PapayaPop Slot Review

PapayaPop Slot Overview

PapayaPop is one of those PopWins slots that grabbed me straight away with its art deco fruit style and slick presentation. You play on 5 reels, where the rows shift between 3 and 9 depending on how long your win chain lasts. The pay both ways system means winning lines can start from either side, which keeps the base game from feeling flat, even before the features kick in.

From a numbers angle, PapayaPop sits in classic high volatility territory, with a 96% RTP and hit rate around 22%. Bets run from 0.20 to 100 per spin, so it covers casual stakes and more serious sessions. The maximum potential is 10,542x your bet, which is on the lower side for a PopWins release, but still big enough to make those long bonus hunts worth considering.

PapayaPop Slot Information and Symbols

The setting in PapayaPop leans into a glamorous golden fruit theme, framed by art deco patterns that look great on mobile and desktop. The layout is clean, with the expanding grid taking centre stage and everything else kept fairly understated. As long as your device handles modern HTML5 slots, the game runs smoothly and feels made for portrait sessions where you are constantly watching the reels climb.

On the paytable in PapayaPop, the low paying symbols are 9, 10, J, Q, K and A. Medium pays are a selection of exotic fruits such as melon, starfruit, durian, fig, mangosteen, dragon fruit and pineapple. The papaya symbol sits at the top, paying 15x your bet for five of a kind. There are no wilds or scatters at all; everything flows through the PopWins mechanic instead.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Respin
	5	x15
	4	x7.5
	3	x4
	5	x8
	4	x4
	3	x2
	5	x6
	4	x3
	3	x1.5
	5	x5
	4	x2.5
	3	x1.2
	5	x4
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x4
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x2.5
	4	x1.2
	3	x0.8
	5	x2.5
	4	x1.2
	3	x0.8
	5	x1.6
	4	x0.8
	3	x0.4
	5	x1.6
	4	x0.8
	3	x0.4
	5	x1.6
	4	x0.8
	3	x0.4
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.3
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.3
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.3

PapayaPop Slot Features and Bonuses

In terms of features, PapayaPop sticks closely to the PopWins formula. You have PopWins expanding the reels, the Gamble Wheel before free spins, Unlimited Free Spins themselves, a progressive win multiplier, and a Bonus Buy option in some markets. It is a compact package, but all the pieces connect around making a long chain of pops, pushing the grid higher and feeding that multiplier in the bonus game.

As a UK player, I only get the features the game triggers naturally, since the Bonus Buy is disabled by default. In practice that just makes the grind longer, because the bonus normally lands about once every 197 spins. When it does appear, the mix of expanding reels, gamble choices and growing multipliers means the slot can move from quite measured base play to hectic, high pressure bonus decisions very quickly.

PopWins Feature in PapayaPop

The PopWins mechanic in PapayaPop is what controls the grid. Any win pops the symbols away, then each position splits into two new symbols, so the reel height climbs with every successful cascade. In the base game you start on 3 rows and can stretch each reel to 6 rows, creating up to 7,776 ways to win, which effectively means 15,552 ways thanks to the pay both ways structure.

During Unlimited Free Spins, PopWins goes further, letting the reels grow to 9 rows high for a total of 118,098 win ways. In the base game the grid always drops back to three rows when a sequence ends, but in the bonus it only falls to the lowest height reached on that spin. When the pops line up, the reels feel like they are rocketing upwards, although dead spells can drain your balance fast.

Gamble Wheel in PapayaPop

The Gamble Wheel in PapayaPop comes into play once you have expanded all five reels to six rows in the base game and triggered the free spins. By default you enter with 486 ways and a 2x multiplier, but you can risk spinning the wheel up to twice for better terms. Successful spins raise the starting rows and win ways and can lift the multiplier to 3x, 4x or even 5x.

Unlimited Free Spins in PapayaPop

Unlimited Free Spins in PapayaPop work on a lives system rather than a fixed number of spins. You start with three lives; every losing spin removes one life, while any win resets you back to three. That simple twist gives the feature a different rhythm, where you are always hanging on for the next connection that keeps the round going and pushes the reels closer to their maximum height.

When the bonus starts in PapayaPop the win multiplier is at least 2x, but it can be 3x, 4x or 5x if you had a strong run on the Gamble Wheel. The multiplier increases by one before every spin, regardless of whether you win or lose. If you manage to push all reels to nine rows, it then climbs by two per spin instead, and there is no multiplier cap built in.

In practice, those free spins in PapayaPop can feel swingy. The hit frequency sits around 22%, and with no wild symbols to help, you will often burn through the three lives quite quickly. When the pops cooperate though, the combination of 118,098 ways, sticky high reels and the growing multiplier can start stacking wins rapidly, even if the theoretical cap of 10,542x is not the highest around.

PapayaPop Slot Final Verdict

From my time with PapayaPop, I see it as a sharp looking PopWins slot that plays well but does not really push the concept forward. The art deco fruit presentation is strong, the pay both ways system works nicely, and the Unlimited Free Spins can be gripping. On the flip side, the game pace feels oddly stilted between spins, and the lower 10,542x potential might put some high risk hunters off.

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