Chicken Road is a video slot game developed by WMS Gaming that transports players to a scenic countryside road lined with farmhouses and fields filled with happy chickens clucking away in delight. As one might expect from a slot machine centered around avian life, the design of this game relies heavily on egg-related symbols such as eggs of all shapes and sizes and golden hens running frantically about.
Design
The backdrop for Chicken Road is set against a rolling countryside with an animated sky that transitions through various hues during gameplay. The title "Chicken Road" appears at Chicken Road the top of the reels, while animated chickens move along the road below to create visual excitement throughout play. The symbol layout follows standard three-row and five-reel configurations seen in many other slots.
Symbols
The slot machine’s design revolves around symbols categorized as low-value and high-value items within its poultry theme. Egg-themed pieces hold significant importance within this framework with eggs in various shapes and sizes serving both as a wild symbol when stacked horizontally (forming an egg-laying female chicken) while higher value eggs represent the top payout, giving out up to 5 times the initial wager.
Higher-paying symbols include the Golden Hens representing female birds running rapidly along either side of the road. On occasion, these hens become animated as they move past each other or cross paths with each other throughout game play sequences showcasing vibrant colors and fluid animation within its reels.
Payouts
Each Chicken Road paytable is divided into two sets: regular payouts (smaller) that occur naturally while in-game sessions and large jackpots paid during the bonus rounds.
• Poultry symbols have standard low-paying values, returning roughly 0.01 times to bet for an ace or a Jack-king card. • Other higher-value poultry pieces deliver significantly better returns up to sixfold; ten times their individual unit when placed horizontally across reels (wild eggs). • Chickens provide the most valuable winning combination at present within all games – a jackpot worth twenty-five times base wager upon appearing in this 5X,3 pattern along any given row or column set of three slots aligned.
Wilds & Scatters
- Wild Symbols: A horizontal arrangement of two wild Egg pieces forms ‘chick’ symbol. In its vertical incarnation as part of several game configurations (1x or sometimes stacked) displays an icon labeled "Female Chicken". While acting independently they combine higher payouts with that already gained while active.
- Scatter Symbol(s): Animated hens – found at either end, serve the same function within slots upon occurring from 2 up through five during sequence in no specific order appearing across middle and lower or any remaining area spaces surrounding reels.
Bonus Features & Free Spins
The bonus game is accessible whenever three hen icons appear anywhere on reel set during the active spin cycle providing at least twenty times total payout. Bonus features combine unique gameplay mechanics within a fresh 5×3 arrangement containing five more animated rooster symbols displayed over original space previously occupied by poultry icons only – giving participants up to eight wins through spinning same combinations resulting in bigger jackpots.
There are three different types of game bonuses in the Chicken Road slots machine including:
- Free Spins: Awarded upon landing two scatters on a single row with one wild egg appearing (or vice versa); this sets off seven initial free spins, extending four extra each time through ten more total rounds for maximum twenty-five wins.