Hurdy Gurdy Slots
Hurdy Gurdy is a video online slot game developed by well known online gaming software developers Wager Gaming (WGS Technology) and released way back in June 2009. The theme is based around a farm with animals and years later this slot game is still proving to be popular alongside other slot games produced by WGS such as Funky Chicken and Karaoke Cash. The progressive jackpots they offer in their slot games tend to be traditional three reel classic slots and the games that stand in their repertoire tend to be on the simpler side being easy to play and also carry unique themes. Hurdy Gurdy is no exception as this slot is super simple and intuitive to navigate.
Hurdy Gurdy for those unfamiliar with the name is a curious looking mechanical musical instrument also commonly known as a barrel or small pipe organ. It is played by turning a crank/handle which rotates a cylinder studded with pegs that open valves to produce music and saw great popularity in the late 18th/early 19th centuries. They were often played in village churches or in the streets of many European towns and villages by travelling musicians throughout Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Britain and Hungary. For this slot game WGS have provided ample bonus features which include the wilds with multipliers, a free games/spins feature where players can see their winning payouts tripled, a jackpot with a maximum prize of 70,000$ and a Pick and Win feature which offers different cash prizes.
Players are introduced to a gaming grid of 5 reels and 3 rows with 25 paylines (ways to win) and the background to the reels shows a blue sky singing over a vibrant green and lush countryside scene complete with windmill, tulips in the foreground and cows grazing. The illustrations and graphics are impressively realised with nice and fun details applied to every symbol/icon.
Players are able to wager between a minimum of 0.25$ per spin moving up to a maximum of 250.00$ per spin. This generously wide range makes sure that every kind of player is catered to from the smaller budget and novice/casual player through to the middle of the range punters as well as the risk loving/high rollers with deeper pockets. Players can enable the autoplay/spin feature which allows the reels to spin uninterrupted for a set number of spins which allows a player to either sit back or helps in controlling a gaming budget for more responsible play.
Hurdy Gurdy slot game is based around a small cattle farming community and the symbols reflect the farming and animal theme well with icons that include a cowbell, a bunch of tulips, grandma, a windmill, a milk pail, a cow, wooden clogs, waffles and cheese in addition to farm workers Tulip, Jahn and Hurdy. Hurdy the curly blonde haired girl is the wild symbol and as usual for wilds this can replace and substitute for all the other symbols in the game with the exception of the scatter which here is presented by a milk pail. The milk pail is responsible for triggering the Pick and Win Feature when three or more of these symbols appear on the reels at the same time.
At Hurdy Gurdy slot game all of the symbols pay left to right except the scatters which pay any and players can make wins by lining up a minimum of between 2 to 5 identical symbols on a payline running from left to right. The regular paying symbols pay out between 3,000x to 1,000x for 5 on a payline and the lower paying symbols pay out between 500x, 250x, 150x and 100x for 5.
Hurdy is the highest paying symbol in the slot as well as the wild and pays out 7,000x for five on a payline. The Free Games Feature is triggered when she, Tulip and Jahn appear anywhere on reels 2, 3 and 4. Players can enjoy 15 free spins during which all wins are tripled with a x3 multiplier and these free spins can be retriggered.
The Pick and Win feature is triggered at Hurdy Gurdy slot when three or more the milk pail scatters land on the reels and when this feature triggers players are shown three different milk pails to pick and choose and therefore reveal what hidden prizes lie within. In a nice animation touch the cow kicks the milk pauls over with her back legs to reveal the prizes. Players can take note that this feature can be triggered at the same time as playing the free games feature.
Hurdy Gurdy slot is fully mobile optimized so players can enjoy playing from either a desktop or if they prefer to game on the go they can use their mobile compatible devices such as smartphones and tablets with Android, iOS devices and Samsung for seamless and instant gaming.