Fruit Mania Slot by Playtech

The progressive jackpot has one trigger and only one: five cherries landing on the fifth payline while you're betting max. No other combination touches it, and the cherries have to hit that exact line. It seeds low, around 1,250, and has climbed close to 230,000 at its highest, though you'll never watch it move in the free demo. It reads "Not available" the whole time, because a pooled progressive only pays in real-money play. The cherry is the top regular symbol too, five across a line worth up to 5,000x the line bet. Note that's the line bet, the fixed per-line stake, not your total.

Two features sit under that. The cocktail glass is a scatter, so three, four or five of them anywhere on the reels pay 5x, 40x or 500x your total bet without needing to line up. The angry sun runs the Sun Bonus, a plain pick round where you choose items to uncover cash prizes. And that's the extent of the extras. No wild anywhere, no free spins, no bonus buy. Five fixed paylines, paying left to right, which is about as stripped-back as a five-reeler gets.

The board is pure late-2000s classic fruit machine: grinning cartoon fruits, a red cherry, blue and yellow plums, purple grapes, a green apple, a strawberry and a lemon, bouncing across a sunny green backdrop, with a scowling cartoon sun glaring in from the corner and a kid sipping a cocktail through a straw up in the top left. It's a dated, simple game and it plays like one, five lines and a couple of features with everything really pointing at that one cherry line.