Chicken Run is a video slot machine developed by NextGen Gaming, based on the popular 2000 computer-animated comedy film Chicken Run. The game has five reels, three rows, and offers various features to keep players entertained.
Game Theme and Design
The theme revolves around farm life, with chickens attempting to escape from a farmer’s grasp. The design is colorful and vibrant, Chicken Run featuring illustrations of the movie characters in cartoon style. The background represents the farm landscape, complete with rolling hills and trees. Upon launching the game, players are immersed in an engaging animation that showcases Ginger, the main character from the film.
The control panel at the bottom allows for easy navigation through various options such as Bet Per Line (from £0.10 to £25), Spin, Auto Play, Balance, and Paytable. Players can also toggle between different coin denominations using the ‘Bet’ button, selecting values of 1p up to £50. This enables a wide range of betting possibilities.
Symbols and Payouts
The slot features an array of symbols drawn from the movie universe: Ginger (Wild), Rocky Rhodes (Scatter), Miss Tweedy (High Paying Symbol), and various other characters with differing point values for creating winning combinations on adjacent reels, starting from leftmost. Wins occur when three or more matching icons appear in succession, either horizontally or vertically.
- The Chicken Egg is a low-paying symbol, awarding between 5-50 coins depending on its frequency of appearance (e.g., five Chicken Eggs yield one coin).
- Peckham the Rooster provides slightly higher returns: 10-100 coins for three to four and 200-500 for five instances.
- Hens such as Ginger’s sisters generate better payouts, giving players 20-500 or 1,000 coins based on the quantity obtained within a single spin.
- The most valuable bird is Rocky Rhodes (Scatter), able to award up to 10x total bet if appearing anywhere in any reel while triggering free spins.