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The new instant slot from NetEnt provider released in October 2018 under the theme of the Orient and more specifically refers to souks the rural markets of the Near and Middle East.
The souk is one of the communication vectors that connects the countryside to globalisation. The nature of these exchanges marks the souk landscape. While it retains its ancient rural architecture, the souk paradoxically manifests the urban transformations of the countryside.
On souk days, the crowds are notable. While the light of day has not yet made its appearance, murmurs can be heard in the distance. Then the voices get closer and closer, the hubbub gradually becomes clearer: the murmurs become more audible, the footsteps are hurried, the hooves of the animals resound when they come into contact with the stones on the tracks, then with the asphalt on the road. At dawn, you can hear the inhabitants coming from the furthest douars, on the road, groups of acquaintances form...
The populations move around a lot on foot, on donkeys or mules, on scooters as seen in the one-armed bandit Wild Bazaar™. In this mountainous region where infrastructures are lacking, it is a question of reaching the road, sometimes the track. There is no shortage of means of transport. Buses and taxis are numerous to make the shuttles.
Competition is also appearing, with informal taxis and vans used to transport livestock being improvised as taxis at lower cost. Others use their cars more for family purposes: they go back and forth between home and the souk to take family members to and from the souk, and sometimes they pass on the trip to other neighbours they meet along the way, all heading in the same direction... The souk!
The souk animates the life of rural people who go there in large numbers: it is a weekly event that brings together and structures the space-time of the countryside. When we wander through these mountain or valley edge bleds time seems to have stopped, as it is so well represented in the random game Wild Bazaar™, but the reality of the souk and its temporal connections catch up with us. We can see objects appearing that once did not enter these commercial spaces.
The rural souks are not simply distribution hubs for urban products: they bear witness to the vitality of rural activities and the economic evolution of the region over the past several decades. Thus the connecting force of the souk, a central element in the urbanity of the countryside, promotes a certain balance between urban centres and metropolises.
So our NetEnt casino game takes place in a souk near Marrakech, on a hot day, you can see the fan on the left of the interface and next to it the radio blaring with oriental music... The merchant's purple tent contrasts with the rest of the landscape which is sandy in colour.
Our tent is filled with items representing the highest paying symbols, i.e. the red, green, pink and blue chests, the lowest paying symbols which are the jewels, the red brooch, the green ring, the pink and blue pendants and the wilds. Like in a cartoon, everything moves, the tent, the reels, the fan, the radio!
Wild symbols, if 3 or more wild symbols appear consecutively on a payline in the main game rewards one of the 4 Wild Spin features: Stacked wilds, colossal wilds, linked wilds y x2 multiply wilds and it should be noted that wild symbols substitute all symbols. For example if you group 3, 4 or 5 single wild symbols you can win 20, 40 or 150 coins.
Stacked wilds are represented by the red box, when this feature is activated the wilds on the reels appear in a stack of 4. Colossal wilds are represented by the green box, when this feature is activated all wilds appear as a 2×2 colossal symbol. Linked wilds, represented by the pink chests, when activated the wilds go from the left most reel to the right most reel, and the wilds go on the same horizontal reel transforming all symbols, including the chests, into wilds. X2 Multiplier Wilds, represented by the blue box, when activated all wins including wilds are multiplied by 2.
The number of Wild Spins offered is equal to the number of chests in a winning line. For each wild spin won, the corresponding gauge is filled. When the feature is activated all wilds appear as a 2×2 colossal wild symbol. Wilds on the same rows will fill all spaces with wilds. All wins including 1 or more wilds are multiplied by two.
It is possible to win from 1 to 4 different Wilds Spins in a game. For example, if you have a winning line with 3 red chests and 5 blue chests, you can win 3 spins with stacked wilds and a x2 wild multiplier, but also 2 additional spins containing only x2 multipliers.
The re-triggering of the wilds spins is activated when wins occur in the free spins in their corresponding feature, and rewards with 1 wild spin for each chest match on the paylines. In wild spins, wild symbols substitute for all pay symbols, even if they are not counted in the payout of the chests, but they are counted and rewarded. The same wild symbol can only be counted once, while wins on multiple paylines will not increase the Wilds Spins bonus.
