Money Mad Monkey Pokies
There’s a big ape running around the streets of New York in this 5 reel, 20 payline pokie from Microgaming, but it’s not King Kong, or Donkey Kong, it’s the Money Mad Monkey who is trying to get his paws on as much cash as possible.
There’s a couple of fun bonus rounds to help him on his quest, one of which looks suspiciously like Donkey Kong, but we’ll gloss over that and just enjoy the game for what it is, a colourful and engaging pokie that can bring in some nice rewards including a 10,000x jackpot.
Swinging onto the Reels
This primate packed pokie has an atmospheric image of the city skyscrapers behind the reels, complete with a picture of the monkey looking very happy with his fistfuls of banknotes. On each side of the reels there are the payline indicators which show players where each line starts from the left side of the game and finishes on the right, while underneath is a nicely designed control panel that’s linked to the city theme.
The coin values are adjusted by clicking on a fire hydrant and there are street grids and drainage covers acting as the other control buttons. Players can stake just 0.01 on a single line if they want to, although as this will only activate 1 of the 20 lines, they will need to bet at least 0.20 per spin to qualify for all winning combinations that stop on the reels.
The coin values can be raised to 0.10 and up to 10 coins can be played on each line, which gives a (fairly low) maximum wager of 10.00 per spin.
Money Mad Monkey
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A visit to the paytable shows players what they will win when symbols land in the right paces, with 3 of a kind needed across an active line, on adjacent reels running from the left to win a prize. The symbols with the lowest values consist of the 10, J, Q, K and A which appear on many pokies, although at least they are all presented in bold colours, while higher value icons include a zookeeper, calculator and the Money Mad Monkey logo.
A banana is the wild symbol in this game, and it serves a couple of functions that help to ensure players don’t slip up. It’s the most valuable of the lot, with the 10,000x jackpot paid out when it lands right across a line, and it will also substitute for all the main symbols if it can complete a winning line.
Landing the piles of cash symbol on reels 1, 3 and 5 at once takes players to a free spins round, but only after they have clicked on one of the symbols to reveal the number of spins won and the multiplier that will be in place throughout them. The possible rewards are 5 spins with all wins multiplied by 8x, 10 spins with a 4x multiplier, or 20 spins with all wins doubled in value.
The view of the city skyline is a scatter symbol which triggers a fun bonus game when at least 3 land anywhere on the reels at once. This game will look familiar to Donkey Kong fans, as the aim is to roll a dice to send the monkey climbing up the sides of a building, collecting barrels of cash along the way. If the dice rolls a ‘Stop’ then the round ends.
There’s another quick bonus feature triggered by 3 or more barrel symbols, with players just needing to click on any of them to reveal a prize that will be multiples of the total bet per spin, not just the line bet.
Will Players Go Ape for this Pokie?
Money Mad Monkey is a fun game that may have a slightly derivative theme but is none the worse for it. By having several bonus rounds, players should be able to trigger at least one of them fairly often, although during the free spins games there’s no guarantee of a win, so getting 5 free spins for example, may not result in any of the big 8x multiplier prizes.
At least the other bonus games are sure to result in some nice payouts, but as the maximum bet is only 10.00, few players are going to end up significantly richer when they spin these particular reels.