40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus Slot Review
A glossy green cabinet with gold trim and forty years of fruit symbols behind it, and the odd thing about 40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus is that its best-paying symbol isn’t a fruit at all. The $ Scatter out-earns the entire regular paytable, which tells you where this game’s priorities sit: the reels are the familiar part, and everything interesting happens around the edges of them.
Amusnet has built a straight 5×4, 40-fixed-line fruit slot with a 96.32% RTP and mid volatility, then bolted on a buy menu that puts guaranteed wilds up for sale. It sits in familiar company alongside 40 Lucky Wilds Hot Coin Boost and Versailles Gold Buy Bonus, both of which take the same glossy-classic route.
Symbols and Paytable
Eleven symbols fill the reels: eight paying fruits and classics, one Expanding Wild and two Scatters. All winning combinations pay left to right across the 40 fixed lines, starting from the first reel. The Scatters are the sole exception to the left-to-right rule.
The Expanding Wild is a clover, and it’s the most modern thing in the cabinet. It lands only on reels two, three and four, expands to fill its reel, and substitutes for every symbol on that reel except the two Scatters.
What the Symbols Pay
All values below are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet. That distinction matters more than usual on a 40-line game, where a line win is only a fortieth of what the multiple suggests:
- Seven: 75x for five, 5x for four, 1.25x for three, 0.25x for two
- Watermelon and Grapes: 12.5x for five, 2.5x for four, 1x for three
- Bell: 5x for five, 1.25x for four, 0.5x for three
- Pepper, Orange, Lemon and Cherry: 2.5x for five, 0.75x for four, 0.25x for three
The ceiling there is worth a glance. Five Sevens return 75x the total bet, which is a modest top prize by any modern standard, and the fruit below it drops away quickly. Watermelon and Grapes pay a quarter of the Seven’s five-of-a-kind, the Bell a twentieth, and the four bottom fruits a thirtieth.
The Seven is also the only symbol that pays for a two-of-a-kind, at 0.25x. Everything else needs three from the left before it pays anything at all, so short wins are rare and mostly single-symbol affairs.
Mid volatility softens the modest ceiling a little, spreading returns across frequent smaller hits rather than rare spikes. The pepper sitting in the same tier as the orange, lemon and cherry tells its own story: four of the eight paying symbols are identical in value, and the paytable is really five tiers wearing eight faces.
Because the wild only appears on the middle three reels, it can’t complete a line on its own: a win still needs a paying symbol on the first reel, and another on the fifth for anything longer. What it does is turn near misses into hits, converting a pair of Sevens plus a clover into a three-of-a-kind across every line the wild touches.
Scatter Pays
The two Scatters are where the paytable’s real money sits, and neither of them pays left to right. The $ Scatter counts anywhere on the reels, and it’s the richer of the pair by some distance.
- $ Scatter, anywhere: 100x for five, 20x for four, 3x for three
- Star Scatter, on reels 1, 3 and 5: 20x for three
Five dollar signs returning 100x the bet out-pays anything the regular symbols can manage, and three of them still returns 3x. Because the $ Scatter counts wherever it lands, it’s the one symbol whose value doesn’t depend on the paylines at all. On a 40-line game that’s a meaningful difference: a dollar sign is never wasted by landing on the wrong row.
The Star Scatter is a narrower thing. It only counts when it lands on the first, third and fifth reels together, and it pays a flat 20x for that trouble. The Expanding Wild substitutes for neither of them, so the wild can’t help build a scatter win.
Buy Bonus
This is the feature the game is named for, and it’s the one genuinely contemporary idea in the cabinet. Instead of waiting on the reels, the Buy Bonus lets you purchase Expanding Wilds directly, guaranteeing they’ll be waiting on the next spin.
Two purchases are on the menu:
- One Expanding Wild on reel 2, 3 or 4: 5x total bet
- Two Expanding Wilds on reel 2, 3 or 4: 15x total bet
The purchased wilds behave exactly like the organic ones: they expand to fill their reel and substitute for everything except the two Scatters. The game doesn’t say which reel a single purchase lands on, only that it’ll be one of the three middle reels.
Five times the bet for a guaranteed full wild reel is a fair-sounding price on a 40-line grid, where a stacked wild through the middle of the board touches a lot of lines at once. Doubling the wilds triples the price, which is steeper arithmetic than it first appears: two wilds help each other, but they can’t cross to the first or fifth reel, so the edges of a line still need luck.
Neither purchase changes what the reels can pay. The top prize is still the paytable’s top prize, so a bought spin caps out exactly where a natural one does; what the money buys is consistency, not ceiling.
Whether the maths favours the buyer over the long run is a different question from whether it’s fun, and only one of those matters on a Tuesday night.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.2/10
Sitting at this cabinet is comfort food: green velvet, gold trim, fruit you’ve known for decades, and a rhythm that never once surprises you. That steadiness is the whole reason it exists.
What it does properly is reward you for looking past the fruit. The $ Scatter paying up to 100x anywhere on the board carries more punch than anything the lines can manage, and a bought wild filling a middle reel turns a dead board live across forty lines at once.
What it doesn’t do is offer a ceiling worth chasing: the regular symbols top out at 75x, and no purchase raises that. Players who want novelty or a serious max win will find neither here, and they shouldn’t look for it. But for someone after a polished, predictable fruit slot that lets them pay for wilds when the reels won’t cooperate, this green cabinet pays out exactly the evening it promises.
40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus FAQs
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What is the RTP of 40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus?
The RTP is 96.32%. -
Is 40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus high volatility?
No, it’s a mid-volatility game. Wins tend to arrive at a steady pace rather than in rare spikes, which suits longer sessions on a modest bankroll. -
How many paylines does 40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus have?
It’s a 40-line fixed game, so all 40 lines are active on every spin and there’s nothing to adjust. -
What is the grid size of 40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus?
The game runs on a 5×4 grid: five reels and four rows, with 40 fixed paylines running across them. -
Can you buy the bonus on 40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus?
Yes. The Buy Bonus lets you purchase Expanding Wild symbols directly: one Expanding Wild on reel 2, 3 or 4 costs 5x your total bet, and two cost 15x. -
What does the Expanding Wild do in 40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus?
The Expanding Wild is a clover that lands on reels two, three and four, expands to fill its entire reel, and substitutes for all symbols on that reel except the $ Scatter and the Star Scatter. -
When is 40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus released?
40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus’s release date is 20 November 2025. -
Who makes 40 Bulky Fruits Buy Bonus?
It’s made by Amusnet, a studio with a long catalogue of glossy classic-style fruit slots.
