Thunder Ball Max Slot Review & Free Play

Thunder Ball Max: Charge the Grid for a 1,000x Jackpot

Drop a coin or two into Thunder Ball Max, and you’ll get a fruit machine that has to be found by the lightning. ELA Games wraps a Hold and Win around the five-by-three reels, where a blue orb sweeps coins worth up to 15x, a Boost clears the screen in one flash, Thunderball multipliers charge the values, and four jackpots climb to a 1000x Grand.

My base game leaned mid-range but turned up too rarely, with bells, stars, lemons, and cherries that paid between 1x and 6x my bet every six or seven spins.

The gold bonus coins drop on the outer reels, worth one to 15 times my bet, while the Thunderball orb sat locked on the center reel, ready to sweep. When the orb lands beside a coin, the Boost sparks and pulls every value on screen into the win.

A Lucky Respin saved a couple of dead spins for me, too, striking at random. The first handed back a tidy 3x line win, and a later one sparked the Boost to sweep the few coins on screen for around 7x my bet.

Three reels through the center have to fill with coins for the orb to start the Hold and Win, and I reached it only once during the entire session. That bonus runs three respins, and every fresh symbol resets them to three.

The orb collects coin values each pass, while a Thunderball multiplier can drop onto a coin to lift it before the collect, then climbs by two if the orb hits the same spot twice. My one trip collected a 15x, a 10x, and a 5x coin for a flat 30x my bet, and then the respins ran dry before any jackpot coin or multiplier showed to push it higher.

Overall, Thunder Ball Max stakes everything on its Hold and Win, and a quiet run leaves you holding very little, as you can see in my session. There is a sharp game in here for anyone who hits the orb early, but my session never found that spark.