Beez Kneez
Beez Kneez Stats
RTP & Maths
- RTP Versions
- 95.38% here · Other versions 95% single published build; the rules print 95.388
Free Spins & Bonus
- Free Spins
- 3/4/5 scattered Cocoons = 15/20/25 Free Games · Retrigger: Free Games can be retriggered a maximum of 15 times
- Multipliers
- 2x (Cocoon in a line win), 3x (line prizes during Free Games)
Symbols & Pays
- Wild
- Cocoon substitutes for all symbols except the scattered Worker Bee; doubles any line prize it completes
- Scatter Reels
- Anywhere
- Line Pays
- Top symbol 200x · Lowest 0.08x
Beez Kneez Demo Slot
Eyecon has used the same paytable ladder since 2006, and Beez Kneez is what that ladder looks like in a summer garden. This 25-line slot arrived in February 2020 with a queen bee on a purple disc, while the toy-box titles feature a hippo, a Cocoon doing the substitute work, and a Worker Bee running the picks. Butterflies, dragonflies, hives, and honey pots fill the rest of the grid, drawn flat and bright against a hedge under a blue sky. The garden is the new part. The format under it was already old when this game was made, and the info screen still reads the way it read on the studio’s earliest releases.
Gameplay Options
The Cocoon’s Job
The Cocoon is a green chrysalis on a red apple, and it carries two roles at once. As the substitute, it stands in for every symbol bar the scattered Worker Bee, and any line prize it completes is doubled. As a scatter, it opens the Free Games, with three Cocoons anywhere awarding 15, four awarding 20, and five awarding 25. Line prizes are tripled for the run, and the round can retrigger up to 15 times. A Cocoon landing is worth reading twice: once as a doubler on the line it joins, and once as a step towards the feature.
Worker Bee Picks
The Worker Bee pays nothing on a line and exists only to open the Prize Pick. Three or more of them, anywhere, start it, with one pick awarded for each bee in the triggering combination, so five bees mean five picks.
Each pick can return up to 100x, the game adds the prizes together, and the feature can open within the Free Games as readily as outside them. It’s the one place where the player chooses anything, and the choice decides nothing; the picks are yours, the values behind them are already set.
The 2006 Ladder
Line for line, the sheet is the one Eyecon wrote for its toy-box family. Five queen bees pay 200x, four pay 20x, three pay 4x, and two pay 0.4x. Fluffy Favourites Fairground carries those four rungs with a hippo standing where the bee does, starts its free games on the same three, four, and five, triples the same line prizes, and stops retriggering at the same 15. Set the two side by side, and the difference is a colour palette and a pair of animal names. That matters for a player choosing between them, because the choice is an aesthetic one rather than a mathematical one, and it matters for anyone expecting a 2020 release to move a 2006 number. Eyecon’s position is that the format works, and 14 years of untouched rungs is evidence of that.
How to Play
Sliders and Line Count
Two vertical sliders set every wager on this shell, one for lines and one for the value behind each line, and they appear behind the hamburger button at the top right of the display. The line slider moves down from 25, which takes diagram lines out of play and reduces what a spin costs with them. Only the highest win on each selected line counts, so dropping lines narrows the grid’s coverage rather than concentrating it. The badge beside the reels is the only running readout of the pair, showing the active line count above the per-line value. Everything else is one blue button to the right of the grid. There’s no autoplay, no turbo toggle, and no gamble step after a win, and the info screen are behind the same menu as the sliders.
RTP
The rules give the return as 95.388%, and there is no second version of the game. Several of the studio’s classics ship as a pair of published versions, and an operator picks which to run. This one exists in a single version, so the figure in the rules is the only one the title has. The two largest values on the sheet are the 200x line and the 100x pick, and neither of them closes a round.
