Happy Ape

Happy Ape Review

Happy Ape is a video slot with 5 reels, 3 rows and 15 pay-lines. The game has high volatility and an RTP of 96.70%, which is a good sign. The bets are a combination of the coin value and the bet level. You can wager from 0.15 to €3,000 or stake equivalent.

There are a lot of bonus features in the slot. The Chest Prizes reward you with multipliers, both ways win, scatters and wilds. The Banana Toss Feature adds extra wild symbols. The Ape Smash Feature removes random symbols triggering a cascade. The result is always a win. There are 12 to 36 free spins you can trigger with guaranteed a Chest Prize on each spin. The jackpot per spin is 11,070x stake.

The Design

Happy Ape is set in the lush jungle. It has animated cartoonish graphics. You will hear the sounds of insects, birds and other animals. The grid is framed by a stone structure and has climbing green plants that act as reel borders. Over each of the 5 reels, there is a chest. On the left to the grid, you see the ape.

You can land sliced and whole pears, oranges, plums and coconuts. There are 4 card suits, gold ape masks and bananas. You will listen to a funky and adventurous melody mixed with the sounds of the jungle habitat. The graphics and music are cartoonish, bright, colourful and very pleasant.

Happy Ape Gameplay

The pay-table includes low and high symbols, a wild and a scatter. The lowest payouts have the 4 card suits. The red diamonds pay 0.20, 0.66 and 1.33 times the stake for 3, 4 and 5 symbols. The turquoise clubs returns 0.20, 0.66 and 2x stake. The pink hearts grant 0.33, 1 and 3.33 times the stake. The green spades give you 0.33, 3.33 and 5x stake for 3, 4 and 5 symbols.

The premiums are 4 fruit icons. The pears grants 0.66, 5, 13.33x stake, the plums – 0.66, 6.66 and 20x. The orange is second in value paying 1, 13.33 and 26.66x stake. The coconut is the most rewarding of all paying 1.33, 16.66 and 33.33 times your bet.

The wild is the banana symbol. It pays 33.33 times your stake for 5 symbols on a line and substitutes for all except for the scatter. The latter is the only symbol that pays landed in any position for 2 masks returning your bet. Scatter wins are added to line wins.

To get payouts you need 3 to 5 of a kind symbols on a pay-line landed from the leftmost reel to the right.

Happy Ape Features & Bonuses

You must have noticed the 5 chests over the 5 reels on the screen. They give you Chest Prizes. Every time a key symbol lands on a reel, it unlocks the chest above its respective reel, which rewards you a prize. It can be:

• an x2 multiplier;
• an x3 multiplier;
• paying-both-ways combinations – the two arrows ensure you double wins: from left to right and from right to left;
• a scatter;
• a wild;

The multipliers increase payouts and combine their values when more are present. For example, x2 and x3 multipliers on the same combination give you an x6 boost. All symbols from the chests are placed on the position of the key symbol.

The Banana Toss Feature can activate by chance on any spin after the reels have stopped. Then, between 2 and 6 banana wilds are thrown to random places on the grid. After that, you get rewarded for all created winning combinations.

The Ape Smash Feature can trigger randomly on a losing spin. The ape knocks out 3 to 6 symbols from the reels selected by chance. As a result, the rest of the symbols cascade down and the empty positions are filled by new symbols. You get a guaranteed win from this feature. On every free spin at least 1 key symbol is guaranteed to land activating the Chest Prizes.

Land 3 or more ape masks to activate 12 to 36 Free Spins. Each scatter gives you 4 free games, the more you get, the better. Ape mask scatters do not land during free spins. On each free spin, you will land a minimum of 1 key symbol activating the Chest Prizes.

The Conclusion

Happy Ape is suitable for ordinary players and high rollers alike. It has high volatility and up to 3,000 credits possible to use bets. The rounds are unpredictable. You can win from tons of modifiers. If you like games such as Go Bananas, The Apes, Kongo Bongo and similar ones, you will have a good time with this one too.