The game was released by Microgaming, with official blessing from Playboy, so you know that it’s going to be good. The theme is centered on a couple of Playboy models, which are at the center of the action, with a few symbols also included which show them as they’re enjoying life. It’s a good looking slot machine, with beautiful women used on most of the symbols, but with some playing cards as well, though elegant ones.
Playboy both looks and feels modern, so besides the gorgeous design you’re going to find 243 ways to win on its 5 reels. The wild symbol and its multiplier are cool to have, but the real treat is the Playboy Club, with its four types of free spins, each option with a different type of bonus offered. The slot’s payouts are not that impressive, bringing you up to $3,000 cash.
Features of Playboy
Both wilds and scatter symbols are present in the slot, the former bringing a multiplier as well when it gets involved. The scatter is the one that brings the most exciting part of the game to life though, activating the Playboy Club, with its different types of free spins, some with multipliers, others with running wilds, rolling reels or a Wild Night feature.
Since the slot uses ways to win, there are no prearranged paylines to place bets on. Instead, the game looks at the symbols which are on consecutive reels and forms combinations out of them. You need matching symbols or wilds to be present on reels 1, 2 and 3 at the very least, to get the smallest combo of three going. Having matching symbols on other reels doesn’t help you if they’re not going from the leftmost reel to the right and in order.
The Playboy Bunny Logo will give you the best payouts that regular combinations can muster up, but at the same time it is a wild symbol which will come in handy in more than one occasion as you continue playing this slot. As a wild, whenever its location is exactly the one that is needed, it will substitute for another symbol by taking its place in a new combo that is being formed. It comes in handy often enough, especially since it’s a game with ways to win and the wild only has to be on the right reel in order to be of help. Any win formed with the wild’s help is worth double the usual value, a 2x multiplier being responsible for that part.
The only other important symbol in this game is the scatter symbol, showing off the Playboy Magazines. These scatter symbols are going to offer the slot’s best payouts, at 200 times the triggering bet, but they also trigger the Playboy Club feature.
The Playboy Club Free Spins
Getting into The Playboy Club is easy enough, as long as your luck holds out. You need a minimum of three scattered Playboy Magazines on the reels, and the exact location doesn’t matter.
Once inside, you’re going to have to choose one of the four beautiful women, each one activating a different type of free spins. You don’t get access to all of them immediately though. Initially, you only have access to Kimi’s free spins. The 5th time you trigger this feature you gain access to the free spins offered by Sofia as well. The 10th trigger of the feature will get you access to Ashley’s free spins, while Jillian’s spins are available starting from the 15th time you get the feature started.
Kimi will bring you 10 spins for free, with all the wins multiplied by 5x. You can also retrigger these free spins, with the same 3+ Playboy Magazines scatters. This is the only option out of the four which can be retriggered.
Sofia is the next option on the list, offering more free spins, 15 of them, plus a feature with Running Wilds. During each spin, the stack of wilds gets one additional wild added to it, so the chances of you getting combinations increase as you play.
Ashley increases the number of free games once again, bringing you 20 of them and with a Rolling Reels feature activated. Whenever you have consecutive wins, the multiplier goes up by 1x, reaching 5x if this keeps happening.
Jillian is the fourth option available in The Playboy Club feature. It offers 25 free spins and they have a Wild Night feature active. This is a random feature which gives you up to 5 wild reels in a single round.
Betting options and jackpots
The slot uses 30 lines for betting purposes, and you always have to use multiples of 30 coins when placing a wager. You use 30 to 150 coins, meaning that each line gets 1 to 5 coins. The denomination is $0.01 at the minimum, while $0.10 is the maximum value. Between $0.30 and $15 is the range available for the bets you can place.
The scatter symbol will offer top payouts of up to 200 times the bet, so you can expect prizes of up to $3,000 from it. Regular combinations award up to 1,000x the line bet, or up to $500 cash.
Design and symbols
The game’s design is a classy one, with dark grays and with elegant decorations in the background, plus the same combination of silver, gray and black being used in the reels and their symbols. The girls are gorgeous, very well drawn, but I for one am very annoyed with the fact that even in games of this quality developers decide to use playing cards. Though they look elegant enough, and with various objects placed next to them, they’re still nowhere as good looking as the themed symbols are.
Symbols: Playboy Logo (1,000x, wild), Magazines (200x bet, scatter), Jillian (500x), Ashley (450x), Sofia (400x), Kimi (350x), Couple (300x), Convertible Car (250x), Harley Davidson (200x), Ace (150x), King (150x), Queen (125x), Jack (125x) and 10 (100x).
Is It Worth Playing?
The game is worth at least a look, and it does give you a very good incentive to keep coming back, with its different types of free spins which you get access to as you keep playing and getting the Playboy Club feature. Its prizes are not great though, and it uses playing cards, so it’s not as good as it should’ve been.
Playboy, The Magazine
The Playboy magazine was first published in December, 1953. Its main founder and the current editor-in-chief is Hugh Hefner. It’s an entertainment and men’s lifestyle mag, which sells over 1 million copies each month. Though the pictures are the ones that get most of the attention, Playboy does include interviews, cartoons, short stories and editorials, so there is plenty to read in it.
The Playboy slot machine is offered through the Microgaming platform, so if you want to play it for real or just to practice, look out for casinos that use it.
