There's a snack for everybody whether it be savoury or sweet, in Yum Yum Powerways from game developer Pragmatic Play. Spin your way to some mouth watering treats and big wins across 16,384 paylines, where a maximum prize of 5,000x your stake can be won.
This food themed video slot introduces us to Pragmatic's new Powerways Pay Mechanic, which will replace winning symbols with randomly chosen new ones that spin into place. Land 3 chefs in view whilst playing to trigger the bonus round, from here you can build up a huge multiplier in free spins that can produce some spectacular wins.
Visit the snack wagon with us as we take you on our full review of this game. Remember to try the free play demo of this slot out for yourself, that is included as part of our article. You can access this on your desktop, tablet, or mobile device.
We've all seen the American movies and TV shows where the Food Trucks are serving up all manner of tasty treats to the characters. Well now thanks to Pragmatic Play you can visit one for yourself with the added bonus being that this one can pay out big cash prizes too. Players will find themselves transported to the shores of California as the game loads up, with the reels of the game set into the food truck itself. As well as the stunning game design, a funky soundtrack keeps your head nodding and foot tapping throughout.
With food being the theme of the slot, as you'd likely expect this is reflected in the paytable too. The lower value pays of the game are the dip, chocolate doughnut, cream doughnut, chocolate cake, cherry cake, French fries, and taco. The premium paying symbols are the chicken leg, noodles, pizza slice and burger, with a 6 of a kind win paying 0.5x, 0.6x, 0.9x, and 1.5x respectively. The wild in the game is the burger meal, with this substituting for all game symbols bar the scatter.
To tickle your tastebuds and get the reels spinning on Yum Yum Powerways it will cost from a minimum of €0.20 a play, up to a maximum of €100. For those who are playing from a jurisdiction where it is still possible to buy the bonus on a slot, you will be able to instantly access the free spin feature if you choose for the cost of 100x your stake.
BASE GAME & modifiers
The slick design of the slot and the unique Powerways engine provides players with 16,384 ways to win on Yum Yum Powerways, but there's a whole lot more to this game than just tasty treats and thousands of active paylines. Let's take look at what other features are in store for you to look froward to.
powerways
Whilst the Powerways engine may initially look a little confusing, it is quite simple once you get used to it. Wins are awarded on Yum Yum Powerways for adjacent symbols that are left to right, right to left, top to bottom, and bottom to top. To be 100% certain of how this mechanic works, try some spins on our free play demo. Once you have seen it in action you will soon have a clear understanding of how it operates.
Winning symbol replacement feature
Not to be confused with cascading reels, the winning symbol replacement feature is very much it's own in-game mechanic, and this kicks into action when a win has been formed on the reels. Rather than the winning symbols being removed from the playfield and new ones dropping down to replace them, this particular mechanic simply spins in a new randomly selected symbol if the win has occurred in the middle 4x4 grid. If symbols from the outer edges have been used, then the game will bring new symbols onto the screen to fill those spaces from a counter clockwise position.
What makes this feature even more exciting, is that each new spin of the reels begins with a win multiplier of x1 in place. For every successful symbol replacement that takes place, this will increment the multiplier by a further x1 each time.
yum yum powerways free spin feature
The free spin feature is triggered on Yum Yum Powerways when 3, 4, 5, or 6 chef scatter symbols appear in view, with this awarding players 6, 8, 10, and 12 free spins respectively. Before the action gets underway, if your feature trigger awarded you 6 - 10 spins then you are offered the opportunity to try and gamble to the maximum of 12.
This gamble comes via a wheel, where the chef will turn a handle before the wheel finally comes to a halt. If the arrow lands in the green section then you move on to the next free spin total and can collect or gamble again. If you continually land in the red section and reach the zero spins total, then the bonus feature will end. I have added the gamble scenarios for you below along with their odds of winning.
Spin Gamble
Gambling 4 to 6 spins
Gambling 6 to 8 spins
Gambling 8 to 10 spins
Gambling 10 to 12 spins
Chances of Winning
50.14%
42.88%
44.46%
45.47%
Players should note that if you have accessed the feature via a bonus buy, then the odds of winning on each of the gambles shown above increases by a slight amount.
As the free spins begin you will note that once again you a win multiplier in play that starts on x3 multiplier. Each winning symbol replacement that you can achieve in the bonus will see the multiplier increment by a further x3 every time, so this can soon build to a very substantial size.
Furthermore, to make things even more interesting, you are guaranteed a wild symbol on every spin to stick in place within the 4x4 centre grid. This can really help to stack up the wins and increase the size of your multiplier.
Last up we have the re-triggers. Every scatter symbol that lands in view during the bonus round will add an extra 2 spins to your current total.
Yum Yum Powerways slot review final thoughts
It's always exciting to see a new game mechanic released, and I have to say Powerways from Pragmatic Play is really interesting and more importantly very entertaining. As I said earlier in the review, it can take a few spins to work out what's going on, but it wasn't all that long ago that we were all sat in awe of how the Megaways™ engine worked, and now playing those slots is 2nd nature to us.
Various game providers have tried to come up with a concept that is the " New Megaways " and Powerways is probably the best of the lot to date. Will it catch on though and will Pragmatic make a number of games featuring it? Time will tell, but for now take the demo for a test drive and see what you think of it.