Pragmatic Play’s The Great Chicken Escape is an entertaining video slot that was inspired by the classic movie The Great Escape
Though, we have to say that the Great Chicken Escape did not only get its inspiration from Hollywood. It seems evident that Pragmatic Play has stolen the whole slot set-up from Blueprint Gaming.
This popular format has many (mini) bonus features, a bonus feature gamble option and a Big Money Bonus Round as the best bonus.
Slots like Inspector Gadget, Ted and King Kong Cash are typical examples of Blueprint Gaming slots, with very similar features.
The quarrel between Pragmatic Play and Blueprint Gaming
In March 2019, Pragmatic Play argued with Blueprint Gaming: they felt that Wolf Legend Megaways (from Blueprint Gaming) was way too much a copy of the Pragmatic Play’s iconic Wolf Gold slot.
While we failed to see too many similarities (and neither did Blueprint Gaming, by the way), Pragmatic Play must have thought to pay with even money.
Let’s see where this all ends…
How does The Great Chicken Escape slot work?
The Great Chicken Escape slot has 5 reels with 3 rows of symbols: in total, 20 fixed paylines.
You decide what you choose to bet per payline: the lowest bet is $€0.01, and the highest is $€5. The minimum bet is $€0.20, and the maximum bet is capped at $€100 per spin.
What are the theoretical RTP and the variance of The Great Chicken Escape?
The theoretical payout percentage of this slot is 96.50%, which is pretty good. It is undoubtedly better than the average RTP of the online slots.
Overall, the variance of The Great Chicken Escape is medium.
You can win a maximum payout of 5,000 x the bet. The chance of bagging such a win is minimal, though. You should be thrilled to get bonus wins prizes of say 100 x to 200 x the total bet, which is far more realistic.
We see that lots of prizes in the range of 10x to 25x the bet are paid out. The same we have seen with Wolf Gold. The advantage is that you get to play the exciting free spins pretty often.
Symbols and payouts – watch out for the chickens!
In the base game, the red chickens are the Wild symbols and these substitute all symbols except the Bonus symbol.
Spin 5 wilds on an active payline and you get a prize of 25 x the total bet. 5-of-a-kind of the “Great Chicken Symbols” yields a reward of 25 x the bet as well.
If you manage to spin 5-of-a-kind of any of the other chickens’ symbols (4 in total), you get a payout between 10 x and 15 x the total bet.
The low symbols consist of the card symbols J, Q, K and A and pay either 4 x or 5 x the bet if you have 5 of these on a payline.
Mini bonus features
There are three Mini Bonus features, and these can be activated at any time. If you get these, get ready for some sweet prizes. You have the:
Chicken Run Wilds – Here, the fearless sergeant chicken climbs on the walls and leaves you with 2, 3 or 4 expanded (fully stacked) wilds behind. You recognize these wilds with the “COO” letters.
Guard Dog Wilds – Here, the guard dog gets hit on its head is knocked-out. Afterwards, between 4 and 9 wilds are placed on the reels.
Care Package – a wooden crate with golden eggs falls downstairs. These golden eggs open, and you see that these all have the same symbol. The more eggs that appear on the rolls, the bigger your prize can be!
Main bonus features – 5 spectacular and entertaining features
One of the five bonus features is activated if you spin three or more scatters (Bonus symbols).
Which feature you get is chosen randomly by a “pick and click feature.” The 5 different bonuses are very different in layout and in the size of the prizes you can win.
Once you get one of the five bonus features, you are allowed to gamble in the hope of getting the next more valuable feature. If you win, you move up to the next bonus feature. If you lose, you get a (small) consolation prize.
Now let’s tell you more about the five bonus features.
These are ranked from least to most attractive (from the left to the right of the screen).
Secret Tunnel Bonus – The most straightforward bonus: you choose 1 out of 3 treasure chests. One of the chests has a cash prize, another nothing (collect), and another one has the Mystery Tunnel. If you get the Mystery Tunnel, you move up to one of the more valuable bonus features. Hopefully, you open this chest!
Poultry in Motion – This is like playing a goose board game. You pick one of 5 golden eggs, and you earn steps on the multiplier trail. The further you go, the higher the price. If you make it to the end, you enter the lucrative Big Money Bonus feature (see below).
Get Clucky Free Spins – You get 10 free spins, with increasing multipliers (+1 for each wild that you get)
To the Other Side Free Spins – Now you get 9 free spins. Here it would help if you collected as many wilds as possible. In the very last turn, all collected wilds are placed on the reels in random positions.
The Great Escape Big Money Bonus – This is the ultimate bonus, where you can win the highest prizes. The main character sits on a motorcycle, just like in the movie. When he rides, he stops in front of 1 of the 12 barrels. The barrels have cash prizes of at least 10 x the bet to a whopping 500 x the stake.
After each barrel, you choose which golden egg the chicken has to tap. Then you see if you get another respin or if you need to collect what you have. Hopefully, you get to respin often!
With this bonus, you can win up to 5,000 times the total bet if you spin 10 times and get the 500 x barrel all 10 times. It will be an absolute miracle if you manage to do it.
What do we think of The Great Chicken Escape?
Even though other people’s hard work has heavily inspired this slot concept, it is still a very entertaining slot. If you copy something, do it right!
The theme works out great, and the bonus features are more than entertaining. There are 5 of them, leaving no reason to be bored!
We also like that you don’t need to wait for ages to get one of these bonus features: after half an hour of play, we got to this stage a handful of times.
The amounts you win are, therefore (most of the time) modest.
3.7 stars out of 5
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