Tiki Jenga - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction

You might be forgiven for not realising this is a slot when you first load it. There are no reels, just an open woodland. The narrow portrait layout is phone-friendly but can seem small on a larger computer screen. When you click spin, three symbols shaped like tiki carvings will fall from the sky and settle on the woodland floor along the single payline.

You can win from any combination of three of the four basic animals - sometimes blank blocks will land, breaking the line and the chances of winning - but matching symbols are worth more. There is also a wild, shaped like an owl with wings unfurled, that can fill in a line. A winning spin means a respin with increasing multipliers, which is the only available feature in this intriguing game. It is certainly enough to make you want to check out other AllWaysSpin demo slots.

Theme, graphics & soundtrack

There are two elements to this theme, combined to create a unique game format. First is the tiki, which is a wood or stone carving similar to those found in totem poles in parts of North America. In Māori tradition, Tiki was the first man and tiki statues are often used to represent and honour the ancestors. The tiki imagery has since spread around the world in different contexts. In Tiki Jenga, the carvings are of various forest animals in an appropriate woodland setting that barely looks like a slot’s reels, partly because the symbols drop onto the background rather than spinning on a reel. The soundtrack also fits the theme, which leans more to the American than the Polynesian side.

This dropping is part of the other half of the theme: Jenga. Many of you will have played this popular game where you build a tower of blocks and have to remove and restack them without the tower falling. Tiki Jenga recreates some of this sensation by dropping its single row of symbols and adding another row if you are lucky enough to win and trigger a respin. Your increasing respins and multipliers come with a growing tower that will disappear again if you lose.

Tiki Jenga RTP & volatility

The RTP of Tiki Jenga is 95.18 per cent, which just about puts it within the average range but is still a little on the low side. There is no official information on the frequency of wins, which would normally be described as volatility or variance.

How to play Tiki Jenga

It might be an unusual slot, but it is also a simple one:

1. To start with, you don’t have to worry about finding the right button and then scrolling through endless pages to find the paytable. Symbols and their potential payouts are clearly displayed at the top of the screen, so you can reference them at any time.

2. If you click the menu button to the bottom left, you will be presented with options for volume, game history and ‘get started’, which again doesn’t give you pages full of rules. Instead, the screen will light up with glowing blue labels for all the buttons so that you know which to press.

3. The bet adjustor is next to the menu button, to the left of the screen. When clicked, this with present you with different possible values for your coin bet.

4. To the far right of the screen is a turbo button to speed things along.

5. Between turbo and spin, again to the right of the screen, is a very basic autoplay. You can set 10, 25, 50 or 100 spins, but there are no stop settings if you hit your loss or single win limits.

6. Speaking of wins and losses, keep an eye below these buttons where your current balance is displayed. If you have followed good gaming practice and set yourself a budget with hard limits, you will want to check this regularly.

7. Now you know where to find everything, all you need to do is press the big button in the middle and watch the reels fall with eager anticipation.

Bet & win sizes

The betting range for Tiki Jenga, like most of the slot, is small and simple. Your coin size starts nice and low at 0.01 and only rises to 1.00. As you only have one coin for the one line, this doesn’t leave a lot of room for high rewards unless you hit a few respin multipliers.

Your paytable is as follows:

- Any three symbols - 1
- Three birds - 2
- Three squirrels - 3
- Three foxes - 4
- Three deer - 5

Tiki Jenga respins

In keeping with the simplicity of the gameplay elsewhere, the one bonus feature in Tiki Jenga is an automatic free respin after a winning spin. This doesn’t quite have the depth of a full free spins bonus, which generally has more than one spin, but it does come with a multiplier that increases with every consecutive respin.

Max-win 8,256x

Volatility Medium

Top RTP 95.18%

Our verdict

This is an interesting one. On the one hand, it has a unique layout that uses the Jenga theme to create a highly-original slot; on the other hand, there is still just one payline and one bonus feature. It is an exercise in simplicity dressed up in a complex design, the success of which is very much going to depend on your taste. We thought it was pretty fun, but some of you might prefer the increased bonus features in the Tiki Tumble demo slot.

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