Monopoly Big Event Online Slot

There are a number of reasons for heightened interest in the release of this new Monopoly themed online slot titled Monopoly Big Event and brought to you by WMS, Hasboro, and SkillOnNet. Any Monopoly release is inherently interesting. Monopoly is seemingly all around us as at any given time with the likes of McDonalds and National supermarket chains offering games based on the legendary Hasbro board game.

Monopoly Big Event is a big event though, as it marks the first release under the stewardship of WMS since they acquired the license from arch rivals IGT. WMS are not doing things quietly either. The land based variation of the game is creating a storm in Casinos across the country with its random Big Event Bonus Round that incudes all qualifying players sat at the clustered machines that the company says creates “table-game-like camaraderie, never seen before in a slot”.

Gameplay in Monopoly Big Event

But what of the Online version? – as that’s what we’re about. Monopoly Big Event online video slot is 5×3 reels and a 20 payline set up with all the usual playing pieces. The game provides clear instructions and a pay table on screen so we will not focus on these elements and move on to the fun stuff.

Wilds and Scatters

This game is all about the Wilds. In its simplest form the Wild symbol, as usual, will substitutes for all other symbols, except for the Monopoly Big Event logo and the Go To Jail symbols, to complete any possible winning combinations. There are more important Wilds to talk about in the bonus games, however. The most important symbol in the game is also effectively its Scatter and that is, of course the Big Event Logo.

Big Event Bonus Game

The Big Event symbol is only located on reels 1, 3, and 5 and you will need 3 to trigger the bonus game. They can, however, stack on any of these reels and thus provide the opportunity to hit more than the minimum. 4 Big Event Symbols gets you into the house sneak preview and 5 will get you into the hotel sneak preview.

The House sneak preview will reveal the chance card positions of the 3 houses, while the Hotel sneak Peak does the same hotels. You will then choose community chest and chance cards alternately. The community chest cards will reveal a number of free spins and guaranteed wins, both of which are cumulative. The chance cards reveal the bonus icons. If you get 3 of the same icon, you will activate the corresponding bonus game and the number of free spins and guaranteed wins collected up until that point.

Now we touch on those more valuable Wilds. In the Locking Wilds free spins feature, any wild that lands on the reels will lock in place for the duration of free spins. During this time if you land the ‘Go To Jail’ symbol anywhere on the reels, the lowest paying symbol will be removed from them for all future free spins in the feature.

In the Dancing Wild free spins feature, a reel is chosen randomly per free spin and will become fully wild. Landing a ‘Go To Jail’ symbol eliminates the lowest paying symbol found on the reels from the remaining free spins in the bonus feature.

Guaranteed Wins

In the bonus feature you are guaranteed a certain number of wins and these will be revealed to the right of the screen at the start of the feature. When you have a winning spin, the Guaranteed Wins meter decreases by 1. However, if you have any guaranteed wins remaining, these will play out on a separate reel set at the end of the feature.

Playing The Big Bets

There is no doubt that Monopoly Big Event promotes the high stakes high returns principal. In the Big Bet Game feature you can hit the ‘Play Big Bet’ purple button to the right hand side of the reels. Here you will have a choice between 2 games for either £20 or £30 game.

If you are betting £20 per spin then a Progressive Win Multiplier is added to wins on each spin up to a 5x multiplier. If you are playing at £30 per spin then this will trigger the bonus wheel that spins to reveal one of three mini bonus features that will be introduced. These consist of the Progressive Win Multiplier, as explained above, Epic Spins where a 5x multiplier is added to each spin and any wins that occur on those spins, and Persisting Wild Big Event where the Monopoly Big Event logo acts as a Locked Wild for 5 spins.

Summary

If the above makes Monopoly Big Event sound like a complex slot to play, that is probably because in aiming to make a big splash with the first of their Monopoly release, WMS and SkillOnNet have tried to pack as much punch into the game as possible. In truth the playability is considerably more straightforward in practice than in explanation. And there is plenty in the game worth practicing for.