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Giga Jar Slot Review

The Giga Jar Cluster Link slot is a 7×7 grid style game created by Push Gaming that gives you walking wilds with multipliers, cascading wins, and a surprise every 3 wins, from more wilds to mega symbols and a top win of 10,000x your bet.

The Giga Jar slot game has 6 paying fruit symbols which, on a win, will explode, and more symbols fall to replace them. For every 3 wins, a wild symbol is added to the reels, and every win with the wild increases the multiplier.

No, there are no free spins this time around, but by the 12th consecutive win in a row, you’ve got a Giga wild symbol that can give you up to a 50x multiplier on all your wins. Plus, some cool features help smash those fruits into a rich smoothy of wins.

Giga Jar slot has an RTP of 96.48% – 94.45%

The online casinos can choose which RTP to present, so make sure before you play that you check the paytable – they have to tell you which version of the game you’ve got.

Once you are happy to start spinning, take a moment to pause and hit the extra bet option. For 0.8x your bet (the minimum bet of 0.10 a spin goes up to 0.18 a spin), you start each spin with one wild symbol.

This is a smart move as you are closer to catching the Giga symbol, and it just helps create a cascade of wins. With a wild in play, you are more likely to get a win and don’t forget that the wild increases its multiplier by +1x on each win.

By the time you get the Giga wild on the reels, that original wild can have a 10x or 12x multiplier if you are lucky. And this Giga Jar mobile slot is all about the multipliers.

Is the Giga Jar slot better than the original?

Probably not better, but similar enough to make it a great double hit for an evening of fruit machine fun. And not just any fruity, but one filled with cute little square fruits, modern graphics and even more modern features.

The Giga Jars 2 slot may not give you free spins, but you do get the icebreaker and snowball feature. One randomly removes symbols, and the other adds 2×2, 3×3, or 4×4 symbols to the reels.

This help to keep you going when the cascades start to slow down, and you are ever so close to hitting the big multipliers with the Giga jar slot wild symbol.

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Cluster Pays and Cascading Reels: To win, you’ll need to get five or more symbols touching horizontally or vertically. When you do, those symbols explode, and the rest cascade down, with more tumbling over to fill any empty spaces.

Walking Jars: The Jam Jar is a wild symbol. When part of a win, it will randomly move to an adjacent vacant position before the next cascade. It starts with a 1x multiplier, but on each consecutive win, that multiplier will increase by +1x.

Instant Prize Symbols: These symbols come in many values — 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 500x, or 1000x. These symbols only pay out when five or more touch horizontally or vertically. They each pay their amounts.

Jar Meter: This counter sits by the side of the reels and progressively gets filled up by wins. Every three consecutive wins, you get a new feature.

• 3 wins: 1 wild added to the reels
• 6 wins: second wild added to the reels
• 9 wins: third wild added to the reels
• 12 wins: 2×2 Giga wild added to the reels
• Every 3 wins after that: Increases the multipliers on the Giga Wild from x5 to x10, x15, x30x and x50

Snowball Feature: Randomly triggered, the game will add one to two giant symbols to the grid. You can get anything from a 2×2, 3×3, or 4×4 in size.

Ice Breaker Feature: This randomly removes between 1 to 3 paying symbol types from the grid.

Extra Bet: For 0.8x your bet, you can start every spin with one wild already on the reels.

Pros

• High 10,000x stake max win
• High 96.48% RTP
• Walking Wilds with increasing Multiplers
• Low 0.10 minimum bet

Cons

• No free spins bonus

Giga Jar Review Conclusion

We know there are no free spin bonuses, but we can’t help but love this Giga Jar slot on mobile, thanks to all those wilds, multipliers, and mega symbols.

This fast-paced action video slot dares you to keep up with the rhythm of the jam jars and keep an eye on your wins. Because the more you win, the more you win.

And that’s a Push Gaming slot philosophy that we fully appreciate, even more so than on the Jammin’ Jar 2 slot review.

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Review by Lucky Mobile Slots , last updated: April 13, 2023 — Rating 5

Ice Breaker Slot Review

Games with a cartoon-like appearance tend to be a favorite of many players which is why Push Gaming released Ice Breaker, a game filled with colorful fish. It is a 5 reel slot, with 3 rows and 243 ways for the player to land a winning combination. Along with the fun design, there are some pretty awesome features there to entertain. With some great payouts, the game sounds promising.

Get Ready for some Ice Fishing

The providers of the game tried to make a fun game with something for everyone in it. It does have a funny look to it, but it also has a great story behind it, taking the player on an ice fishing adventure.

