Play Bouncy Bombs

Jelly sweets with faces are normally a fairly safe proposition. For Bouncy Bombs that just didn’t cut it, since Hacksaw Gaming decided to drop explosives onto the same 6 by 5 grid. Instead of paylines, the game uses scatter pays with wins starting from 8 matching symbols anywhere on screen. Cascades can keep a round moving, while 3 different Bomb Multiplier types wait until the end before applying their combined value. Two free spins bonuses then turn up the explosives. Apparently confectionery needed an arms race. 

Bouncy Bombs uses the sort of cute, slightly odd design Hacksaw Gaming has played with before. The grid is filled with small jellies and round fruit characters, all with big eyes and simple cartoon expressions. 

Pink spray cans and bundles of dynamite make up the multiplier symbols, so the bombs are easy to separate from the regular pays. The background stays fairly dark, which helps the brighter symbols stand out. 

There isn't much scenery competing for attention. Most of the animation happens directly on the grid when symbols disappear, replacements fall in and multiplier bombs finally explode. We prefer that here. The sweets already have faces, the explosives are brightly coloured and adding much more would probably turn the screen into a children's birthday party with serious licensing problems. 

Five jelly symbols share the lower values, while the strawberry, orange, green fruit and blue fruit pay more. Since Bouncy Bombs opted for scatter pays, payouts are going to depend on the total number of matching symbols anywhere on the grid. 

• Normal Bomb: A visible multiplier of 2x, 3x or 4x appears when the bomb lands. If the round contains a win, its value joins any other Bomb Multipliers in view. 
• Revealing Bomb: This bomb hides its value until detonation. Once it goes off, the possible multipliers could be 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x and 100x. 
• Cascading Dynamite Bomb: The starting value can be 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x or 25x. Every new cascade doubles that multiplier before the bomb eventually explodes. 
• FS Scatter: Three or 4 FS symbols trigger one of the two free spins features, depending on how many land together. 

Cascading Wins 

Every winning combination is removed from the grid and replaced with new symbols. If another group of at least 8 matching symbols forms, another win is added and the cascade continues. 

This matters especially when a Cascading Dynamite Bomb is present. Each new cascade doubles its current value, so a longer sequence can change what that bomb eventually contributes. 

Bomb Multipliers 

Bombs don't multiply each individual win as soon as one forms. They wait until the round has finished cascading. 

If at least one win has occurred, all Bomb Multiplier values are added together first. The resulting total then multiplies the value stored in the Total Win Bar for that round. 

Normal Bombs keep things modest at 2x to 4x. Revealing Bombs can produce much larger values, while Cascading Dynamite Bombs become more valuable whenever another cascade arrives. 

That timing gives Bouncy Bombs a slightly different feel from other online slots where multipliers are applied separately as each winning combination lands. 

Bombastic Bonus 

Three FS Scatters trigger 10 free spins in the Bombastic Bonus. During this round, the mechanics from the base game have an increased chance of activating. 

Extra FS symbols can extend the feature. Two appearing together add 2 more spins, while 3 add another 4. 

Bomb Multipliers continue working in the same way as they do during the base game, so multiple bombs are still combined before applying to the total win from the round. 

Bombastic Fantastic Bonus 

Four FS Scatters trigger the Bombastic Fantastic Bonus with 10 free spins. Cascades and the different Bomb types remain active, so the guaranteed bomb can still be joined by other multipliers during the same round. 

Retriggers work here as well. Two FS symbols add 2 spins and 3 FS symbols add 4. 

The Bouncy Bombs game operates within the framework of 6 reels and 5 rows, but without any paylines or standard ways of winning. At least 8 identical symbols that generate payouts should be collected on the screen. This type of gaming field allows players to collect the matching symbols irrespective of their placement on the reels and whether they are adjacent to each other or not. 

The appearance of a combination leads to disappearance of the symbols and filling in the empty cells by new ones, and the whole procedure continues until a win cannot be formed anymore. The entire amount of the winnings is summed up in the Total Win Bar and then the appropriate Bomb Multipliers are applied. 

In the Bouncy Bombs slot there is no Wild symbol and only scatter pay feature is used for collecting matching symbols. 

For other online casino games with scatter pays, cascades or big multiplier mechanics, these three make sensible comparisons. 

• Super Gummy Strike: Another sweet themed game with colourful symbols and mechanics that become much busier once special features start affecting the grid. 
• Reactoonz Blitzways: The visual style is different, but both titles rely on character based symbols, grid wins and features that build around what happens after the first combination lands. 
• Pirots 5: Hacksaw Gaming brings its own brand of unusual characters and feature heavy gameplay here too, although the underlying mechanics take a different route. 

Bouncy Bombs has a familiar foundation, but the Bomb Multiplier rules give us something worth paying attention to. We particularly like the Cascading Dynamite Bomb. Watching the multiplier double as another winning group drops in gives the cascades a purpose beyond simply extending the round. 

The two bonus versions are also easy to separate. Bombastic raises the chances of the existing mechanics appearing, while Bombastic Fantastic guarantees a Bomb Multiplier on every spin. No flowchart required, which we're counting as a positive. 

Our main reservation is that the base game can feel quiet when the bombs don't line up with a useful cascade sequence. Still, once several multiplier types appear together, the maths becomes much more interesting than the jelly characters initially suggest. Cute sweets, concealed 100x bombs. A perfectly normal combination.