Jurassic Party

Theme and Design

Jurassic Party is a super-fun looking slot with a cartoon-style. The massive 7x7 grid is set up against a tranquil backdrop of a tropical beach paradise on a Caribbean island, with palm trees, sun loungers and a beach shack with cocktails galore. Far from being the terrifying monsters from the Jurassic Park movies, the dinos in this game look like a cheery bunch who are more interested in having a drink and sunning themselves than chasing down prey. Some of them are even wearing baseball caps and snorkel masks. If you enjoy the friendly vibe of Cluster Pays games like Aloha! form NetEnt or Keep Em Cool from Hacksaw then you’ll enjoy this sun-lounger atmosphere of this one.

RTP and Variance

Jurassic Party has a strong RTP of 96.47% which is well above average for an online slot game and suggests you will get good value for your wagering. Like many Relax slots this is also a high variance game so it will be unpredictable, with small numbers of big wins rather than a steady run of small payouts.

Maximum Win

The top payout from Jurassic Party is 20,000x. That means you can win up to £20,000 for a £1 stake. That is a good potential but not the best from Relax which is currently their Money Train 3 game with a top payout of 100,000x. Find that and more games like it in this list of Relax Gaming’s highest paying slots.

Symbols and Paytable

Jurassic Party plays out on an expansive 7x7 grid. It works on a Cluster Pays model and you will need to create clusters, or groups, of 5 or more identical symbols connected horizontally, vertically or diagonally to trigger a win.

The paytable has some impressive values at the high end, particularly when the clusters grow to a size of 40 or more. The lowest value symbols are the dinosaur eggs which come in red, blue, purple or green. They are all valued at from 0.5x for 5 in a cluster up to 50x for 40 or more in a cluster. Premiums are the four dinosaurs, again in red, blue, purple or green. Their values are from 1x for 5 in a cluster up to 500x for 40 or more red dinosaurs in a cluster.

Wilds also form a key part of the gameplay in this slot as we shall discover in a moment. For now though, just remember that these symbols substitute for all others symbols to form winning clusters.

Features and Gameplay

The gameplay in Jurassic Party is very easy to understand. Your objective, aside from building Clusters, is always to land Jurassic Party scatters that unlock either re-spins or free spins, depending on how many drop. Along the way you have Cluster Wins and Wilds with multipliers to help you.

Cluster Wins Help Build Your Payouts

Cluster Wins, also known as Avalanches, Tumbles or Cascades, will be familiar to anyone who has played a Cluster Pays slot before. After a win, winning symbols are removed from the grid and new ones drop in to replace them. This gives the chance to form further clusters and trigger more wins.

Wilds and Multiplier Wilds

What I love about Jurassic Party is that the Wilds stick to the grid when they are not used, so they aren’t wasted. And also, if a Beach Ball bounces across the screen it assigns a multiplier value to all Wilds that are visible. That happened on a regular basis in testing bringing up wild multipliers of up to 5x.

Scatters, Free Spins and Re-Spins

The scatter is represented by the Jurassic Party logo. It is key to unlocking further features and building towards bigger wins. You get re-spins and free spins with 2 or more scatters. And they come with extra features as follows:

• Symbol Turns Wild – one symbol is chosen at random from the paytable. Every time it lands during your spins it will turn Wild.
• Symbol Expansion – And pay symbol and the wild symbol expand to 2x2 randomly when they drop.
• Random Wilds – at the start of each free spins, between 2 and 6 wilds are added to the grid.
• Extra Free Spins – You get 2 extra free spins added to your total
• Symbol Upgrade – Low value eggs convert into the equivalent color dinosaur when they land.
• Extra Pick – you get to choose an extra feature for your bonus round

So, if you land 3 Scatters you get 7 spins plus 2 feature picks. These are chosen in a Pick Me feature where drinks on a bar reveal a feature when you click on them. You get more picks for more scatters. So, if you landed 4 scatters you get 3 picks, if you land 5 its 4 picks, and so on.

Landing more scatters during the free spins earns you more rewards too. So, if you land 2 more scatters during free spins you will get 2 more spins plus an extra feature pick. And if 1 scatter lands on its own, you get 1 more spin added to your total.

Finally, if you land 2 scatters in the base game, rather than free spins, you get a re-spin with 2 feature picks randomly assigned.