Bee Hive Bonanza

Theme and Design

You can’t help but smile when you load up Bee Hive Bonanza. It is a joyful, beautifully crafted slot that with a fresh, mountainside setting with lush green grass and yellow flowers. There is a medieval element to the design with stone castle towers in the framework of the reel set and old gold and sliver coins and and a gold cup amongst the symbols. The bees themselves are jesters, peasants, knights or kings depending on their symbol value too. And in the background a jaunty medieval tune plays, before segueing into a blistering dance track in the bonus round! It’s all great fun!

RTP and Variance

Bee Hive Bonanza has an RTP (Return to Player) of 96.09%. This is about average for the UK and gives good value for your money. It is also a highly volatile game so it may be unpredictable and you can expect to have some frustrating runs of unrewarding spins before hitting a good combination of avalanches and collectors that suddenly sees a sizable payout.

Maximum Win

The top payout in Bee Hive Bonanza is 5,000x. That is not particularly high for a game of high volatility and you can find much greater potential in the games in this list. But of course, its not all about the maximum you can win. This game can still be very entertaining.

Symbols and Paytable

Bee Hive Bonanza is a 5 reel by 5 row grid slot and it utilises a Scatter Pays model, which is quite unusual. It means that you don’t need to land symbols on paylines to score a win. Instead, 6 or more identical symbols ANYWHERE on the grid will do.

Values in the paytable feel quite low, but remember, wins are more common due to the Scatter Pay model which is easier to fufill.

Most symbols are represented by tokens in yellow, blue and red. The lowest pay 0.2x to 0.3x for six on the grid, and 5x to 6x for 22 to 24 on the grid. The higher value ones pay 0.4x for six of a kind, or 7x to 8x for 22 to 24 on the grid.

There is no wild in the game.

But Honey Pot scatters will help you to get free spins, and Bee Symbols and collectors are key to driving multiplier wins in both rounds as we are about to find out.

Features and Gameplay

I found the gameplay in Bee Hive Bonanza to be really exciting. Like most Avalanche Wins games, it can deliver some pretty fast and furious big win sequences if the stars align for you.

Avalanche Wins Bring Multiple Payouts

First up, of course, this is an Avalanche Wins game. That one wins get rewarded with another chance to win as all matching symbols are removed and new ones drop in to replace them.

If more wins are created then the process repeats. Until there are no more wins.

Money Bees Add Lots of Extra Prize Potential

You will also LOVE those Money Bees.

These are extra symbols that represent a special instant win prize of 1x to 10x. They drop randomly on every spin. But you need to be on the lookout for Collector symbols because they are required to activate the Bees.

There are three types of collector:

Beehive Collector – Collects the total value of ALL bees in view.

Multiplier Beehive – Multiplies all visible bee values by 2x before they are added to the Beehive.

Adder Beehive – adds the value of your stake to all bees in view before they are then added to the Beehive.

In testing I found that Collectors are much rarer than the actual bees. And Adders are the rarest of all. But when they do land, they stay on the grid until the game phase completes and then the payout is made. So, as you land more bees, they are collected every time ... which is great!

Free Spins Comes With Progressive Multiplier Levels

Of course, the free spins round is where it’s at when it comes to creating epic wins. You get 10, 15 or 20 free spins when you land 3, 4 or 5 scatters, represented by the Honey Pot.

Now, in free spins all the same features are in play but with a new progressive multiplier too! This starts when you collect 3 scatters and increases as follows. Note, you also get more spin at each level:

3 Scatters: x2 multiplier and 2 free spins
6 Scatters: x3 multiplier and 2 free spins
9 Scatters: x4 multiplier and 2 free spins
12 Scatters: x5 multiplier and 2 free spins

Of course, reaching the 5x multiplier level will be really tough but if you hit that, combined with some good multiplier beehives and money bees .... it will be your day!!