Chicken Run is a 5-reel video slot game developed by Gamesys, based on the popular animated film of the same name. The game takes players to the rolling hills of rural England, where they must help Ginger, a plucky and determined chicken, gather eggs for her owner’s farm while avoiding detection from those pesky egg thieves.
Theme
The Chicken Run slot is firmly rooted in its source material, capturing the charming spirit of Aardman Animations’ stop-motion classic. The game’s colorful graphics are reminiscent of the film’s distinctive style, Chicken Run with lush green hills, quaint village buildings, and a cast of beloved characters all making appearances throughout the reels.
Design
The game’s design is a key aspect of its appeal, with a clear focus on creating an immersive experience for players. The 5×3 reel setup offers 20 fixed paylines, providing numerous opportunities to win. Symbols include Ginger, Fowler, and other recognizable faces from the film, as well as lower-paying icons featuring eggs, hens, and farm equipment.
Symbols
The game’s symbols are neatly divided into two categories: high-payers and low-payers. High-value icons feature the main characters from the film, with Ginger (wild) offering payouts of up to 2x for five-of-a-kind combinations. Fowler, the lovable but hapless rooster, offers a top prize of 1.5x for five matching symbols.
The lower-paying icons are divided into three categories: eggs (0.5x-0.25x), hens (0.4x-0.2x), and farm equipment (0.3x-0.15x). Each of these symbols offers a different payout value, with the egg symbol being the highest-value low-payer.
Payouts
The Chicken Run slot’s payouts are determined by the number of matching symbols appearing on adjacent reels, starting from left to right. The game features a top fixed jackpot prize of £10,000 (or equivalent in local currency), as well as several smaller prizes for winning combinations featuring two-to-four matching icons.
Wilds
As mentioned earlier, Ginger serves as both wild and scatter symbol within the game. When Ginger appears on reel 5, she becomes fully stacked across all reels above it, creating a unique ‘expanding wild’ feature that significantly increases the player’s chances of landing winning combinations.
Ginger also possesses an additional special power: when three or more Ginger icons land anywhere in view (scattered), they trigger one of two bonus features – either 10 free spins with added stacked symbols and increased multipliers, or a 5x multiplier for all wins on that particular spin.