Chicken Fox Slot Review 2020

The fox in the henhouse may be an old saying but it seemed an unusual theme for a slot to us before we reviewed the Chicken Fox slot from Lightning Box Games. It turns out it’s one of those slots that is set down on the farm, so we buckled in for some bucolic fun.

So does this slot provide you with plentiful carton fun and bountiful bonus features? You’ll need t read this Chicken Fox slot review to find out!

The Chicken Fox slot machine is played on a grid with 5 reels and 3 rows. There are 25 paylines available, and you can’t adjust this number. The game is a fairly recent addition to the Lightning Box range of slots, having been released in January 2019. The game uses HTML5 technology so has been optimised for play on mobile devices without there being any compromise in quality.

The minimum bet that UK players can place is usually 30p and the maximum is £240. The jackpot is worth 500x your stake. There is an autoplay feature, and you can set this to operate for a specific number of spins up to a maximum of 100. There is a pay table in the game that you access via the I tab. The value of each symbol is located here. You can also see how the paylines are set up if you look in this section.

Chicken Fox Slot RTP

The Chicken Fox slot has an RTP 95.49%, which puts it at the lower end of the range for a game of this type. It is also pretty typical for a lot from Lightning Box Games. Their slots tend to fall within the 95% to 96% range. Pinata Bucks, for example, another of LBG’s games, has an RTP of 95.74%, and Silver Lion’s RTP stands at 95.27. Only rarely do LBG’s slots top a 97% RTP rate.

It is also worth knowing that this game is a high variance slot. You need to show some patience as you wait for the big wins to arrive. It can be tricky to trigger the feature because of the games’ high variance, but we found that when the feature did come along, the wins it generated could be very lucrative indeed.

The Chicken Fox slot game looks really good. It uses cartoon style graphics, and if you grew up watching kids TV shows you’ll already have a fairly good idea of what this game looks like. The reels are set in front of a farmyard scene complete with henhouse. There is plenty of visual detail to help pull you into the world of the game, and you’re soon immersed in the action.

The animal characters and other symbols have some genuine charisma, and the animation is smooth and slick as the reels spin. When you spin in a large win the fox runs across the reels to chase a chicken, which is an appealing little touch that we enjoyed.

A lazy musical soundtrack features banjo notes and chicken clucks, and although not bad as music goes, it can become a little jarring as you play. The mute button is a welcome friend with this game. The reels click as they spin, and there are some extra chicken clucks to help you celebrate line wins. The sound effects are high quality, but a little bit grating after a while, we found.

Featuring Real Farmyard Characters

The lower value symbols on the reels are the number 10, plus the letters J, Q, K and A. They are rendered in a brash style in big, bold colours, and are adorned with crops like cherries and sweetcorn according to their colour. The higher value symbols are farm animals and a tractor. You’ll see 4 different chickens, as well as a pig and a goat. These symbols look really impressive, with enough detail to give each a recognisable character of its own.

The special symbols are also easy to spot. The farmer’s wife with a steaming hot pie in her hands is the wild symbol in the base game. She can replace all other symbols to form winning combinations on the reels, apart from the golden egg bonus symbol. That golden egg scatter symbol plays a key role in the game’s bonus feature, which is what we’ll look at next.

While this game has only one real feature in the shape of free spins, there are plenty of modifiers and additional features to the bonus that make it interesting. We’ll take a closer look at all aspects of this bonus in the Chicken Fox slot machine here.

The free spins feature is triggered when you see the golden egg bonus symbol on the reels. If 3 symbols appear, you will receive 8 free spins. For 4 bonus scatter symbols, you’re awarded 15 free spins, and for 5 symbols you get 30. That’s pretty generous in terms of the number of spins on offer. The spins cannot be retriggered, though, which is a bit of a shame. There are all of those additional features to help boost your winnings, though, so let’s give you the details about those now.

• Fox Wilds
  Only chickens, blank symbols, an egg and the two fox wilds appear on the reels during the spins. One of the fox wilds also offers an x2 multipliers for any wins it helps generate.
• Chickens and Foxes
  You’ll win prizes if foxes and chickens appear on the reels in the same spin. Bigger chicken symbols earn you larger wins, logically enough!
• Additional Free Spins
  Although you cannot retrigger the feature, you can pick up some extra free spins if foxes and eggs appear on the reels in the same spin. If a normal fox appears then it’s up to 5 free spins for you, and if it’s a wild fox with an x2 multiplier you’ll get up to 10 additional free spins
• Foxes for Extra Free Spins
  You can also pick up 1 or 2 additional spins when either of the fox wilds spins in when there are no other symbols in view.
  
  All that sounds quite complicated, but it all makes sense when you actually play through the feature. This feature has some great extra animation to enjoy too, and it looks really exciting. Although pretty basic on the surface, this free spins feature actually offers a great deal to players and can be really lucrative if you’re lucky.

We have to say that we enjoyed the Chicken Fox slot. The bouncy, brash graphics and the cartoon characters on the reels give this game a really fresh, fun feel. The bonus feature also offers some great opportunities to win big prizes, and there’s some entertaining animation to enjoy too. All in all, although the game is pretty simple, it’s a solid, all-round slot.

So we’ll end this Chicken Fox slot review by recommending that you give this game a spin. If you’re a bit partial to games set down on the farm, then you might want to have a look at Wild Turkey from Net Entertainment, or possibly Hen House by RTG.

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