Viz Slots
The Viz comic was launched in 1979 and has become something of a British Institution. The comic might appear much like the Beano or the Dandy; however it is most definitely not for children, featuring adult storylines and bad language. Popular long running characters in the comic include Roger Mellie the man on the Telly, Sid the Sexist, The Fat Slags and Finnbarr Saunders and his double Entendres. This slot pays homage to the comic, featuring three different bonus rounds, each concentrating on separate characters found on the pages of Viz and ‘Sid’s Sexpot’ Jackpot which can be won during the free spins round.
As you would expect, the slot has a distinct cartoon strip feel. Characters from the comic sit above the reels either side of the title, the black and red background bringing ‘Dennis the Menace’ to mind. The symbols on the reels are all in big and bold colours, these a combination of comic pictures and letters and numbers relating to playing card symbols. Accompanying each spin is something of a generic slot sound, although this is added to when landing certain symbols – I have no need to tell you what the sound effect is when Johnny Fartpants appears on the reels!
Setup and Play for Viz Slot
This Blueprint slot has five reels and 20 win lines, although you’ll be able to choose to play as many win lines as you’d like from 1 to 20. You’ll also choose the stake for each win line, which you’ll multiply by the number of lines to give you a total stake for each spin.
To win, you’ll need to land consecutive symbols from left to right on a win line, needing at least 3 playing card symbols in a row or just two of any of the others. The Super Wild symbol is the highest paying, winning you 10,000 coins for five in a row, while the Viz 30 and the Viz symbols win you 750 coins. The other symbols award you between 400 and 100 coins for five in a row.
The Super Wild acts like any other wild in substituting for any other symbol in the game (apart from the bonus symbols) with one added bonus – all wins using this wild are doubled.
Full of Your Favourite Viz Characters
This slot has three distinct features, each activated by landing the appropriate scatter symbol three or more times across any of the reels.
Firstly there is the Roger Mellie bonus show. This takes the form of a free spins round, but first you’ll enter a ‘Deal or no Deal’ style round to see how many spins you’ll actually have. Each TV on the screen will have an amount of free spins attached and every time you eliminate two you’ll be offered a number of spins based upon the value of TV screens left. You can take the offer or continue until there is just one screen left – at which point you’ll be given that number of spins. If using three scatters to land the bonus, you can win up to 50 free spins, but landing four or five scatters could mean 100 or 200 free spins. During the free spins the ‘Sid the Sexist’ symbol is added and should this appear five times or more on any spin, you’ll win the ‘Sid’s Sexpot’ Jackpot amount.
The second bonus feature is ‘Johnny’s Wheel of Fartune’. Each reel containing the symbol will now change into the ‘Wheel of Fartune’ and will spin until it comes to a rest on a stake multiplier. Add all of the stake multipliers together to see your total win in the feature.
The final feature of the game is the ‘Usual Suspects’ bonus round where you’ll see a number of the characters lined up for a police picture, much like in the film of the same name. This is a pick-em round, where each holds a different multiplier. You can win up to 500x your total bet size here – although having picked, you’ll see all of the other prizes too, so you’ll know if your choice was a good or a bad one.
Great Banter
This slot is both entertaining and humorous, although you wouldn’t expect anything else from a game on the subject of the Viz comic. However, Blueprint hasn’t rested on their laurels here and has made the slot highly playable too – the three features all fun and involving. The best feature of all is the free spins round, both for the original way you’ll gain the free spins and the fact that you could win the progressive Jackpot at any time. Like the Viz comic, once you pick up this slot, you won’t want to put it down.
