Fruit Mania (Slotland)

Fruit Mania is a Slotland progressive with 5 reels and 15 lines. The game has a starting jackpot of $50,000 and several bonus features which you collect symbols to activate. Slotland has released two versions of the game with both a flash and html version. If your system is flash compatible we recommend going for the flash version.

You can choose from several coin sizes on Fruit Mania that range from 0.20 to 4.00. Max bet is 15 coins so the minimum bet with all lines is $3 per spin. Oddly to win the progressive you need to play at least $10 per spin but there is no way to bet all lines for exactly $10. The 0.50 coin size is $7.50 and the $1 is $15.

It's also worth mentioning that you have to be careful with the max bet button as hitting max bet plays the top coin size of $4 on all lines which is a $60 bet! This means you really only want to press the Spin button unless you want to play at the highest level.

You could bet less than max lines but it's not something we recommend doing. This means you are really looking at $15 per spin if you are going to go for the progressive. As long as you are betting $10 per game lining up five of the Bar symbols awards the jackpot.

If you play less than $10 per spin the top pay is 1,500X your line bet for the bars. No matter what your bet size the next highest pays during regular play are 480 coins for five Sevens followed by 240 coins for the five Bells and 120 coins for five Oranges.

Fruit Mania has several types of free spins which are triggered by collecting the Level Up scatter symbols. Every time you get three or more on the screen at the same time one section of the meter on the right of the game lights up. You keep collecting level up symbols until you get three or more scattered Bonus symbols which start the bonus. The types of bonuses and required Level Up symbols are as follows.

• Free Spins (Level Up X3 or X5)
  Win three or five free spins respectively
   
• Double Wins (Level Up X7)
  Win seven free spins with all wins paid double (Except the jackpot)
   
• Wild Cherry * (Level Up X10)
  Win ten free spins where the Cherry symbol is wild for all spins
   
• Fruit Mania (Level Up X15)
  Win 15 free games where any combo of fruit wins (3 - X15, 4 - X75, 5 - X225)

During all of the free spin bonuses an extra Bonus Round +1 symbol is added to all reels. If you get one during your free games you get an extra free spin added to your games. In our experience the bonus tends to trigger on the first of second feature most of the time.

In the end Fruit Mania is sure to be a popular new addition to the progressive range at Slotland. We like the unusual style of free spin features although the fact that you cannot bet exactly the $10 required for the progressive is a bit of a negative. Still as long as you are prepared to play $15 per spin it's an entertaining game to play.