Jungle Games

Forget the Olympics. March Madness is past its prime. You're going to want to play Jungle Games, the NextGen Gaming slot machine that makes everyone a winner.

This game's characters include a giraffe who is giddy for basketball, an ape who lifts weights, a ping pong-crazed rhino, and a boxing lion. Other symbols you'll see are a towel and swimming goggles, a referee's whistle, boxing gloves, a dumbbell, a ping-pong paddle and ball, and a basketball.

The Jungle Games Trophy is the wild card symbol, and can substitute for any icon you need to make a win. And five of the trophy symbols on the reels pay out 10,000 coins. In regular play, the fighting lion is the biggest payout, with five symbols rewarded with 1,000 coins.

The number-one gold medal on a ribbon is the scatter symbol. When you hit three, the screen will clear and you'll be asked to pick one of the medals as part of the Pick Win feature. It will award you either free spins, or free spins plus all wins being multiplied up to five times their normal payout. Wow!

The minimum bet is .02 credits. The maximum bet is 40 credits. There are 20 pay lines, which you can see individually by mousing over the pay line buttons on either side of the five-by-three reel.

We really appreciate the transparent grid that houses the reels. First of all because the art is super fun for the background, and we want to see it; also, it makes for a clearer playing field. We also turned off the games sound effects, which are so loud, and kept the ambient sounds, which is simply an outdoor jungle, complete with crickets, chirping, and an animal calling out. It's so calming.