Frank's Farm: Slot Overview
With the world's population predicted by the UN to hit 11.2
billion in the year 2100, human ♠ beings may have to assess our ways of producing food to
feed all those hungry mouths. Potential problem solvers are ♠ conserving water, reducing
food waste, and even using robots. To our knowledge, one method which hasn't been
suggested is putting ♠ food production in the hands of sloths. Huh, you might be asking,
how would that work? Well, it probably wouldn't ♠ since sloths aren't exactly known for
their dynamic, high-output personalities. In fact, they're usually portrayed as taking
it easy, living ♠ their best lives. However, for Hacksaw Gaming's online slot Frank's
Farm, players get to test the theory – how would ♠ a farm run by a sloth perform?
Frank,
you see, is a sloth, and this is his farm. And what a ♠ charming plot of land it is as
well. Hacksaw Gaming has proven once again it is as adept at creating ♠ friendly,
chipper-looking games as they are at dragging players into some of the dankest, most
terrifying slot environments on the ♠ market. Forget that for now, though and prepare for
a feel-good game jam-packed with all sorts of cheerful animals, jaunty ♠ tunes, and
friendly food-to-table antics, all of which are grown right here on Frank's Farm.
It's
not all rib-tickling laughs, however. ♠ Frank's Farm is also an all-business gambling
machine, running on a medium volatile math model, pushing out a variety of ♠ RTPs
depending on the setting and whether you're playing the game through its bonus buys. On
the highest setting, players ♠ can expect a theoretical return value of 96.31% when
playing normally and a hit rate of 36.1%. Any device is ♠ suitable for use, and bets of
10 p/c toR$/€100 per spin may be selected.
Rather unusually for a Hacksaw Gaming slot,
♠ Frank's Farm is a scatter-paying game, which awards a win when at least 8 matching
symbols are in view anywhere ♠ on its 6x6 game grid. The most valuable scatter wins
consist of 15+ symbols and pay 15 to 25 times ♠ the bet for the 10-A card royals or 37.5
to 75 times the bet for bees, fish, chickens, pigs, or ♠ cow symbols. Entry level 8
symbol scatter wins pay 0.1 to 1 times the bet. Winning symbols are removed from ♠ the
reels when they hit and replaced by new ones from above. Tumble wins continue like
this, ending when no ♠ new win lands. Last but not least, Frank hasn't grown any wilds
for use on the farm; maybe in next ♠ year's harvest?
Frank's Farm: Slot Features
Frank's
Farm's base game gets a fertilising boost from Market Multiplier symbols, while two
bonus games ♠ may be triggered. On top, where available, players get three ways of
tackling the game from the bonus buy menu.
Market ♠ Multipliers
Market Multipliers, as
the name suggests, are multipliers that multiply all wins while they are on the reels.
If more ♠ than one Market Multiplier is in view, their values get multiplied together
before being applied to any win. Possible Market ♠ Multiplier values are x2, x3, x4, x5,
x6, x7, x8, x9, or x10.
Order Rush Bous Game
Landing 3 FS symbols in ♠ the base game
triggers 10 free spins in the Order Rush bonus game. Each FS symbol landing in the
feature ♠ awards an additional free spin. During Order Rush, players are given orders to
complete. Orders are displayed next to the ♠ reels and consist of 1 to 3 symbol types.
Each symbol type on the order consists of 10 to 24 ♠ symbols, and each time an order is
completed, the difficulty of the next order increases and the minimum value of ♠ Market
Multipliers increases by +1. Whenever a required symbol type lands on the reels, it is
collected in the order ♠ – it does not have to be a winning symbol.
Diner Dash Bonus
Game
Landing 4 FS symbols in the base game ♠ triggers the Diner Dash bonus game with 10
free spins. As before, each FS symbol hitting in the feature awards ♠ an additional free
spin. In this round, a special Diner symbol is added. When a Diner symbol hits, it
remains ♠ sticky on the screen for the duration of the feature. The Diner symbol
progressively collects the value of any wins ♠ that occur, and its total is awarded at
the end of each spin.
Bonus Buy
If buying bonuses is permitted in your ♠ region, Frank's
Farm players can choose three options, all are medium volatile:
Bonushunt Featurespins
– 2x the bet where each spin ♠ is three times more likely to trigger the bonus feature.
Maximum RTP is 96.28%.
– 2x the bet where each spin ♠ is three times more likely to
trigger the bonus feature. Maximum RTP is 96.28%. Order Rush – costs 100x the ♠ bet, max
RTP is 96.39%.
– costs 100x the bet, max RTP is 96.39%. Diner Dash – costs 200x the
bet, ♠ max RTP is 96.34%.
Frank's Farm: Slot Verdict
Scatter pays is one of Frank's
Farm's focal points, and the studio has put ♠ it to good use. As has often been the case
with other studios in the past, most noticeably Pragmatic Play, ♠ Hacksaw Gaming has
paired it with a multiplier feature. Also, like Pragmatic Play's scatter pay slots,
Gates of Olympus, for ♠ example, the multipliers here can get pretty lofty. You kind of
have to have more than one Market Multiplier in ♠ view multiplying each other to generate
lofty levels, though, since on their own, they aren't massive, maxing out at x10.
♠ Still, even on its own, a Market Multiplier can be handy when linked with a juicy
cluster win.
As for the ♠ bonus rounds, the Order Rush proved to be the most enjoyable of
the two during testing. It wasn't a massive ♠ challenge to fulfil a few orders, thereby
increasing the Market Multiplier minimum value in the process. It's worth reiterating
that ♠ orders are filled when the required symbol simply lands; orders do not collect
only winning symbols. The issue with the ♠ Diner Dash bonus game was, for us, that the
Diner symbol proved to be pretty darn elusive. It didn't first ♠ appear until like the
fifth or sixth bonus round, though the way each Diner in view re-awards its accrued
value ♠ on each spin was fun, and you can see what a hoot it would be if Diners were
regurgitating sizable ♠ prize amounts on each game round.
Frank's Farm isn't one of
Hacksaw Gaming's biggest slots, maxing out in the payout department ♠ at 5,000x the bet.
Combined with the medium volatility and the endearing visuals potentially means a
different audience will be ♠ attracted to this one than a game like Wanted Dead or a
Wild, Hand of Anubis, or Chaos Crew. It ♠ won't be for all players, in other words, but
in the right hands, Frank's Farm's charm should fulfil the order.
