The Chicken Road slot machine game has been a staple in online casinos for several years now, captivating players with its unique theme and engaging gameplay features.
Theme and Design
At first glance, it’s clear that the Chicken Road game is centered around farm-fresh animals, specifically chickens. The background of the Chicken Road reels displays a rural landscape complete with rolling hills, trees, and a distant farmhouse. The symbols themselves are also animal-themed, featuring various breeds of chicken as well as other creatures found on farms such as pigs, cows, ducks, and even sheep.
One distinctive design element worth mentioning is the vibrant color scheme used throughout the game. Earthy tones like green, brown, and beige provide an inviting atmosphere that immediately puts players at ease. The overall aesthetic is playful yet rustic, mirroring the carefree nature of a sunny farm day. A well-placed pun – or rather, an egg-cellent one – could be made on the game’s developer having "cracked" this design with great skill.
Symbols and Payouts
The game boasts a total of 25 paylines, allowing players to bet on multiple combinations simultaneously for increased chances of winning. The low-paying symbols include standard playing card values (9-A), offering smaller payouts ranging from $0.02-$2 per combination. Moving up the hierarchy are higher-value animal symbols – specifically pigs ($4), cows ($5), and ducks ($6) – which offer more significant wins when matched in consecutive rows.
Holding a special place among these symbols, however, is the game’s highest-paying chicken icon (up to $30). Found across all three main reels, this prized hen lays large golden eggs, each offering substantial multipliers. Its bonus features will be explored later on.
Wilds
The Wild symbol – represented by an egg-laying mama hen – acts as a substitute for any other symbol within the game except Scatters (more on that below). This versatility proves invaluable during winning combinations where specific animals appear in limited quantities, enabling players to fill gaps and create new patterns.
In addition, all hens hold random multiplier values, resulting from 2x-100x depending on their respective position or any triggered bonus rounds; they never diminish the Wild’s utility as it also participates in those.
Scatters
A pair of Scattering chickens stand out amidst other symbols due to their potential for significant payouts and activation opportunities. Appearing at least two times anywhere across reels will trigger an instant cash award worth 5,000x players’ total bet (a rare sight but potentially profitable).
However, this payout has limitations – no Wilds participate here nor any multiplier values accumulate over free spins since we have not reached a certain spin amount yet.
Bonus Features
Upon reaching the specified number of Free Spins (more on this below) or by landing Scatters with specific symbol combinations and value multipliers (Wilds in position, etc.), it activates bonus round games which significantly vary but each offers enhanced winning opportunities.
The Chicken Road game boasts both ‘ Bonus Round’ type features that activate once a minimum requirement has been met as mentioned above; those would include things such as ‘Clucking Good’ Wild stacks with 5x multiplier for specific animal patterns on all reels, and ‘Egg-cellent Surprise’, where any given combination leads into up to 50 Free Spins.
Free Spins
Speaking of which – let’s discuss the main feature tied directly to achieving this objective of free spins by reaching the target amount through successive combinations using Scatters with required Wild placements (which accumulates value multiplier that persists over rounds even those triggered via a higher payout – now we enter territory called "Progressive Free Spins".