Slot Penguin Style
We’re heading off to Antarctica with EGT’s unique Penguin Style video pokie, where killer whales, squid and krill are joining some friendly penguins in a party on the ice. Things can heat up with a range of hot bonus features, such as free spins where wins are guaranteed, wild substitutions and the Jackpot Cards progressive round that’s common to all games from EGT.
Winter is a magical time. In many video slots the naval theme has been successfully worked out, therefore such machines are very popular. The company-manufacturer called Euro Games Technology offers participants a device with the combined winter marine theme, Penguin Style. The Egyptian Dreams slot machine simulation was the first virtual pokie or slot machine game developed by Pokie Magic and it provides you with all the fun of playing a traditional slot machine on your home computer. Easy to install, the game launches playing cheerful music and its bright interface has an Egyptian style.
These cartoon characters land across 20 fixed paylines, making up winnings combinations with 3, 4 or 5 of a kind on adjacent reels running from the left side. The minimum stake is 0.20 and there’s a high limit of 40.00 per spin, although free Penguin Style video pokies can be practiced at many casinos.
Playing Penguin Style
There’s ice all over the place in this pokie, even some of the symbols are encased in in, while the playing card symbol look as if they have been carved from colourful blocks of the stuff. Each of the J, Q, K and A will pay out 5x the line bet when stopping on 3 reels of a payline, while 4 of them are worth 20x and a full run of 5 will result in a win of 100x.
There’s a cute shrimp that will be worth wins of 10, 25 or 150x, which is the same as a friendly squid, while the penguin and his goldfish symbol, along with the snowboarding penguin, will each return wins of 15, 30 or 200x. The most valuable standard symbol is a killer whale, who instead of eating the penguins, will award punters with prizes worth 230, 50 or 500x the line bet for 3, 4 or 5 across the reels. Any creature that’s part of a win will become animated, in short sequences that look like something from Happy Feet or the Penguins of Madagascar.
A dapper penguin in a top hat is a wild symbol, so he’s able to substitute for others to help complete winlines, and as he’s stacked on any reel that he appears on, this is comparatively easy. It’s also the top valued symbol, paying 50, 200 or 1000x the line bet, but it won’t be able to replace the igloo scatter symbol.
This will only appear on the middle reel, and isn’t worth anything on its own, but the real value comes from the 3 free spins that play out anytime it turns up.
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While 3 free games isn’t much, there’s some special features that ensure each is a winner. The scatter symbol that triggered them will stay locked in place before expanding to the reel positions on the left and right. If more than 1 scatter was on the middle reel, each expands, potentially filling all of the middle 3 reels. It will then transform into wilds, remaining in place throughout the 3 bonus spins.
Any symbols on reel 1 will therefore be substituted across reels 2, 3 and 4 resulting in a guaranteed win each time, and multiple wins if the scatter has filled entire reels. The free spins can’t be retriggered.
Other Features
All EGT pokies share a couple of features, and the one players will encounter all the time is the optional gamble game. In Penguin Style, wins of less than 700 coins can be doubled if a playing card is correctly predicted to be from a red or black suit, and if the gamble pays off, there’s another option to collect it, or try to go again for an even bigger prize. Getting the guess wrong will, of course, mean the gamble is lost, and players lose the triggering win along with anything gained in the gamble round so far.
EGT pokies also share the Jackpot Cards progressive feature, which has 4 levels, Club, Diamond, Heart and Spade, with the current values displayed above the reels. It’s a random feature that can occur after any spin and takes players to a second screen where they will see 12 playing cards, which they start clicking on to reveal the suits.
Once 3 of a kind have been found, the related jackpot is paid out, and if the Spades are found first, then the best prize has been won.
The Verdict
Penguins and other polar wildlife seem to be quite a popular theme to be covered by online casino pokie machines. Penguin Style has some cute critters on the reels and some sweet bonus features, notably the free spins with 3 reels having wild symbols on them.
If there’s any real issues that can be pointed out, it’s the lack of a mobile-optimised version of this game, and while a 0.20 minimum stake isn’t going to break the bank, some players who are on thin ice may not want to bet this much.
Votes
What a lovely winter game and such a fun way to pay tribute to the frosty season. Penguin Style is certainly one of EGT’s better slot games and offers a great deign, with entertaining 3D graphics and animations. We’ve already seen an icy game by this developer before, which also featured a couple of adorable penguins. But here, it’s more about the wildlife and less about the cold. The background appears to be a huge chunk of ice, with cracks running across it in every direction. The symbols in this game are an amusing mix of colorful ice blocks, carved into letters, penguins and different sea creatures. Some depict a squid having a bagel and a cocktail and for some reason wearing a pair of goggles. Another symbol is a tired shrimp resting on what we can only assume is a bubble of air. Then there’s the fear of the seas – the killer whale. He doesn’t look as frightening on these reels, though, especially not with that life ring on its fin. And of course, we have the familiar faces of the penguin with his gold fish in a bowl, together with his buddy wearing a cylinder. There’s also been a new addition to EGT’s penguin collection and that’s the cool guy riding the wave. Keep an eye out for each of them when they form winning sequences, as they each offer an interesting display.
Penguin Style has the customary setup of 3 rows and 5 reels. The game offers a total of 20 paylines, of which you won’t be able to choose your own. Only the highest paylines are paid out in this slot and winning combos start from the leftmost reel. The standard symbols are the playing card letters A, K, Q and J, but they’re not like you have seen them before. When they form a winning combination, you are in for a little bit of a show. The Q does a small ice skating performance for you, whereas the K stops skating and breaks abruptly. The J turns into a hockey stick and hits a puck, while the A becomes the target of a snowball fight.EGT’s Penguin Style also has a selection of special symbols to go around. The Wild symbol is in the form of the kooky dancing penguin in a hat, which we already mentioned. He can substitute for all other symbols, save for the Scatter, and can stack up. As for the Scatter, you will really have to keep your eyes open for this one. It only appears on reel 3 and comes in the shape of an igloo, and can also stack up.
When you manage to land the elusive Scatter symbol in this game, it will trigger the freespins bonus feature. Now if that isn’t something, right? You get amazing graphics, a dynamic and fun gameplay, and on top of it all you also get freespins. You need to land at least one to activate the bonus feature. Don’t get too excited, though, because it’s only 3 freespins. However, each of the Scatters you manage to spin will expand to its neighboring positions, when it triggers the bonus. After this, each of them will convert into Wilds and they will remain in place as the rest of the reels spin for as long as the feature lasts. Sadly, you will not be able to retrigger the freespins bonus feature.
But rest assured, there are a couple of other features to keep you busy in the meantime. For one, there’s the classic EGT jackpot feature. It has four progressive jackpots, each marked with its own playing card suit. In order to trigger it, there’s really not much you can do. The feature appears completely at random and will offer you a side game. The game involves drawing three cards from a set of 12. You will need to collect three of the same suit in order to win the jackpot with the corresponding suit.
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The second available side game that this slot offers is the Gamble feature. You can risk your winnings to multiply them after each winning sequence you spin. To do so, just click on the Gamble button. A new screen will show you a deck of face down cards blinking black and red. Your goal is to select the correct color. Do this for all the remaining attempts, without failing, and you will significantly increase your win.