Dick The Farmer

Yggdrasil Gaming built Dick The Farmer around a bright red barn stacked with oversized farmyard symbols and a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour that runs through the character art and animations. An old-fashioned green farm vehicle sits parked beside the barn, and a progress bar tracks collected drops toward the game's wheel bonus as spins go by.

The game spins on a 6x4 grid with 4,096 ways to win, and the maths are available in three RTP configurations topping out at 96%, with 94% and 90.5% versions also in circulation. Hit frequency is listed at 33.98%, bets run from 0.10 to 10 per spin, and the top win is 20,000 times the stake.

Low-value symbols are a suggestively drawn set of vegetables and fruit - leafy greens, cherries, corn, apricots and eggplants - while the premium tier is made up of exaggerated farm animals: pigs, cows, cats and roosters. Six matching low pays return between 0.6x and 1x the bet, six premiums pay 2.5x to 5x, and the wild - which substitutes for every paying symbol - pays 10x the bet when six land in a line of its own.

Three modifiers do the heavy lifting outside the bonus round. Synced Reels can trigger at random on any base-game spin, forcing between two and six reels to display identical symbols; that effect is guaranteed on every spin once free spins begin. Encore fires separately and awards a respin with an extra guaranteed synced reel, and it's able to strike again on that respin. Louder can land on any winning spin to add +1 to a running multiplier that applies across every active win, and because it can appear before Encore resolves, its multiplier carries into that respin too.

Landing three, four, five or six scatters hands out eight, twelve, sixteen or twenty free spins, with two synced reels guaranteed on every spin of the round. The Encore symbol adds another synced reel plus one extra spin during the feature, while the Louder symbol raises the multiplier by +1 for the remainder of the round, so a hot stretch can stack both effects repeatedly.

A separate collection mechanic runs alongside the main game: ordinary symbols can carry a subsymbol worth one to three points, and gathering 400 of them earns a spin on a jackpot wheel. Landing on a jackpot segment pays it out immediately, while landing on an arrow pushes the wheel out to a wider ring for another spin and a shot at a bigger prize. Wheel prizes range from 15x to 2,000x the bet.

Free spins can also be bought outright, with packages of 8-20, 12-20, 16-20 or a guaranteed 20 spins priced at 75x, 150x, 250x and 350x the bet respectively.