Fat Frankies

Fat Frankies Overview

Food Trucks have always been a source of excitement, especially in America, where the variety and quality of the food served are quite astonishing. Play' n GO clearly understand this excitement and novelty as they have themed one of their latest products after the humble yet fun food truck. Called Fat Frankies, this slot has five reels, 243 pay lines, and a terrific max payout of 6,000x the stake. The RTP for this slot is 96.2%. Fat Frankies also has a range of bonus features that add multiple layers of interest to the playing experience.

There are four features in total in this game. They are all accessible by landing a Fat Frankies food truck scatter on reels 1, 3, and 5. One of these features will be activated at random when you do this. The first one is the Burger Bonanza bonus. Starting with a re-spin, this game takes players to a new board where only burgers land. Each new burger you land will become sticky and award you with another re-spin. The value of the burgers will be added up and paid out at the end of the feature. The other bonuses include the flip tip jar game, the greasy wilds feature, and the five-star spins game. All features will be explained in more detail later in the review.

Theme and Symbols

This game is themed around the classic food truck, although the aesthetic and graphics style are very similar to Bob's Burgers' animated TV series. Our suspicion is that Play 'n GO probably wanted to do a Bob's Burgers slot, attracted by the show's in-built audience, yet when it looked into it, it was going to be quite expensive. Therefore, the studio built something with lots of the same thematic material and a very close artistic style to the show without actually referencing it. This is a common practice and is a way for providers to rope in audiences while also protecting themselves from legal action.

The background for this slot is the food truck owned by big Tony. From the looks of the condition of this food truck, this is not one of the high-end trucks that serves trendy hipsters at festivals. No, this is a more working man's food truck that follows sporting events and parks up in laybys. The food is also appropriately classic, including burgers, fries, hot dogs, and tacos. When you enter various features in this game, players are invited inside the food truck, where all the typical things can be seen, such as cooking utensils, a tip jar, and Fat Tony himself, serving fat Frankies – meaning hot dogs.
The playing board is a simple white rectangle reminiscent of classic food truck menus written on a whiteboard.

The symbols for this game are split into low-paying, high-paying, and special symbols. The low-paying symbols are the four different milkshakes in playing card royals. These are the spade, club, heart, and diamond. The diamond is the most valuable worth 0.8x the stake for the top combination. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the fries, the taco, the hot dog, and the burger. The burger pays out the most at 10x the stake for the top combination. The specials finally are the cash wild, the food truck bonus scatter, and the star symbol.

Game Play

Fat Frankies is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with 243 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 Fat Frankies is 10p to £100 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake 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.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the medium range. The return to player percentage for Fat Frankies is 96.2%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 6,000x your stake.

Features

As mentioned in the introduction, all of the bonus features in this slot are activated when players land a Fat Frankies food truck symbol on reels 1, 3 and 5 simultaneously. One of four bonus features will then be activated.
The first bonus feature is called the Burger Bonanza feature, which is basically a hold and win bonus. The game starts with players being moved to a new board where only burgers fall onto the reels. The bonus begins with a re-spin. If a new burger falls onto the reels, then a new re-spin is awarded. You can do this for up to fifteen re-spins. The bonus ends when players run out of re-spins. The value of all the burgers you have collected over the feature is then paid out.

Next is the flip the tip feature. This bonus starts with three coins. The goal of the game is to land the coins in the tip jar. Every time this happens, another coin is won, increasing the potential prize. However, if a coin does not go in the jar, then a coin is lost. You can win up to 2,500x the stake in this game. The feature ends when you either run out of coins or achieve the maximum prize.

The greasy wilds feature is next. If this bonus is triggered, a new spin with one to five wilds added on it occurs. The more wilds that appear on the board, the higher the payout.
Finally, there is the five-star spin bonus. This game begins with ten free spins. Landing a star on reels 1, 3 or 5 increases the multiplier by 1x and adds an extra 2 free spins. This means a potential of winning 20 free spins with a 6x multiplier active.

Conclusion

Fat Frankies is a fun food-themed romp with some great features and some promising statistics. The winning potential is particularly good here, even if the top win isn't as amazing as it possibly could be. If you like the fun, laid-back aesthetic of Bob's Burgers and some interesting gameplay, you'll definitely like this game.