African Elephant Slot Review

African Elephant Slot Overview

As soon as I loaded African Elephant, I knew I’d seen this sort of African savannah slot plenty of times. Pragmatic Play sticks to the usual long grass, acacia trees and roaming animals, and the reels dominate the screen. The presentation is clean and serviceable rather than exciting, with a chilled soundtrack in the background. For me, the real focus here is the Wild Shape mechanic and the punchy payout potential.

How to Play African Elephant Slot

African Elephant runs on a 5-reel, 4-row layout with 20 fixed paylines paying left to right. I usually set my stake between 0.20 and 2.00, but the game lets you go up to 100 per spin by tweaking coins per line and coin value in the betting panel. Once you’ve picked a level that suits your bankroll, hit the main spin button or set up autoplay for a run of spins.

On desktop I like using quickspin or holding the spacebar for turbo spins when I’m grinding for the bonus. Mobile controls mirror the same layout, so dropping the stake or switching modes is straightforward. The information menu brings up the rules and the dynamic paytable, which updates to match your current bet. Overall, African Elephant is easy to grasp even if you’re new to higher volatility safari slots.

Symbols and Payouts in African Elephant

The low symbols in African Elephant are the familiar J, Q, K and A card ranks. As usual, you need at least three of a kind from the first reel to land a win on one of the 20 lines. A full line of five premiums pays more, but even the low cards can help keep the balance ticking over with up to 4x your total bet for five of a kind.

High-paying symbols are the animals that roam the savannah: meerkat, leopard, wildebeest, zebra and rhino. Line up five of these and you’re looking at 5x to 30x your stake, which feels decent for a fairly simple paytable. These picture symbols carry most of the regular win potential, so when the Wild Shape drops over a cluster of them, the board can throw up some pretty satisfying line hits.

The elephant itself plays two roles in African Elephant. As a wild, it only appears through the Wild Shape feature, substituting for regular symbols and paying 2.5x, 12.5x or 75x your stake for three, four or five on a line. A group of elephants acts as the scatter bonus symbol, and hitting three or more anywhere on the grid is your ticket into the free spins feature.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x75
	4	x12.5
	3	x2.5
	5	x30
	4	x5
	3	x2
	5	x12.5
	4	x2.5
	3	x1.25
	5	x7.5
	4	x2
	3	x1.25
	5	x5
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.75
	5	x5
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.5
	5	x4
	4	x1
	3	x0.25
	5	x4
	4	x1
	3	x0.25
	5	x4
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.25
	5	x4
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.25
	Scatter

African Elephant Bonus Features

African Elephant keeps its feature set focused on the Wild Shape mechanic. At the end of any spin, a random shape can land over the reels, framing a selection of positions. Every symbol inside that frame turns into an elephant wild, and the game then checks for line wins. It looks fairly simple, but when the pattern hits a couple of good premium clusters the win meter can jump very quickly.

Free spins in African Elephant come from landing 3, 4 or 5 scatter symbols, giving you 10, 15 or 25 spins. During the bonus, a Wild Shape is guaranteed on every spin, which is where the slot can step up with bigger hits. The feature can retrigger for extra spins, and if you are outside the UK you can pay 100x your stake from the base game to buy straight into the bonus.

Bonus Buy Feature

10, 15, 25 Free Spins The free spins round can be instantly triggered from the base game by buying it for 100x current bet.
Feature Cost:	x100 Bet
RTP:	-
Volatility:	-

RTP & Volatility in African Elephant

From a stats angle, African Elephant has a default RTP of 96.04%, although some casinos run it on 95.10% or 94.03%, so I always check the information screen. Volatility is high and you feel that in the streaky base game, even with a hit rate of roughly one win in three spins. The bonus round shows up on average around once in 124 spins, with a maximum win capped at 15,000x the bet.

African Elephant Slot Verdict

After a good session with African Elephant, I’d call it a solid but very plain safari slot. The visuals and sounds are tidy yet feel like they’ve been reused from older titles, and the whole package carries a fairly generic vibe. That said, cramming wilds across the reels with Wild Shape can still produce some entertaining screens, especially in the free spins where you get the pattern on every round.

For me the main draw is the 15,000x potential tied to such a straightforward feature set. When the Wild Shape covers a big chunk of the grid and connects premium beasts, the game shows what it can really do. If you like high volatility slots that focus almost completely on one modifier, African Elephant is worth a few sessions, though I doubt I’ll make it part of my regular rotation.

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