Bazaar Monkey Slot Review
Bazaar Monkey hides its entire personality above the reels, and that’s both its best idea and its riskiest. A grinning vendor in a maroon fez presides over a lantern-lit market stall, three gold-rimmed bowls of fruit set out on his counter, and it’s those bowls, not the reels, that decide when anything interesting happens. Endorphina have taken a strictly old-school fruit paytable and bolted a random, collect-and-wait trigger system on top of it.
It runs on a 5×4 grid with 20 fixed paylines, at 96.08% RTP, with stakes from 0.20 to 50 per spin. The studio’s recent work includes Fresh Crush, 3 Coin Towers Dice and Lucky Stamps, and this one shares their taste for glossy, heavily trimmed cartoon presentation. Whether the bazaar’s three-bowl routine delivers is the question worth sticking around for.
Base Game & Features
This is classic fruit-machine territory with a bazaar twist: 7s, bells, BARs and a full fruit bowl of melons, strawberries, lemons, oranges, plums and cherries across the five reels and four rows. Purple velvet curtains with fat gold tassels hang across the top of the stall, and shelves of fruit sit stacked behind the vendor, slightly out of focus.
It’s a dense, generous piece of artwork for a game whose pays are strictly old school. Twenty fixed lines carry the wins, left to right, with only the highest combination on each line paying.
Paytable
Every value below is a multiple of the total bet, not the line bet:
- 7 (red) and 7 (flame): 5x for three, 20x for four, 100x for five
- Bell: 4x, 10x, 40x
- BAR: 2x, 8x, 20x
- Watermelon: 1x, 4x, 10x
- Strawberry: 0.5x, 1x, 2x
- Lemon: 0.5x, 1x, 2x
- Orange: 0.25x, 0.5x, 1x
- Plum: 0.25x, 0.5x, 1x
- Cherry: 0.25x, 0.5x, 1x
The wild is a monkey-faced symbol that substitutes for everything except the TOKEN, appears in both the main game and Free Games, and can land stacked. A hundred times the bet for a full line of 7s is the ceiling on the regular pays.
Below that top row the ladder falls away quickly, and it’s a long ladder: nine entries between the 7s and the cherry, with the bottom few fruits grouped together on identical values. Line wins exist mostly to keep the reels ticking over between bowls.
The Lucky Time Feature
The three bowls above the reels are the whole engine of the game. Blue, red and green amulets depicting fruit are TOKEN symbols, and they land on the reels covering whatever sits underneath them. When a TOKEN flies off, the symbol it uncovers can complete a winning combination, so a departing amulet occasionally reveals a pay you didn’t know you had.
Each bowl draws in amulets of its own colour, and the colour decides which bonus is on the table:
- Blue Bowl: attracts blue amulets, may trigger Free Games
- Red Bowl: attracts red amulets, may trigger Hold and Win
- Green Bowl: attracts green amulets, may trigger Pick’em
Only one Bonus Game can run at a time, and a bowl’s decision is random: nothing about the number of TOKENs you’ve already landed moves the odds. A bowl that’s drawn in three amulets has no better claim on a trigger than a bowl holding one.
An amulet sitting in a bowl is a coin toss the game hasn’t resolved yet. The TOKENs keep landing, the bowls keep filling, and the trigger stays unpredictable right up to the moment it happens. That’s where most of the base game’s tension lives, because the reels alone won’t carry a session.
Bazaar Monkey Bonus Games & Free Spins
Free Games
The Blue Bowl awards 10 Free Games when it fires. Before the first spin, the vendor lobs a banana at a reel of his choosing, and where it lands it stays: the fruit becomes a WILD BANANA, sticky for the rest of the round. Only reels two to five can catch one, and it stands in for every symbol except the TOKEN.
While the round runs, the Blue Bowl can go off again. Each reactivation adds 3 more Free Games plus a second banana, thrown at a reel that’s still empty. There’s a limit of three reactivations, which means the round tops out at 19 spins with the whole middle of the grid wobbling under sticky wilds.
