Tiki Beats

Tiki Beats Slot Review

Sunset on a jungle island, and two carved tiki idols are hunched over their drums, keeping the luau going while bamboo torches burn along the top of the reel frame and a rainbow-striped toucan in a tiny green party hat watches from the right-hand end. Tiki Beats hides a nastier game behind that party than the cartoon art lets on: outside the free games round, almost everything you win here traces back to a single symbol, the red mask, and the paytable drops off a cliff below it.

The luau is Eyecon‘s work, the same school of design behind Fluffy Favourites and Irish Luck. This one runs on a 5×4 grid, five reels and four rows, with four tiki masks doing the heavy lifting on the pays. The drums keep playing either way.

Base Game & Features

The reel set sits inside a wooden frame at the heart of the luau, and the symbols keep the theme close. Four tiki masks in red, green, blue and purple carry the top pays. The royals A and K fill out the lower end.

Wins are line-based, and the masks pay from as few as two matching symbols. The blue and purple masks are equals, and so are A and K, which leaves six distinct pay tiers across the eight paying symbols. Symbol pays are multiples of the total bet:

• Red Tiki mask: 2 = 20x, 3 = 200x, 4 = 1,000x, 5 = 10,000x
• Green Tiki mask: 2 = 10x, 3 = 60x, 4 = 200x, 5 = 2,000x
• Blue Tiki mask: 2 = 4x, 3 = 30x, 4 = 150x, 5 = 1,000x
• Purple Tiki mask: 2 = 4x, 3 = 30x, 4 = 150x, 5 = 1,000x
• A and K: 3 = 20x, 4 = 80x, 5 = 600x

It’s a steep ladder. The red mask is worth fifty times more for five than the purple one beside it, so the top of the paytable does most of the dreaming. Even the green mask drops off quickly once you’re past four of a kind.

Two special symbols sit outside the paytable: the TikiGold symbol and the scattered TikiChief. Each of them opens a different bonus, and one of them does two jobs. The TikiGold symbol is the wild, substituting for every symbol except scattered TikiChief symbols and doubling any line win it helps to complete.

TikiGold also works as the free games scatter, which makes it the busiest symbol on the reels by some distance. Land three or more of them anywhere and the bonus round is on. One symbol pulling double duty as wild and scatter is an old Eyecon habit, and it means every TikiGold that lands is doing something useful even when it isn’t part of a win.

Tiki Beats Free Games & Bonuses

Toucan Bonus

The party-hatted toucan earns its perch here. Torches above the reels light up as you play, and once every one of them is burning the Toucan Bonus triggers. The toucan flies across the reels and reveals up to five bonus prizes, each worth up to 100x the total wager, and the prizes can carry different values.

Because the values differ from prize to prize, what the fly-past actually delivers depends on which of the five rewards sit behind it. Add the best of them together and the Toucan Bonus can pay up to 500x the total wager in one go. There are limits on when it can fire:

• If the Toucan Bonus and Free Games trigger on the same base spin, the Toucan Bonus plays out first
• It can’t be triggered during Free Games
• It can’t be triggered on the same base spin as the Prize Pick

Prize Pick

The TikiChief scatter opens a picking game. The more scatters you land, the more choices you get: a full set of five TikiChief symbols hands over all five picks, while four and three hand over three and two. Each pick can reveal a prize of up to 100x the total wager.

Prizes stack, so a full five-scatter trigger with lucky picks can build into something substantial. A top result across five picks would take some beating.

Unlike the Toucan Bonus, the Prize Pick can be triggered during Free Games, which is where the two scatters start working together. A TikiChief cluster in the bonus round adds a picking game on top of the free spins already running.

Free Games

TikiGold scatters handle the headline bonus. Three, four or five of them anywhere trigger 15, 20 or 25 free games respectively. The free games run on the same paylines and wager as the triggering spin.

Nothing about the board changes, so the wild doubling and the TikiChief scatter both stay live. That matters more than it sounds: a doubled line win inside a round of 25 free games is where this game’s biggest numbers live, with the red mask’s 10,000x top pay the ceiling of the whole board.

The retrigger is generous by any standard. Free Games can be retriggered a maximum of 15 times, and with up to 25 games per trigger the round can run for a very long stretch indeed. Line up TikiChief scatters inside it and the Prize Pick fires alongside, doubling the ways a single bonus round can pay.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

Most of your time in Tiki Beats is plain line-spinning with modest wins, waiting on torches to light or scatters to land. That’s the whole reason to choose it: the game saves nearly everything for its bonus round, and when the free games finally arrive, they can snowball for a very long while.

The free games set-up is the best thing here, and it isn’t close. Up to 25 games a trigger, fifteen retriggers on top, and a second scatter paying picks in the middle of it means one good round can keep paying long after it started. The weakness sits below the red mask: the rest of the paytable falls away so steeply that the base game rarely gives you anything to write home about.

If you like a long build and a bonus round that rewards patience, this luau is worth a ticket. Chasers of frequent wins will find the drumming slow. For everyone else, the torches, the toucan and the masks make pleasant company while you wait for the fire to catch.

Tiki Beats FAQs

• What is the grid size of Tiki Beats?

  Tiki Beats runs on a 5×4 grid, meaning five reels and four rows.
• Who makes Tiki Beats?

  Tiki Beats is made by Eyecon, the studio behind Fluffy Favourites, Irish Luck and a long run of bright, feature-stacked slots.
• How is the Toucan Bonus triggered in Tiki Beats?

  The Toucan Bonus triggers when all of the torches above the reels light up. A toucan then flies across the reels to reveal up to five bonus prizes, each worth up to 100x the total wager, for a combined total of up to 500x.
• What does the Prize Pick award in Tiki Beats?

  The Prize Pick is a picking game opened by scattered TikiChief symbols. The more of them you land, the more picks you receive, and every pick can reveal a prize of up to 100x the total wager. All prizes are added together.
• How many free games does Tiki Beats award?

  The count depends on how many TikiGold scatters land: three, four or five of them award 15, 20 or 25 free games respectively. The round then plays out at the same paylines and wager as the spin that started it.
• Can free games be retriggered in Tiki Beats?

  Yes. Free Games can be retriggered a maximum of 15 times, which means a single bonus round can keep extending well beyond its original award.
• What does the TikiGold symbol do in Tiki Beats?

  The TikiGold symbol is both the wild and the free games scatter. It substitutes for all symbols except scattered TikiChief symbols, doubles any line win it substitutes in, and three or more of them trigger the free games.
• Can the Prize Pick trigger during free games in Tiki Beats?

  Yes, the Prize Pick can be triggered during Free Games. The Toucan Bonus can’t, and it also can’t land on the same base spin as the Prize Pick.