5-Reel Circus

5-Reel Circus, a Rival Gaming slot with 5 reels and 15 paylines, gives away prizes of up to $37,500, while offering features like free spins, multipliers, wild symbols and scatters.

The circus is the game's main theme, and you will find in it many of the characters and animals that you would see performing in one of their shows. The reels, which occupy most of the screen, are surrounded by the circus tent, with red and orange being the predominant colors used in the game. The reels have as a background a curtain that is colored in two shades of orange. On these reels, the symbols use images taken from the life of the circus, starting with the wild (tiger) and the scatter (clowns), and continuing with the regular symbols, among which you will find a lion, a bear, the elephant, seals, acrobats, the circus wagon, the bearded lady, a clown, the ring master and the circus cannon. It's not a great looking design, but it does its job well enough.

The bets used on a spin of the game's reels use up to 5 coins per payline, and coins valued between $0.01 and $1, allowing for bets of up to $75 cash. The prizes awarded are multiples for the line bet, so the big jackpot, which is 7500x, gives away up to 37,500 coins, or $37,500 cash.

You need the wild symbol, the tiger, on all five positions of a payline, if you want that big prize. Four symbols will still pay a decent amount, 2000x the line bet, but go lower, to three or two symbols, and the prizes are considerably smaller.

The top jackpot symbol acts as the wild at the same time, substituting for the other symbols that are on the payline, trying to create new combinations if possible.

Next, we have the scatter symbol, the one with two clowns with big tops, and as scatters usually do, this one can appear anywhere on the reels, and you will receive free spins if there are at least three of them. The player gets 10 spins when that happens, plus a 3x multiplier. The free spins can be retriggered, as long as the minimum number of three scatters appear again, all during the same free spin. The scatter symbol also pays cash prizes, awarding up to 100 times the bet that was made, if you have two to five of them.

An interesting game, with decent prizes and a sufficient number of features, but the graphics let it down a bit.