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Slot Review: Big Top Tombola

Who doesn’t love the excitement of a trip to the circus? There are abundant thrills and chills to be found under the big top of a circus tent, from the novel tricks of the well-trained menagerie to the daring feats of the acrobats! The only thing just as fun as attending the circus live and in person is experiencing the gorgeousness and big payouts of Big Top Tombola, the most exciting circus-themed online slot that we have had the pleasure of playing in a very long time!

Big Top Tombola comes to us from Virtue Fusion, a lesser-known provider of online casino software. It sports five reels and twenty paylines of online slot machine action. Coin values range on the low end from five cents to two dollars on the high end. Max coins is set at twenty, or one coin playable per payline at a given time. That makes the highest per-spin wager one of forty dollars. The jackpot is a lavish five thousand coins, or ten thousand dollars on a maxed-out bet! Best of all, there is also a progressive jackpot included! You can check out the thrills of this game without sacrificing your bankroll by playing Big Top Tombola’s free practice mode on the World Wide Web, but you really should consider coughing up some coins for a real try or two!

Big Top Tombola (tumbler) has great graphics that contribute handily to the circus theme, with the bright red curtains of the big top framing the reels with aplomb. You’ll see sideshow entertainers and animals alike on the reels, all lovingly depicted in bright colors and with clear detail! There are also poker symbols displayed on targets, the same type that an expert archer would use. You’ll see the clown, the strong man, the lion, the elephant, and others!

The image of the big top is an important one for this online slot game, acting as the jackpot symbol (which gives you a shot at the progressive jackpot!), as well as the wild symbol. It can stand in for any other image on the reels in a winning combination, with the exception of the golden ticket bonus. When you get five of these, the jackpot amount is subtracted from the progressive jackpot sum. At the time we played, that amount was well into five figures. In other words, this is a big prize we’re talking about! If you land the jackpot on this one, you will be able to foot the bill for plenty of trips to the circus in years to come!

Getting the golden ticket image on the first reel activates the Big Top Tombola bonus game. The ring master spins a tumbler in this second-screen feature, and the player must hit the STOP button to see where the tumbler will end up. At this point, the ringmaster will, with a flourish, select the winning raffle ticket! Whatever appears on the ticket is your bonus prize! We bet that this slot game will make you happy that you took a trip to the big top, whether you win or lose!

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