A Big Cherry Slot Review & Free Play

A Big Cherry: Pick the Cherries and Chase 5000x Wins

A Big Cherry by Spin2Win looks and sounds like a fruit machine that's been sitting in a back-corner arcade for twenty years, and I mean that in a good way.

The three-reel, three-row grid is small and busy, the side panel runs four bonus counters and a pool jackpot, and the reels themselves carry classic fruits, BARs, and 7s. The max win sits at 5000x the bet, full-grid 7 combos pay up to 1000x, and the four bonuses each trigger through the same mechanics.

Smaller wins between 0.2x and 0.7x my bet came every five to ten spins, and larger line combos worth between 5x and 15x the bet landed every fifteen to twenty spins. That sounds solid, but across roughly 100 spins, my balance slowly drained.

Each of the four bonuses runs on its own counter, ticking down with specific symbol combinations and triggering a bonus spin round once it hits zero, and then becomes more specific within the round.

For example, the Jackpot and Cherry bonuses each award a single spin with their own twist, where a full-grid Mega Cherry can win the running pool jackpot or every cherry on the grid pays out individually.

Then, the Bell Bonus stretches things to five spins and dumps the pool jackpot into your win before resetting, and the 1 Bar Bonus runs the longest at seven spins. Moreover, the counters even carry over between sessions, so nothing you build up gets wasted.

A lone cherry or super cherry landing in the middle with no other wins on the grid also generously hands you one or two respins, with the symbol held in place.

Every win can also be sent to a gamble feature, where you guess if the next card drawn is higher or lower than 7, with up to five correct guesses multiplying the original win by 50x. I tried it on a few of the base game returns and didn't have much luck.

Overall, A Big Cherry can probably offer a very interesting session when the counters cooperate. Mine just didn't, and a 100-spin stretch with no bonus is just too much, and nothing made me want to stick more.