Bubble Works Slot Review

Back in 2004 a kid in Alabama named Chad Fell chewed up 3 pieces of gum and blew a bubble 🫧 20 inches wide. Nobody's topped it in the 20 years since.

The trick is getting the bubble as big as it'll go before it pops on you. That's Bubble Works slot, from Booming Games, more or less.

Pink Bubbles 🫧 land on the reels and float up onto a shelf over the grid. The candy 🍬 down below? It barely covers gas money. The real money's up top in those bubbles.

Gameplay

The art's loud. Pink and purple swirls, a river of sprinkles down one side, all of it candy-store bright. I've seen prettier reels, but not many this easy to read. Above the grid sits the Bubble Prize Shelf, the board this whole game runs on.

The grid's 5x3 with 20 paylines. The 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. is 95.9%, the volatility medium/high. The max multiplier is 6,000x, which puts the max win at $360,000. Bets run from $0.20 to $60.

That shelf up top is also a 5x3 board (same shape as the reels), and it holds onto what you build from spin to spin. There's a catch, though. It tracks each bet size on its own, so change your bet halfway through and you're back to an empty board.

The Bubble symbols land on the reels and rise up onto the shelf. New ones come in at the bottom and push the older ones up. Push too many and the top ones fall off for good. That fat multiplier you were saving can be gone before you ever collect it.

Most Bubbles carry a plain multiplier, somewhere from 1x to 9x. Every so often one shows up carrying a fixed pot: Mini 10x, Minor 50x, Major 250x, Grand 1,000x. Either way it's worth nothing until a Collector comes and takes it off the shelf.

So a full shelf on its own does nothing. You need a Collector to land, and that's what turns all those Bubbles into money.

In the base game there are two of them. Collect grabs the one Bubble sharing its spot. Super Collect takes the whole column it lands in. Whatever they pull off the shelf, you get your bet times every value they took.

Top of the paytable is the Lollipop symbol at 7.5x for 5-of-a-kind. Then the Gummy Bear at 5x, the Wrapped Candy at 4x, and the Green Striped Candy and Blue Gumball both at 2.25x.

At the bottom, the A symbol pays 1x for 5-of-a-kind, and the K, Q, J, and 10 barely clear 0.75x each.

The Wild symbol is a soda cup with a bendy straw. It fills in for anything on the reels except the Scatter symbol. That Scatter is a pink wrapped candy, and landing 3 or more of them opens the Free Spins round.

Features

FREE SPINS:

Get 3, 4, or 5 Scatter symbols and you're into the Free Spins round for 10, 15, or 20 spins, in that order.

During the round the shelf grows an extra row up top. Bubbles that used to drop off the edge now get caught there instead. Each one feeds a stored multiplier that fattens up the longer the round runs.

Two more Collectors only show up in here. Mega Collect is the one you want, clearing the entire shelf in one sweep. Pot Collect grabs the stored Pot value on its row. And every so often a Bubble turns up carrying a +2, good for 2 more spins.

Performance

I've walked out on games that froze at the worst possible second, but this one gave me no such excuse to quit.

Maximum Win

The max win is $360,000. That's the 6,000x max multiplier hitting at the top bet of $60. A number like that tends to land in other people's laps, not mine, but luckily my bad luck isn’t your problem. The smallest bet is $0.20.

Conclusion

The candy on the reels barely matters. It pays out about the same as a coin jar you forgot in your nan’s house. The real moolah lives up on the Bubble Prize Shelf.

Getting near the max multiplier is a project. You load the shelf right up, then clear it in Free Spins with a big stored multiplier and a Mega Collect on a full board.

Can it happen? Sure. But it takes a near-perfect run. The 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. sits a whisker under 96%, so figure on shorter visits than long grinding sessions.

The volatility runs medium/high, so judge it by the high end. Against that, the max multiplier is about right for a high-variance game. The reward lines up with the beating you take, and plenty of games in this class don't manage that.

There's no way to buy into Free Spins and no side bet to nudge the odds, so landing 3 or more Scatters is the only way in. That leaves the base game doing the heavy lifting.

Patient players who bet somewhere in the middle are the target, the ones who don't mind a bumpy ride while a shelf fills up. If you want the reels themselves to pay you every few spins, keep walking. The candy alone barely buys a coffee.

Slot Details

Game Provider: Booming 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.: 20
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.: 95.9%
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: No
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Free Spins
Max Multiplier: 6,000x
Max Win: $360,000
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