The Great Chicken Escape

The Great Chicken Escape barely allows its conventional five reel structure to remain conventional for long. Random modifiers can cover the grid with Guard Dog Wilds, turn several complete reels Wild or introduce stacks of Mystery Symbols, while the Bonus system opens five very different escape plans. Those features can then be gambled in an attempt to reach something stronger, culminating in a Big Money Bonus where repeated barrel prizes can continue accumulating until Collect appears. The game uses five reels, three rows and 20 fixed paylines, with bets ranging from 0.20 to 100. Volatility is medium high and the maximum win reaches 5,500x the total bet. Regular combinations form across adjacent reels from the left, while Charlie acts as the standard Wild and substitutes for every regular paying symbol except the Bonus. Three Random Spin Features can interrupt ordinary paid play. Guard Dog Wilds places between 4 and 9 additional Wild symbols at random positions across the grid. Chicken Run Wilds is considerably more aggressive with reel coverage, transforming between 2 and 4 complete reels into Wild reels. Care Package instead adds stacks of golden eggs that behave as Mystery Symbols and transform into the same randomly selected regular paying symbol. The Escape Plan is the Bonus symbol. Landing 3 or 4 Bonus symbols awards one of the main Bonus Features, while landing 5 sends the player directly to the Big Money Bonus. When one of the lower features is awarded, the Feature Gamble creates another decision. The player can accept the current bonus or risk it for an opportunity to move to a stronger feature. Losing the gamble does not simply erase everything, as a Mystery Prize is awarded instead. Secret Tunnel is the first of the interactive bonus games. Three chests are presented and a selection can reveal a cash award, Collect or the Mystery Tunnel. Cash prizes increase the current bonus total, while Collect ends the round. Finding the Mystery Tunnel opens four tunnel entrances, and selecting one can transfer the player into one of the other bonus games. Poultry in Motion uses a 22 point escape trail. Each selection from five golden eggs can move the chicken between 1 and 5 steps or reveal Collect. The position reached on the trail determines the available prize, with values increasing as the escape progresses. Reaching the final point is especially important because it upgrades the round into the Big Money Bonus rather than simply ending the trail. Get Clucky changes the format completely by awarding 10 Free Spins. A special Wild can appear during the feature, and every one that lands increases the win multiplier by 1x for the remaining Free Spins. The multiplier therefore becomes progressively more valuable when Wilds arrive early, since later wins can benefit from all of the increases already collected. Get Clucky cannot be retriggered. To the Other Side also revolves around Wilds but saves their value for one decisive result. The feature begins with 9 Free Spins during which appearing Wilds are collected into a dedicated Wild bank. After those nine spins, a special tenth spin begins and all collected Wilds are returned to random positions across the grid. The objective is therefore to accumulate as much Wild coverage as possible before that final release. This feature cannot be retriggered either. The Big Money Bonus sits at the top of the feature structure. A carousel contains 12 barrels with prizes ranging from 10x to 500x the total bet. A barrel is selected and its value is added to the accumulated bonus win, after which a golden egg can provide another carousel spin or reveal Collect. Additional spins allow further barrel prizes to be accumulated, while Collect ends the round and awards the complete total. The Great Chicken Escape stands apart from most early Pragmatic Play releases because there is no single feature that defines every session. Paid spins already have three different random modifiers, three or four Bonus symbols can open several completely different games, the Feature Gamble can change which bonus is ultimately played, and some lower features contain routes into stronger ones. Between progressive Free Spins, banked Wilds, interactive trails, Mystery selections and the repeatable Big Money carousel, the game packs an unusually broad feature hierarchy into a simple 20 line grid.

The Great Chicken Escape barely allows its conventional five reel structure to remain conventional for long. Random modifiers can cover the grid with Guard Dog Wilds, turn several complete reels Wild or introduce stacks of Mystery Symbols, while the Bonus system opens five very different escape plans. Those features can then be gambled in an attempt to reach something stronger, culminating in a Big Money Bonus where repeated barrel prizes can continue accumulating until Collect appears. The game uses five reels, three rows and 20 fixed paylines, with bets ranging from 0.20 to 100. Volatility is medium high and the maximum win reaches 5,500x the total bet. Regular combinations form across adjacent reels from the left, while Charlie acts as the standard Wild and substitutes for every regular paying symbol except the Bonus. Three Random Spin Features can interrupt ordinary paid play. Guard Dog Wilds places between 4 and 9 additional Wild symbols at random positions across the grid. Chicken Run Wilds is considerably more aggressive with reel coverage, transforming between 2 and 4 complete reels into Wild reels. Care Package instead adds stacks of golden eggs that behave as Mystery Symbols and transform into the same randomly selected regular paying symbol. The Escape Plan is the Bonus symbol. Landing 3 or 4 Bonus symbols awards one of the main Bonus Features, while landing 5 sends the player directly to the Big Money Bonus. When one of the lower features is awarded, the Feature Gamble creates another decision. The player can accept the current bonus or risk it for an opportunity to move to a stronger feature. Losing the gamble does not simply erase everything, as a Mystery Prize is awarded instead. Secret Tunnel is the first of the interactive bonus games. Three chests are presented and a selection can reveal a cash award, Collect or the Mystery Tunnel. Cash prizes increase the current bonus total, while Collect ends the round. Finding the Mystery Tunnel opens four tunnel entrances, and selecting one can transfer the player into one of the other bonus games. Poultry in Motion uses a 22 point escape trail. Each selection from five golden eggs can move the chicken between 1 and 5 steps or reveal Collect. The position reached on the trail determines the available prize, with values increasing as the escape progresses. Reaching the final point is especially important because it upgrades the round into the Big Money Bonus rather than simply ending the trail. Get Clucky changes the format completely by awarding 10 Free Spins. A special Wild can appear during the feature, and every one that lands increases the win multiplier by 1x for the remaining Free Spins. The multiplier therefore becomes progressively more valuable when Wilds arrive early, since later wins can benefit from all of the increases already collected. Get Clucky cannot be retriggered. To the Other Side also revolves around Wilds but saves their value for one decisive result. The feature begins with 9 Free Spins during which appearing Wilds are collected into a dedicated Wild bank. After those nine spins, a special tenth spin begins and all collected Wilds are returned to random positions across the grid. The objective is therefore to accumulate as much Wild coverage as possible before that final release. This feature cannot be retriggered either. The Big Money Bonus sits at the top of the feature structure. A carousel contains 12 barrels with prizes ranging from 10x to 500x the total bet. A barrel is selected and its value is added to the accumulated bonus win, after which a golden egg can provide another carousel spin or reveal Collect. Additional spins allow further barrel prizes to be accumulated, while Collect ends the round and awards the complete total. The Great Chicken Escape stands apart from most early Pragmatic Play releases because there is no single feature that defines every session. Paid spins already have three different random modifiers, three or four Bonus symbols can open several completely different games, the Feature Gamble can change which bonus is ultimately played, and some lower features contain routes into stronger ones. Between progressive Free Spins, banked Wilds, interactive trails, Mystery selections and the repeatable Big Money carousel, the game packs an unusually broad feature hierarchy into a simple 20 line grid.