Jelly Reels

Jelly Reels Review

Jelly Reels: Hold the Jackpot plays out on a massive 8x8 grid with a whopping 16,777,216 ways to win. Set in a candy land, you get to choose your own pace and volatility from 3 different options. The base game is all about wilds and up to 3x3 mega symbols, and a sticky bonus symbols respins feature might help trigger the main attraction.

That would be, of course, the Hold the Jackpot bonus game, and it comes with an upper grid packed with exciting special symbols you can unlock. This is how you can win the smaller jackpots, as well as accumulators with multiplier boosts and mystery symbols. The Grand Jackpot worth 2,500x can only be won by filling the grid with sticky cash coins, and this is an overall solid release that sticks out from many similar installments.

Jelly Reels Slot Features

The rainbow-colored jelly Wild steps in for all regular symbols to help complete winning combos. The wild holds no value of its own however, and the premium symbols pay between 1 and 8 x your stake for 8 matching symbols on any row from uttermost left to right. You can also land 2x2 and 3x3 mega versions of the symbols (except the bonus symbols), and these will land either fully or partially in view.

All winning symbols are removed via the Cascading Wins mechanic, and this makes room for new and/or existing symbols to drop down to fill the gaps. This feature can award consecutive wins indefinitely per paid round, and it only stops when you land a non-winning cascade.

The main attraction is the Hold the Jackpot Bonus Game, and it’s triggered by landing 6+ gold coin Bonus symbols anywhere in view. Landing 3 to 5 such symbols awards a paid respin where the triggering bonus coins are held in place. This may help you land enough to actually trigger the feature.

The Hold the Jackpot Bonus Game plays out on a grid with 40 positions, and it’s divided into a lower and upper part. The upper part is locked, and the triggering Bonus coins become sticky on the lower 8x4 grid. You start with 3 respins, and each new sticky gold coin you land resets the respins tally to 3 again. The lower grid comes with the following symbols:

• Gold coins that are worth between 1 and 5 x your stake.
• Snake symbols that move towards the highest value gold coin present, and it leaves behind 1x gold coins and doubles the value of already present coins it moves across.

The upper part of the grid consists of 4x2 larger 4x4 sized positions, and these positions are all locked as the feature starts. The upper positions can reveal 3 different sized jackpots, as well as Silver Coins and Mystery Symbols. You unlock an upper grid position by filling the corresponding 4 lower grid positions with sticky coins. Here’s an overview of what the Special Bonus symbols can do:

• The Mini Jackpot pays 15x your stake.
• The Minor Jackpot pays 30x your stake.
• The Major Jackpot pays 150x your stake.
• The Silver Coin accumulates all values from the coins directly below on the lower grid, and applies a random multiplier between x1 to x5 to the accumulated sum.
• The Mystery Symbol can turn into any of the other Special Bonus symbols, and they are revealed one by one as the feature ends.

The Hold the Jackpot feature ends when you run out of respins, and all the symbol values are then summed up. If you manage to fill all 40 positions, the Grand Jackpot of 2,500x your stake is awarded. This is the capped max win, so it’s paid alone while nullifying all other wins.

The 200 Spins Jelly Reels Slot Experience

You get to see some near-miss bonus coin respins in the base game, before we decide to purchase the Hold the Jackpot feature at 1:30 into the 4:26-minute highlights video. We’re not gonna reveal too much about how we fared up front, so you’ll have to check it out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We really enjoy the user interface, as well as the ability to choose your own volatility and pace from 3 options. This gives you a highly customizable experience that we wish other developers would incorporate as well. Visually, the candy theme is decently done, and we’re grateful for symbols that are not too wobbly. You can plow through plenty of spins with the turbo switched on, but the base game is pretty bare bones except for occasional mega symbols.

A lot hangs on the Hold the Jackpot feature in other words, and we found it to be far more engaging and fun than the run-of-the-mill installments we see plenty of every month. The snake feature is a clever extra, and so are the mystery special symbols. Accumulators we’ve seen before, but the random multiplier boost is a nice touch. The 2,500x potential is perhaps not enough to rock the world of hardcore gamblers, and twice that would have made this an even more attractive prospect.

If you love Jelly Reels Slot you should also try:

Tasty Treats - is a candy-themed release, and it comes with a 6x5 cluster pays grid with cascading reels. So-called bubble boosters float up at random times, and these award multipliers and wilds. The bonus round comes with more of the same, and you can win up to 10,000x your stake.

Power of Gods: Hades - is another Hold the Jackpot installment, and it comes with 5x3 reels and 243 ways to win. Bonus symbols can remain sticky for up to 5 spins, and the hold-and-win style feature comes with several special symbols (including mystery symbols and jackpots up to 3,000x). The overall max win is a solid 5,000x your stake.

Midnight in Tokyo - is a popular installment in the Hold the Jackpot range, and it comes with 5x3 reels and 243 ways to win. You’ll benefit from kung fu and ninja cat wilds that slice adjacent symbols to increase the number of win ways. The streak respins style bonus game comes with jackpots up to 1,000x, and the overall max win is 3,000x your stake.