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Lisa Michaels
Immerse yourself in the Oktoberfest spirit at any time of year with Octobeer Fortunes slot! Pragmatic Play’s wittily named, beer-centric slot takes you into a warm, relaxed tavern to play for a wide range of cash prizes. Spin pretzels, pints of frothy beer, accordions, and even barmaids to win up to 4,500x your stake.
You can also trigger a Money Collection feature with Money and Wild symbols working together, and there’s a Free Spins feature with a progressive component to unlock, too.
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In Octobeer Fortunes, you play on five reels, three rows, and 20 fixed paylines. Pragmatic Play has optimized the game for desktop and mobile, so it works on computers, tablets, and smartphones. That means you can play on most devices — whatever’s convenient. Here’s how to get started:
When I loaded Octobeer Fortunes for the first time, I found the user-friendly interface and controls I’ve seen in other Pragmatic Play slots. The Spin, bet, and paytable buttons are all directly below the reels.
Push the ‘+’ and ‘-’ buttons to increase or decrease your bet, respectively. You can only adjust your stake between spins in the base game. When you want to play, tap the Spin button to start trying to match symbols.
Finally, if you fancy reading the paytable (which I recommend you do before you play), just hit the ‘i’ button to take a look.
Octobeer Fortunes’ symbols are inspired mainly by Oktoberfest, though classic playing card suit symbols show up too (like they do in countless other slots). You’ll see the symbols of diamonds, clubs, hearts, spades, a mouthwatering pretzel, an accordion, a hat, a beer tankard, and a beer barrel.
The diamonds and clubs symbols pay the least: 1.50x your bet for 5. The hearts and spades pay a little more at 1.80x your bet for 5.
Payouts improve with the pretzel, accordion, and hat, which are worth up to 3x, 4.50x, and 6x your bet each. Land 5 beer tankards to win 7.50x your stake, or get five beer barrels to pick up 15x your bet instead.
The smiling barmaid awards up to 15x your bet, too. She’s also the Wild symbol, which stands in for other symbols. The Money symbol, the frothy pint of beer, triggers the Free Spins feature.
Octobeer Fortunes has 20 paylines: land three or more matching symbols on any of these to win a prize shown on the paytable—all winning combinations run from left to right, starting from the first reel.
Octobeer Fortunes has two bonus features, which aren’t huge (as expected with a Pragmatic Play slot). Sometimes, it seems that no slot from this provider would be complete without a money-collection feature. And you’ll find one of these right here in Octobeer Fortunes, along with a Free Spins round.
The Wild symbol can stand in for other paying symbols on a payline and contribute to winning combinations. While it never substitutes for the Money symbol, the Wild collects the values of Money symbols from across the reels.
On every spin, the Money symbol has a random value from 11: 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 7.5x, 10x, 20x, and 50x your bet. If one or more Wild symbols land on the same spin as Money symbols, the total value of the Money symbols is awarded for each Wild.
Get at least five Money symbols anywhere to trigger the Free Spins feature. This starts with nine free spins.
First, though, the value of all the Money symbols on the reels when the feature was triggered are combined and collected. This is the starting value for the progressive feature.
As you play through the Free Spins round, the values of all the Money symbols that appear are collected, and each Wild symbol that lands awards the accumulated value. However, you can’t retrigger this feature.
You can pay to trigger the Free Spins feature with nine free spins. The cost depends on how many Money symbols you want to start with (all have a random value). Prices range from 100x to 200x your stake for 5 to 15 starting Money symbols. Alternatively, you can use the Bonus Buy feature for nine free spins with a random number of Money symbols for 150 of your bet.
The max win for Octobeer Fortunes is decent at 4,500x your bet. But the symbol payouts are generally small, so you’ll need help from the Money Collection feature to build up your winnings while you play.
Octobeer Fortunes’ Return to Player (RTP) is 96.53%, so it’s well over the 96% average for slots. But it’s only theoretical and calculated over many simulated spins. As a result, actual returns can be lower or higher than the RTP.
It’s a highly volatile slot, and payouts may be more significant than in some lower-volatility slots. But wins also typically hit less often. I won a fair few times during my test of Octobeer Fortunes, and they ranged from around 0.25x to 9x my $1 bet on average.
Oktoberfest inspires Octobeer Fortunes, and it has an appropriately cheerful, upbeat style. The setting is a traditional German tavern, with barrels and bottles on shelves in the background. Meanwhile, the reels are propped up on a bar and surrounded by a rustic wooden frame. It’s a warm, cozy setting that feels true to the theme.
The sound is just as inviting as the visuals, with accordion music and the tinkle of glasses playing with the action.
If you’re curious about Octobeer Fortunes, you don’t need to play the real thing with real money immediately—try our free demo for free. This gives you a great chance to see what Octobeer Fortunes offers, from the payouts to the bonuses, with nothing but virtual credits.
Octobeer Fortunes revolves around drink and food, with booze and pretzels aplenty. Plenty of other slots feature food, including Extra Chilli. This offers up to 117,649 Megaways to win and a Free Spins feature.
Sticking with the Mexican flavour, another foodie slot is Chilli Heat. Land the Money Respins feature to play for up to 1,000 of your stake jackpots and trigger a Free Spins round with only high-paying symbols on the reels.
Finally, how about something a little sweeter? Candy Elves features irresistible treats, such as chocolate and lollipops, with a top payout of 7,876x your stake to play for.
I didn’t expect much from Octobeer Fortunes, to be honest. I felt that I’d seen the Oktoberfest thing done numerous other times and that this didn’t have much to offer. However, as I played Octobeer Fortunes further, I enjoyed it.
A large part of the game’s charm is the tavern setting, which is brought to life with crisp and detailed graphics and likeable music. But there’s more to it than that, of course. The Money Collection feature can lead to bigger payouts than just the standard symbols (which only award low prizes), and the Free Spins feature may also give you more generous wins.
The max win of 4,500x isn’t spectacular (especially for a slot with high volatility), but it’s okay, and the RTP is far above average.
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.
