Lucky Fridays Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Lucky Fridays Review

The funny thing about Lucky Fridays is that it depicts exactly what you probably shouldn’t be doing during office hours (unless you have my job, that is). It’s a bit surprising that nobody has thought about this concept before, as it seems so obvious now that Red Tiger has manifested it into reality. Basically, the game is a tribute to the mundane routine most modern people have to suffer each week, before Friday comes along with party, drinks and weekend craziness.

The 5x4 reels spin on a computer screen sat in a typical office environment, and the game is split into 2 very distinct modes. The daily office mode comes with no features except a regular wild, and you are basically counting the days and hours until Party Time breaks loose at 6 o’clock Friday afternoon. You start your “working week” monday 08.00 sharp, and each spin amounts to 1 hour in the game. It takes 55 in-game “hours” (i.e. spins) before the game finally lets its hair down, and shows you what it’s made of.

Fireworks go off, champagne bottles are popped and the whole background and mood of the game changes. The dull office characters are suddenly given a colorful makeover, and for the next 7 hours/spins they will also be worth more than usual. What’s more, you will also benefit from up to 3 different features that can trigger at random times, and wins up to 3,655x is possible in this rather volatile and original game from Red Tiger. The party is over at exactly 00.00, and you’ll start all over again monday morning - with or without a hangover.

What are the bonus features?

The only bonus feature you’ll benefit from during the “working hours” of the base game grind is the red sports car wild. This is a regular wild that can step in for all symbols to help you form winning combos. It also happens to be the highest paying symbol in the game, and you win 20x for 5 on a payline.

All the fun and the bonus features are concentrated into “party mode”, which happens every friday at 18.00 hours.

The premium character symbols are now transformed into untamed party animals, and the party version of the symbols are worth more than the regular “corporate versions”. To give you an example of the increase we are talking about: The highest paying dude is now worth 15x instead of 10x for 5 on a payline. The lowest value lady, who looks like a grey office mouse secretary during working hours, pays 11x as her party animal self (revealing cleavage with tattoos) instead of 4x.

There are 3 random bonus features that can be triggered during Party Time (which spans from 18.00 to 00.00, or 7 spins). These features can trigger at any time, and you can also get each of them more than one time per party:

• Wild Party - mega wilds up to 3x3 in size can land randomly across the reels.
• Party Reels - removes all low value item symbols on the next spin, and leaves you with only stacks of premium character symbols.
• Multiplier Party - gives you a multiplier up to 12x on the next win, and the multiplier is determined by a dice roll.

You will not find any kind of free spins bonus round in this game, as it’s all about the Party mode that happens on a regular basis (every 55th spin to be exact). It would have been awesome if the party mode actually consisted of free spins, but that’s not the case. The boss does not pick up the tab for this one, so you will have to pay for your own drinks.

How to play

The best time to play this game is obviously during office hours on a friday afternoon, as the clock is ticking towards after work drinks. In fact, this game has the potential of replacing the classic wine lottery. Imagine everyone in the office chipping in during the weekdays, and then gather around in the final half-hour on Fridays to see if enough can be won to buy everyone a round of drinks.

The game interface is what you might be used to from Red Tiger, and it leaves a lot of room for the game itself to unfold undisturbed.

You will therefore need to divide each symbol combination value with the number of fixed paylines (30 in this case) to find out how much each symbol is worth per total stake. As we’ve already mentioned above, the premium character symbols pay more during Party Mode than in the regular base game. The premiums are worth 4x to 10x during “office hours”, and 11x to 15x when it’s party time.

Click the “stake” button down to the left to set your bet level between 10p and £20 per spin, and click the turbo button next to the spin button to increase the pace per spin. You can then either spin the reels manually, in the old school fashion, or you can set up the autoplay feature with between 20 and 100 autospins. You will also have to set a loss limit here, and you can stop the feature on a given win size if you wish.

Where to play Lucky Fridays?

As we said above, the best place to play Lucky Fridays slot must be in the office, and to make it extra cool you can try to rearrange your desk to make it look exactly like the one in the game.

This is not really a very complicated game to understand. The base game is kind of grey and boring, and you’re basically just waiting around for friday night to come around. We imagine this is a life situation a lot of players can recognize themselves in, and getting started for real money right away shouldn’t be a problem for experienced punters. We scan the market to give you the best possible overview of casinos to play Lucky Fridays slot, and just follow the link to the top of the page to make your pick.

It never hurts to try the free demo version of a new game before you make any final decisions. Many players do this with every game they are considering, as there is no better way to get familiar with the gameplay risk free. We just happen to have the Lucky Fridays demo game installed at the very top of this page.

The 200 Spins Lucky Fridays Experience

We immediately liked the idea and concept of this game, and we couldn’t wait to see how it would all play out in our 200 spins test session. Perhaps a more humoristic style would have served it better though, as there is plenty of potential for puns with this theme. Anyway, we went into it with both feet, and maxed out the bet level from the get-go.

You really need to turn on the turbo mode in this game, as the dull office hours base game grind is something we wish we could have fast-forward through. We understand that it is necessary to build up to the big climax at the end of the work-week, but good god, there is not much going on in this office during weekdays and the salary is way below minimum wage.

We landed stacks of wilds on a regular basis, but they never amounted to anything. We hardly won above 1x more than a few times, and those were still minor wins hardly worth a mention. Finally, Friday came around, and at 18.00 hours everything changed rather rapidly and drastically, as we had looked forward too.

The premium character symbols were all transformed into their party animal alter egos with fireworks in the background, and we really had our hopes up for some decent wins. We got the Party Reels feature on the first spin, and this removed the low value item symbols. Stacks of premium character symbols with extra high value now filled the screen, but we still won only 3.6x our stake.

The night was still young however, so we brushed it off as an icebreaker. Some dead spins followed, and we kept wondering when this party was gonna take off. At 22.00 we got the same feature again, and this time we won an okay 10.8x our stake. At the strike of midnight we got to roll the multiplier dice, but landed only snake eyes (“that’s the story of my life”, as a very drunk Sinatra famously says when he rolls 2 olives on the bar in From Here to Eternity).

Of course, the spin was dead as a doornail, so the size of the multiplier didn’t matter anyway. We realize that this is a somewhat volatile game, and we will probably be back for more come Friday night, but for now we have to nurse a severe hangover and gather strength for the next wild weekend.

Review Summary

The concept of Lucky Fridays slot is fascinatingly (and almost scaringly) analogous to reality for a whole lot of people. This is the strength of this game, as you can most likely relate to what is going on. The long-winded week days feel like an endless grind, but then Friday comes along, and there is something to look forward to. This brilliantly mirrors real life for most people, no question about it, but it’s not really enough to give you a great slot playing experience.

People play online games to escape the day-to-day routine for a while, not to be reminded of it. The base game is just too bleak here, and the party mode will many times not really live up to your expectations (sounds familiar?). The party spins should also have been free in our view, as there is no bonus round here. We see this as a potential “cult game” though, that certain offices around the world might adapt into a kind of Friday eve ritual. In that context it’s close to perfect, but a more humoristic and caricaturish approach would perhaps have served it better than the “posh” high-class “seriousness”.

Pros

• Brilliantly analogues to real-life for many people
• Party mode with 3 bonus features and extra value symbols
• High volatility and 3,655x max win potential

Cons

• Featureless base game office grind hits too close to home

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