Burning Bells 20

Burning Bells 20 Slot Review

An orange glow fills the screen behind five reels set into a thin gold frame, heat haze curling up through a vignette that makes the centre of the grid feel lit from within. It’s a familiar furnace, but Amatic have hidden a serious top end inside it: five scatter stars anywhere on the grid pay 10,000x the total bet, and there’s no bonus round standing between you and it. The rest is classic format – a 5×3 grid, 20 fixed paylines, an RTP of 96.96% and low volatility.

It sits in the classic aisle alongside Burning Bells 10, Fortune Joker 20 and Lucky Joker 20 Extra Gifts, with bets from 20 to 100 per spin. Every one of those spins is the whole game, and whether that’s enough depends entirely on what the stacked reels bring in.

Symbols, Stacks and Pays

Twenty fixed lines carry the action, with line wins paying leftmost to right on adjacent reels. Only the highest line win is paid on each line, and wins from different lines add together. Every line win is a multiple of the line bet. Symbols stack, so wins tend to arrive in slabs rather than singles when the reels line up.

There are two separate scales running through the paytable, and it’s worth keeping them apart. Line symbols pay against the line bet, which on 20 lines is a small fraction of the total stake, while the scatter pays against the total bet itself. A five-of-a-kind line win and a five-scatter win that look similar on paper are therefore very different amounts of money in practice.

The paytable is short and steep, in the manner of classic fruit slots. Here’s what each symbol pays:

• 7: 4x for two, 60x for three, 200x for four, 1000x for five (line bet)
• Horseshoe: 40x for three, 100x for four, 300x for five
• Watermelon / Grape: 20x for three, 80x for four, 200x for five
• Plum / Orange / Lemon / Cherry: 8x for three, 40x for four, 100x for five
• Scatter (Star): 40x for three, 400x for four, 10,000x for five (total bet)

The sevens and the stars do nearly all the lifting. Below the horseshoe, the fruit tier pays modestly, and a spin of plums and cherries rarely amounts to much. That’s the shape of the maths: a thin middle, a heavy top.

All paytable values follow the current bet level and update automatically when you change it. Payouts are only made for the exact number of symbols specified, so four of a kind doesn’t pay the three-of-a-kind rate on top. It pays the four-of-a-kind rate, and that’s it.

Because the symbols stack, a single spin can land the same symbol across every row of several reels at once. That’s what turns a modest fruit-tier symbol into a genuinely decent win: melons filling three reels with a wild bell beside them can pay across multiple lines in one go. Stacking also works in the game’s favour at the top, where a run of stacked sevens across the first few reels is the setup every fullscreen needs.

Wilds, Scatters and the Fullscreen Win

The gold bell is the wild, and it substitutes for every symbol except the scatter. It only lands on reels two, three and four, a wider spread than the single middle reel many classics allow, and stacked wilds on those reels are where the bigger line wins come from. When three of them fill a reel together, the middle of the grid turns fully gold.

The Star Scatter

The blue and gold star pays anywhere on the grid, ignoring paylines entirely. Scatter wins are a multiple of the total bet rather than the line bet, only the highest scatter combination pays, and those wins are added to any line wins from the same spin.

Five stars anywhere returns 10,000x the total bet, comfortably the richest combination in the game and the ceiling of what Burning Bells 20 will pay. Four stars return 400x and three pay 40x, so even the smaller scatter hits land on the total bet rather than the line bet, which softens the difference between the two scales.

Fullscreen Wins

Every symbol except the scatter can fill all fifteen positions at once. A Fullscreen win with the top symbol pays 1000x the total bet, and with stacked symbols in play the screen filling edge to edge is the game’s signature sight. It’s rare, low volatility or not, but it’s the moment the furnace actually roars.

Pacing Tools

Beyond the wilds, the scatter and the fullscreen, there’s nothing else. No free spins, no pick rounds, no wheel. What the game does offer is a set of pacing controls:

• Turbo mode: the reels spin faster and win animations play quicker
• Skip animations: win displays under 10x the total bet are cut and the total is shown directly
• Autoplay count: choose how many games run in a session
• Stop on loss: autoplay halts if your credit drops by a chosen amount

It’s a modest toolkit, but it’s the right one for a game with no feature round to wait for. The controls change how quickly the base game plays, not what it pays.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6.9/10

This is a slot you play for the steady drip of the base game, and the twenty lines are the reason to choose it over the ten-line sibling: twice the lines means the stacked reels turn into paid wins far more often, so the glow on screen is rarely just decoration. Low volatility keeps the rhythm even, and everything the maths promises is visible on the very next spin.

The strength is that top end. A scatter paying 10,000x the total bet, from any position, in a game with no bonus round at all, is a ceiling most classics never build. The weakness is the middle: the fruit tier returns very little, and when the sevens and stars stay quiet there’s nothing to look forward to but the next spin.

Players who want their return delivered spin by spin, with no feature to save up for, will feel right at home by this fire. Anyone who plays slots for the bonus round will find it warms rather than roasts, and they’ll miss the round they came for. For the rest, it’s a generous, legible classic that earns its place in the aisle.

Burning Bells 20 FAQs

• What is the RTP of Burning Bells 20?

  The RTP is 96.96%, a generous figure for a classic-format slot, and it’s paid out entirely on the reels rather than inside a bonus round.
• Is Burning Bells 20 high volatility?

  No, it’s a low volatility game. Wins tend to arrive in smaller, steadier amounts, with the bigger payouts coming from the top symbols, wild stacks and scatter stars.
• How many paylines does Burning Bells 20 have?

  The game is played with 20 fixed paylines. Line wins pay leftmost to right on adjacent reels, with only the highest win paid on each line.
• What is the grid size of Burning Bells 20?

  It’s a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows, with symbols that stack and a fullscreen win possible with any symbol except the scatter.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Burning Bells 20?

  Bets run from 20 to 100 per spin, and the paytable values update automatically whenever you change the bet level.
• How does the scatter pay in Burning Bells 20?

  The star scatter pays on any position, regardless of paylines. Scatter wins are a multiple of the total bet, only the highest combination pays, and five stars return 10,000x the total bet.
• Where do the wilds land in Burning Bells 20?

  The gold bell wild appears only on reels two, three and four, and it substitutes for every symbol except the scatter. The wilds stack, so a full reel of bells is where the bigger line wins come from.
• Who makes Burning Bells 20?

  Burning Bells 20 is made by Amatic, the studio behind the wider Burning Bells and Lucky Joker ranges of classic-format slots.