Bonzo’s Bananza

Elk Studios gives its jungle mascot top billing in Bonzo's Bananza, a game built around a laid-back cartoon monkey and his fondness for bananas. The setting draws on Aztec-style ruins — a stone temple wrapped in vines forms the backdrop, with treasure waiting inside once enough bananas pile up on the reels.

The action plays out on a 5x5 grid paying via 259 ways rather than fixed lines, and the paytable is short: only seven symbols pay, split between card ranks from ten through ace and four fruit-and-bird icons drawn from the jungle setting. Five-of-a-kind wins on these symbols run from a quarter of the bet up to five times the stake, so the base-game paytable alone isn't where the game's headline win comes from.

Two wild types carry most of the weight instead. A fully stacked monkey wild nudges onto the reels to cover an entire column when it lands, and picks up a random multiplier as soon as the reels stop. Landing one also kicks off a respin with that wild locked in place; if two land together, their respins are played out one after another. A second, taller banana wild spans two positions and nudges up or down the reel each time it appears, triggering its own respin until it eventually nudges off the grid — and if a banana wild happens to connect with a monkey wild during that movement, the monkey's multiplier climbs higher.

Three or more scatters landing in the base game open five free spins. A fourth scatter adds a monkey wild to the very first spin of the round, while five scatters open with two of them already on the reels. Any monkey wilds earned during free spins stay locked in place for the rest of the round, and hitting three or more scatters again during the bonus adds further spins on top rather than restarting it. Respins triggered inside the free spins round don't eat into the spin count, so a hot run of wilds can extend well past its starting length.

Players who'd rather skip the wait can buy into the feature directly: a 2x-bet option that triples the odds of a bonus trigger on the very next spin, a 10x buy that guarantees a monkey wild lands, a 25x version that guarantees two of them at once, a 100x buy that heads straight into the free spins round, and a 500x option that opens on the five-scatter version of the bonus outright.

The maths sit at the volatile end of Elk's catalogue: an 8-out-of-10 volatility rating, a 94% RTP, and a hit frequency of roughly 24%, meaning a return lands on somewhere near one spin in four. Stakes run from 0.20 to 100 per spin, and the game's maximum win is capped at 10,000 times whatever was staked on the spin that landed it.