The Chicken Road slot machine is a product of InOut Games, a software developer that has been active in the gaming industry since 2015. The game is an entertaining blend of farming and road trip themes, featuring colorful graphics and engaging sound effects.
Theme and Design
As the name suggests, the theme of Chicken Road revolves around chickens traveling on a road, accompanied by other farm animals such as cows, pigs, and horses. The background of the game depicts a winding country road lined with trees, while the reels are surrounded by animated Chicken Road free demo characters, including clucking hens and silly-looking dogs.
The design is visually appealing, with crisp graphics that bring the theme to life. InOut has successfully integrated 3D animations into the gameplay, adding an extra layer of excitement. The layout is standard for a modern slot machine, featuring five reels and three rows of symbols, along with a set number of paylines.
Symbols
The game’s symbol roster includes both low-value and high-value items that contribute to winning combinations in varying ways:
- Low-Value Symbols: These are the standard letter and number characters commonly seen on slots. A through K letters (A=1000x, B=800x, C=700x, D=600x), 10 through Ace numbers (10=500x, J=450x, Q=400x), plus a zero (Z) symbol worth 2000x.
- High-Value Symbols: These are the various farm animal symbols. Each has unique animations and designs that add to the game’s charm.
- Cow: triggers bonus features; pays 1,000x for five of kind
- Pig: serves as a Scatter symbol (explained in detail below); no fixed payouts listed
Payouts
As mentioned above, low-value symbols offer variable payout multipliers depending on how many land in a winning combination. No information is available about the exact amount or method used to calculate these amounts.
High-value farm animal symbols are special in that each has distinct animations and serves specific purposes within gameplay (including Wild substitution explained below).
Wilds
While called "Cow", this symbol actually works as an independent wild character. It can replace any low-paying symbol on the reels, substituting to complete or enhance winning combinations.
However, it appears not all farm animal symbols have true ‘wild’ properties except for these cow’s Wild powers – although bonus feature-award capability is reserved exclusively within each unique farm animal species.
Scatters
The Pig acts as Scatter in Chicken Road and contributes different effects depending on what else appears around or close by:
- Payout: five of the same scattered pig wins a fixed 10,000x (equivalent to $1000 when betting minimum)
- Trigger free-spins feature No additional benefits noted from any combination including other symbols with this particular scatter
Bonus Features
When two matching farm animals are positioned on three or more successive reels starting from left-to-right anywhere across the board:
- Free Spins Award: Scatters award 12 extra spins and x2 multiplier bonus during entire cycle
- No additional rules appear for any combination leading to these special prizes beyond the fact that such is possible only upon hitting an overlapping arrangement with some sort of specific ‘Triggering Element’.
Gameplay
Here’s a summary of gameplay:
- Set bet amount per line and adjust total lines wagered.
- Start spinning reels using "spin" or set the Auto Play function to proceed automatically over a specified number (set between 10 and up to 1000 times).