The bananas are the maths of the round. A single sticky wild on reel two already stretches every line that passes through it; four of them, stacked across reels two to five, means most winning lines are being completed by bananas rather than by the symbols that started them. That’s the whole appeal of a fully extended run.
The bet doesn’t change for the round; it stays at whatever triggered it. Both of the other Bonus Games remain live inside Free Games, so a single round can stack up in ways the base game never manages.
Hold and Win
The Red Bowl opens the Hold and Win Bonus Game. It’s a respin-and-collect format of the familiar kind, and nothing further is given away about how its prizes are structured. Part of the pull is simply not knowing until you’re inside.
Pick’em
The Green Bowl opens the Pick’em Bonus Game, a pick-and-reveal round. Its mechanics aren’t spelled out either, so what’s behind each pick stays a surprise until you’re in it. Two of the three bonuses arrive undocumented, which is either intrigue or frustration depending on your patience.
No volatility rating is attached to the game, so the shape of the maths has to be read from the pays and the bonus structure: small, frequent line wins in the base game, and a set of bonus rounds doing the heavy lifting on top. The 96.08% RTP excludes any return from a risk game.
There’s no published ceiling on what a round can pay, either. What’s verifiable is the structure: a line-pays game with three random bonus rounds on top, where the biggest single win on the regular reels is a five-of-a-kind of 7s.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
You spend most of your time at this stall watching the bowls, not the reels. That’s the honest shape of a session here: amulets land, the bowls fill, and the reels themselves rarely give you more than pocket change to keep you standing at the counter. The reason anybody chooses it is the Free Games round, where a fully extended run turns the middle of the grid into sticky bananas and both other bonuses stay in play.
That round is the game’s real strength, and it’s a good one: four sticky wilds and 19 possible spins is a build that can genuinely pay. The weakness is everything before it. With the line pays capped at 100x and bonus activation pure chance, the wait can be long and the regular spins give you nothing to aim at while you’re in it.
This is one for players who like a collect-and-wait build and don’t mind a quiet base game to get there; if you want your action from the reels themselves, the vendor’s bowls will test you. For the patient sort, though, the fez and the bananas add up to something worth a look.
Bazaar Monkey FAQs
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What is the RTP of Bazaar Monkey?
The game returns 96.08% to players overall, a figure that excludes any return from a risk game. -
How do you trigger the bonus games in Bazaar Monkey?
Amulets land on the reels as TOKEN symbols, and each of the three Fruit Bowls above the grid collects those matching its colour. Once a bowl has attracted an amulet it may set off its bonus at random: Free Games from the blue bowl, Hold and Win from the red, Pick’em from the green. -
What does the Wild Banana do in Bazaar Monkey?
It’s the sticky wild of the Free Games round. The monkey throws it onto a random reel as the bonus opens, and it stays there for the whole round, substituting for everything except the TOKEN. Further reactivations throw extra bananas, one per reel, up to four in total. -
Can Free Games be retriggered in Bazaar Monkey?
Yes, up to three times. Every reactivation of the Blue Bowl adds 3 extra spins and another WILD BANANA, so a fully extended round reaches 19 spins. -
What do the TOKEN symbols do in Bazaar Monkey?
The blue, red and green amulets are TOKEN symbols. They land covering other symbols, and when one flies off the reels, the symbol underneath is revealed and can complete a win. Feeding the bowls is how the bonuses eventually arrive. -
Does landing more amulets increase the chance of a bonus in Bazaar Monkey?
No. Feature activation is random and unaffected by the number of TOKEN symbols that have already landed, so a bowl holding several amulets is no likelier to trigger than one holding a single amulet. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Bazaar Monkey?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 50.00 per spin, and any Free Games you trigger are played at the same bet as the spin that started them. -
When is Bazaar Monkey released?
Bazaar Monkey’s release date is 30 September 2026. -
Who makes Bazaar Monkey?
Bazaar Monkey is made by Endorphina.
