Book of Waka-Waka Buy Bonus Slot Review
In 2010, South Africa hosted the FIFA World Cup, and the loudest thing in every stadium 🏟️ was the vuvuzela 📯, a plastic horn that thousands of fans blew at the same time. It sounded like a hive of angry bees with season tickets.
Broadcasters got so many complaints that some of them started filtering the drone out of their coverage 📺. I’m a metalhead who likes his noise loud and was living in SA at the time - I can tell you first-hand, it was a horror.
Book of Waka-Waka Buy Bonus slot from Amusnet Games takes its name from the World Cup’s official song. Thankfully, nobody packed a vuvuzela; I think I would have literally soiled myself if I heard one while spinning!
Gameplay
The African Savannah gives us giraffes, zebras, and dust rolling across the screen - that's what we get.
The grid is 5x3 with 10 paylines, all fixed, and wins pay left to right. You get an RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. of 96.23%, volatility at medium/high, and the max multiplier is 10,031x.
The max win is $200,620, with bets running from $0.10 to $20. It's fiat currencies only, but the Japanese yen hasn’t gotten the thumbs up.
The paytable starts with the 10, J, and Q symbols, which pay 10x for 5 of a kind, 2.5x for 4, and 0.5x for 3. The K and A nudge that up to 15x, 4x, and 0.5x.
The Drum and Kalimba pay identical money: 75x for 5, 10x for 4, 3x for 3, and 0.5x for just 2. The Woman pays 200x, 40x, 4x, and 0.5x, while the Man is the big earner at 500x, 100x, 10x, and 1x for a pair.
The Book symbol does double duty (as hinted by the game’s title) as the Wild and the Scatter. As a Wild, it substitutes for every paying symbol in the game, and a line made of Books alone pays like a line of Man symbols.
As a Scatter, it ignores the left-to-right rule and pays from anywhere: 200x for 5, 20x for 4, and 2x for 3. Three or more also open Free Spins, which is the whole point of a Book-of-Something slot.
Across the top of the screen sit 4 Jackpot Cards counters, each tied to a suit. Club is the lowest level, then Diamond, then Heart, and Spade is the highest. The amounts on them are progressive and I’ll tell you how to win these a little later on.
Features
FREE SPINS:
Land 3 or more Scatters anywhere on screen and you get 10 Free Spins with a Special Expanding Symbol. You can also buy your way in.
At the start of the round, one of the special symbols is randomly selected to be the expanding one. On my trigger, the book flipped open on the J, so I wasn't buying a yacht that afternoon.
Whenever that special symbol lands, it expands to cover all 3 positions on its reel and pays in any position on the lines played. It doesn't need to sit next to its buddies from reel 1.
The Wild/Scatter doesn't fill in for the chosen expanding symbol, so the Book can't help it along. The round is played at the bet and lines that triggered it, on an alternate set of reels. The spins run automatically and can't be stopped.
Land 3 more Scatters during the round and you win 10 new spins with the same expanding symbol, added to whatever you've got left.
Once the round is done, your winnings can go into the Gamble featureThis feature allows you to gamble your current winnings. It usually takes the form of guessing what color and/or suit a facedown card will reveal itself to be. A correct guess on the color pays 2x, while a correct guess of the color and suit pays 4x your bet., as long as they're within the limit in the Information screen.
JACKPOT CARDS:
Jackpot Cards are randomly triggered after a game finishes and any winnings are collected. When it fires, you're guaranteed one of the 4 levels.
Each level is funded by a percentage of the player's bet, and nothing gets deducted from your own bet to pay for it.
Then 12 face-down cards appear, and you keep picking until 3 matching suits turn up. The suit decides your level, and you win whatever that level had accumulated the moment the last matching card was revealed.
With a qualifying bet (there's a minimum), you have a random chance at any level each time you get in.
The win can't be taken into the Gamble round, and the feature plays on top of the base game without ending it. If AUTOPLAY is running, it pauses for the cards and picks up again afterward.
GAMBLE:
Any win up to a set limit can be gambled. Press GAMBLE, pick RED or BLACK, and a correct call doubles the amount. A wrong call loses it all and the game is finished.
You can keep going until you guess wrong or hit COLLECT, and the maximum number of attempts can vary between 1 and 5 depending on the game's settings. The last 5 cards are kept in History, for anyone who believes in streaks.
BUY BONUS:
Hit the BUY BONUS toggle in the bottom-left and 90x the total bet gets you 10 Free Spins with a guaranteed entry of 3 or more Scatters.
One price, a single option, no menu to agonize over and it's under what most studios charge for a Free Spins buy.
Performance
I come from Africa so I'm allowed to say this: in Africa things don't run so smoothly, but luckily this game defied its theme and chugged along quite happily from spin to spin.
Maximum Win
Bet the $20 top bet, land the max multiplier of 10,031x, and the max win of $200,620 is yours. The minimum bet is $0.10.
Conclusion
The money in the game lives in Free Spins, and more specifically in which symbol the book picks. An expanding symbol pays in any position on all 10 lines, so the pick decides the round before the opening spin lands.
I crunched some numbers (yes, all by myself!) and here’s what I figured out. If the book picks the Man, one expanded across all 5 reels pays 500x on each of the 10 lines, which is 5,000x for a single spin. The same full screen of an expanded 10 pays 100x.
So the max multiplier takes roughly 2 full-screen Man spins inside a single round, with retriggers adding 10 spins each to give you the room.
That's a long shot that hangs on a random pick, and the Jackpot Cards amounts are a separate lottery that lands whenever it feels like it.
Judge the medium/high rating at its higher end and the max multiplier is way generous.
At 90x, the Buy Bonus is a fair shortcut. Just remember the same 90x can hand you a Man or a 10, and the price doesn't care which. As for the Gamble option, I'd leave it alone on anything I actually want to keep.
Medium-to-high risk players who like the classic Book format get a fairly priced route straight to the round, and a payout big enough to justify the wait.
If you're on a tight bankroll and want steady small wins, pass on the game, because the base game won't carry you while you wait for the book to open.
Slot Details
Game Provider: Amusnet Games
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 10
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 96.23%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).
The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: Medium/High
Bonus Round: Yes
Progressive: Yes
Free Rounds: Free Spins
Max Multiplier: 10,031x
Max Win: $200,620
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