Pop Slot Review

Pop Slot Details & Wager Limits

The Pop slot comes with 4 reels, 4 rows and 256 ways to win. A winning combination is created by matching 3 or 4 consecutive symbols, from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel (i.e. reel 1).

The game caters to all pockets as you can play from 10p to £10 per spin. The Autoplay facility allows you to choose from 5 to 100 autospins. There are loss and single win limits too. Pop uses the standard Big Time Gaming layout so it’s easy to use.

The Pop RTP is 96.54% which is above the average 96% rate. The variance is high with free spins. The max win is 14,407 x stake in the base game and 66,960 x your total stake from a free spin.

Theme – head to the funfair

The Pop slot has a funfair theme and takes you a classic fairground. With funfair stalls and Ferris wheel in the background, Big Time Gaming has cleverly added a Donuts stall which references their Donuts slot.

Bright and colourful, you will also see the sea and a sunset setting. It reminds me a little of the funfair from the Big film which stars Tom Hanks. The graphics have a circus feel to them and clear.

Symbols on the reels include low value A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9 royals. You will need 4 of these in combination to land a win. The higher value symbols are represented by 4 different coloured balloons. The most valuable symbol is the purple balloon which pays 0.4 or 2 x your total stake for 3 or 4 in combination.

The rainbow-coloured balloon is the wild symbol and will only appear on reels 2, 3 and 4. It substitutes for all symbols except the scatter. In the base game, wilds can reveal a multiplier up to 4x too. Here’s a table highlighting the payouts for every symbol:

Symbol	Payouts
9	4 = 0.2 x stake
10	4 = 0.2 x stake
J	4 = 0.3 x stake
Q	4 = 0.3 x stake
K	4 = 0.4 x stake
A	4 = 0.4 x stake
Green Balloon	3 or 4 = 0.1 or 0.8 x stake
Blue Balloon	3 or 4 = 0.2 or 0.9 x stake
Red Balloon	3 or 4 = 0.3 or 1 x stake
Purple Balloon	3 or 4 = 0.4 or 2 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for all symbols bar scatter
Scatter	Triggers the Free Spins feature

Pop Mobile Slot

Being played on a 4×4 grid, Pop can be played just as easily on mobile and tablet devices as on laptops or PCs. The simple visuals and reel layout works well making the Pop slot an ideal choice for smartphone devices.

Pop Bonus features

The Pop slot comes with 2 bonus features. You have Reactions for successive wins as well as scatters, balloon and wild symbols being added. Then you have the free spins which can give you unlimited free spins as well as multipliers for each of the grid positions.

Reactions feature

When you land a winning combination, the Reactions feature is triggered. Every winning symbol will be replaced by a scatter, balloon symbol or wild (except the scatter). This leads to higher value symbols on the reels and can give you consecutive wins or trigger a bonus feature.

Free Spins feature

The gold Big Time Gaming coins are the scatter symbols. Land 3 or more BTG coin scatters to activate the Free Spins feature. Your reward will be 12 free spins. At the beginning of the feature, 1 or more positions that contained triggering scatters will begin with multipliers of 2x, 3x or 4x. All other positions start with a 1x multiplier.

Each of the 16 grid positions comes with a multiplier and can increase during the feature. When you land a win with balloon symbols or wilds, 1 or more winning positions will see their multiplier increase. The multiplier will randomly increase by 1, 2 or 3 each time. The multiplier increase amount improves by 1 for every retrigger too.

Multipliers only are applied to balloon or wild symbols. Unlike other Big Time Gaming slots, the multipliers don’t increase with reactions, only prior to each free spin. This can lead to 66,960 x stake wins on every free spin.

Furthermore, 3 or more scatters appearing will give you 3 additional free spins. This will also see the multiplier increase on 1 of those positions. There’s no limit to how many extra free spins you can win, meaning unlimited free spins.

Pop Review Summary – simple multiplier action

The Pop slot is quite a simple game from Big Time Gaming. It shares some similarities to Donuts as it’s played on a 4×4 grid. The Reactions keep things ticking along and the multipliers up to 4x from the wilds can give you decent wins.

The bigger wins will come in the Free Spins feature as the multiplier for each position can soon grow if you land enough wins with balloon or wild symbols. The potential 66,960 x stake wins from each free spin is a number most Big Time Gaming slots can’t match.

Despite its simplicity, Pop offers a refreshing change to bonus feature-rich slots like Megaways (created by Big Time Gaming). If you’re looking for a similar game but with a spooky theme, try BTG’s Boo. If you want something different from BTG, try Wild Flower, which offers 114,000 x stake max wins.