The Game of Life

WMS's The Game of Life: is a five reel, 17 line, penny video slot with a 40 credit minimum and a max bet of 400 credits. The game is a wide area progressive, meaning the jackpots are linked over several properties and each bank is setup as a 4 player community slot.

Base Game:

When you first sit down at the terminal, you are given the choice of selecting your character details, from male or female and the choice of 6 different career options. These selections will become important later and impact the amount of credits you can win in the big event community bonuses.

Game of Life Pay table:

In the Game of Life, the playing screen is split in two.  The bottom is where you will play the base game and the top is where the "Bank of LIFE" side game resides.  Here you have 4 potential outcomes.    The more difficult the outcome is to achieve, the higher the bank accrues and pays.

• Purple is awarded every time you have a winning payline in the base game
• Blue is awarded every time you have 2 or more wilds on reels
• Green is awarded every time you have a 5-of-a-kind
• Yellow is awarded every time you have 5 jets on a payline

You can also win more than one of these at a time.  For example, every time you are awarded the yellow bank jackpot, you will also win the green & purple bank jackpots.  That's because 5 jets on a payline is also a 5-of-a-kind and a winning payline.

You can also increase the amount of each individual color bank jackpot every time a white arrow appears on line one and on of the four colored arrow appears on line five.  Each color arrow with increase the corresponding color bank's jackpot amount until it is won or until a white arrow appears on line one and a "Be Back Soon" symbol appears on line five.  This will reset all the the color banks.

Bonus Rounds:

Free Spin Bonus: 3 or more spinner symbols (like the ones from the board game) on any reels trigger this bonus. You are automatically awarded 10 free spins, with the ability to win indefinite sets of free spins.
During the free spin bonus, the Bank of Life pay table amounts can increase and pay out, but the Be Back Soon symbol will not appear during the spins. As an added bonus, the arrows appear more frequently than they do in the base game.

Big Event Community Bonuses: Are triggered by each base game bet, which awards 7 seconds of bonus eligibility. Faster play or higher bets will award eligibility time and larger big event multipliers.  As an average however, the community bonuses randomly trigger every 3 minutes.

Firstly, the Life spinner appears on the overhead screen and spins to determine if a random credit prize is to be awarded, or if 1 of 3 Big Event bonuses is triggered.

If a credit award is hit, players watch as the car moves around the Game of Life board and stops on the corresponding tile. If you are playing as that career choice, you are awarded a large credit prize and all other players are awarded a smaller win.

Pay Day Bonus: All players in the big event are directed to the overhead screen and are shown a bank. The more pegs that enter the bank, the more credits you receive. Special pegs will increase the credit meter faster.

Career Day Bonus: Here is where your earlier career pick plays in. One of the six possible careers is randomly chosen.  Everyone playing will win a credit prize at the end of the bonus.  The person with the career matching the one that is randomly chosen is awarded a higher credit amount than the other players.



Speed Spin Bonus:  You receive 7 initial spins on the Game of Life spinner.  You have 10 possible outcomes.  Each outcome either increases the value of prizes (ie house, car, etc), awards more spins or awards 1 or all of the available prizes. This is the highest paying bonus in the game.

Progressive Award: Is triggered when you hit 5 Progressive symbols on the first pay line when playing max bet. This is a wide area progressive jackpot that resets at $201,000

Wizard Of Oz Ruby Slippers

WMS's Wizard Of Oz Ruby Slippers: is a 5 reel, 25 or 40 line video slot, available in penny and 5 cent denominations, with a min bet of 200 credits and a max of 480. This is the first sequel to the hugely popular Wizard Of OZ series. The game is available in stand alone and wide area progressive formats, both utilizing WMS's Sensory Immersion technology comprised of high definition video, Bose surround sound, vibrating chair.

Base Game:

During the base game, randomly, the ruby slippers appear below the reels and click together to award free spins, wild reels and multipliers up to 10x



Bonus Rounds:

Each Reel has different bonus symbols identified as characters from the film. Dorothy on the first reel, Scarecrow on the second, Tin Man on the third, Cowardly Lion on the fourth and one of three symbols on the firth reel (Wicked Witch, The Wizard or The Crystal Ball).
Combinations of these symbols on the reels above trigger any of three bonus events. Due to the high number of trigger symbols, there are 45 ways to trigger a bonus event.

Emerald City Free Spins: A character from the movie is locked on one of the reels and the others are re spun to award extra spins, wilds or extra credits.

Crystal Ball Bonus: The top box display converts to the crystal ball and each character places a credit award in the ball.

Find the Broom Bonus: You are flown through the land of Oz and arrive at a grid of 20 Oz symbols. The aim is to locate the Wicked Witches Treasure, a large credit prize that changes randomly. You may also receive multipliers, credits and extra picks. If you find the Witch herself the bonus round is ended.

Progressive Jackpot: Is awarded when you hit 5 progressive symbols on any payline.
The jackpots reset at the following:
Stand alone- $12,000
Wide Area- $500,000

Code Red

 

Bally Technologies Code Red is a five reel, 30 payline video slot. The game is housed in the previously reviewed Hammer Head cabinet and features the standard player screen, large overhead top box display and fully functional Ideck.

The player screen is a 22 inch curved display, giving the effect of mechanical reels, but providing you with the interactive benefits of video reels.



Bonus Games:

The Code Red Bonus Wheel is triggered when you hit three scattered bonus symbols on reels 1,3 and 5. 

Code Red Bonus Wheel: here you are given a chance to spin the U-Spin bonus wheel and have the opportunity to be awarded either credits, free games or 1 of the 3 progressive jackpots. All of which you are eligible for at any bet level. 

The Free Games Feature: which is awarded through the code red wheel, awards 8-12 free games at a multiplier up to 5x. During the free games a code red icon sits atop each reel and displays what bonus award you can win on that reel should you hit a code red symbol. These can be bonus credits, locked wilds or locked wild reels. If you do hit a code red symbol and receive your award, a new bonus takes its place, so you can keep winning throughout the free spins. 

Wild Fire Reel Bonus: is awarded when you hit 3 Wild Fire symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5. In this bonus the aforementioned reels become locked wilds and up to 3 extra wild symbols can be awarded on reels 2 and 4. This can result in huge pays for those spins. 

Applications:

Code Red is also available on the Itunes Store for $1.99. The mobile version features all the game play of the casino game with the ability to post your scores and achievements on Game Center.