- The circus means vivid performances, tricks, aerial acrobats, funny clowns, animals featuring various tricks, as well as sweets and incendiary music. Euro Games Technology offers users an interesting video slot called Circus Brilliant.
- Review of Circus Brilliant by EGT Interactive, including real players' reviews and ratings, free play mode, winning screenshots, latest bonus codes and promotions.
All the fun of the circus is brought to the 5 reels and 20 paylines of the Circus Brilliant video pokie from EGT. Setting it in the big top of the circus gives the developers lots of scope to add colourful symbols like performing elephants, sealions and bears, (not that we would approve of such things, but it’s only pretend), and of course, what circus-themed pokie would be complete without a scary clown and the Ringmaster?
Although EGT tend to specialize in traditional fruit machines, when they bring out a game with a more specific theme, they usually do it in style, and this one looks great. It also comes with some nice, although hardly unique, bonus features, like wild substitutions, free spins and multipliers, plus the option to gamble wins, and a shared progressive jackpot that’s common to all pokies from EGT.
Red and white striped circus tents make up a background image and the colourful title sits above the reels, alongside the 4-levels of the Jackpot Cards progressive prizes. The control buttons underneath the reels are used to set wagers from the minimum of just 0.20 per spin, to the high limit of 400.00, although anyone wanting to test it out beforehand can usually find free Circus Brilliant video pokies at most online casinos.
Playing Circus Brilliant
Anyone taking time to review the pay table will see that playing card symbols, J, Q, K and A will each return prizes equal to 10, 20 or 100 coins when landing across a payline, on connected reels running from the left side. Although many pokies use the same symbols to fill out the bottom of the tables, these ones have at least been designed in bright colours to fit in with the theme.
The various performing animals each pay 20, 100 or 500 coins when landing 3, 4 or 5 of a kind across a line, and the beautiful lady Ringmaster and clown are both valued at 50, 200 or 1000 coins. Any symbols that make up a winline will move around a bit in some nice animations, with the bear riding his bicycle around and the sealion juggling a ball.
Rather than the typical ‘land three Scatter symbols anywhere’ combination that so many real money online slot machines utilise, the free spins mode in Circus Brilliant offers a.
A picture of the circus tent pays out the biggest wins and is also a wild symbol. Just 2 need to appear to be worth a win of 15 coins, and 3, 4 or 5 will see prizes of 100, 1000 and 10,000 paid respectively. When it’s in the right places, this symbol can substitute for all other symbols, so it can fill in any gaps in a winning sequence, or stretch wins across more reels to give players a bigger prize.
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Free Spins Game
Instead of having a scatter symbol to trigger bonus games, EGT have taken the unusual step of having a free spins game start whenever players get 5 of a kind symbol wins across a line. If the line is made up of a playing card symbol, 5 free spins will be awarded, while any of the animals will be the trigger for 15 extra games, and the characters will treat players to 50 spins, but no matter how many start, any winnings are doubled in value throughout them.
The spins can’t be retriggered from within the round, so once they are done, players are returned to the main game.
Gamble Feature
There’s an option to take a 50/50 gamble with any win of 700 coins or less, and to double it, gamblers will need to predict if a playing card is going to be from a red or black suit. Get it right and they can collect the doubled prize or try to gamble it again for an even bigger award, but get it wrong at any point and the bet is lost.
Jackpot Cards
Those progressive jackpots above the reels are part of the Jackpot Cards game which can begin at any time. Once triggered, players will need to find 3 matching card suits from the 12 face-down cards shown, and the Club, Diamond, Heart of Spade jackpot is guaranteed to be won, although values differ with each, and because the top prize can be quite substantial, this round doesn’t start very often.
The Verdict
Despite the questionable pictures of performing animals, the Circus Brilliant casino pokie machine has a real sense of fun and some vibrant colours. It comes with a decent bet range that should suit the vast majority of potential gamblers, and has the potential for them to win some pretty big prizes, especially when the wild symbol lands across a payline.
Free spins with multipliers is a nice bonus feature, although the reels don’t contain a richer mix of symbols, but apart from this, Circus Brilliant is a good all-rounder.
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I’m not sure if the performing animals are politically correct these days, though the one thing this circus themed slot does well is manage to include a clown that does not appear at all sinister. Circus Brilliant from EGT is a 5 reel, 3 row slot with 20 win lines that manages to be lively and entertaining at the same time. There is a free spins game, plus the regular ‘suits’ progressive jackpot which is triggered at random. There is also the chance to win 10,000 coins from the regular game – impressive when you consider the smallest spin for all lines is just 20c.
My first impression of the visual aspects of this slot was that it is very crowded. The symbols are detailed and colourful, and the quickly increasing progressive jackpot totals above the reels add to the hectic overall feel. Unlike many EGT slots this one does have some background decorations – in the form of big tops are fairground rides. There is an element of humour in the symbols, for example a bear riding a tiny bicycle and a sea lion bouncing a beach ball on its nose. You will also find the clown, a female character (possibly a magician, judging by the white gloves), a barrel-riding elephant and a view of the big top for the wild. Playing card symbols are in play, and each sits on a lively striped stand. Animations are better than those I have seen on other EGT slots, though the short bursts of music for winning combinations felt a little jarring after a while.
You can adjust the 20 paylines to 15, 10, 5 or 1 – and bet from just a single coin per line. This game has buttons for the common bet amounts (20 through to 400) below the reels – along with an auto-play and gamble after win feature.The 10,000 coin top prize will drop with 5 of the wild ‘big top’ symbols on a win line. This symbol also substitutes for all of the others (no exceptions like you will find on other slots). You’ll get 1000 coins for 4, 100 for 3 and a consolation prize of 5 coins for 2 wild symbols on a win line.
Clowns and female magicians are next on the pay-outs list, 5 of wither get you 1000 coins, 4 are worth 200 and you’ll get 50 coins for 3. The animals are all worth 500 coins for 5 (prizes for 3+) and the playing cards make up the smaller wins.
Instead of scatters or bonus symbols, free spins are triggered when you hit 5 of a kind on a win-line. The number of free spins you receive (as well as your prize) depends on which symbols make up this 5-of-a-kind. If you hit 5 of the clown or magician symbols you get a welcome 50 free spins. The animals will bring you 15 spins and the cards 5 spins.
The free spins game gets off to an inauspicious start – with a small popup box asking you to press start to trigger the game. You’ll then see a big and beautifully created big top view, which will show the number of spins you got, along with your multiplier (which is always 2x for all wins). You then go to the reels, where the game will quickly cycle through however many spins you won. There are no special behaviours on the reels, this bonus round simply involves watching those doubled wins roll in. You can retrigger for more spins with another 5 of a kind win.After the game ends, you get to see an intermediate screen which shows the total you won.
Circus Brilliant also includes the random jackpot game in common with all other EGT slots. You can see these moving upwards above the reels. When the game occurs you will see a new screen with 12 cards. You pick these by clicking until you have 3 of one suit (all of the cards are queens). At that point you win whichever of the 4 jackpots is associated with your suit.
