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Slot Review: Board Babe

The imminent advent of winter can mean only one thing – and no, the answer is neither “Christmas” or “snow,” although both are technically true. The colder weather means that it’s time for winter sports, pastimes that are extremely popular with many people. One of the best-loved winter sports is snowboarding. None of us here have really tried it, since we’re all clumsy lugs who sit around playing online slots all day. (Hey, they say that self-deprecation is a virtue. We’ve got it in spades!) Whether you like to board yourself, or simply enjoy being a spectator of this daring pastime, we bet that you will enjoy “Board Babes.” This game has a lot of the things that make a lot of slot players happy, in our somewhat experienced opinion. This game has both cute girls and animals, bright colors, and big money to be won. That makes it pretty much a hit as far as we are concerned.

Board Babe comes to us from PartyGaming. It has five reels and nine paylines. Coin values start at one cent and range upwards incredibly to fifty dollars. Sure, you can play this game as a penny slot, but to do so is to miss out on the vast jackpot that you can win with a little (okay, a LOT of) daring. Playing one coin per payline at the maximum value, you can bet a whopping four hundred fifty dollars per spin. The jackpot is an equally-impressive twenty-five hundred coins, or twelve thousand five hundred dollars on a maxed-out bet. Now you know that’s an impressive start to a snowboarding vacation! But it gets even better. With the various multipliers and bonuses in this game, your top prize is amplified exponentially, up to an incredible one million, one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars. Wow!

A great winter theme is the big attraction to this internet pokey, if you discount the cash. The backdrop to the reels is a vista of rolling white hills – the perfect kind on which to snowboard (or so we are told). The symbols are the title logo, the St. Bernard dog toting hot cocoa, the snowflake, the log cabin, the snowman, the ski goggles, and assorted poker symbols in the form of letters and numbers. The doggy is the symbol to look for in this game – he’s not only the wild logo (meaning that he can substitute for any other image on the reels in a winning combination), but he’s also the jackpot symbol. The board babe herself is a multiplier symbol. She will complete a trick across the screen to the sounds of rockin’ guitar music if she comes into play. The snowflake is the scatter symbol, which is appropriate. Get two or more of these, and be awarded with a random prize of between one time and two hundred times your triggering bet.

If you get the vivacious and pretty Board Babe anywhere on reels one and five at the same time you will be taken to an awesome second-screen bonus game in which you are challenged to complete a downhill obstacle course from the babe’s point of view. For every obstacle that doesn’t make you wipe out, you’ll win a prize. You can dodge up to nine obstacles for the biggest prize, but the game ends if you hit anything.

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