- A warm, cosy theme with potential for huge wins
- Big symbols can appear with big multipliers
- Multiplier doesn’t reset during the free spins bonus
Hula Balua slot is a new Elk Studios game with potential for massive wins and plenty of features to keep it exciting. It has has a bright, colourful theme which I really like and plays out on a 6×6 grid with cluster wins. To get a winning cluster you need matching adjacent symbols and these are listed as follows in ascending order based on their value:
- Apple, Orange or Plum
- Kiwi
- Pineapple
- Grapefruit
- Star
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Hula Balua Slot Bonuses and Features
Avalanches. Like most Elk Studio games, this one offers avalanches. That means that winning symbols are removed from the screen and new ones fall in from above to replace them, potentially creating more wins and triggering more avalanches, all within the same spin.
Big Symbols. At random you can land big symbols, or get them when matching symbols form a square or rectangle. These give you a multiplier equal to the number of positions that make up the big symbol and the multiplier is added to the global win multiplier. In addition to this, you can merge big symbols into even big ones if they’re adjacent to each other, giving you bigger multipliers. Multipliers reset after each spin.
Elmo Wild Drops. Sometimes Elmo will appear and drop a random number of wilds onto the screen and these stay in place until they are used in a win, or until Elmo walks off the screen.
Sticky Redrops. A half empty bottle symbol can land to trigger this and a symbol will be chosen at random. All instances of this symbol on the screen will become sticky and new symbols will land, if they are the same then they too will become sticky. Sticky symbols can also be upgraded up to 3×3 in size.
Free Spins Bonus. This is triggered when you land 3 or more scatter symbols, giving you up to 12 free spins for up to 6 scatters. During the bonus, the global win multiplier doesn’t reset between spins, and you can get 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 more free spins for 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters. Additionally, if you trigger the bonus with 2 scatters vertically connected, the super bonus is triggered and a big symbol is guaranteed to land on every spin.
Conclusion
Hula Balua slot from Elk Studios has a lot to like with plenty of interesting features. Big symbols can work really well as they build up your global multiplier. In the base game this usually resets before it gets too high, but in the free spins bonus this doesn’t happen so you hope to get closer to that huge 25,000x maximum win potential. The super bonus is even better if you can manage to trigger it with guaranteed big symbols. The biggest downside is the RTP at just 94%, something Elk Studios have been sticking too lately and it’s a real shame as it’s far below the 96% average. That aside though, it’s still a good slot but that may put some people off.
Great Features But A Low RTP
Pros
- Great range of features.
- Big multipliers.
- Nice design.
Cons
- RTP just 94%.