Play Barnyard Bash: Chicken Chase

A chicken chase is underway, although Barnyard Bash: Chicken Chase from S Gaming has rather more going on than catching runaway poultry. The 5 reel setup uses 20 paylines, with purple, red and green eggs each tied to a different feature. Free spins, instant prizes and the Chicken Trail can all appear, while a farmer Wild helps with regular combinations. The farmyard may look cheerful, but the chickens have somehow ended up with a fairly detailed rewards system. 

The artwork is bright and cartoon based, with cows, sheep, pumpkins and tomatoes filling the higher end of the reels. The card symbols are given the same hand drawn treatment, so nothing looks out of place beside the farm characters. 

A smiling farmer appears as the Wild, while coloured eggs stand apart clearly from the normal symbols. The barn setting stays visible around the grid, with wooden boards and farm signs keeping the theme easy to recognise. 

Animations are kept fairly simple. Most of the movement is tied to feature activity rather than elaborate background effects, which works well enough for this style. We also get light farm themed audio rather than anything particularly dramatic. Chickens rarely need an orchestral score. 

The card symbols make up the lower end of the paytable, followed by tomatoes, pumpkins, sheep and the cow. The Wild has its own payouts and is the most valuable standard symbol shown. 

• Wild: The farmer Wild substitutes for regular symbols and uses the highest paying valid combination. It doesn't substitute for the Bonus eggs. 
• Purple Egg: This egg can activate the Egg stra Spins feature, awarding up to 9 free spins. 
• Red Egg: The red egg can activate Chicken Trail, where the chicken moves around a board collecting potential prizes. 
• Green Egg: The green egg can trigger an Instant Prize worth up to 30x the total stake. 

Coloured Egg Features 

Every base game spin gives each of the 3 coloured eggs a chance to activate its own mechanic. Purple leads to Egg stra Spins, red opens Chicken Trail and green awards an Instant Prize. 

That gives the base game a little variety without changing the normal reel layout. Rather than one Bonus symbol doing everything, the colour determines what happens next. 

Egg Stra Spins 

The purple egg can award as many as 9 free spins. 

During the bonus, landing 3 Bonus symbols anywhere on screen opens a pick feature with 3 eggs. The selected egg can award up to 5 additional free spins or an Instant Prize worth up to 300x. 

This is the more straightforward of the online slots style bonuses here, although the pick element means the round can still change direction once underway. 

Chicken Trail 

The red egg activates Chicken Trail. Each spin can move the chicken up to 6 spaces along the board. 

Multiplier spaces add their displayed value to the accumulated total. Golden Egg spaces trigger 3 eggs with a mystery prize, while landing on the Fox in the Bush ends the feature and awards whatever has been collected. 

The trail can continue for as many as 3 laps. Reaching lap 2 doubles Chicken Trail and Golden Egg prizes from their first lap values. On lap 3, Chicken Trail prizes are tripled and Golden Egg prizes are quadrupled. 

Instant Prize 

The green egg can award a potential Instant Prize of up to 30x the total stake during the base game. 

A separate Instant Prize can also appear from the pick feature during free spins, where the potential value can reach 300x. 

Barnyard Bash: Chicken Chase uses 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 fixed paylines. Regular wins are paid from left to right, and only the highest paying combination is awarded on each active line. 

Wilds can replace standard symbols to complete or improve a line win, but the coloured Bonus eggs work independently from those combinations. Those eggs can be awarded anywhere on the screen rather than needing to sit across a payline. 

The structure itself stays conventional throughout regular spins. Most of the variety comes from what happens when one of the egg features activates, so the reels don't need expanding layouts or cascading symbols to keep the bonus side busy. 

For other online casino games with cartoon farm themes, instant prizes or feature driven bonuses, we'd put these three nearby. 

• Piranha Pays: The setting changes from farmyard to living room aquarium, but both games use a light cartoon style and bonus mechanics that become more involved than the base reels suggest. 
• Eggcellent Wins LuckyTap: Eggs return here in a much simpler instant win format, making the theme the strongest connection even though the underlying mechanics are completely different. 
• Area Build'R Leprechauns Super Spin: Another title where several feature elements can alter the normal rhythm without requiring a complicated base game. 

Barnyard Bash: Chicken Chase has more variety than the cheerful farm graphics initially suggest. The coloured eggs are the best idea because each one has a clear purpose, so we're not waiting for one generic bonus trigger to do all the work. 

Chicken Trail is the most interesting feature for us. Moving through several laps while prize values increase gives the round a proper sense of progress, and the Fox in the Bush adds a simple stopping point that is easy to understand. Egg stra Spins are more familiar, but the pick feature gives them a useful second stage. 

The presentation is fairly basic, though that isn't much of a problem here. We'd rather have a clear farmyard than a cinematic chicken saga. Overall, the bonus variety does most of the heavy lifting.