Barber Shop

In need of a haircut? Or maybe you just need to tidy up those eyebrows? It’s time to head to the barber shop, where your friendly local cosmetologist will be on hand to provide a quick shop and some mundane small talk. Or if you’d rather steer clear, you can enjoy a similar, albeit much more enjoyable (and potentially more lucrative) experience with this slots title from Thunderkick.

The game is themed around a barber shop, as the game’s title implies. But in reality, this is a barber shop like no other. For starters, the characters in this world are cartoon drawn, and there’s an almost childlike quality to the environment in which you’ll find yourself. It’s an unusual backdrop to a slots game, particularly when most of the games you’ll play are based around lucky Irish leprechauns, epic Norse battles and luxurious lifestyles. But it’s a trait of Thunderkick to develop games that are a little out of the ordinary, and Barber Shop certainly fits the mold.

Underneath the stylish animations, you’ll find this is a reasonably straightforward 5 reel slot, with 15 paylines in play at any one time. You have to play all 25 paylines with each spin, but you can do so from as little as 0.10 per spin, right up to 100.0 per spin if you’re feeling extra flush or you’re gunning for the potential bigger prizes.

The potential maximum jackpot of 100,000.00 is pretty nice too, and while that doesn’t come around too often, it’s more than enough reason to get yourself involved in this game for a spin and a win.

Feature Symbols

As you’d expect, this game leans heavily on the barber theme as far as its symbols are concerned. The majority of the symbols are a selection of humorous male characters, invariably with large beards or particular styles to adhere to. They are also joined by barber symbols like shaving cream and razors, which combine to make up the bulk of your reels. Each of these value symbols will pay at a different rate depending on the combination you land on a given payline, and you can check out the game’s paytable for a full run down of the prizes on offer.

The ginger bearded man is the highest paying of the game’s value symbols, and five of him on a payline results in a possible 40x win. However, you won’t pick this win up instantly – there’s another step to go that can be particularly good for your game – more on that later.

Aside from that, you need to look out for the game’s scatter symbol – line up five of these symbols, and you’ll start the free spins round, which starts with a minimum of 10 free spins. Up to 30 free spins are available in this round, along with multipliers ranging up to 5x, which can be a very significant boost to your potential winnings, whenever this round is triggered. What’s that, I hear you cry? Five scatters is pretty steep? True as that may be ordinarily (most slots games require only 3 symbols to trigger the scatter bonus), there’s another trick up Barber Shop’s sleeve.

Bonuses & Jackpots

Whenever you land a winning combination on your reels, that’s three or more, your symbols are locked in place for an additional spin. Every winning combination triggers a respin which can add to your symbols to increase the size of the win. Your paying combination stays in place, while all the other symbols spin round about it.

Once you fail to improve the value of your possible win, the round is over, and you bag the total available win. It’s a neat feature that means you essentially need 3 scatters to trigger the free re-spin, which makes it easier to reach the 5 required for the bonus round. It also means you have the chance to build on your potential winnings from any 3 symbol combinations, which can make this game more high paying than might otherwise be the case.

The game’s main jackpot stands at up to an impressive 100,000.00.

Verdict

Barber Shop doesn’t look like your conventional, everyday slots game. But it is a hugely enjoyable slot that will do more than raise the occasional chuckle. The cartoon theme makes this an engaging slot, while the built in features like the free re-spins and the free spins bonus round add to the action. The potential jackpot is more than decent. Barber Shop is well worth a spin if you’re a fan of quirky slots, or you’ve played other Thunderkick games – it lives up to the company’s reputation, for sure.

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