Fruit Slot Machine Play The Free Casino Game Online
Do you long for the days of yore, when life was less complicated and technology hadn’t advanced to a level that requires constantly keeping up with the Jones’s? Well if that’s you, you might just like this game. It’s basic, simple and reminiscent of the old days – of sitting in a pub in front of a great big, physical fruit machine, waiting for the exciting moment of payout. The name Fruit Slot is an appropriately simplistic title and this provides exactly what it says on the tin: a no frills, old school fruit-themed slot.
Firstly, there’s only one single payline and this has both its advantages and disadvantages. A single payline is much less distracting than several and traditionalists may find it a “purer” form of play; less cluttered and jazzy. The flip side of course is that it can seem, well, just a little bit dull. As well as only having a single payline, there’s only 3 reels. Thankfully Finland based developers PAF realised this potential downfall and added in a neat double or nothing gamble feature to ensure that gamblers are still kept entertained and engaged.
Apples and Pears
This game has as much fruit as an East End fruit seller’s barrow: oranges, lemons, cherries and plums. There are no wild symbols or scatter symbols to look out for here and as you can only start your bet per spin at anything from 0.1 coins to 1 coin this isn’t recommended for anyone who wants a high limits game. Your top win comes from landing three of the lucky horseshoe symbols on the payline, spitting out a total of 500 coins.
To spice up proceedings, make the most of the hold buttons. There’s one beneath each of the three reels, enabling you to freeze that reel for the next spin. If you have two matching symbols you can use it to chance at a hit on the third reel and if you manage to land three, you have the opportunity to access the best bit of the game.
Double or Nothing
Now you can do some real gambling. Once you’ve scored a win you can take your prize or wager it in a double or nothing round and as this is where it gets interesting. It’s definitely worth taking the double option. A dapper looking gentleman from a bygone era (even further bygone than the base origins of this game) appears. Or perhaps he’s a hipster as he wears a monocle, top hat and sports a groomed Victorian moustache. At this point it launches into a picking game and he invites you to choose a horse from the colours red and yellow. Once you’ve chosen, the starting gun is released and they’re off.
Here is where the suspense ends, as the outcome is predictable from the outset, so no Grand National style frenzied excitement, but still it’s quite fun. If your horse wins you’ve doubled your money and if it loses you’ve lost everything. Bear in mind that the bet per spin allowed is very low, so you won’t be losing as much as you might have otherwise. Provided you did win, you can keep playing this feature until you’re either wiped out or sufficiently rich.
Classic Favourites
There are tons of these type of classic slot fruit machines to choose from and even more general fruit themed games, so if this is your thing, you’ll be spoilt for choice. For an equally basic 3 x 3, one payline layout, try Triple Crown by Betsoft or The Cash Inn by Parlay. Both have a medium level of volatility and neither have free spins, multipliers or anything too complicated to distract from the basic play.
The Cash Inn is set in a pub, so in many ways feels even more old school than a fruit themed slot especially as the buttons look like the physical buttons you’d find on a real-life slot machine. Triple Crown has a bit of a strange Far Eastern, Aladdin type theme alongside the classic slot vibe.
Like it Simple?
The simplicity of Fruit Slot by PAF will deter some punters, especially those who want to place higher bets. However for others, especially those new to playing online slots, this provides a great basic introduction to the way it all works, without too much to get your head around or to have to think about at once. The double or nothing feature definitely adds an edge to Fruit Slot, giving the potential to quickly increase your winnings with a double increase, quadruple or if you’re really lucky, even more.