Jeff & Scully Slot Review
If you want to get close to solving some of the world's most famous conspiracies, then the Jeff & Scully video slot designed by ELK Studios is just what you need to get familiar with. There are two oddball friends in here, Jeff and Scully, who, all along the gaming process, will share their thoughts about whether JFK was really killed, who truly built pyramids, and, of course, whether the Moon landing is 100% fake.
Besides that, players can be engaged to play this slot due to its vast bonus features, including respins, multipliers, and coins, prizing up to x10,000 to the stake amount. Also, there are special symbols, Wild & Bonus, the latter of which starts the Bonus game with FS. Note, here you will also find unique Jeff & Scully features specific to only this peculiar slot.
Jeff & Scully has Medium-High Volatility (7 out of 10), making wins relatively frequent compared to High Variance slots and a sufficiently broad square 7x7 play grid. One more you should know about this slot — there are no pay lines due to the utilization of rare Area Wins paying mechanics. We will discuss further what exactly this mechanics is about and other intriguing stuff regarding this slot.
Jeff & Scully by ELK Studios Video review
Jeff & Scully General Characteristics
- Area Wins
- 7 reels and 7 rows
- Medium-High Volatility (7 out of 10)
- RTP: 94%
- Hit frequency: 36.2%
- Bet amount: 0.2 EUR - 100 EUR
- Maximum win multiplier: x10,000
- Maximum win value: 1,000,000 EUR
- 8 main symbols
- Additional symbols: Wild, Bonus, Multiplier, Instant Pay Coin
Jeff & Scully Bonus Features
There is a lot of stuff in this slot that helps to increase your income, starting with quite popular special symbols and finishing with the rare mechanics — for example, Jeff & Scully features, which are the unique ones. So, let's dive into exploring that peculiar gameplay process this slot proposes to us.
Area Wins
To get a win here, you need to form a rectangle with identical paying pics in its corners. Regardless of what kind of pictures are located inside it, or even if there are some blank tiles, the win calculates as if all that area is filled up with exclusively those winning ones symbols, which are on the rectangle corners. So, the bigger the last one, the bigger the win is guaranteed. The minimum amount of paying symbols to get a win is just 4 of them. So, the starting prize rectangle size is 2x2. But also, it can be 2x3, 2x4, and so forth up to 7x7.
Multipliers & Instant Pay Coins
Besides usual paying symbols, there are some special ones like multipliers & coins. The first applies to the prize sum under the condition of being inside the winning rectangle area. The same concerns the coins, but they, unlike the multipliers, instantly give you an amount equal to that random value depicted on them up to x10,000. Note that multipliers implement the coin wins, too. If there are multiple of them inside the win area, their values are summarized before applying.
Big Area Wins
Those win areas, accommodating 24 symbols and more (6x4, 6x5, etc.), guarantee you increase all the multipliers and coins' values currently residing inside them. But, unfortunately, that feature is implemented after the win awarding, just making higher chances of a bigger cash prize for the next time a win area is formed with partaking of these special symbols during the following respins.
Avalanche feature
This slot utilizes an Avalanche feature. It implies the disappearance of all those symbols residing in the winning area. Upon those blowing up, respins start.
Sticky ReDrops
Unlike the traditional Avalanche feature, when upon successful prize reward, only winning pictures blow up so that to be replaced by the new ones, in Jeff & Scully, after the win area happens, it makes a respin, renewing every single picture on the reels, including non-winnings. The only difference between those respins and regular spins is that the Wild, Bonus, Multiplier, and Coin symbols during the respins become sticky, locking in their places.
Jeff feature
This feature triggers when on the edges of a winning area rectangle appear 4 Jeff symbols. Its specificity is that it pays the win area of a corresponding size not only for Jeff but also for any single kind of picture located inside it besides Jeff. The Jeff symbols land anywhere on the play grid.
Scully feature
This feature randomly swaps symbols on the reels to make additional win areas. The Scully symbols fall anywhere without any restrictions, too.
Wild
This kind of special symbol isn't paying one itself but has the power to replace any other payable picture, helping to increase the amount of successfully compiled win areas. Wild can appear in any place on the reels.
