Animal Carnival Slot Review

Animal Carnival Slot Overview

When I first loaded Animal Carnival from Fantasma Games I was greeted by a quiet field, a circus wagon and a five reel layout with ten paylines. Wins form on the bottom three rows, but the grid actually has six rows, with the top part hidden behind a red curtain. Every winning line can trigger an avalanche, dragging new symbols from above, and the whole thing is wrapped in bouncy circus music that suits the playful animal cast.

The idea is that a bunch of cartoon animals run the whole show, with bears, apes, crocodiles, warthogs and a smug looking feline handling the premiums. Lines pay three to five of a kind both ways, from leftmost and rightmost reels. Because avalanches, wild collections and special modifiers keep dropping in, the base game rarely feels static, even when the wins themselves are on the modest side during a normal session.

Animal Carnival Slot Information

Animal Carnival uses five reels and six rows, though only the lower half hosts the ten paylines. I can spin it from twenty pence up to two hundred quid per spin, which covers most bankrolls I would actually use. The slot pays both ways, so a line can start on reel one or reel five. It runs well on mobile and desktop, and the avalanche mechanic keeps each paid spin feeling like a small sequence.

The maths model is rated medium volatility, though in practice it feels closer to the softer end, with plenty of small hits. The quoted RTP is 95.64 percent in regular play, nudging up to 95.94 percent if you buy the feature. Hits land around eighteen percent of spins. One review quotes a max win of 1642 times the bet, while another mentions up to five thousand times, so I treat it as a mid cap game.

Wild Symbol in Animal Carnival

The paytable in Animal Carnival sticks to simple card ranks for the low pays, with tens through aces all sharing the same value. Landing five of a kind of any of these returns one point five times your stake, which is not huge on a ten line slot. The high pays are the animal performers themselves, and five of a kind wins with them give between two point five and three point five times your bet.

The main wild symbol is a star with a big W, and it can appear on all reels. It substitutes for regular symbols and also pays on its own, from half the bet for three up to five times the bet for a full line. Every wild that lands during an avalanche sequence is collected into the side meter, which slowly nudges the overall win multiplier upwards in groups of three wilds.

There is also a Sparkle Wild that looks almost the same but with a golden ring around it. When this lands it turns itself and between one and four random positions into wilds, and those can even appear in the hidden upper rows. You then get extra avalanches with more wilds involved. The Cannon and Scatter symbols do not have direct values, but they matter a lot for respins and bonus entry.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x5
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x3.5
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x3
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.5
	5	x3
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.5
	5	x2.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x2.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.25
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.25
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.1
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.1
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.1
	Respin
	Scatter

Animal Carnival Slot Features

Most of the action in Animal Carnival comes from the avalanche system and the hidden rows. Any winning combination is removed from the active rows and its payout is stored in the win meter. Symbols from above drop down, and any special symbols sitting behind the curtain on the fourth row can fall into view. At the same time every wild is counted towards the wild meter, which increases the global win multiplier by one after every three collected.

Sparkle Wilds spice things up by throwing extra wilds onto random spots before the next avalanche. The Cannon symbol only fires when no more wins are present, blasting away itself and three to six normal symbols to create yet another cascade. Three Scatters trigger ten free spins, where the win meter and multiplier never reset between spins and each extra Scatter adds one spin. If I do not feel like waiting I can buy the bonus for seventy times my stake.

The 200 Spins Animal Carnival Slot Experience

In my own two hundred spin sample on Animal Carnival the base game felt busy rather than brutal. I had long stretches of small avalanche chains where the multiplier crept up to maybe four or five before the sequence died. When I finally triggered free spins, the feature threw in a fair number of retriggers, and the non resetting multiplier meant the end screen total sat around the quoted average of roughly sixty seven times the bet.

Animal Carnival Slot Verdict

After a few evenings with Animal Carnival I see it as a lighter take on the avalanche multiplier idea. The cute animal cast and bright field backdrop make it feel far less oppressive than darker themed slots, and the both ways layout keeps small hits coming. On the other hand the RTP sits a bit below what I prefer, and the potential is capped, so I treat it as a casual carnival rather than a hunt for life changing hits.

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