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Everybody knows what Playboy is, but just in case somebody doesn’t have a clue, it is a monthly magazine that used to be classified as pornography in days gone by. As the internet has taken over that particular niche, the magazine has moved with the times and is now more of a fashion and lifestyle type publication that appeals to a much broader spectrum than the earlier incarnation. Glitz, Glamour, and Girls are the order of the day here, with the top picture symbols being the four lovely ladies who also appear in the Playboy Club and the others being a selection of Playboy inspired scenes – ladies or couples having fun together, that sort of thing. The music has made it over to the HTML5 version, unlike some other conversions of Microgaming slots. The company has done a great job making this responsive-design type version of the game work well on all of my devices (smartphone, tablet, and computer), and the upgraded high-resolution graphics are immediately noticeable on today’s super high-resolution monitors and displays. 

The paytable is topped out by the scatters which return 200x your stake for all five, or 1,000x when boosted by the 5x multiplier in the first of the four features. Wilds are next in the pecking order, at 33.3x your stake for a full line of five. Of course, being a 243-ways game, getting a wild on every reel also means you win every other possible combination on the screen as well, so is always going to return a decent hit. The picture symbols top out at 16.66x your stake, followed by 15x, 13.33x, 11.66x, and 10x. Nothing particularly special here, but they certainly are not terrible numbers for a many ways game.

All of Microgaming’s early 243-way games – and I think even their present-day ones – force you to bet at least €0.30 per spin to get in on the action. It’s not a huge figure, of course, but it may put a few players off giving it a try. There are nights when I only want to spend €10.00 for example, and I wouldn’t consider opening a game such as Playboy unless I had already built my balance up to at least €30 – perhaps even €50. One thing I noticed straight away about Playboy back when it was released is that the maximum stake is set quite low – just €15. This is much lower than other Microgaming 243-way slots of the day, making you wonder if the variance is much higher in this release?

This feature is available right away and is just the same as the one featured in other Microgaming 243-way slots such as Thunderstruck 2. All wins are multiplied by 5x, and you can retrigger ten more free spins by landing three or more scatters during the bonus. The maximum win here is 1,000x your stake for five scatters, but good luck ever seeing it – it’s hard enough to hit during the base game! Whilst the RTP is theoretically the same for all four of the features in the Playboy slot game, it does feel like this one has a little less potential compared with some of the others.

My favourite of the bunch, in this feature you start with 15 spins and one wild on each reel, Every spin, an additional wild is added directly underneath the existing stack of wilds. By the time you are at your tenth spin, each reel has a stack of ten wilds on it. I seem to do very well in this feature, regularly landing full stacks of wilds on two or more reels, and sometimes this can happen several times during a single feature too. There are no retriggers up for grabs here, but there is nothing to stop you from hitting a full screen of wilds multiple times in a single bonus. 

The rolling reels were the fourth feature in Thunderstruck 2, but have been shuffled back to third place in Playboy. Each time a winning combination lands, the symbols which make up the win will be removed from the reels so that new ones can land in their place. This allows you to win many times from a single spin, and better yet, there is an ascending multiplier that tops out at 5x if you win more than four times as a result of the rolling reels. It’s impossible to calculate the maximum win from this feature, but like the Kimi free spins, it doesn’t feel as lucrative as Sofia or Jillian’s options.

Finally, could this be your turn for a wild night? You receive 25 free spins and once again no retriggers are possible, but every spin has the potential for the wild night feature to activate which will turn one or more reels into full stacks of wilds. Three reels seem much easier to hit in this feature compared to the Wild Storm feature in Thunderstruck 2, and I have even had four on two occasions. I’ve never scored the full five, but have seen a video of it occurring twice back to back on YouTube for a total of 16,200x the player’s stake. Could it happen three or more times? Only Microgaming knows the answer sadly, but technically, there is no reason why not.

Be warned, it is possible to go the whole 25 spins without ever seeing the Wild Night feature activate at all. I can’t resist choosing this option once in a while, but find it much easier to hit big wins from the running wilds (Sofia/15 Spins) bonus, so tend to choose that one most of the time.

I didn’t expect anything special from Playboy, wrongly assuming that most of the money would have gone on the license with only a little left over for the development of the slot. Whilst it’s true there is a lot of reused code here, and most of the features have been seen before in other Microgaming 243-way online slots, Playboy seems to combine the very best of many of those games into something greater than the sum of its parts.

Big wins are possible in the base game – 200x from the scatters, and potentially a fair bit more than this for screens with a wild on every reel and plenty of picture symbols at the same time. This keeps things from getting dull whilst you wait for the bonus rounds, which are, realistically, what Playboy is really all about. Nevertheless, this has to be one of my favourite Microgaming slots of all time. ‘Nuff said!

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