3 Lucky Hippos Slot

About 3 Lucky Hippos

Bringing a Lock N’ Win feature that adds to the Hold and Win formula, 3 Lucky Hippos is a PearFiction slot packing a bite! Offering 5 jackpot wins with a top prize of 5,000x your bet you’ll be in for a wonderful time across the playfully animated African plains.

Theme and graphics

When I first opened this online casino slot, I was surprised at how bright and colourful the reels were. Three hippos do indeed greet you representing the three Lock N Win features. The background is a calm scene from the African plains, with green grass, a lily pond at the forefront, and what seems to resemble Table Mountain in the background. 

As far as the storyline goes there's not much to tell, the slot revolves around three hippos going about their lives somewhere in the south of Africa. This makes the game feel even more light-hearted, matching the graphics for this tone. This was also reflected in the game’s simple and playful soundtrack making the atmosphere just right for a casual player. 

Gameplay and features

The gameplay also makes for an easy and fun ride. With so many different features and jackpots to be had, the play feels less monotonous than most slot games. PearFiction has made the experience feel quite diverse, with a 5x3 standard grid that can expand during gameplay. The spinning animation even spins in two directions with a thinner row at the top moving from side to side. 

The slot offers 10 pay symbols which can be divided into five high paying and five low playing which ascend in value. Here’s an overview of these symbols and the potential payout ranges:

Symbol	Potential Payouts
Tens, Jacks and Queens	Pay between 0.20x and 0.60x your bet
Kings and Aces	Pay between 0.20x and 1x your bet
Dice	Pay between1x and 2x your bet
Chips	Pay between 1x and 2.40x your bet
Bags of Cash	Pay between 1x and 0.60x your bet
Gold Bars	Pay between 0.20x and 0.60x your bet
Safes	Pay between 0.20x and 0.60x your bet

Winning combinations

The standard game offers players 243 ways to win, which given the extensive list of bonus features, can expand to 7,776 ways. This can definitely be felt with my wins both big and small coming at exciting intervals.

Bonus rounds and special symbols

The features of 3 Lucky Hippos are abundant with a lock N’ win, wild symbol, multiplier, split symbols, lotus symbols, and buy feature.

Lock N’ Win feature

A headline future for 3 Lucky Hippos, the Lock N’ Win feature is triggered when you land on an orange, yellow or pink coin. The goal here is to find as many cash symbols as possible. You will get three re-spins and the reset. Different kinds of Lock N' Win exist: Multiply Lock N' Win, Jackpot Lock N' Win, and Supreme Lock N' Win.

Multiplier

Whenever the orange coin lands on the reels, your achieved multiplier is increased up to 10X. The multiplier feature is active during the Multiply Lock N’ Win feature.

Special symbols

Wild symbol substitutes other regular symbols to help create winning combinations.

Split Symbols can land on the top row that spins horizontally. When this symbol lands, it can add 1, 2 or 3 new symbols every reel and applies to the Lock N’ Win feature.

The Lotus Symbols feature is activated when it lands on the lotus symbol and the top horizontal row. Lotus Symbols can activate all three Lock N' Win features.

Bonus buy feature

In addition to all these special symbols, 3 Lucky Hippos also offers the chance to pay into a bonus feature. This allows players to buy various combinations, which can be accessed at any point in the game, as opposed to waiting for the game to organically award these features through wins. 

RTP, volatility and max win

3 Lucky Hippos has a return-to-player (RTP) rate of 96%, a pretty solid rate given that this is bang on the industry average. RTP is a metric used to estimate how much money players can realistically expect to win back from their bets over an extended period of time.

Upon further assessment of the slot’s documentation, I found that 3 Lucky Hippos is a high volatility release with a max win of 5,000x your bet. This is applicable to the slot’s top jackpot and given that the bet range is between €0.20 and €50 I found this quite a respectable amount. 

Playing 3 Lucky Hippos on mobile

I tested out 3 Lucky Hippos both on my desktop and my iPhone and found it to be an enjoyable experience on both. What I would say is the layout naturally feels less packed and better spaced out on the desktop version. The mobile version has been reworked and optimised for the screen size and shape which is a positive but still feels a little busy.

Nonetheless, the graphics and animations on mobile are still just as charming and you can access the slot from any mobile casino on an Android or iOS device.