Flowers Slot Review
Most 5×3 slots pay you for five symbols and stop there. Flowers doesn’t, because its flower symbols can land two-at-a-time in a single position, each one counting as a pair, and a winning line here can run 10 symbols deep on five reels. It’s a quiet little piece of engineering hiding inside a sunny garden, framed in weathered wood with vines spilling over the corners and green hills rolling behind it.
This is NetEnt in easy-going mood. It runs on a 5×3 grid with 30 fixed bet lines, an RTP of 96.32%, and a hit frequency of 45%, so wins land often even when they’re small. Stakes run from 0.3 to 75 per spin, and the bet you pick applies to every spin until you change it. Simple groundwork, unusual payoff.
Double Symbols and the Garden Paytable
Wins pay left to right across the reels without gaps, and only the highest win on each line counts. The twist sits in the symbols themselves. Every symbol can land as a Single, while the flower symbols and the Scatter can land as Doubles, each counting as two Singles. That’s how a winning line stretches from the usual minimum of 3 symbols all the way up to 10.
In practice, the Doubles matter most at the top of the paytable. The four flower symbols are the ones that can arrive stacked, so a single reel position showing a Double Red flower contributes two symbols to a line rather than one. Lines that would need five reels of Singles can instead be completed by Doubles across three or four reels.
It works the other way around, too. A three-symbol win, the minimum the game pays, is made from three Single symbols on the first three reels. Meanwhile a five-reel line of Double flowers counts as a ten-symbol win outright. Every Double that lands quietly doubles the length of whatever it joins.
Wins on different bet lines are added together, so a spin with Doubles across several lines can add up even when no single line is spectacular. A bet line win is the paytable value multiplied by any applicable multipliers, and the values shown change with your chosen bet, so there’s no mental arithmetic needed while you play.
The pay values below are multiples of the total bet:
- Wild: 3 symbols 8.3333x, 4 symbols 33.3333x, 5 symbols 166.6667x
- Red flower: 3 symbols 0.6667x, 4 symbols 1.3333x, 5 symbols 5.3333x, 6 symbols 8.3333x, 7 symbols 13.3333x, 8 symbols 20x, 9 symbols 33.3333x, 10 symbols 66.6667x
- Sunflower: 3 symbols 0.5x, 4 symbols 1.1667x, 5 symbols 4.6667x, 6 symbols 7.5x, 7 symbols 11.6667x, 8 symbols 18.3333x, 9 symbols 30x, 10 symbols 60x
- Venus Flytrap: 3 symbols 0.5x, 4 symbols 1x, 5 symbols 4x, 6 symbols 6.6667x, 7 symbols 10x, 8 symbols 16.6667x, 9 symbols 26.6667x, 10 symbols 53.3333x
- Peony: 3 symbols 0.3333x, 4 symbols 0.8333x, 5 symbols 3.3333x, 6 symbols 5.8333x, 7 symbols 8.3333x, 8 symbols 15x, 9 symbols 23.3333x, 10 symbols 46.6667x
- Q: 3 symbols 0.1667x, 4 symbols 0.5x, 5 symbols 4.1667x
- J: 3 symbols 0.1667x, 4 symbols 0.5x, 5 symbols 3.3333x
- FREE SPIN Scatter: 4 to 6 symbols 2x, 7 symbols 4x, 8 symbols 10x
Two things stand out there. The Wild is comfortably the richest symbol on the reels, out-paying even the Red flower’s ten-symbol line, and the flower symbols keep climbing all the way to a 10-symbol line while the royals stop dead at 5. The gap between a five-of-a-kind flower win and a ten-of-a-kind one is enormous, which is exactly what the Doubles are for.
The Wild itself is a cheerful smiling bloom. It substitutes for everything except the Scatter symbols, and when it stands in for a Double it pays the Single symbol’s value. Substitutions always pay the highest possible combination on the line.
Free Spins with Stacked Wilds and a x3 Multiplier
Four or more Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels start the Free Spins round, and the more Scatters you land, the more spins and the bigger the bet multiplier you receive. Scatters can also arrive as Double Scatters, though only on reels 2, 3 and 4. Each Double Scatter counts as two Singles, so a short line of them goes a long way towards the next tier.
The round then runs in a fixed order. Both the Free Spins Multiplier and the spins counter activate at the start, every bet line win is tripled on every spin until the round ends, and Wilds begin appearing in vertical stacks of 2 or 3 symbols, which on a 5×3 grid can fill a reel almost completely. Stack a couple of those next to a run of Double flowers and the tripling starts doing serious work.
The round can extend itself, too. Four or more Scatters during the feature add their respective number of extra spins to the counter, keeping a good sequence running for as long as the Scatter keeps arriving.
Spins play at the bet value of the round that triggered them, whatever you change afterwards. At the end, the total win from the feature is added to any win from that triggering spin, and the game returns to the base game. There’s no separate bonus screen to keep track of: everything happens on the same reels, with the same symbols, just multiplied.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
This is a game you pick when you want the garden, not the fireworks: long, easy sessions where something small is always happening and the big moment, when it finally arrives, is a run of stacked Wilds with everything tripled. That round is the best thing here. Tripled line wins on top of symbols that already count double gives it a ceiling the base game never hints at.
The weakness is everything outside it. The base game pays in crumbs, the royals are barely worth the reels they sit on, and waiting out the gap between features takes patience the cheerful artwork doesn’t fully excuse.
It suits players who like frequent small hits and a slow, sunny build, and it sits comfortably alongside NetEnt’s gentler work like Butterfly Staxx and Starburst. Anyone hunting big swings and brutal tension won’t find them in this garden. For the rest, it’s a pleasant corner to sit in.
Flowers FAQs
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How do you trigger Free Spins in Flowers?
Land 4 or more Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels and the round begins. The number of Scatters you land determines both the spins awarded and the bet multiplier that comes with them. -
What are Double symbols in Flowers?
Flower symbols and Scatter symbols can land as Doubles, and each Double counts as two Single symbols. That allows winning bet lines to consist of anywhere from 3 to 10 symbols. -
Can Free Spins retrigger in Flowers?
Yes. If 4 or more Scatters appear while the round is running, the extra spins they’re worth are added to the counter and the feature simply continues. -
What does the Wild do in Flowers?
The Wild substitutes for all symbols except the Scatter symbols, and always pays the highest possible winning combination on a bet line. When it substitutes for a Double symbol it pays the Single symbol’s value. During Free Spins it can appear in vertical stacks of 2 or 3 symbols. -
Which symbols can appear as Doubles in Flowers?
Only the Scatter symbols and the flower symbols can be Double. All other symbols, including the Wild and the royals, appear as Singles only. -
What is the Free Spins Multiplier in Flowers?
The multiplier triples all bet line wins for the whole of the Free Spins round, from the first spin to the last. It’s activated at the start of the feature along with the spins counter. -
What is the RTP of Flowers?
The RTP is 96.32%. The hit frequency is 45%, so winning spins land fairly often. -
How many paylines does Flowers have?
Flowers has 30 fixed bet lines, which pay if symbols appear in succession from the leftmost reel to the rightmost reel, without gaps. Simultaneous wins on different lines are added together.
