Bling Bling Penguin Slot - Review, Demo, Casinos, Bonuses

Bling Bling Penguin Review

Well, there is no doubt that you get to meet the coolest penguin in all of Antarctica in Ino Games’ Bling Bling Penguin, and he is, of course, blinged up with a golden jacket, necklace, and even crown. It’s a hip-hop animal in other words, and the game even features its own fully fledged tailor-made rap song. This is impressive for what amounts to a fairly standard game outside of the theme, as the Games Global partner hasn’t really gone overboards when it comes to feature creativity.

The main attraction is the Link&Win feature, which is hardly uncommon for Games Global partners, but it comes with the possibility of boosting the cash and jackpot prizes. The jackpots can go as high as 10,000x your stake, and they can also be won from the progress bar Bonus Wheel. The free spins round comes with nothing extra in this game, but you can trigger the Link&Win feature from within it. Bling Bling Penguin is worth checking out for the rap song, but it’s only too bad the rest of the game doesn’t amount to anything extraordinary.

Bling Bling Penguin Slot - Reels Screen

Bling Bling Penguin Slot Features

The premium sea creature symbols pay between 3 and 10 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol steps in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve line wins.

You need 6+ Bonus Symbols in view to trigger the Link&Win feature, and the triggering symbols become sticky on an otherwise cleared grid. You start out with 3 respins in the tally, and it resets each time a new sticky bonus symbol appears. The bonus symbols come with random cash prize values, and you can also land 2 special Upgrade symbols:

•  Multiplier Upgrade - boosts all bonus money symbols by up to x10.
• Jackpot Upgrade - levels up all jackpots by 1 tier.

You can land jackpots symbols during the feature as well, and these are 5 fixed jackpots that can be leveled up as follows:

• Epic Jackpot awards between 5,000x and 10,000x your stake.
• Grand Jackpot awards between 1,000x and 2,000x your stake.
• Major Jackpot awards between 250 and 500x your stake.
• Minor Jackpot awards between 100 and 200x your stake.
• Mini Jackpot awards between 50 and 100x your stake.

All your winnings are summed up and paid as the feature ends, and you can see the jackpots stacked up on the left-hand side. All bonus symbols that land in the feature, as well as in the base game, progress you along the Bonus Wheel progress bar seen above the reels. The Bling Bling Bonus Wheel feature triggers when this progress bar is filled. This awards either a cash prize up to 40x, the free spins round, or 1 of the 5 fixed jackpots.

The Free Spins round triggers when you land scatters on reels 1, 3, and 5 at the same time, and the penguin will then slide down a slope to determine the number of free spins you get. This awards between 10 and 30 free spins, and you can gamble for more spins if you got less than 30. You risk losing the whole feature if you gamble, however, but you get a random consolation cash prize if you lose the gamble. The bonus round can also be retriggered.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone living in an eligible jurisdiction, may take advantage of the Bonus Buy feature. A spin on the Bling Bling Bonus Wheel costs 33x your stake, while the free spins bonus round costs 55x your stake.

Bling Bling Penguin Slot - Bonus Wheel

Review Summary

The most impressive thing about Bling Bling Penguin is the fact that Ino Games went to the length of actually having a rap song made for the soundtrack. We have seen rap battle slots from far more established developers that didn’t go there, so there is no excuse for them in future releases. Anyway, Bling Bling Penguin is a charming little game fit for handheld devices, but it doesn’t really offer anything new except for the somewhat unusual theme.

The base game is pretty barebones, with only wilds to help you out, and it takes a good while to fill the progress bar. The Link&Win feature is decent though, not least since you can upgrade both the cash prizes and the jackpots. The free spins round comes with nothing extra, really, and it’s a bit strange that the Link&Win feature is not available on the buy menu. The 10,000x potential is hard to complain about, except for the fact that you’ll probably need the 10,000x jackpot to crack it.