More Monkeys Stellar Jackpot Slot - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

It has five reels, four rows and 1024 pay ways. The RTP is 96.22 per cent and the variance is medium. Its theme is drawn from the Chinese legend of the Monkey King, and it does not use any human characters. It features wilds, scatters, multipliers and free spins.

Introduction

More Monkeys Stellar Jackpot is a game from the Australian developer Lightning Box. They’ve been producing quality casino games since 2004 and boast an experienced team of mathematicians, animators and musicians whose skills are evident in the many Lightning Box slots available on many sites. More Monkeys is a sharp-looking game that is reminiscent of Skywind’s popular Monkey Pays slot, but Lightning Box have stamped their own identity on their variant. It’s always good to find a decent slot with free spins, and More Monkeys offers this and more.

More Monkeys Stellar Jackpot has a 5-reel grid with 4 columns. It has 1024 pay ways. The minimum bet size is 0.60 and the maximum is 75. There are nine symbols: Tiger, Panda, Koi, and the playing cards from Ace down to 9. There is also a big red bonus ball, and the Monkey King (famous from the Japanese TV adaptation of the legend) appears alongside Baby Monkey as scatters and substitutes.

Theme, graphics and soundtrack

Chinese landscapes, history, culture and folklore are well-used staples of slot games, and More Monkeys is unashamed in plundering them, with the iconic roaring tiger, bamboo-chewing panda and swimming koi. The Monkey King brandishes his staff and the coins spill out. The grid is designed with the obligatory pagoda look, and the background of icy mountains is reassuringly familiar. It's nothing very inventive, but it's all quite nicely executed.

The soundtrack is a little irritating because instead of forming a constant accompaniment it plays only while the reels spin so although it sounds reasonably authentic it comes in frustratingly short bursts rather than creating any sense of atmosphere.

More Monkeys Stellar Jackpot RTP and variance

The RTP is 96.22 per cent, which is slightly above average, and the variance is medium.

How to play More Monkeys Stellar Jackpot

1. Click the Play button to start playing using the current total bet value. You cannot press the play button again to stop the reels mid-spin as it disappears until the spin has finished. 
2. To the left of the play button is a coin icon, which you can press to adjust your bet level
3. The Auto spin function is located in the cog settings menu and allows you to select spins from 0 to 100 in increments of 5.
4. Monkey King is wild and substitutes for all symbols except the Scatter Bonus.
5. Baby Monkey substitutes for all symbols except the Scatter Bonus, and these symbols are added to reels 2, 3 and 4 during free games.
6. All prizes pay left to right except scatters, which pay in either direction. Scatters wins are added to other wins. 
7. Free games can be retriggered and are added to the bonus currently in play. Free games are played at the same bet level as the spin that triggers them.
8. The balance is displayed at the top left of the screen, with the current winnings level at the top right.
9. Always play gambling games responsibly. When you're playing for money, make sure you stay within the limits of what you can afford to lose. When it stops being fun, you should quit.

Bet sizes and paytable wins

The minimum coin size is 0.01 and the maximum is 1.25. Thebet size ranges from 0.25 to 75. The top payout is a potential win of 512,000.

The paytable values run from 3x to 5x, and the highest payouts are as follows:

Scatter Bonus

5 = 5000

Tiger

5 = 1000

Panda

5 = 750

Koi

5 = 250

Ace

5 = 125

King

5 = 100

Queen

5 = 75

Jack

5 = 75

10

5 = 75

9

5 = 75
    

More Monkeys Stellar Jackpot bonus features

Stellar Jackpot

The Stellar Jackpots bonus is triggered at random and has no relation to the bet size. The bonus consists of 6 challenge levels and a jackpot level. Higher multiplier bets increase the chances of reaching a jackpot or can increase the jackpot prizes. At each challenge level, you choose one of the remaining icons, and each choice will reveal an arrow that advances you to the next level or a cross, which costs you a life and then you must choose again. 

Once you complete all six levels, you reach the jackpot level. Here you must choose from space ship images to reveal mini, minor or major. If you match 3 of a kind, you win the jackpot connected to that symbol. The bonus round comes to an end if you uncover three crosses or win the jackpot. The stellar jackpot bonus cannot be triggered during free spins.

More Monkeys Stellar Jackpot review: our verdict

This is a lively, nice-looking game, but in general, it’s fairly average. Wins are very frequent, which helps keep play engaging, but the big wins only come during the free spins. The potential jackpot wins are constantly visible at the top of the screen, which is encouraging even if winning them is quite rare. 

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