Ortaköyün Yaramazi Slot Machine
If you stumbled across the Ortaköyün Yaramazi slot and asked, “What the hell’s a Ortaköyün Yaramazi?” don’t worry: we did the exact same thing. In fact, we’d wager that every player to have spun the reels of Ortaköyün Yaramazi asked that question. The medium-variance 5-reel Play’n GO slot has 20 paylines and a Turkish theme. Who knew?
Don’t waste too much time wondering about that peculiar title: it’s much more productive to focus on finding matching combinations to trigger pay-outs, particularly considering the game’s high return-to-player percentage, which sits at 96.75%.
The slot, which was released to the online gaming community in 2016, has a top prize of 3,000 and features wild symbols, scatter icons and a bonus game. Sound intriguing? Then let’s dig a little deeper.
Getting Started
Ortaköyün Yaramazi is played on a traditional 5x3 reel grid, against a backdrop of – well, somewhere in Turkey, presumably. It’s difficult to tell because the grid is in the way, but we can discern a bluish night sky and fancy buildings illuminated by lights. Someone with a better grasp of geography might be able to educate us on the whereabouts of the setting, but suffice to say it provides a pleasant backdrop.
The control panel is situated at the bottom of the screen. This is where you’ll find the buttons for Coin Value, Coins, Lines, Bet Max, Paytable, Spin and Autoplay. The latter can be activated for 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 spins, and the player is able to determine when the feature ends. For example, you can go back to manual spins after every win, if free spins are won, if the bonus game is triggered, if a single win exceeds a predetermined amount, if the balance increases by a predetermined amount or if your losses get too heavy.
In this case, the coin values go from 0.1 to 1, and 5 coins can be staked per line. You can play on however many lines you wish, from one to 20. Hit Bet Max if you don’t want to go through the rigmarole of determining your bet, or if your pockets are as deep as the ocean.
Playing Ortaköyün Yaramazi
There are 11 symbols in Ortaköyün Yaramazi, including five golden playing cards, from 10 to A. As is normally the case, the playing cards are the least lucrative, paying from five credits for three 10s to 150 credits for five Aces.
Other symbols include a mound of various desserts, a winking teenager, an angry middle-aged woman, a pretzel cart, a doner kebab, a platter of mussels and a baked potato loaded with all sorts of goodness. Yeah, we agree that the symbols are pretty damn random, but somehow it just works. All wins pay left to right except scatters, which pay any.
Among the regular icons, the kebab is the most lucrative, paying three for two, 25 for three, 250 for four and 750 for five. The mussels are next best, paying two for two, 20 for three, 250 for four and 500 credits for five in a line.
Special Symbols
There are no less than three special icons in this slot. One of them is the icon of the angry-looking woman wearing a tabard. Three such symbols triggers the Street Food bonus game, during which you’ll be asked to open doors and find delicious food. Each treat is linked to a different prize, with the greatest – the ice cream – tied to a gargantuan 500x the total bet. Choose wisely!
Free spins, meanwhile, are triggered by three or more of the winking kid scatter symbol. You can choose between a set of five free spins with a x6 multiplier, 10 free spins with a x3 multiplier or 15 free spins with a x2 multiplier. The free spins cannot be re-triggered, but the scatter also grants decent pay-outs: two for two, three for three, 15 for four and 150 for five. Scatter wins are multiplied by the total bet staked and added to regular line wins.
The wild symbol is represented by the bowl of desserts. It can substitute for all others in the game except the aforementioned scatter and bonus symbols. Not only that, but it doubles all wins it helps create. It also pays the best sums in the game: 10 for two, 100 for three, 1,000 for four and 3,000 for five.
Book a Flight
Ortaköyün Yaramazi is an excellent addition to Play’n GO’s already stocked gaming suite. The graphics are top-notch, the gameplay enjoyable, the pay-outs healthy. The only downside is that the food symbols might make you hungry: if you’re on a diet, you should probably avoid!