In the background is a frozen lake with lots of snow and ice on the surrounding hills and cliffs. There is also a tiny cottage looking like the perfect vacation place. The mood is cheerful with the sun shining on the bright blue sky. The scenery changes a bit for the free spins round and takes the player under the icy waters. The graphics are simple but do leave an impression.

The soundtrack is very cheerful with high pitched sound effects that still keep the tension in awaiting the next winning combo. The symbols include the regular colorful royals and 5 different colored fish. The fish are placed in ice cubes that get crushed each time they are part of a winning combination, causing for a great visual effect. A golden clam with a pearl serves as the wild symbol. The game also has a scatter symbol represented by a frozen hammer.

The game has good gameplay as well, where the player can bet a minimum of 0,25 and a maximum of 100 coins per spin. Thanks to the Collapsing Reels feature the payouts are quite frequent and the player can win up to 25,000x the stake in a single spin. Considering that it is a medium volatility game, the 96,79% RTP is set at just the right level and should the two should work well together.

Break the Ice and Win Great Prizes

The features of the game are just as fun as the design of it. The game features a clam as the wild symbol that substitutes for all symbols except the scatter represented by a hammer.

That brings us to the Free Spins feature that is triggered when the player lands 3 scatter symbols on the reels. They can only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5. Once the feature is activated, the player gets 6 free spins. There are no royals appearing on the reels during the feature, so the player gets to only land the high paying symbols. Free spins can also be re-triggered by landing another 3 scatter symbols.

The main feature of the game is the Collapsing Reels feature that allows a lot of wins to roll in. Once 2 matching fish symbols appear on one reel, all matching symbols combine into one allowing new symbols to land on the reels.

Get Your Snow Shoes Ready

Overall, the game has impressed. The cartoon-like design might not be for everyone, but for the players who enjoy that type of slot, it is definitely one they should try. It offers pretty funny characters and a really beautiful sight to see. There are not so many features, but they do make the game a lot more fun and most importantly result in some great payouts. The game is definitely worth giving a try.

Giga Jar

It’s good news for fans of Jammin’ Jars, as Push Gaming are back with another release in their cult series. After releasing the original in 2018, players immediately fell in love with the jumping Wild Jars that made this release what it was. Three years later Push Gaming took on a big challenge in releasing Jammin’ Jars 2, but that started off a journey that has progressed at great speed. In 2022, we were treated to Retro Tapes, and now after recent success with releases like Space Stacks, Generous Jack, and Mystery Mission – To The Moon, we’re back again with Giga Jar. With RTP options up to 96.48%, this medium volatility release can produce wins up to 10,000x bet.

Visually, things are closer to Jammin’ Jars 2 than any other release across this series, with the recognisable Giga Jar DJ on the podium to the left of the grid. We’re back in what is presumably the nightclub setting of the aforementioned, although rather than a vibrant setting, everything has frozen over – with even the fruits themselves turned into ice-cubed shapes. Palm Trees made from ice, blocks of literal ice, and a pale blue hue over everything tell you that this is one cold place to be – or maybe the idea is that it’s a cool place to be, get it? An upbeat soundtrack finishes things off, tying everything together nicely.

Giga Jar Base Features

Taking place on a 7×7 grid, wins are formed on Giga Jar by matching clusters of 5 or more matching symbols, touching horizontally or vertically. Symbols pay for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16+, and begin with non premiums – with blueberries, grapes, and kiwis. Land clusters of 5 of these symbols to see wins between 0.10 and 0.20x bet, increasing to values between 10 and 20x bet for clusters of 16+. At the premium end, we have lychees, oranges, and strawberries, awarding wins between 0.40 and 1x bet for clusters of 5, increasing to values between 200 and 500x bet for clusters of 16+.

Players can also land Instant Prize Symbols in Giga Jar. These can land in any position on the grid, and will display a number that is indicative of a bet multiplier – for example ‘100′ is equal to 100x bet. Instant Prize Symbol values are only awarded, however, when a minimum of 5 have joined in one cluster, touching horizontally or vertically. Possible Instant Prize Symbol values are – 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 500x, and 1,000x. It is possible to multiply Instant Prize Symbol values by Wild Jar Symbol multipliers – we’ll explain those soon.

Alright, so the first feature to cover in Giga Jar is Cascades. On every spin, all symbols involved in a win will be removed from the grid. All remaining symbols will then drop to the bottommost available position on their respective reels, with new symbols dropping in from above to fill any remaining gaps. Cascades continue until no new wins are formed.

