Nunchucks Chicken

Nunchucks Chicken: Slot Overview

Ever heard of a Googlewhack? If not, it's the phenomenon of entering two words into a Google search and having it return a single result. Examples of this have been 'demurrable insufficiencies' and 'maladroit wheezer'. When Nunchucks Chicken landed on the review desk, the two-word title felt like a prime candidate for a Googlewhack. However, when plugging 'Nunchucks Chicken' into a query search, several pages of results emerged, including images of actual nunchucks crafted in the shape of chickens.

If chicken-shaped weapons sound enjoyably silly, then Nunchucks Chicken from developer Skywind Group might be right up your alley. This is a farmyard bound online slot that upends the rule book by adding headbands to animals and arming some of them with nunchucks, shurikens, and bombs. If you're ready to 'Witness the Power of Cluck-Fu', let's do it. Nunchucks Chicken is based in a rural setting and initially came across as an Angry Birds meets Big Bad Wolf mash-up. Everything from the trees to the pumpkins to the stacks of hay has an effortlessly amiable cartoon appearance. Images of chickens wielding nunchucks enhance the positive vibes, encouraging a spin or two to see where the ludicrousness might lead.

Putting silliness aside for a moment, let's get serious and plough through the numbers. The first thing to verify is RTP because while the default value is a solid 96.5%, it can be found at 94.5% or as low as 89.5%, depending on the market. In all cases, volatility is officially classed as high. Any device is suitable for taking on these martial artists, where stakes range from 25 p/c to $/€250. Or, you can add an extra 20% to activate the Ante Bet, doubling your chance of winning the feature.

Jammed into a wooden barn bursting with livestock is a 5x5, 25-payline game panel. Landing across it are nine normal paying symbols, starting with wood designed 10-A card royals as the low pays. Lows are worth 1.2 to 2 times the stake for five of a kind, while the five high-value animal symbols pay 4 to 10 times the bet for a line of five. A nunchucks tile is wild, appearing on all five reels. Nunchucks wilds substitute for all symbols except the scatter and pay 40x the bet for a line of five of them.

Nunchucks Chicken: Slot Features

So we've seen where the nunchucks come in; the other part of the puzzle is the chicken which appears on the scatter symbol. Scatters appear on reels 2, 3, or 4, and having 2 scatters in view triggers the Ninja Respins feature, or having 3 scatters in view triggers the Shuriken Showdown.

Ninja Respins

Before the respin begins, a starting multiplier of x2, x3, x4, x5, x10, x20, or x50 is awarded. If no win occurs on the respin, the multiplier increases by +1, and the reels are respun again. The reels respin, and the multiplier increases until a win is eventually produced.

Shuriken Showdown

Triggered by landing 3 scatters in the base game, Shuriken Showdown is played on a 6x6 grid where normal symbols are removed from the reels. In their place, special symbols appear. These are foxes, chickens, crates, or numbers.

• Crates are basically blocker tiles, which do nothing except take up space. Numbers are collected in a meter located above the grid, and foxes carry bombs. When a fox appears, the bomb it carries explodes, removing all of the crates in view.
• Chickens can do one of two things. If a chicken lands holding nunchucks, it first destroys all surrounding crates. Then any numbers surrounding the chicken are collected, and the summed total is placed in the position below. Finally, nunchucks chickens add a value of +3 to +100 to the summed number they just placed. When chickens land holding shurikens, they do the same thing, except, instead of adding a value, they multiply the consolidated number by x2 to x100.

Now, a row of random symbols is added to the grid on each spin. When crates are destroyed, symbols in the rows above them fall down into the empty gaps. There is no set number of free spins. Instead, the feature ends when no more symbols can be added to the top row, Tetris style. Then, the bet is multiplied by the number in the multiplier box and awarded.

Not in the mood to trigger the Shuriken Showdown organically? If the option is available in your jurisdiction, you can instead pay 100x the bet to buy the bonus instantly.

Nunchucks Chicken: Slot Verdict

Is it just us, or has Skywind Group been pushing the boat out a further lately in terms of creativity and original ideas? Despite having hundreds of slots in their arsenal, it wasn't till they started dabbling in Megaways that they really popped up on our radar. Now they're here, it's nice to see them deviating from the norm. One of the first examples of this was Alive! Megaways which made a huge break from the Asian, Buffalo, Fruit slot fusions they seemed to be stuck turning out. If anything, Nunchucks Chickens is just as quirky as the Frankenstein's Monster's B-movie extravaganza was, and it's nice to see Skywind expose more of their light-hearted side.

So Nunchucks Chicken wears its theme well, how about the gameplay? Well, the bonus game is an interesting one, made up of as many elements found within online slots as outside them. As well as the Tetris dimension, what makes Shuriken Free Spins pop is the 2048 game element. The way chickens combine numbers into one, then whack on another value, or even better, multiply them, can grow number values exponentially. One minute you've got a bunch of crates and numbers on screen doing nowt, then the next minute, a couple of chickens have flocked in to lay a decent result. When all those the ninjas, nunchucks, bombs, and shurikens are flying, wins of up to 10,000x the bet is a possibility.

The cute, anthropomorphic animal category of slots is full of oddball entries, and Nunchucks Chickens certainly qualifies as one of these. The venture largely works too, as Nunchucks Chicken brims with charm, charismatic critters, and a unique bonus round that has the ability to harness the power of repeat growth to pile up decent returns.