Nunchucks Slot Review

When I first heard about NetEnt's Nunchucks (listed for release on 29 October 2026), I had to laugh. A crime slot featuring four martial-arts nuns dropping modifiers onto a 6x4 grid? It's completely absurd in the best way possible. But once you get past the quirky theme, you'll find a game with some really solid mechanics, even if it does lock its best features behind a pretty steep paywall.

The gameplay revolves around four specific modifiers that the nuns can drop onto the reels:

• Colossal Blocks that reveal matching symbols.
• Wild Reels to help connect wins.
• Reel Multipliers to boost your payouts.
• Upgrade Symbols that enhance the other modifiers.

When a nun lands and triggers her feature, you might also get a sequence of respins that hold those modifiers in place while the rest of the board spins. When it hits, it's a lot of fun to watch.

Here is where I have to be completely fair about the game's design: there is a massive divide between the standard Bonus and the Super Bonus.

If you trigger the regular Bonus Spins (which awards 8 to 14 spins), you get to play with the modifiers, but everything resets after every single spin. Nothing carries over. It can be a bit frustrating because it's hard to build any real momentum when the game wipes the slate clean every time you press spin.

However, if one of the three or more Bonus symbols that start the round is a Super Bonus, you get the Super Bonus Spins instead, and Nunchucks becomes a completely different beast. In this mode, the modifiers stay active for the whole round. Wild reels stick around, multipliers pile up, and the Upgrade symbol can double your multipliers or add extra wilds without them ever resetting. It's incredibly exciting, but because it's so much better than the standard bonus, the base bonus can feel a little underwhelming by comparison.

Where the casino's version of the game carries it, there is an "Elevate" menu (all running at a decent 96.05% RTP, a shade under the base game's 96.21%). You can tell NetEnt knows the Super Bonus is the main draw based on the pricing:

• 3x Bonus Hunt: Boosts your chance of hitting features, charged at 3x the bet on every spin while it is on.
• 25x Guaranteed Nun: Guarantees a modifier on the board, with a chance of Re-Spins.
• 100x Buy: The standard Bonus Spins (where things reset).
• 300x Buy: The Super Bonus Spins (where things stick).
• 500x Buy: A "Super Nun Spin" that guarantees a modifier plus enhanced bonus chances.

If you're a slot nerd like me, you'll notice Nunchucks has a lot in common with other games in the NetEnt catalogue.

For one, it uses "additive" multipliers rather than multiplying ones. So, if you get a 6x and a 2x multiplier, they add up to 8x. This is exactly how NetEnt's Judgemental works. It keeps the game's math grounded: you won't see the massive, sudden exponential spikes you'd get in a game like Nitropolis 4, but it still allows for a very respectable 12,000x max win.

Layout-wise, it shares its 6x4 ways board with Dragons Playground, though Nunchucks offers a slightly higher max win. The buy menu has the same shape as Spice's, a 3x Bonus Hunt up to a 500x top product, and the two-tiered bonus system feels a lot like Jack and the Beanstalk 2. To NetEnt's credit, they priced the Super Bonus fairly at 300x; in their game Aftermath, a premium bonus like that will cost you 500x.

Nunchucks is a genuinely entertaining slot. The additive multipliers keep the volatility from getting completely out of control, and the martial-arts nun theme is a blast. The real magic of the game is reserved for the Super Bonus tier.