Apples & Worms Slot by Playtech

You set the difficulty before a single crate opens. Pick your bet, choose how many Worms are buried in the field, then choose a board, a 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 wall of wooden crates each stamped with a white question mark. It's a mines game underneath the orchard paint, apples standing in for the safe tiles and worms for the hazards. Tap a crate and it flips: a shiny red apple is safe and nudges your collect value one rung up a multiplier ladder running across the top, while a worm ends the round and takes the bet. That trade is yours to set. More worms or a bigger board raises each apple's step, and every pick after that carries a fatter chance of turning one up.

The left panel keeps the odds in plain sight. It shows Apples Remaining, a live Worm Risk percentage, how many crates you've opened, and the exact Chance of an Apple on your next tap, so a 5x5 board with three worms opens near 87% safe and tightens from there. Collect at any point to bank what's on the counter. Bank It is the sharper option: switch it on and a fixed slice of each win locks away automatically as you keep going, so a worm on the next crate can't wipe everything you've stacked. Autoplay preselects a run of crates and turns them over hands-free, with stop-on-win and stop-on-loss limits.

A star panel above the ladder holds a fixed Jackpot, handed out through its own trigger rather than the crate picks. The whole thing plays in a cartoon apple orchard, rolling green hills, leafy trees and a bright blue sky, with a grinning pink worm poking out beside the fruit and every safe crate flipping open to a glossy red apple.