boom slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

The theme of Boom! Is non-descript in many ways; just like the title, the reel set doesn’t give you much indication as to what the game is all about. Once you see the scatter and bonus symbols – both represented by some type of bomb – you begin to get an idea, but the rest of the symbols are mainly random, and I think Playtech tried to give Boom! More of a “feel” than “theme” by using the familiar future-80s aesthetic of pinks and purples, with a large helping of blues for good measure. As I mentioned in the first section, the result is a very attractive game but one that doesn’t have any apparent competitors to compare it with.

The wild sits at the top of the paytable, but look a little bit closer, and you will notice that it returns the same 150 coins as the highest-paying bomb symbol pictured a little bit lower down. If you are betting €1.00 per spin, you’ll need to divide that number by 50 to get your line bet - €0.02 – and then multiply that by the prize shown of 150 coins. This gives a return of €3.00 for each full payline of five wild symbols; it doesn’t seem fantastic, for sure, but as there are 50 pay lines in total, you have to hope to win on many of those lines simultaneously. The scatter symbol pays 50x your total bet for five-of-a-kind, but that combination will show up a lot less than anything else on the paytable, so it doesn’t seem worth getting too excited about. The rest of the “high-paying” symbols are suitably nondescript: a string of coloured lines, three green figures that look a lot like the old symbol Microsoft MSN Messenger, and a set of glasses with coloured splashes. All these symbols pay 100 coins or 2x your total bet – not the most attractive number, and I did tell you they were non-descript, didn’t I?

The demo version of the Boom! Slot game allows you to place bets between €0.10 and €450.00 per spin, but I highly doubt that any real online casinos will support such a wide range of wagers. The minimum bet is most likely accurate, but I suspect the maximum will be set much lower than this by most casinos.

base game & Modifiers

The base game takes place on a standard 5x3 playfield with the aforementioned 50 pay lines, and all wins except for scatter wins are awarded for hitting three or more matching symbols from left to right. You also have the Boom! Prizes, but these can only be won from within the Hold & Re-spin feature, so there isn’t much to discuss regarding the base game. Let’s move straight to the bonus rounds, as there is much more to discuss.

boom slot bonus features

There are two main features in Boom! Online slot, each of which is triggered by its own set of scatter symbols. The free games feature requires three or more scattered bonus bombs, and you win a little bit more for hitting four or five scatter symbols but sadly, there isn’t any benefit within the free games feature itself. The hold & re-spin feature needs six or more bomb symbols to trigger, and these do not have any payout of their own attached but do become sticky during the bonus round. Let’s check both out in a little more detail:

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free games feature

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hold & respin feature

boom slot review final thoughts

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