Fruitsn Jars

Fruitsn Jars Slot Review

A navy backdrop, a gold bevelled frame, a reel window lit from behind like a display set into a casino wall. Fruitsn Jars is the rare fruit slot that has spent its imagination everywhere except the fruit: Red Rake Gaming run a 5×3 game at 95.3% RTP that pays left to right and hands every job of consequence to a jar.

The studio cover similar ground in Million 777 Wheel, Super 25 Stars and Guardians of Luxor, but none of those commit to one shape so completely. The wild is a jar, the scatter is a jar, the mystery symbol is a jar, and the wheel has its own trigger. The fruit just fills rows. It’s a game built from the specials downwards, and it’s better for it.

The Base Game and Its Jars

Wins form left to right across the reels, and where a line pays more than one win, only the highest counts. Combinations are the classic kind: matched symbols starting from the leftmost reel. That’s the whole of the win logic, and it’s all the game needs.

The WILD jar substitutes for every symbol except the BONUS jar, and it doubles as the best payer on the grid. That’s an unusually rich wild for a fruit game, where the wild is more often a functional stand-in than a target in its own right. Here it’s both.

Paytable

All values are multiples of the total bet:

• WILD jar: 4x for three, 20x for four, 100x for five
• Diamond: 1.2x for three, 8x for four, 40x for five
• Bell: 1x for three, 2x for four, 12x for five
• Grapes and Strawberry: 0.4x for three, 1.6x for four, 8x for five
• Cherry: 0.2x for three, 1.2x for four, 6x for five
• Watermelon: 0.2x for three, 0.8x for four, 5x for five
• Orange: 0.16x for three, 0.6x for four, 4x for five
• Banana: 0.12x for three, 0.4x for four, 3x for five
• BONUS jar scatter: 0.08x for two, 0.12x for three, 0.4x for four, 4x for five

The spread tells you what kind of game this is before you spin. The top of the table is respectable without being dramatic, and the bottom drops off quickly towards the humble banana. The wild sits well clear of everything else, which is fitting for the symbol doing the most work.

The interesting money lives in the jars and the features they carry, not in the fruit. Two of the paying symbols share a row, with grapes and strawberry paying identically at every tier, which keeps the fruit tier compact. Regular wins are the warm-up here rather than the point.

Lucky Multipliers

Any win that includes one or more WILD jar symbols may be multiplied. The possible multipliers are x2, x3, x5, x10, x15, x20 and x25. There’s no telling which applies before the win lands, which gives every wild-assisted line a small second beat of suspense. A wild in the right place can turn a modest fruit combination into something considerably better.

Because the wild substitutes for every paying symbol except the BONUS jar, the multiplier can attach to almost any win on the board. The best case is a five-wild line carrying the top multiplier. Most boosted wins land nearer the bottom of that ladder than the top, and the mechanic rides along with the wild rather than demanding anything of you.

Mystery Symbols

The mystery jar hides a win behind it. When the reveal comes, whatever is behind the symbol is yours. It’s a simple mechanic that needs no tutorial, and that simplicity is most of its charm. Any mystery jar on the reels is a small unknown until the game settles the spin.

What the reveal can produce isn’t published as a range, so it’s best understood as a bonus rather than a target: a jar that occasionally turns a dead spin into a paid one. It arrives when it arrives.

The Major Wheel

Three or more WHEEL symbols on the first three reels, on any payline, launch the Major Wheel. This is the feature that carries the game’s prize ladder, and it works its way inward rather than paying out immediately. Landing the trigger needs the right symbols early in the sequence, which is rarer than it sounds on a five-reel grid.

The wheel has three rings. The outer ring spins first and stops on a box. If the box holds a win, your bet is multiplied by that amount and the minigame ends. If it holds an arrow, the next ring inward spins instead, and so on until a winning box ends things. Deeper rings mean bigger numbers.

Three prizes sit on the ladder: Minor, Major and Grand. At a 3.00 stake the ladder pays 150 for the Minor, 200 for the Major and 400 for the Grand, and the prizes scale with the bet from there. The Grand is the one the arrows are chasing, and it’s the only prize in the game that the wheel can build towards rather than simply land on.

Free Spins

Three or more BONUS jar symbols in any position launch the free spins feature. They don’t need a payline, which is the one place the game relaxes its left-to-right habit. The triggering scatters pay a scatter win on top, so the round arrives with something already banked.

The BONUS jar is also the only symbol the WILD jar refuses to substitute for, so the two never tangle. Free spins run on the same reel set and the same jars, with the scatter doing the one job it has. What the round awards per trigger isn’t fixed in one number, so the experience of it rests on how the jars behave once it’s running.

A wild-heavy run of spins is where the feature does its best work. A full wild line under the top multiplier is the outcome every spin of the round is quietly capable of producing. That’s the ceiling worth imagining while the spins tick by.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

Playing Fruitsn Jars means watching a very polished cabinet and waiting for the jars, and the fruit knows it. The reason to sit down at this one is the single-shape design: a wild, a scatter, a mystery reveal and a wheel trigger, all wearing the same lid. On the art-deco frame it reads as considered rather than assembled.

The Major Wheel is the best thing here. Three rings stepping inwards, each arrow handing the decision to the next one, is clean design, and the Grand is the one prize the game genuinely builds towards. The Mystery Symbols are the weakest jar: a reveal with no ladder and nothing to anticipate. The fruit tier doesn’t help either, thinning out badly at the bottom.

It suits players who like classic symbols with a bit of craft around them, especially wheel chasers after a modest, well-made ladder. Anyone hunting four-figure ceiling hits will find the numbers here too small. For everyone else, this is one of the better-looking jars on the shelf.

Fruitsn Jars FAQs

• What is the RTP of Fruitsn Jars?

  Fruitsn Jars runs at an RTP of 95.3%.
• What is the grid size of Fruitsn Jars?

  The game plays on a 5×3 grid, with wins forming left to right.
• How do you trigger the Major Wheel in Fruitsn Jars?

  Land WHEEL symbols on the first three reels. Three or more of them on any payline starts the wheel minigame.
• What do the Lucky Multipliers do in Fruitsn Jars?

  Any win that includes one or more WILD jar symbols may be multiplied by x2, x3, x5, x10, x15, x20 or x25. There’s no fixed value, so the multiplier is decided when the win lands.
• How do you trigger free spins in Fruitsn Jars?

  Land three or more BONUS jar symbols anywhere on the reels. No payline is needed, and the scatters pay a win before the round begins.
• What does the WILD jar substitute for in Fruitsn Jars?

  The WILD jar stands in for every symbol except the BONUS jar. It’s also the game’s top payer.
• When is Fruitsn Jars released?

  Fruitsn Jars’ release date is 25 February 2021.
• Who makes Fruitsn Jars?

  Fruitsn Jars is made by Red Rake Gaming.