Bloopers – A Crisp and Engaging Hollywood-Themed Video Slot
Bloopers video slot is an original real-money betting game developed by Elk Studios and deployed to online casinos via the NYX OGS platform. The game makes use of Hollywood-themed reel icons that include a Male and a Female Movie Star, as well as images of a Film Reel and a Clapper, in combination with brightly illuminated A, K, Q, and J symbols.
The Bloopers title though refers to Elk Studio's characterisation of behind-the-scene crewmembers, performing significant actions benefiting slot players.
There are five Blooper characters in all, the Sound Technician, the Fix-It Guy, the Make-Up Artist, the Cutter, and the Stuntman. The Bloopers Sound Tech Guy is a base game mainstay, capable of triggering a respin and spreading out Extra Wilds across the base game reels. The rest are Bonus Game special feature contributors, prompted into action once their corresponding trigger symbol appears after a bonus spin.
The Bonus Game Bloopers
The Bloopers character whose Star Bonus icon hooked up with the Bonus Game trigger combination becomes the Bonus Game Blooper. As such, it has its own trigger symbol, which prompts it to perform a win-boosting action.
The Bloopers Cutter character is activated by a J symbol. The animated Cutter character snips off some portions of the reel. The action therefore, creates spaces to where cascading symbols from above will fall and potentially, form winning combinations in their new positions.
The Bloopers Fix-It character is prompted by the K Symbol. Using a Reel Improvement Gun, the Fix-It guy shuffles symbols around, placing them in different positions in order to optimise the reel; possibly, to form longer matched-symbol combinations. The Sticky Wilds and the Bonus Stars symbols are excluded from the Fix-It shuffling action.
The Bloopers Make-Up Lady goes into action whenever the Q symbol emerges. Her goal is to extend the Free-Spins Bonus Round by removing a Sticky Movie Star Wild already in place.
The Bloopers Stuntman character is a randomly appearing Free-Spins character, capable of creating Expanding Wilds in any of the Bonus Game reels.
Bloopers Online Slot Wild Symbols
The Wild Bloopers signage poses as a wild card, substituting for regular symbols necessary to create any of the game's 243 ways-to-win patterns. This video slot though also offers Sticky Wilds, Stacked Wilds and Expanding Wilds in the Free-Spins Bonus Game. The Sticky Wild mechanism converts a Male or Female Movie Star into a Bonus Wild in the free round.
Bloopers Online Slot Bonus Game and Sticky-Wilds Feature
A Star marked as Bonus and distinguished by a figure of a vintage cinema camera, is the primary bonus game trigger-symbol. The Star Bonus appears in any reel, and a combination of three or more activates the Free-Spins Bonus Game. The Star Bonus trigger-combination includes any one of special Star Bonus Symbols bearing the image of a Bonus Game Blooper.
There is no set number of free-spins awarded as bonus reward, as the duration of the bonus game depends on the completion of the Sticky Wild Feature.
The Bonus Game Movie-Star Sticky Wild occurs in Reels 2, 3, and 4 as those columns are exclusively for either the Male or Female Movie Star Sticky Wild. The first Movie Star image to appear as outcome of the initial bonus spin, will be the Sticky Wild during that particular bonus round.
As the free-spins actions continue, a bonus game player must aim to fill with Movie Star Sticky Wild Symbols, at least one of the exclusive reels. The free round ends, only if the bonus game player achieves that particular goal.
