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Slot Review: Fruit Mania

As devout fans of online slot machines, we totally understand the significance of all the fruit icons. In case you haven’t brushed up on your gambling history lately, there’s a very good reason why we are always seeing lemons, cherries, and other types of produce on the reels of poker machines. Basically, many of the first slots in America were sponsored by chewing gum companies. It was illegal to gamble for cash at the time, so these companies stocked their machines with sticks of fruit-flavored gum. The symbols you lined up determined what flavor treat would come out!

Fruit Mania gives you the chance to play for a lot more than some chewing gum. This five-reel, five-payline online slot game from Playtech packs a progressive jackpot! Fruit Mania’s top prize starts at twelve hundred fifty dollars, and averages about fourteen thousand bucks. The highest it has ever hit at was just under one hundred thousand dollars. Of course, you’ll have to place the maximum bet of five quarters to have a shot at this bounty!

A regular farmer’s market of strawberries, oranges, lemons, blueberries, grapes, and apples are laid out for you on the reels. You must get five cherries in a row on the fifth line to hit the progressive jackpot. The Fruit Punch icon is wild. Additionally, three of more of the Sun symbol will take you to a bonus. We can’t honestly say that Fruit Mania is a really exceptional specimen of the “fruit machine” style of online slot, but it was truly a sweet taste of summer to be enjoyed year-round!

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