JELLYCIOUS DOUBLEMAX

HOW TO PLAY JELLYCIOUS DOUBLEMAX

Most of your time with this game will be spent in the base game. Now, it’s not exactly a classic fruit machine, but the game still treads on some familiar ground when compared to most other modern online slots.

It’s played on a 5×3 grid displaying symbols largely in the form of biscuits and jelly beans. To win, you need to match 3 or more symbols on an uninterrupted line of 3 or more reels. As usual, all winning combinations have to start at the leftmost reel. Of course, any additional symbols of the same kind that fit into the winning combination will increase the overall payout.

The fact that the game has no fixed paylines means that there are 243 different ways to win.

Initially, the game starts off slow with a moderately low hit rate and fairly low base payouts. We’ll cover those in more detail in the next section of this review. However, Jellycious Doublemax really comes into its own once you hit your first winning line. That’s when the tumbling symbols and win multipliers start to kick in.

TUMBLING SYMBOLS AND MULTIPLIERS

Tumbling symbols, otherwise known as reel cascades, is a mechanic that many experienced online slot players are familiar with.

Every time you hit a winning combination, all of the winning symbols are removed from the game table. Symbols directly above them on the same reel tumble down into the positions of the symbols that were just removed. Basically, all of the above symbols fall down in a cascading motion as new symbols appear form the top of the screen.

This creates a new situation on the table, allowing you to win again in the same round. In fact, this can happen multiple times in a row, allowing players to string together a lot of wins if they’re lucky.

Now, in Jellycious Doublemax, two additional features kick in whenever cascades happen:

• Wild symbols appear in one of the winning positions. This gives you a better chance to win after the cascade triggers.
• A win multiplier kicks in after the first cascade, increasing any future payouts in the same round. This multiplier is then doubled for every subsequent win, but resets back to 1x for the next spin if there are no more wins in that round. For example, any wins after the first cascade are increased by 2x. The next win is increased by 4x, then 8x, and so on. There is no maximum multiplier, but you can’t win more than 25,000 times your stake in a single round.

Free Spins

You can win free spins by hitting 3 or more Scatter symbols in a single spin. Scatters can win anywhere on the board, so their position doesn’t matter.

Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards you with 7, 9, or 11 free spins, respectively. You cannot re-trigger free spins in this game.

That’s not all that many. However, the win multipliers we described stick around for as long as you have free spins. They also affect any payouts, obviously.

This can result in some fairly massive multipliers thanks to the magic of exponential growth.

Feature Buy and Golden Bet

If you don’t want to sit around and hope you’ll luck out on the free spins, there are two ways you can turn things in your favour.

First, you can turn on the Golden Bet by clicking or tapping the button in the bottom right. This adds a 20% fee to all your bets and doubles the chance you’ll win free spins.

Additionally, you have a more standard form of Feature Buy. This allows you to just pay a flat amount to trigger the free spins instantly. There are three options:

• Buy 7 free spins for 100x the stake
• Buy 9 free spins for 200x the stake
• Buy 11 free spins for 300x the stake

Casino Bloke Best tips for Jellycious DoubleMax Slot

• 1Reel cascades are crucial for winning any sort of solid payout in this game. Don’t expect too much from a single winning line, no matter the symbols.
• 2If you’re going to buy Free Spins, we recommend at least springing for the 9-spin variant. The exponential growth of the win multipliers makes every single extra spin incredibly valuable.

PAYOUTS & RTP

The Wilds and Multipliers earned by winning lines make successive wins not only pay more, but also more likely to win thanks to the Wild. Still, the base payouts are moderately low, and you’ll definitely need multiple cascades to turn a real profit.

The card royal biscuits are, predictably, the low pays. They offer 0.1x, 0.2x, and 0.5x for 3, 4, or 5 symbols on a line. Lollipops and green cupcakes are the weaker mid-sized symbols with payouts of 0.2x, 0.4x, and 1x for 3/4/5 symbols. Purple cupcakes pay up to 1.5x, while the gummy bear pays up to 2.5x at most. These figures can be further improved by having more than 5 symbols in a single combination, which is quite common. Still, the base payouts are quite small without the win multipliers.

On the bright side, the most you can win in Jellycious Doublemax is 25,000x, which is a nice chunk of charge.

However, the game’s RTP peaks out at a very low 94%. We still consider 96% to be about average, so this is a major problem with the game.

JELLYCIOUS DOUBLEMAX SLOT BY YGGDRASIL – CASINO BLOKE’S VERDICT

The Jellycious take on the DoubleMax series of Yggdrasil games failed to impress us. It comes down to a combination of two factors – low RTP and a lack of originality.

On the one hand, low RTP is generally very bad news for any gambler. There’s just no denying that the higher the RTP, the better a game is for its players. However, we have been known to overlook poor RTP because gambling is ultimately about having fun. No matter how you spin it, the house always has an advantage, so trying to minimize that advantage is not always a priority.

Which brings us to our next point. If we’re going to tolerate low RTP, we better see a fun, unique, engaging game that keeps us coming back for more despite the poor long-term returns. And Jellycious Doublemax just isn’t it. Games with progressive multipliers are common enough, and we’re pretty sure we’ve seen this same form of free spins dozens of times before.

All in all, we can’t recommend this one because there are simply better options out there with identical features and mechanics. For instance, Relax Gaming Bone Raiders came out at about the same time as Jellycious Doublemax. It also includes the win multipliers on cascades but also packs 96.4% RTP and a much more interesting bonus round.