Hot Turkey

Theme and Design

Thunderkick’s festive offering for 2024 is all about the feast of Christmas with a 7x7 grid set against the backdrop of a yuletide feast of sausages, sprouts, turkey and Christmas pud. The meal is being enjoyed by revellers supping wine and a jaunty soundtrack completes the atmosphere. It’s all very jovial and likely to put you in the seasonal spirit. Typically high quality stuff from a studio known for their top level production.

RTP and Variance

Hot Turkey has an RTP of 94.13%. This is the standard for Thunderkick games now which generally all run at around 94%. That is under the average for online slots – 96% - but it is at least a fixed RTP. You won’t find the game running at anything less than 94.13%.

Thunderkick rate the volatility as medium-high which means the win distribution could be a little uneven.

Maximum Win

The maximum win from one spin in Hot Turkey is 10,000x. That means you can win £1,000 with a 10p stake which is about average for a medium-high variance game. If you want to spin for higher prizes you can try our list of slots with the highest max wins.

Symbols and Paytable

Hot Turkey is a 7 reel, 7 row slot with a cluster pays format. That means you trigger wins by building clusters of 5 or more identical symbols in horizontally or vertically adjacent positions. The nice part about cluster pays is that you can build massive clusters of up to 25 or more symbols for big payouts.

You have just 6 symbols in the table to work with. They are the holly, the candy, the present, the pie slice, the drink and the woman. These are valued at from 0.1x for 5 hollys up to 100x for 25 or more woman symbols.

There is also a Wild represented by the turkey, which substitutes for any pay symbol to complete a cluster. It has other powers which are explained below.

Features and Gameplay

Cluster Wins and Avalanches

Firstly, this game uses the classic avalanche feature after every winning spin. The winning symbols in each cluster are removed from the grid and remaining symbols and new ones drop down into the spaces left behind. This can create further clusters, more wins, and more avalanches. The process just keeps repeating until no more clusters are formed.

Exploding Wilds and the Multiplier Grid

The Turkey Wild doesn’t just substitute for other symbols to create clusters. It also explodes when it lands, clearing an area of 3x3 on the grid around it.

Not only does this create more avalanches but it also reveals multipliers in the positions underneath. Those multipliers start at 2x and double each time an explosion occurs over the top of them, up to a max of 128x.

Multipliers are applied to any cluster formed over the top of them. And if more than one multiplier is part of the win, then they are added together before being applied.

Free Spins With Persistent Multiplier Grid

The free spins round in Hot Turkey is unlocked by landing 3 or more HOT scatter symbols.

That gets you 10 spins where the multiplier grid is persistent between spins – that means it does NOT re-set so you have the chance to build huge multipliers.

And furthermore you can re-trigger this feature by landing 3 more scatters.