Bowled Over Slots
Bowling is fun, and slots are entertaining as well. The game Bowled Over offers the player a chance to enjoy both. It is the only game I know of that combines the two. Reels, pay lines, and a decent return-to-player percentage make for a solid slot experience. And what makes it even better is that you can smash some bowling pins during a bonus round. The pin layout on the reels reminds me of the days I spent designing the graphics for my High Art bowling trophies. Those always impressed judges; at least, they impressed me, the chief judge.
What is it about?
If you’ve ever wanted to make money while playing ten-pin bowling without signing up for a league, here’s your chance, courtesy of Bowled Over, the Rival Powered slot. You’ll be magically transported to your local bowling alley. If you know what you’re doing, you can net yourself some prizes for scoring a series of 9’s or 10’s and for wearing the customary silly but necessary blue or red shoes. Or you can win just by having a damn good time and partaking in the delicious (but probably not healthy) bowling alley menu, which includes burgers and fries and other such filthy delights. And there are Wild Skittles to be had as well.
Theme and Symbols
The slot embraces bowling. Every detail, from the lane-style reels to the bowling ball spin button, has been covered. There’s a pair of bowlers to look out for on the reels, and a range of bowling equipment, attire, and general knick-knacks joins them. These icons include red and blue bowling shoes, burgers, bowling balls, and pins. The remaining icons are made up of pastel-colored 10 through to A poker figures.
How to Play
A total of 20 betting lines join this up for you to gamble on, although these can be customized to your preference. To do this, press the Select Lines button. Then, you can choose a value for the line bet between 1 and 50. The game offers these 20 lines at what can be deemed a conservative level if one sets betting limits in a responsible gambling manner.
Payouts and Pay Table
Nothing quite like walking away from your computer with a handful of quarters after having just wolfed down a delicious burger, fries, and a couple of ice-cold beers. You might score 375 coins for that little trick, 500 if you don bowling shoes in red or blue. If you take on the unyielding male bowling champion in this game and win, you might find yourself walking away with a jackpot worth as much as 3,000 coins.
Features and Bonuses
Ten upright pins serve as half of the reel’s iconography; when they show up, they can substitute for any other reel icon that needs to match for a win to happen. If a win occurs when the pins are present, they will expand to fill the reel. The female bowler can win free spins when specific reel icons appear. The bowling ball is this slot’s bonus symbol; you will trigger the bonus when they are anywhere on the reels.
Free Spins Bonus
The free spins bonus occurs when the female bowler manifests as this slot’s scatter symbol. When three of them appear on your gaming screen, you’ll activate the free spins segment of slot play. If three bowlers appear anywhere, the screen pulses downward, and you’ll activate 10 free spins with a double multiplier. The screen pulses up if you have four scatter symbols, giving you 20 free spins. In the pulsing animation, if five of the scatter appear, it’s a visual overload and means 40 free spins.
Skittles That Grow Wild
You can also savor Skittles That Grow Wild, which have the power to grow over a whole lane to help form more prizes for you, doubling the original payout when they do. But the fun doesn’t end there, and you could find yourself bowling your way to the Bowling Ball Bonus Round, in which you play 10 frames of your next game and win prizes for each ball you roll.
Bowling Ball Bonus
Look for the bowling ball because you can’t play the game without a bowling ball. Three or more haphazardly appearing on the reels will activate the slot’s bonus feature round. You can play through all 10 frames of a ten-pin bowling game, though you don’t have to leave your living room.
Who doesn’t enjoy putting on silly shoes and doing some ten-pin bowling? The competition can get fierce, with everyone trying to do just one thing and do it well: hit strikes and score the most. You can boot up this Rival Gaming slot if you don’t want to haul yourself to a real bowling alley. Bowled Over will let you enjoy a little bowling while the only other person in the room is a digital one behind the line that leads to the next frame.