OMG! Kittens Slot by Light & Wonder

The bonus is where this game gets clever, and it hands the three premium kittens completely separate jobs. Tiger, Bubbles and Mr Whiskers all land as full-reel photographic stacks, and to start the OMG! Free Spins round you need them on reels one through four with a Bonus symbol on reel five. What you get is decided by exactly which kittens showed up on that triggering spin, and in what quantity. Tiger sets a global multiplier on every free-spin win: one Tiger makes it 2x, four push it to 10x. Bubbles handles the spin count, adding 5 extra for one and up to 45 for four. Mr Whiskers controls a cash payout tied to your line bet, 50x for one and 400x for four, and the twist is that every Mr Whiskers that turns up during the round can pay that figure out all over again.

So the make-up of one trigger can read very differently from the next. A spin loaded with Bubbles buys you a long round at a low multiplier; a spin stacked with Tiger and Mr Whiskers gives fewer spins but heavier per-spin value. To stop a weak round stinging, the bonus carries a floor: if the whole thing finishes under 10x your total bet, it gets topped up to 10x automatically, and that count includes the scatter pay that kicked it off.

The base game has its own kicker. Tiger, Bubbles and Mr Whiskers double as scatters that pay from anywhere, alongside a Fish Cat that does the same, and any of those three premiums landing on reel five can carry a random 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x or even 100x boost on five-of-a-kind wins. The wild substitutes and pays in its own right too.

The whole thing sits on a sunlit green meadow dotted with dandelions, bright and warm in a pastel storybook way. The cheaper symbols are pet props, a pink floral collar, a milk carton on a splash, a purple ball of yarn, while the real photo kittens fill their reels inside ornate gold-framed panels with name banners up top: a fluffy brown Persian for Mr Whiskers, a ginger tabby for Tiger. A glossy blue control bar runs the bottom with a pink paw-print spin button in the middle. It is one of the gentler cute-animal machines in the older Light & Wonder catalogue, with the kitten-controlled bonus carrying the interest rather than the reels themselves.