Next up is the Ante Bet. By betting an additional 80%, players can start each spin with a guarantee of the first Wild Jar Symbol. In the 96.48% Giga Jar setting, RTP dips slightly to 96.47% when using Ante Bet.

The Wild Jar Symbol is a Wild Symbol that substitutes for all other symbols when forming wins. To trigger Wild Jar Symbols, players must pay attention to the meter at the left of the grid. For every 3 consecutive winning cascades that occur, one Wild Jar Symbol will be added to the grid – up to a maximum of 3 Wild Jar Symbols. Wild Jar Symbols will be added to the grid in a random position, and after contributing to a winning cascade, they will move to a random adjacent position before the next cascade.

Every Wild Jar Symbol has a multiplier applied to it. All Wild Jar Symbols begin at x1, with the multiplier increasing by +x1 each time the Wild Jar Symbols is used in any number of cluster wins in one single cascade. When contributing to future wins, the Wild Jar Symbols multiplier will be applied to any cluster wins it is part of. If more than one Wild Jar Symbols is used in a cluster win, the win will be multiplied by the first jar multiplier, then the second, and then the third, if possible.

Finishing off the base game is the Snowball Feature and Ice Breaker Feature, both of which can be triggered randomly on any spin:

• Snowball Feature – Between 1 and 2 Giant Symbols will be randomly added to the grid. Giant Symbols can be 2×2, 3×3, or 4×4 in size. Added symbols will either be a regular paying symbol or an Instant Prize Symbol. After landing, they will break down to reveal multiple 1×1 versions of the relevant symbol.
• Ice Breaker Feature – Between 1 and 3 regular paying symbols will be randomly removed from the grid. Instant Prize Symbols or Wild Jar Symbols cannot be removed through this feature.

Giga Jar Bonus

When all 3 Wild Jar Symbols are on the grid, the Giga Jar activation meter is activated. After 3 consecutive winning cascades, the meter will be filled and the Giga Jar feature is triggered. Players can check the activation meter progress by looking at the three bars underneath the Giga Jar on the podium.

Once the Giga Jar feature is triggered, the Giga Jar will be added to the grid in a random position, sticking in position for the duration of the feature.

The Giga Jar is a 2×2 Wild Symbol, acting as 4 individual Wild Symbols. It will substitute for all other symbols on the grid when forming wins. Similarly to Wild Jar Symbols, the Giga Jar has a multiplier applied to it, which begins at x1.

Once the Giga Jar lands in position, a progression meter will appear to the left of the grid. This meter will denote the multiplier the Giga Jar has applied to it. The Giga Jar and progression meter will remain active for 3 cascades. After 3 cascades, the Giga Jar becomes inactive. Players must land 3 consecutive winning clusters to reactivate the Giga Jar and progression meter. Upon reactivation, the meter will progress one step, increasing the Giga Jar multiplier. Possible multiplier values of the Giga Jar are x1, x5, x10, x15, x20, or x50.

There are no set number of spins in the Giga Jar feature. It is complete when no more cluster wins occur.

There is no Bonus Buy available in Giga Jar.

The maximum win available in Giga Jar is 10,000x bet. If the sum of a single game round exceeds this, the game round will end and 10,000x bet will be awarded.

First Impression

That felt like a lot to cover, but simultaneously it felt fluid. There’s nothing complicated about Giga Jar – in fact, it mostly brings back features that we know and love from this series so far. We have Wild Jar Symbols that move to adjacent positions and build multipliers, a Giga Jar that acts as a Wild Symbol with multiplier values up to x50, Instant Prize Symbols up to 1,000x bet, the Snowball Feature, and the Ice Breaker Feature. Whether you’re a fan of the original, Jammin’ Jars 2, or Retro Tapes, there’s something here for you.

Base Game play is certainly exciting with the host of features available, but is made more exciting by the potential to guarantee the first Wild Jar Symbol is added to the grid through paying an additional 80% Ante Bet. The Giga Jar feature is where things get more exciting though, which is a win for the team. Jammin’ Jars was all about the bonus, but in the releases we’ve had since many players have felt the bonus isn’t the most exciting aspect. Giga Jar turns this back around with a Wild Giga Jar continually reactivating up to multipliers of x50, and 3 Wild Jar Symbols in play on the grid simultaneously. When the right combinations land, wins are possible up to 10,000x bet.

Finally, maths is rated as medium volatility, and RTP options are available up to 96.48%, so as always it’s worth checking this. Giga Jar seems to have taken the best from every release in this series so far and crammed it into one new release – something that will surely please die hard and casual fans alike.

*The screenshots taken of games reviewed on this site are taken from Demo Play, as reviews are often written before games are released for real play.