Tiki Tumble

Tiki heads and similar types of totems are popular sights from many different cultures from across the globe. The Tiki Tumble slot, available at Push Gaming casinos, has a theme based around tall stacks of these symbols coming together to give you lots of chances to win. The graphics are pretty strong and are put together in a way that gives the game a good feel in front of its jungle-themed background. If you like fast action and somewhat unusual formats, this is a game that will likely appeal to you.

Game Layout

The layout of this game is a bit larger than what you typically see. There are five reels and 20 paylines, which is typical for a three-row game. However, this one has four rows instead. You cannot change how many paylines you're playing with, which simplifies the betting controls significantly, and they're made even more simplified by the fact that you don't have to deal with coins, number of coins per line, etc. You'll pick from 12 bet sizes that are available that range from $0.20 at the bottom level to $100 at the maximum with plenty of options in between.

Nudging Wilds Feature

If you get a wild in one of the top three spots of at least one of the reels, then you'll activate the Nudging Wilds Feature. This is a type of feature that you'd typically only see in classic slots, but it's been adapted for this video slot format. The way it works is that the wilds will nudge down one position to give you an extra wild on that reel. The wilds always show up stacked, so you'll increase that particular stack of wilds by a factor of one in the downward direction.

Wild Tiki Symbol

Of the five Tiki symbols, the highest-paying is the wild. It's a golden face with horns and a red jewel in the center of its eyes. You'll be able to get a win worth 25x for five of a kind of this wild. You'll also earn 7.5x for four of a kind or 1.5x for a three-of-a-kind combination. These wins are more valuable and more likely than they seem because of the above Nudging Wilds Feature. One side effect of the feature is that you're much more likely to take down multiple wins on the same spin.

Scatters and Free Spins

The green and gold mask symbol is scattered and appears on all reels. It does not award payouts, but it does help to award a free spins bonus feature if you get at least three of them on the reels at once. These free spins are worth a lot because the second and fourth reels are completely full of wild symbols for every one of them. On top of that, you'll get chances for multipliers that increase each time you hit the nudging wild feature.

Important Payouts

There are four other Tiki symbols that show up in this game. The purple gives 20x for five, and you'll earn 15x for five of the orange. The green is worth 10x for five of a kind, and five of the blue gives you a win worth 5x. We want to point out that all of the wins are multiplied by your entire bet size. If you want to know what they would be listed as in terms of line bet payouts, it's 20 times the listed amount here.

Four gem symbols make up the lower tier, and we're really glad they didn't use card ranks for the low-paying symbols because that would not have fit the theme of the game at all. The purple gem gets you 2.5x for five, and you can earn 2.5x for five of the red gem as well. The green and light blue gems give 2x for five of a kind payouts.

Overview

The Tiki Tumble video slot's gameplay is primarily driven by wild symbols and wild-based features. Even the free spins feature centers around the wild symbols, and that's an important aspect of the game to understand before you get too into it. The graphics are solid enough for what Push Gaming is offering here, and we don't really have any issue with the game visually at all. Overall, it's definitely a solid experience, but we think they could have done a little more with the concept.