Beez Kneez Paytable
Four symbols pay from two on a line, and they’re the four at the top of the sheet; everything below the dragonfly needs three. The living things hold the premium end and the garden props fill the bottom, with the honey pot as the exception, sitting second with a bee perched in it.
| Symbol | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Bee | 0.4x | 4x | 20x | 200x |
| Honey Pot | 0.2x | 1.2x | 4x | 40x |
| Butterfly | 0.08x | 0.6x | 3x | 20x |
| Dragonfly | 0.08x | 0.6x | 3x | 20x |
| Caterpillar and Apple | – | 0.4x | 1.6x | 12x |
| Bee on a Daisy | – | 0.4x | 1.6x | 12x |
| Mushroom | – | 0.2x | 1.2x | 8x |
| Beehive | – | 0.2x | 1.2x | 8x |
| Sunflower | – | 0.12x | 0.6x | 4x |
| Pink Flower | – | 0.12x | 0.6x | 4x |
Ultimate Slots Verdict
Beez Kneez is Eyecon's 2006 classic in a summer garden, and the garden is the whole of the change. The Cocoon doubles the lines it completes and triggers the Free Games, the Worker Bee opens picks worth up to 100x each, and every rung of the ladder matches the toy-box titles that came before it. What it holds over most of them is a single published version of its return, with no lower build sitting behind an operator setting. That counts for something, and it still leaves a 2020 release playing a 2006 game.
✓ What We Like
- One published version of the return, so there is no lower build of the title to land on
- The Cocoon doubles any line prize it completes as well as triggering the Free Games
- Free Games triple line prizes and can retrigger up to 15 times
- The Prize Pick awards a pick per Worker Bee, each worth up to 100x, and can open within the feature
- Four symbols pay from two on a line, which keeps small returns frequent across 25 lines
- Bright, well-drawn garden art that reads clearly at speed
✗ What Could Be Better
- The top line is low for a 2020 release, and it is the same top line Eyecon set in 2006
- Six of the ten symbols pay 12x or less for five, so play between triggers is thin
- The info screen captions the Cocoon and the Worker Bee both as Scatter, which muddles two different jobs
Detailed Review
How Our Gameplay Went
200x. That’s the most a single line pays here, and it’s also the most a single line pays on Fluffy Favourites, on Fluffy Too, and on the Fairground edition, with the three rungs below it in the same order. The figure was set for a 2006 release. Beez Kneez is a 2020 release that pays it again, with insects.
The jobs moved animals rather than changed shape. The toy box gives its Elephant the substitute role and the free-games trigger, and lets a second Scatter run the picks; the garden gives both of those to the Cocoon and hands the picks to the Worker Bee. Anyone arriving from one to the other is learning two new names, not a new format. The info screens don’t help, since they caption both the Cocoon and the Worker Bee as Scatter, while the text underneath makes it clear that only one of the two substitutes.
The artwork is the argument for playing this one over its relatives. It’s flat, high-contrast, and confident, with a queen bee framed on a purple disc, a caterpillar grinning out of a red apple, and hives strung from branches over a hedge. That style has aged better than the hand-drawn toys it replaced, and it puts Beez Kneez in a crowded corner of the studio’s animal slots where the theme does the selling. Neither the sound nor the reel speed makes a separate case.
The return column is where the game earns its one small advantage. A single published build means there’s no lower version of this title to load by accident, and several of Eyecon’s other classics leave exactly that open by shipping a 95 and a 93 alongside each other. Set against the advantage, the sheet is thin. Six of the ten symbols pay 12x or less for a full line, the two flowers at the bottom return 0.6x for four, and the money therefore gathers in the tripled Free Games and in a Prize Pick that needs three Worker Bees to start. Long stretches of small returns between triggers are the shape of it.
For a player who already knows this format, Beez Kneez is a skin, and the fair way to judge it is as one; the garden is better drawn than the fairground and every figure behind it matches. For anyone working through Eyecon’s back catalogue in free play, the demo offers a clean look at what the 25-line classic does, with the tripled Free Games as the only real event. Neither reading makes a 2006 ladder new, and that’s what this review keeps returning to.
