
A cobblestone village with a castle turret off in the distance is what greets you when Animal Rhapsody loads. Music notes drift around the edges of the screen, and the higher-paying symbol spots are taken by animated animals – a Chicken, a Dog, and a Cat among them, with a few others as well. Card values like J, Q, K, and A are on the low end of the game’s paytable.
This is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with 30 paylines. The main feature you need to know about is Synced Reels, where several adjacent columns produce the same symbols on a given spin. During the Free Spins Round, this gets pushed even further because the 3 middle reels sync up on every single spin for the whole Bonus.
How Synced Reels Work
Before a spin finishes, the base game randomly picks a couple of spots on columns next to each other on the grid – occasionally stretching to 3 reels. Sections of those reels all end up with the same symbols. You don’t know which ones will be chosen, and the group size changes every time, so there’s no real pattern to it.
Wild
The Wild can turn up in any position and replaces paying symbols. It works well alongside the Synced Reels effect, especially when the Wild hits reel 1 or 5 to help a payline connect across whatever’s been matched in the middle.
Free Spins
Get into the Free Spins feature, and the backdrop switches over to a night scene. The 3 middle reels are locked together for every spin, always producing the same symbols, which means you know you just need a match on reel 1 to score. With 30 paylines running across the layout, it’s a solid base for hitting big wins.
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