Bubble Beez: Slot Overview

Hey players, how about grabbing a diet soda, or a slice of pecan pie, or whatever tickles your fancy and come on a journey put on by Games Global compadre, Crazy Tooth Studio. If you've been following this outfit, you'll know not to enter one of its new games with any expectations of where you might be led. The slot in question is Bubble Beez, which offers up a few clues, and yes, we're about to embark on a honey and bee-filled flight replete with Tumble Reelz, Triangular Multipliers, Bee Boost features, and a Honey Prize Award jar. If you're ready to experience a game from one of the more experimentally offbeat studios out there, let's buzz off.

In keeping with the honey bee theme, Bubble Beez' game area has a hexagonal shape, reflecting the 37 individual spaces in a honeycomb. A honeycomb actually makes up the bulk of the background imagery, joined by dripping honey and miscellaneous info/UI parts. The game has a classic Crazy Tooth Studio look and feel to it, kinda wiry, kind of dated, totally marching to the beat of its own drummer by shunning what's currently fashionable – for good or ill. An odd jazzy oompah-punctuated soundtrack is simply the icing on the cake.

Bubble Beez's bizzing buzzing delights may be sampled on any type of device, where players have the choice of picking a stake as low as 25 p/c per spin or as high as $/€40. Medium to high volatile, the game is available in three RTP settings, with 96.15% being the highest. It also comes with a hit rate of 22.86% whilst utilizing what's called an Any Adjacent Pays system, generating a win when at least three matching symbols are adjacent to each other in any direction or position on the game board. Winning clusters are removed from the board once they have paid out, and symbols tumble down to fill the empty spaces. This may lead to a new win being formed, and if so, the tumbling process will be repeated.

Bubble Beez makes use of ten different pay symbols, which are bees (possibly, maybe) in a variety of colours and shapes. Despite the differences in their outer appearance, all pay symbols have the same value. Each winning pay symbol in a cluster is worth 0.08x the bet. Not exactly a king's ransom, but a couple of things in Bubble Beez might help augment payouts. One is the wild symbol, which substitutes for all pay symbols; the rest are covered next.

Bubble Beez: Slot Features

The remainder of Bubble Beez extras include the Queen Bee feature, the Triangular Multiplier feature, The Bee Boost feature, The Buzz Bomb feature, and Honey Prize Award.

Queen Bee Feature

Queen Bee Overlays can frame positions on the board. Winning symbols in a frame collect them. When 3 or more Queen Bee Overlays have been collected, and tumbles end, one of these things occurs:

• Regular symbols are transformed into different regular symbols.
• A triangle group of 3 symbol positions is transformed into the same regular symbol.
• Symbols are removed from the board, collecting any relevant Queen Bee Overlay symbols or Honey Prize Overlay symbols.

The Queen Bee feature ends when there are no more winning combos, and the collected number of Queen Bee Overlays drops to less than 3. The collection resets to 0 between spins. Moreover, the following features are also in play:

• Triangular Multiplier feature - When 3 adjacent matching symbols appear in a triangular winning combo, the Triangular Multiplier feature is activated. A Triangular multiplier is placed in a position adjacent to all triggering symbols.
• The Bee Boost feature - The Bee Boost feature activates on the second Tumble Reelz feature round. A multiplier equal to the round number multiplies all symbol pays in that round, up to a maximum of x5.
• The Buzz Bomb feature - When a Buzz Bomb symbol appears on the board with no winning combinations, the Buzz Bomb feature may trigger. When it does, the Buzz Bomb removes symbols from the grid, collecting the associated Queen Bee or Honey Prize Overlays, and symbols tumble into the gaps.
• Honey Prize Award - When 5 or more Honey Prize Overlays are collected, the Honey Prize is awarded. Honey Prize Overlays are collected as mentioned above or when winning symbols have one of the associated overlays on their position. The value of the Honey Prize award is 4 to 123 times the bet, may increase after spins, and may reset to its starting value if the maximum amount is won.

Bubble Beez: Slot Verdict

Not sure what we were expecting before venturing forth into Bubble Beez, but it wasn't what was delivered. That kind of outcome is pretty much a given by now when loading up the latest Crazy Tooth Studio slot to see what's what. The team simply refuses to follow tradition, attempt to latch onto what's hot, or imitate others' work. At least, that's the impression its games regularly give off, and Bubble Beez can count itself as another one.

Having said that, some of Bubble Beez's actual gaming processes are fairly familiar. The procedure of landing winning clusters to trigger cascades while collecting certain items to trigger features is a pretty standard method. Players used to cluster paying slots, in general, should be comfortable with the core principles found in Bubble Beez. Will they want to dive in deep in hopes of scooping handfuls of warm honey, though? Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but Bubble Beez faces some stiff competition in the online slot bee category. Others you might be interested in, with arguably more pleasant environments, are games like Reflex Gaming's big potential slot Bugs Money, NetEnt's charming Bee Hive Bonanza, Wild Buzz from Stakelogic, or something a bit older perhaps, like Wild Swarm or Honey Rush.

The point is, there are plenty of bee-themed slots out there, and Bubble Beez might have a hard time on its hands going up against them. Seen as a whole, this is quite a unique game, Crazy Tooth Studio slots generally are, but unique doesn't necessarily mean great, and Bubble Beez feels like it might be destined for the curio section.