Big Foot Slot by Light & Wonder

The hook is the bonus trigger, not the reels. The Bigfoot Wild only lands on reels 2, 3 and 4, and getting him to appear on all three of those at the same time launches the Big Foot Feature. The board switches to a night-time pine forest where five pairs of eyes glow in the dark trees. You get three touches to hunt down the creature himself: every pick pays something, but actually finding Bigfoot lands the bigger prize, and the whole thing scales with the bet that triggered it. It can also fire inside the free games, which is where it earns its keep.

The other route is the scattered Footprint road-sign. Three or more of them, anywhere on the reels, award ten free games with every win doubled, payline hits and scatter pays both. The round retriggers, so a clean run can stack well past the opening ten doubled spins. Outside of that, the Wild substitutes for everything except the Footprint, and the scatter pays on its own regardless of position.

Tone-wise this is firmly a comedy slot. The base reels sit in a sunset pine forest, conifers down both sides, an owl peeking off a mountain ridge, butterflies drifting past and a raccoon perched on the left payline rail. Themed symbols include a backpacking hillbilly camper, flaming beehive honey pots and a little forest river scene, all in bright cartoon colours over chunky card royals. It is an older, mechanically light 20-line game with no buy option and a modest ceiling, but the eyes-in-the-dark pick bonus has more personality than most cabinet-era picks. Players who like the same woodland-creature humour can dig through the wider animal-themed slots for busier modern takes.