The Chicken Road slot machine is an online casino game developed by Playtech, a renowned software provider in the gaming industry. Released in 2016, this engaging and entertaining game has garnered attention from players worldwide due to its unique theme, innovative features, and exciting gameplay.
Theme and Design
Chicken Road’s primary theme revolves around traveling down the "road" to meet various chicken-related characters. The slot machine is set against a scenic background featuring winding roads, rolling hills, and clear blue skies, creating an idyllic atmosphere for players to immerse themselves in. Colorful graphics bring Chicken Road the game to life as characters and symbols move across the reels.
Symbols
In Chicken Road, there are several intriguing character-based symbols that appear on the 5×3 grid. These include:
- Freddy Fowl – the main protagonist of this slot
- various chickens, ducks, hens, roosters, chicks, eggs, a windmill wheel and road signs Each symbol serves as a key to unlock rewards within the game.
Payouts
The payout system in Chicken Road is designed with both beginners and seasoned players in mind. Winning combinations can be formed by landing 3 or more identical symbols on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel (L2R). Each character has its designated monetary value, ranging from small to large chicken eggs for smaller wins up to high-paying rewards like a windmill wheel. Additionally, specific winning conditions activate special payouts:
- Three hens with chick pay out 60 times
- Five hens with chicks give players an 80 multiplier
Wilds
As is typical in many slots games, the wild symbol takes center stage in Chicken Road – Freddy Fowl (a white bird) and other bird symbols serve as substitutes for regular characters but not for scatter or road signs to create a new win. However, the main highlight comes when two more birds join – 2nd Wild Symbol and The Windmill Wild which appears on the fourth row when one of these three reels is also in play – it takes on special powers where their presence expands existing wins through wild substitution.
Scatters
Chicken Road includes a scattering feature known as ‘Winding Road’. These special scatter symbols are easily identifiable by their winding path, and they can appear anywhere across all five reels to reward players 10x of total bets. Moreover, landing these Scatters during active free spins allows extra rewards; it gives an additional five more rounds.
Bonus Features
In addition to standard wilds and scatters features discussed earlier above several unique bonus elements add up overall winning potential with each spin. 1. Expanding Wild Feature When two more birds join the game – 2nd Wild Symbol (any of the symbols except a windmill wheel) or The Windmill Wild (windmill symbol on any reel), their presence expands existing wins through wild substitution, increasing chances for big wins.
2. Chicken Frenzy – landing three and above anywhere across five reels triggers ‘Chicken Frenzy Bonus’. A game then takes place with random character replacements creating the potential to boost gains up a factor of x10000 in value over standard combinations alone.
Free Spins
On completion, you get ten additional free spins that might include more Windmill wheels – leading even greater maximum payouts when all three reels contain windmills. Afterward these extra round can go on and add greatly – with potentially five more added to total after initial free spin completion.
Chicken Road has a standard return-to-player (RTP) rate of 95%. The RTP measures how much money players will get back as rewards for every $100 invested in the slot game, indicating that this title pays out nearly 5% less frequently compared with some high-paying slots on today’s markets.