---

---

hot fruits on ice slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

Fruit-themed games are ten a penny in the online slots industry; I could rattle off a dozen or more of them here by every developer you can think of, but there really wouldn’t be much point to it. What is worth saying is that fruits make the ideal theme for a game that is intended to be a modern interpretation of the “classic” slot machine, as these are the types of symbols which were used on some of the very first slot machines ever built. The first recorded slot machine, known as the “Liberty Bell”, did not feature fruits. Still, its immediate sequel did and was the first game to win over the drinkers of the day who would play the “fruit machines” at the bar of their favourite saloons in the San Francisco area of the United States.

Hot Fruits on Ice online slot includes just five unique symbols on its reel strips, which means that winning combinations tend to show up relatively frequently. The top symbol is the Lucky 7, paying 8.33x your stake for a single full pay line of four-of-a-kind. A full screen of Lucky 7’s would therefore return 75x your bet normally as there are nine pay lines, but if you score a full screen of this symbol, your winnings will also be subject to a 7x multiplier, returning the maximum jackpot of 525x your bet. The watermelon is next in the line-up, paying 5.55x your stake for a single pay line or 250x for a full screen, including the 5x multiplier applied to that combination. The remaining symbols include a peach, which pays 2.77x for a single pay line or a total of 100x for a full screen, followed by a plum at 1.66x/45x, and finally the lemon with a return of just 1x/18x – you can’t help but feel a little disappointed at winning less than 20x your bet for a full screen of matching symbols, even if it is the lowest one on the paytable!

The default currency when playing in demo mode shows up as being DEM. Still, the developer states the minimum/maximum bets when playing for real money in Euros as being €0.09 and €9.00, respectively, which makes much more sense.

base game & modifiers

The base game of the Hot Fruits on Ice video slot consists of a 4x3 playfield with nine fixed paylines, and winnings are awarded for hitting three or four matching symbols from left to right on a payline. The symbols are stacked on the reels, too, which can be something of a double-edged sword; on the one hand, the stacked symbols make it possible to hit a full screen of matching symbols for bigger wins, whilst on the other, these stacks can also make it harder to hit regular single-line wins.

This title is defined as a “classic slot”, so I won’t give it too much of a hard time for being light on features and modifiers – it is very much intentional in a game like this. Classic slots are the easiest for new players to understand but also tend to be quite limited in scope and, therefore, may not hold the interest of experienced players for very long. Mancala has wisely decided to include a single modifier, explained below.

---

multiplier feature

hot fruits on ice slot review final thoughts

Top

---