Yum Yum Powerways

Theme and Design

Food Glorious Food And An Eye-Crossing Reel Set Up!

Pragmatic Play return to a junk food theme in Yum Yum Powerways, perfect for those whose saccharine tastes have been indulged on games like Sweet Bonanza already. It’s a clever game where the reels are built into a food truck on the sea front, hosted by a moustachioed chef with a talent for creating sweet delicacies like Yum Yums and cakes (as well as burgers, chips and pizzas).

This is a bright and cheerful game with an upbeat holiday soundtrack and if you weren’t feeling hungry before you loaded up the game, you soon will be!

RTP and Variance

Yum Yum Powerways, like many Pragmatic Play slots, has more than one RTP setting. I’ve seen this game running at both 96.43% and 94.59% at various slot sites. In truth there is not much daylight between those and you wouldn’t notice the difference in a short session. However, there will be lower settings available to your operator and it’s always best to check the RTP in the game info screen before you start to avoid playing at lower than 94%. Here is the RTP at 5 sites we regularly use to test slots. 

• Betfred Games (Independent) – 96.43% RTP
• Casumo (Independent) – 94.59% RTP
• Bacana Play (Skill on Net) – 94.59% RTP
• Vegasland (Aspire Global) – 94.59% RTP
• All British Casino (L and L Europe) – 94.59% RTP

Of these 5, Betfred Games offers the best RTP, running at the optimum level of 96.43%.

Yum Yum Powerways is also a highly volatile slot – rated 5/5 by Pragmatic Play themselves. With a bonus round stacked with progressive multiplier potential it is likely that much of the RTP is saved back for those free spins and it can be a tight game otherwise. So, better to set your stake to absorb the tougher runs.

Maximum Win

The maximum win here is 5,000x which is a little underwhelming, though not uncommon for Pragmatic Play. There are slots from this studio with a much greater potential – you can check them out here if you prefer.

Symbols and Paytable

You'll Need Help From Multipliers To Get Value From The Paytable

Onto the paytable and let’s just take a quick look at the reel set up before we pull up the symbols. At first glance it can seem a bit confusing but it’s straight forward enough. You have a 4×4 grid in the middle of the screen, with one reel on each side. Wins are scored by hitting four or more matching symbols from left to right, right to left, bottom to top or top to bottom. That creates a total of 16,384 paylines that are active at any one time. Note that wins only trigger when the line starts from one of the outer reels.

With so many paylines available and the chances of big multipliers which I will explain below, Pragmatic Play have held back on the values in the paytable, maxing out at just 1.5x for 6 top paying premiums. In short, you are going to need help to power-up those wins.

There are no card suits or card numbers in play, only snacks.

The low value ones are the sweets – doughnuts, cakes and chocolates. These are valued at from 0.05x for 3 cup cakes up to 0.25x for 6 cheesecakes. The premiums are the mains – burgers, pizzas, drumsticks, tacos and chips. These are valued at from 0.1x for 3 chips up to 1.5x for 6 burgers.

Wilds are also important in this game – they appear during the base game to sub in to create wins but are bigger in the free spins round where they are guaranteed on every free spin, appearing in the middle 4×4 zone.

Features and Gameplay

Winning Symbol Replacement and Progressive Multipliers

With each spin the symbols in the middle 4x4 grid change independently, whilst the reels on the top and bottom spin horizontally, and those on the 2 sides spin vertically.

If a win is triggered, then a Winning Symbol Replacement Feature is brought it. That is effectively like a Cascade. All the winning symbols are removed and new ones dropped in. This continues until no more wins are formed.

At the same time a Win Multiplier is ticking up by 1x for each win in the sequence. When no more wins are triggered, then the multiplier is applied to the total win value from the sequence value before it is paid out.

Then the multiplier resets and the game starts up again.

Free Spins With Enhanced Progressive Multipliers

The free spins round is triggered by landing 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatters anywhere on the reels. That gets you 6, 8, 10 or 12 free plays. The good news is that during the bonus round and ONE additional scatter to land will boost your free spins by an extra 2. There is also a gamble feature that lets you gamble your free spins for more (or lose them all). You can max out this way but bear in mind that if you lose your gamble, your back to square one and the base game.

How does Yum Yum up the potential in the free spins round?

Easy … the progressive multiplier now starts at 3x and with every win in a sequence increases by a further 3x. That’s quite an enhancement and a generous add on that off sets the low value of symbols described earlier.

Finally, a further treat is that for EVERY free spin you will get an extra Wild in the 4×4 middle grid, giving you a little extra chance of completing win lines.