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Lisa Michaels
Spin, spin and spin again with the 5 Reel / 243 payline Bikini Party mobile slot from Microgaming. Why all the spinning? Because you can re-spin any reel, any time to increase your chances of winning! And of course a bikini party just wouldn't be the same without some gorgeous sun-bathed, bikini-clad babes, and this game has a bevy of them!
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This slot uses a typical 5x3 set of reels, and the main controls are located on the right-hand side of the playing grid. The centre button is to activate the reels and make them spin. Above it is the autoplay feature, which opens a slider to let you program up to 100 spins. At the very top, you can open a menu to check the paytable and change the sound settings.
Below the spin button is a lightning icon, which you can tap to toggle the quick spins on or off. Directly below this is the controls for your bets. Open it up and move the slider to change your bet per spin. Last but not least, every reel has a spin button, allowing you to activate individual reels for a price after your main spin.
The slot features thirteen symbols in total, unlucky for some, but two of those are bonus symbols. The regular pays consist of pretty standard-looking A-9 playing card royals. 9 and 10 each payout up to 4x your bet if you land five of a kind. Q and J pay a maximum of 6x, and A and K payout 8x for five of a kind.
Onto the high pays, and Microgaming introduces us to the bikini-clad volleyball team. The lady in the blue bikini offers up to 20x your bet if you land five of a kind, while green bikini and yellow bikini pay 40x and 80x, respectively. It gets even better thanks to the orange bikini lady, who will payout up to 100x your bet. However, the best of the bunch is the lady in the red bikini, who pays an impressive 160x your stake for five of a kind.
There's also the scatter symbol, which can appear on any reels and will payout up to 100x your bet from any position while also triggering the free spins bonus. Wild symbols have a chance to land on any spin, appearing on the second or fourth reels only.
The Bikini Party mobile slot has 243 different paylines, which means winning combinations can be formed from left to right wherever matching symbols appear adjacent to each other anywhere on the reels, regardless of whether they are all on the same payline.
Unique to this slot is the re-spin feature. After any one spin, you can choose to spin any of the five reels again to improve your chances of forming a winning combination. Note that the re-spin comes at a cost and as such, needs to be incorporated wisely!
Wild symbols, much like those in other slots, are here to substitute for other paying symbols to help you form wins. Unfortunately, they only appear on the second and fourth reels, so you can't land a full five-of-a-kind. However, they do land very regularly, so your chance of decent wild wins is still good.
The Hyperspins feature is available on every single spin, allowing you to spin individual reels. Simply select any of the reels and press the respin button to activate. Note that the cost for this is displayed at the bottom of the reel and will be determined by your chance of a win. You can respin as many times as you like, but if you change your bet size, the reels will reset.
The Volley Ball is the Scatter symbol, and finding three or more of them anywhere on the reels will trigger the Free Spins feature, which awards 15 free spins with a 3x multiplier on every win. It's possible to retrigger this feature, but you should note that the Hyperspins respin feature is not available during the free spins round.
This slot has a relatively low maximum win of 495x your bet. While playing with the highest possible bet of $250, you could potentially win $123,750 from a single spin.
Bikini Party has an RTP rate of 96.52%, which is above average for online slots. However, this RTP rate can change depending on how you use the Hyperspins feature. Bear in mind that you can increase and decrease your RTP depending on how you use the respins.
The volatility is rated as medium, which means an average win rate and payout size compared to other slots. When I played Bikini Party, I didn't have much luck. The payouts I hit weren't very big, and I was soon forced to take the ball and go home. Of course, experiences vary, and that's the nature of slots. You can win higher or lower than the average rate, depending on your luck.
Microgaming and Games Global released Bikini Party in 2016, so don't expect too much from the graphics. It doesn't look bad, but it's definitely been outdone by modern games. Still, I enjoyed the bright colours and sunny background that will have you imagining the sun on your face and the sound of the waves hitting the shore.
The low-pay symbol designs are very basic, but a lot of time and effort has clearly gone into designing the premium symbols. They each have their own unique pose, creating a more interesting game to play. For sounds and music, things are pretty basic, but you can always mute the sound if you prefer to listen to your own.
Playing Bikini Party at an online casino gives you a chance to win real cash. However, it does come with risks. You need to stake your own money on every spin, and it's possible to lose if you have bad luck. Before you spin for real, why not play the free demo? It allows you to experience the game and its features, including the Hyperspins and free spins bonus round. You won't be able to win any money, but your cash won't be at risk either. You can decide whether you want to play for real after having some spins of the demo.
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Bikini Party mobile slot is suggestively fun and light-hearted but does require some thinking where the re-spins are involved. Whilst the function can be performed repeatedly, we have discovered it can be wasteful unless you're chasing five high symbols of a kind or two wilds show up on the reels. Another thing to bear in mind is that re-spins could end up costing you more than the win you stand to make from it. On the whole, this medium-paced slot delivers good entertainment, with some serious wins up for grabs when the multiplier comes into play during free spins.
Lisa started off as a croupier at her local casino. However she found her niche in writing and has subsequently used her real-world gambling experiences to help produce and review the many online slots that are released monthly. Lisa also contributes to keeping you up to date with Canadian newsworthy stories.
