Bonus Bears slot is a five reels and twenty five paylines slot machine game by Playtech and is quite a reminiscent of Yogi Bear cartoon series. This series depicted a bear named Yogi with its side kick called Boo Boo dwelling in a national park.
Yogi Bear and his close friend have a penchant for stealing picnic baskets from the tourists visiting the national park. This cartoon series is available in the form of comic books, cartoon series and now it has a new avatar in the form of three dimensional animated comedy movies.
The theme of Bonus Bears slot machine game is loosely based on this character. This slot game takes its player to a scenic national park, home to the bonus bears. The main character of this game is a brown bear who not only helps the player to land big prizes but also shares a win by giving out a loud cheer.
The background of Bonus Bears is based on a picturesque landscape of a meadow with lofty trees and snow capped mountains. Reels of this game are honey colored with wasps buzzing around them and enjoying the delicious nectar. The graphics used in this game are of high standard accompanied by a jolly soundtrack.
Apart from the usual prizes, Bonus Bears also provides its player with extra bonus features which are Free Spins and Honey Feature.
Bonus Bears Slot Game Features
Bear Bonus comes with a base game jackpot of 5000x along with all the usual features which include auto play, bonus round, free spins, scatters, wild symbol and multipliers but it does not provide any kind of progressive jackpot or gambling options. The maximum coin limit for this game is set up at ten coins. The coin range for this game starts at £0.01 and goes up to £5. The minimum wagering requirement for this game ranges from £0.01 – £1000.00.
The high value symbols of this game include a Redhead park ranger, a skunk, a hornet and a picnic basket. The park ranger is the highest paying symbol and landing five of them on an active payline gives a payout of 5000 coins. The other symbols are from the deck of cards such as 9, 10, J, Q and K. The other special symbols in this game include a bee hive as a scatter and brown bear as the wild symbol.
Wild Symbol: The brown bear is the wild symbol of Bonus Bears slot game. It can be substituted for all symbols with an exception to scatter symbol. The wild symbol of this game appears only on second, third and fourth reel. Apart from helping in creating winning combinations, this symbol also activates the Free Game feature. Free Spins are initiated when you land the brown bear on reel 2, 3 and 4 at the same time.
Scatter Symbols: The beehive acts as the scatter symbol. It also helps in initiating Honey feature if you can land at least three of such symbols anywhere on the reels.
Bonus Bears Slot Bonus Rounds and Free Spins
Free Spins
As mentioned above you can generate Free Spins by landing the wild symbol on particular reels. Landing Free Spin allows a player 15 free spins along with an extra bonus in the form of 3x multiplier. This means that any win made by you in this round gets tripled. You can also earn more free spins by getting three of the brown bear symbols on specific reels. Honey Feature can be also initiated in this round.
Honey Feature
Landing at least three of the beehive symbols anywhere on the reels starts the Honey Feature. During this feature, the player is allowed to play a game in which he or she must select a tree for the brown bear to climb. There are some beehives filled with honey on these trees and finding them awards a prize and small final bonus of 2x. Along with honey filled beehives, there are certain beehives which harbour only bees and hitting any one of these finishes the bonus game.