Monkey Mania 2 Slot by Playtech

The instruction that flashes over the reels here is "fill screen to multiply win," and that one line drives the whole game. Wins pay three of a kind, left to right, across five fixed lines on a compact three-reel board, but land winning symbols in every one of the nine positions at once and a random multiplier, anywhere from x3 up to x10, drops onto that win. So the base game turns into a chase for the full board rather than a single line hit.

The monkey himself is the Wild, a shades-wearing rockstar in a red bandleader jacket and gold epaulettes who substitutes for every symbol. His feature, the Monkey Mania Respins, fires at random on any spin: he struts onto the centre reel and locks there as a stacked Wild for the whole run, a multiplier from that same x3-to-x10 set gets picked, and you keep spinning until you've banked three wins. Every cell that lands a winning symbol lights up, and if you light the entire grid before those three wins are up, all of the feature's payouts get multiplied by that value when it ends.

You can skip the wait and buy the respins outright for 100x, and the purchase sweetens the maths: filling the screen then multiplies everything by a steeper band that runs x10, x15, x20, x30, x40 or x50. There's no free spins round and no jackpot ladder here. The respins are the only bonus, and the fill mechanic is the only route to the top multipliers.

It all plays out on a glossy dance-floor stage wreathed in purple smoke, glowing skyscrapers and red pagodas and Chinese neon signs stacked up behind it. The symbols are DJ kit, gold turntables, blue speakers, gold-and-blue headphones, purple firecrackers and a purple-gold yin-yang, with a pair of red sneakers thrown in. A loud, funky neon-Chinatown block party.