Bonus symbol
These pictured like dazzling crystals don't bring the payouts but are capable of much more beneficial actions to do, starting, under certain circumstances, the regular or Super Bonus game. These special symbols land anywhere on the playfield, but for the Bonus game start, count just those from win areas.
Bonus Game
There is a scale above the playfield, which presents the number of Bonus symbols collected from all the win areas per current round, including respins. When a new spin starts, the scale resets to the initial state. If its value reaches 3, after the spin is out, the regular Bonus game with 10 FS starts on the screen. Its benefit is that all the coins, multipliers, and Wilds landed on the reels stay locked in their places throughout the Bonus game duration. The Bonus game can be retriggered — at least 3 Bonus symbols collected within the FS round add 10 extra FS.
Super Bonus Game
To activate this one, you will need 4 Bonus symbols collected from within the win areas. The Super game differentiates from the regular one due to the gradual multipliers and coin values increasing with every new FS. They are still locked like in the regular Bonus game all the FS round duration. The Super Bonus game may be prolonged due to the extra FS, too. At least 3 Bonus symbols give 10 additional FS.
Buy Free Spins
There are as many as 5 possible options to buy Bonus:
• Super Bonus (x500) - guarantees the Super Bonus game activation.
• Bonus (x100) - guarantees the regular Bonus game activation.
• Jeff or Scully (x25) - guarantees the Jeff or Scully bonus feature in every round.
• Max Grid (x10) - grants spin without blank tiles on the reels.
• Bonus Hunt (x3) - 3 times increase the odds of the Bonus game triggering & lets you use just 2 Bonus symbols to activate it.
Our Experience Playing Jeff & Scully
Let’s peek at what’s going on when you’re playing Jeff & Scully. To do this, we used a 300-spin game session with €1 stake per spin.
During the first 100 spins, there were 31 wins, ranging from €0.05 to €19.15. Note that 22 of them were lower than bet. The lengthiest non-wins period was just 6 spins. And among all the bonus features, the only one triggered — the Jeff function, earning us €7.15. So, the final balance result after the 100th spin was over totaled €172.95.
The second hundred spins became the luckiest ones. Within their duration, we got 1 Scully & 5 Jeff features activating. But the best part was the Super Bonus game triggering. All those brought us, respectively, €6.6, €53, and €257.4. As a result, after the 200th spin was up, the balance totaled a whole €463.6.
The third hundred spins gave us 2 regular Bonus games, which earned a total €65.75. Also, there were four activations of the Scully feature that brought an additional €12.95. Overall, we had 34 base game wins, including the record one of €34.45. But 23 of those prizes turned lower than our chosen stake of €1. The final balance result amounted to €509.35.
Here are all the gathered statistics about this 300-spin gaming session:
Jeff & Scully Verdict
In conclusion, there is nothing more to say than Jeff & Scully is a highly innovative & drastically untypical gambling game that will not only reveal the biggest world's secrets but also present unusual and engaging gameplay with a lot of stuff to get big prizes, as we demonstrated in our video slot test drive.
Shortly, among the most significant pros that should captivate your attention are coins with the max cash prize of x10,000, respins with sticky multipliers & coins, and also the unique Jeff & Scully functions, especially the first one, granting multiple win areas on a base of just one. Of course, the Bonus games with FS are the most tempting bonus features here.
But we found some cons concerning them. First, not every Bonus symbol counts for advancing the Bonus game scale but just those from within the win areas. That is the additional condition that complicates the already difficult task of collecting them, limited by just one single spin-round. Second, the regular Bonus game doesn't distinguish it from the base game with at least a few extra features, which makes it not so beneficial due to the high similarity with the kind of respins, just somewhat prolonged. The Super Bonus game, increasing with every free spin the multipliers and coin amounts, stands out in that sense much more cardinally. Also, be aware of the relatively low RTP (94%) and that every 4th payout here doesn't cover the bet. Moreover, they are those for the win areas with a minimal number of symbols, so logically, they happen the most often. But if you like to indulge yourself in new & uncommon gambling diversions with an original plot & well-executed sound, graphics, and animations, you'll appreciate this slot.
