 4 or 5 of them are valued at 100x, 500x or 5000x respectively.
There’s a couple of other symbols here, and when these fall into the right positions, a variety of bonus features are triggered.
Super Jackpot Party
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Bonus Features
The feature that players are most likely to encounter is wild substitutions, created by the glitter ball symbol filling in for any standard one if it can then complete a win line. The wild is also able to extend 3 or 4 matching symbols across extra reels, which will in turn lead to bigger payouts, although it has no value of its own, and can’t substitute for the bonus symbols.
A party-goer who looks like he’s already had too much, and the whistle symbol anywhere on reels 1, 3 and 5 will trigger the unique bonus rounds, which take place on new screens. The party is in full swing in the centre of the screen and surrounding it, there’s 50 wrapped presents. Players simply click on a random selection of these, unwrapping cash prizes or multipliers, all accompanied by some fun animations, as the party guests celebrate the wins and for some reason aliens and even bulldozers pop onto the screen. There’s probably a good reason for this, but quite what it is, we’re not sure.
Other features that can be triggered by picking the right presents includes a dance-off, where the guest dances away, and the longer he keeps going, the bigger the reward will be at the end, and a whack-a-mole game, where players hit the party pooper symbol for prizes. The bonus round ends when 3 party poopers have been found in amongst the presents, although there’s a chance to re-trigger the round or get a guaranteed real cash award before returning to the main game.
The Verdict
This may be an older, nostalgic pokie machine, but it’s a tried and tested game that’s been popular for a number of years. There’s no conventional free spins, or scatter pays, but the bonus features can be very rewarding, even if standard gameplay is nothing too exciting.