Bicicleta Slot

Set yourself, keep your eyes on the ball and gear up to hit a sweet bicycle kick into the top corner of the net. Bicicleta is a brand new slot machine by Yggdrasil Gaming which takes on an action packed football theme, giving spinners the chance to have a kick-about with some of top professional footballers within a stunning stadium atmosphere.

This 5-reel video slot has 25 paylines for punters to line up wins worth up to 1,000 credits. But, it's not all about winning (well, it mostly is!) because this game is incredibly fun to play with its many exciting bonus features such as free spins, sticky wilds and wild reels.

Back of the Net

If there is one sport in the world that has universal appeal, then it would be football. The game is played from Tokyo to Buenos Aires, giving ordinary people a chance to escape from their everyday life to cheer on their favourite club teams and home nations. Of course, football is perhaps not everyone's cup of tea, but if you can't get enough of the beautiful game then you surely won't be disappointed with this slot machine by Yggdrasil Gaming.

The game's 5x4 game grid is presented before a huge football stadium of cheering fans, placing punters right into the heart of the action and onto the middle of the pitch where they will find a foursome of pro footy players, as well as some generic card suit icons. These icons are all spectacularly designed, with characters who have a 3D cartoon appearance to draw out their athletic physiques and somewhat questionable hair-dos. They wouldn't be true footballers if they weren't setting the trend in how not to cut your hair, would they?

Looks the Part, Plays the Part

Overall, the this game is designed and rendered to a very high standard, but we would expect nothing less from an innovative software company such as Yggdrasil Gaming. It even works perfectly well on smaller, handheld screens such as on smartphones and tablets. What's more, the game comes with many additional options for spinners to fiddle around with, including spin speed and autoplay win limits.

The Stakes are High

The main options that players need to be concerned with, however, is when it comes down to how much they place as a stake on each spin. In truth, this is fairly straightforward because, with 25 fixed paylines, the only thing that spinners need to alter is the bet per line value from the following options: 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.07, 0.10, 0.20, 0.30, 0.50, 0.70, 1.00, 2.00, 3.00 and 4.00 credits. So, there is every opportunity for spinners to bet big with a maximum overall wager of 100.00 credits per spin.

There aren't any scatter wins on offer in Bicicleta, meaning that players will have to keep an eye out for rows of identical icons upon any of the 25 paylines. If three or more matching symbols appear in a line, then a line bet multiplier will be applied to the value of the bet per line. You can see just how much is on offer in the table below:

Extra-time Bonus Boost

Admittedly, those are far from being the biggest line bet multiplier prizes in the world of slot machines. However, players should factor in the fact that this game has 25 different ways to win, and a fairly decent range of bonus gameplay features for extra winning potential.

For a start, there is a standard wild symbol – simply depicted by the word “wild” - which is used to substitute for all other icons in the game to give the highest paying combination possible. Plus, there is a “Free Spin” football icon that will present 8, 16, or 24 free games whenever three, four or five appear in any position on the reels. Players can also get their hands on 8 – 12 free spins or some random wins up to 1,000 credits if the prized trophy symbol appears on the fifth reel.

During free spins, each football player character who appears will perform an acrobatic bicicleta kick before your eyes. But this isn't just for showing off, because every player who manages to beat the keeper and hit the back of the net will turn into a sticky wild for the remainder of the game. And if a trophy icon lands on the last reel during free spins, players will have a chance to play with a wild reel that turns all of the symbols on a random reel into sticky wilds.

Last minute winner

Bicicleta is a perfect slot machine to get you in the mood for the upcoming Euro 2016 tournament with its awesome footballing action and tantalising atmosphere. Even if you're not normally a huge football fan, then you might still enjoy what this Yggdrasil slot machine has to offer thanks to its exciting bonus round of free spins with sticky wilds.