Chicken Hatch

What does it matter which came first, if you can have both the eggs and the chickens? This farm themed slot comes with cartoonish graphics and what could be best described as farm-themed music. Twenty paylines and plenty of different bonus features combined with a low overall bet level will keep you spinning for quite a while. Capecod Gaming has produced a little-known gem that provides plenty of entertainment and fun; not to mention wins.

Theme

A barn for your chickens to roost in and plenty of farmland for them to run around. The air is filled with simple but harmonious and happy music and sounds, setting a nice tone for spinning the reels. As the name tells the overall theme is all about chickens and chicken eggs. On the reels, you’ll find an assortment of other symbols as well, such as the fox, corn, wheelbarrows and what I would describe as the best presentation of J, Q and K card values. See for yourself and I bet you won't be disappointed.

Betting Options and Functions

There are twenty fixed paylines to bet on, and a bet selector that runs from 0.01 to 0.50 coins per line. Maximum bet doesn’t raise all that high, which is probably a welcome setting for the vast majority of slot players. Payouts range from five to one thousand times your line bet, with five wilds in succession adding a big win of 4000 coins.

On top of the normal game, you have a choice of two meters: the eggs and the chickens. Choosing either one will start gathering bonus symbols(which again, are eggs and chickens), which in turn launch the bonus feature when the meter is full.

Features

Once the egg meter is full, the Egg bonus game is launched. Five eggs are shot from a cannon, and for each that turns into a chick learning to fly you get a random win, and each that is simply raw yolk turns up no wins at all.

The chicken meter, in turn, launches the Hen bonus feature. Pick your favorites among the hatching hens, and find out if they’ve laid a golden egg or nothing at all. Again five attempts are given, after which the base game returns.

The magicspin bonus can be activated during any normal spin, as long as you land three scatters anywhere on the reel. More scatters means more spins, three, four and five respectively. During these spins, the reels roll to reveal nests, each containing one, two, three or no eggs at all. Two eggs mean you win double your bet, three means a win of triple the bet, one means you win just the bet, and none indicates you win nothing at all from that nest. Though the sums might at start sound small you should notice that there are 15 nests on the screen, and wins quickly grow massive if you have a bit of luck.

Our Take

Chicken Hatch is an excellent game. Though there’s no jackpot here the baseline wins can grow massive even with small bets. The graphics are great and fit the theme perfectly. The music is good, at least until you’ve heard it a few dozen times. Perhaps not a slot for everyone, but indeed a slot worth trying for everyone.