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I need to be honest with you and say that the squirrel reminds me of Scrat, the rodent from the Ice Age series. He is also looking for acorns. Another interesting name for the Bust a Nut pokie would have been Angry Squirrels because our host seems mad all the time.
Maybe that’s because he doesn’t want us to take away his gold. Or maybe he simply isn’t satisfied with the amount of gold he has found so far. It is obvious that he has made a house just next to the mine so that he can always guard his riches.
If you want to become a professional miner, you will need proper equipment. Here, you will be working with dynamite and a pickaxe. A helmet with some light on it is a must when you are underground. Our host even made wanted signs of the golden acorns.
The squirrel is the Scatter that triggers the Bonus Game. A silver acorn is the Wild that substitutes for all regular symbols. During the Bonus Game, you will come across different silver and gold acorns that bring boosters.
The rules of the game are far from complicated. Bust a Nut pokie is played on a 5×5 grid and benefits from 13 fixed paylines. The PoggiPlay title pays left to right, beginning from the leftmost reel. 3-of-a-kind is the minimum for landing payouts.
You can bet as low as $0.50 and as high as $1,000 per spin. Dynamite is the top-paying regular symbol, offering 30x the bet for 5-of-a-kind. The most you can win in this medium-variance pokie machine is 1,000x the bet per spin. Bust a Nut RTP is 94.40%.
Bust a Nut slot does not come with a variety of additional features. You can benefit from Wilds that land everywhere on the 3 central reels and carry win multipliers. The central attraction of the Bust a Nut pokie machine is the Bonus Game, where you collect multipliers.
Silver acorn Wilds appear on reels 2, 3, and 4. When it lands, it can carry a 2x, 3x, or 5x multiplier. When part of the winning combination, the Wild Multiplier boosts the win. If more Wild Multipliers are included in the winning combo, they are added together. They helped me record my biggest base game win of around 30x.
When you land 3 Scatters on the reels, you trigger the Bonus Game. You get 3 free spins and each reel has a multiplier placed above the reel. It always starts with 1x. Only booster icons appear during the Bonus Game.
The gold nugget adds its value (1-10) to multipliers on all reels. The nugget nugget adds its value (1-10) to the multiplier of the reel it lands on. The golden acorn will multiply the values of multipliers on all reels by 2x-8x. The silver acorn multipliers the value of the multiplier of the reel it landed on by 2x-8x.
Each time you land a booster icon, you retrigger the number of free spins to 3. So, we can consider this Bonus Game as a type of the Hold and Win feature. I triggered the feature several times and my biggest win was 120x.
The Buy Bonus option is available for 40x the bet. I have to be honest with you and say that each time I activated the Buy Bonus option, I won more than I had invested. All of my wins ranged between 60x and 100x.
There are only 2 things that I don’t like about the Bust a Nut pokie machine. First, the RTP should be higher.
Second, being an action junkie, I would have liked it if PoggiPlay incorporated more additional features. On the other hand, I liked the Bonus Game and the Wild Multiplier.
The Wild Multiplier helped me a lot in the base game. On most occasions, I got the 2x Wild Multiplier.
The Bonus Game was quite rewarding as well. Frankly, I had plenty of fun with the squirrel. I rate Bust a Nut 7.6.
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