Lumber Jack

Produced by the reliably high-quality studio Endorphina, Lumber Jack has players donning a liberal amount of plaid, growing a beard, and swinging axes into trees. That's right; players will hopefully be chopping down a forest of exciting prizes in this new game themed around the logging industry. Mechanically, this slot takes place on a five-reel, three-row game board with ten pay lines. Unfortunately, the top payout players can achieve on one spin is just 100x the stake. However, hopefully, wins will be much more frequent than in the average slot game. The volatility rating for this game sits in the medium range, and the RTP is 96.1%.

Lumber Jack Overview

The features of this game start with the multiplier reel, which is available at all times in the base and free spins game. This is the last reel on the board that boosts the size of wins found by whatever multiplier lines up with the win. In the base game, these range from 2x to 5x. The other main feature of this game is the free spins bonus. This bonus is triggered when players land three free spin scatters on the reels simultaneously. This will result in twelve free spins and the unlocking of more valuable multipliers that will appear in the fifth reel. The multipliers in the free spin game range up to 20x the stake. All featured content will be explained in more detail later in the review.

Lumber Jack Theme and Symbols

The theme for this game is lumberjacks and the logging industry as a whole. Interestingly, the term lumberjack was first coined in 1831 in a complaintive letter to the Cobourg Star in Northern Canada. The term lumberjack was used to describe people in the 19th and early 20th centuries who worked in the lumber industry. When the timber industry exploded in Canada in the early 1800s, there was a great need for the work of many loggers who would spend their autumns and winters working in the forest of Canada and the United States. The lumberjack we see in this slot game is based on these people but with more modern equipment, such as chainsaws and logging cranes.

The background for this game is, funnily enough, a dense forest where loggers will soon come to denude and exploit the natural resources here. The image is a high-quality one, with each tree created in some detail, from its solid trunks to the very fine needles on the end of the branches. The shafts of early morning sunshine make the background even more beautiful, which puncture the canopy and radiate into the forest's interior. The playing board for this game is a wooden frame with a dark brown interior apart from the fifth reel, which has a rich green backing.

The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying icons are the 10, J, Q, K and A in playing card royals. The A is the most valuable of these, worth 4x the stake for the top combination. On the other hand, the more valuable icons are the axe, circular saw, chainsaw, helmet and logging crane. The crane is the most valuable regular icon, worth 20x the stake for the top combination. The specials are the tree scatter and the lumberjack wild. The wild is the most lucrative icon in the game, worth 100x the stake for the top combination.

Game Play

Lumber Jack is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with ten fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel. The betting range for Lumber Jack is 1p to £50 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stakes up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.

Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen. The volatility for this slot is rated in the medium range. The return to player percentage for Lumber Jack is 96.1%, which is about average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 100x your stake.

Lumber Jack Features

Before going into detail on the two features included here, we must first explain that the wild icon substitutes for other regular icons to help players find more wins. In addition, it has a value of its own and can form valuable wins by itself.

The first feature included in this game is the multiplier reel. This reel is always present during the game as the fifth reel on the board. It spins with the rest of the reels but only presents different multiplier values on all the icons. It comes into play when players find a win, at which point whatever icon the win lines up with on the multiplier board will represent the value the win will be boosted by. In the base game, these values range between 2x and 5x.

The next feature in this game is the free spins round. This feature is activated when players land three free spin scatters on the board simultaneously. Do this, and the game will grant you twelve free spins. During this special round, the available multipliers that can appear on the fifth reel are increased. They can now range up to 20x. This means that wins found in the free spins round are generally much more valuable than those in the base game.

Conclusion

With a rather original theme and a fun playing experience, you can see why lots of people will enjoy this online slots. What's difficult to get to grips with is the payout potential. Yes, the RTP isn't too shabby, and the volatility keeps things vaguely predictable, but the amounts we won during this game hardly made it worth playing. Even with the multipliers involved, you aren't likely to find many truly meaty payouts here. With this in mind, this game might be one to enjoy on demo and save your money for something more rewarding. We suggest you to try also Money Train 2 one of our most famous demo slot game.