Bubble Pop

Bubble Pop Slot Review

A bubblegum machine stands on a teal tiled floor, pink pipes curling up around its corners and soap bubbles drifting across the background. There’s a translucent dome on top of the cabinet, a ribbon banner at its base and a funnel nozzle poking out of the corner. Bubble Pop commits fully to the candy-counter scene, and it’s a bright, clean one to look at.

Nearly everything this game pays hinges on how many bubble symbols you can crowd onto its grid at once, not on what the paylines are doing. It’s a tidy piece of design from Pragmatic Play, sitting at the sugar end of a catalogue that also holds Gum Bubbles and Fruit Party.

Underneath the wrapper it’s a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines, an RTP of 96.50% and high volatility, with bets from 0.10 to 250 per spin. The line wins are mostly there to keep the meter ticking over. The real game starts at 6 bubble symbols, and it climbs all the way to a full screen.

The Base Game

All symbols pay from left to right across the 10 paylines, and only the highest win on each line counts. Wins on multiple lines are added together. Line wins are multiplied by the bet per line, while bonus wins are multiplied by the total bet, a distinction that matters once the bubble symbols start landing.

The paytable is a classic fruit-machine ladder, and it pays as multiples of the total bet:

• BUBBLE WILD – 25x, 50x, 200x
• 7 (red) – 15x, 30x, 100x
• 7 (green) – 10x, 20x, 50x
• 7 (purple) – 7.5x, 15x, 30x
• BAR BAR BAR (gold) – 3x, 10x, 25x
• BAR BAR (blue) – 2.5x, 8x, 20x
• BAR (pink) – 2x, 6x, 15x
• Duck – 1.5x, 5x, 12.5x
• Grapes / Watermelon – 1x, 4x, 10x
• Cherries / Lemon / ANY 7 – 0.5x, 2x, 5x
• BUBBLE POP – 5x, 5x, 10x

Values shown are for three, four and five of a kind. The wild is the richest symbol on the reels: BUBBLE WILD substitutes for everything and can land on all five reels. BUBBLE POP is the scatter-style symbol, paying from any position rather than along the lines.

The symbol stack tells you what kind of game this is. Three coloured 7s head the table, then three tiers of BAR, then a duck and a run of fruit. It’s the layout of a pub fruit machine, dressed in candy colours, and anyone who has played one will recognise the rhythm immediately.

There’s a fair gap between the top of that table and the bottom, so which reel a symbol lands on matters as much as which symbol it is. The wild’s ceiling for 5 of a kind is the best line result in the game, ahead of even the red 7.

Beyond the two bubble symbols there’s nothing else to track. No respins, no random modifiers, no second-screen pick rounds. Every spin is either a line win, a step towards 6 bubble symbols, or nothing. That makes it an easy game to read at a glance, which suits the simple counting mechanic underneath.

The Bubble Bonus

Cover 6 or more positions on the grid with BUBBLE POP or BUBBLE WILD symbols, in any arrangement, and the Bubble Bonus pays instantly. Both symbol types count towards the same total. No spins are awarded and nothing carries over – the money lands straight away and the next spin begins.

Because both symbols appear on all five reels, the count can build from anywhere on the grid. A spin that lands 5 bubbles isn’t a miss so much as a near start, one symbol short of the first rung.

The payout ladder, at the game’s 2.00 reference bet, with prizes scaling in proportion to the total bet:

• Any 6 symbols – 2.00
• Any 7 symbols – 4.00
• Any 8 symbols – 16.00
• Any 9 symbols – 50.00
• Any 10 symbols – 100.00
• Any 11 symbols – 300.00
• Any 12 symbols – 1,000.00
• Any 13 symbols – 2,000.00
• Any 14 symbols – 5,000.00
• Any 15 symbols – 10,000.00

The bottom rungs are modest. Six symbols returns exactly the stake, and 7 doubles it. From there the steps widen quickly, and each additional symbol past ten is worth more than the rung before it.

The middle of the ladder is where the shape becomes clear. Going from 9 to 12 symbols multiplies the prize twenty times over, a jump that sits inside three extra symbols on a 15-position grid. The last few rungs rise faster than everything below them combined.

Fifteen symbols means every position on all five reels, so the top of the ladder is a full screen. That’s rare by design, but because wilds count towards the total, a screen filling with BUBBLE WILDs is always climbing the same ladder on its way to something bigger.

The Bubble Wild Jackpot

There’s a separate prize sitting above the ladder. Fill all 15 positions with BUBBLE WILD symbols and nothing else, and the Grand Jackpot pays instead of the standard bonus. At the same 2.00 reference bet it’s worth 50,000, five times the 15-symbol rung of the mixed ladder.

It’s the single richest outcome in the game and the only one that demands a pure screen. A mix of 14 wilds and one BUBBLE POP still collects the standard ladder prize; the jackpot only arrives when all 15 positions match.

That purity requirement is what gives the prize its height. Because BUBBLE WILD also substitutes in line wins and pays 200x on its own, a wild-heavy screen still collects handsomely even without the jackpot. The near-miss pays 10,000 at the reference bet, which is hardly a consolation prize.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.2/10

Bubble Pop is a fruit machine in candy-counter clothes, and its whole appeal is one escalating count. Every bubble symbol on the grid is a rung higher, and the tension builds spin after spin towards the same full screen. Nothing else in the game competes with that count for your attention.

Its strength is the ladder itself. Letting wilds stack line wins while also feeding the count means a bubble-heavy screen is never wasted, and the rungs past ten rise faster than everything below them combined. It’s a clean piece of maths wrapped in a very sweet shell.

The weakness is everything outside that ladder – no free spins, no respins, nothing between bonus hits but small line wins. This one suits patient players who like a single long chase and can do without a feature every few spins; anyone after variety will run out of it fast. The bubblegum charm holds up regardless, and the machine beneath it knows exactly what it is.

Bubble Pop FAQs

• What is the RTP of Bubble Pop?

  Bubble Pop runs at an RTP of 96.50%.
• Is Bubble Pop high volatility?

  Yes, Bubble Pop is a high volatility game, so payouts tend to come less often but in larger amounts.
• How many paylines does Bubble Pop have?

  Bubble Pop has 10 paylines, with all symbols paying from left to right on selected paylines. Only the highest win on each line is paid, and wins on multiple lines are added together.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Bubble Pop?

  Bets run from 0.10 to 250.00 per spin, so there’s room for both cautious stakes and bigger sessions.
• How do you trigger the Bubble Bonus in Bubble Pop?

  The Bubble Bonus needs 6 or more BUBBLE POP or BUBBLE WILD symbols anywhere on the reels. Both count towards the same total, and the prize is instant money rather than free spins, rising with every extra symbol.
• What does the BUBBLE WILD symbol do in Bubble Pop?

  BUBBLE WILD is wild and substitutes for all symbols. It appears on all reels, pays up to 200x the total bet for five of a kind, and counts towards the Bubble Bonus alongside BUBBLE POP symbols.
• How do you win the Grand Jackpot in Bubble Pop?

  The Grand Jackpot needs every one of the 15 grid positions to hold a BUBBLE WILD. Any wild-and-pop mix instead pays the standard Bubble Bonus, so the jackpot is the only outcome that demands a full screen of a single symbol.
• When was Bubble Pop released?

  Bubble Pop’s release date is 10 December 2021. It’s made by Pragmatic Play.