A row of golden taps sits above the reels in the Blondes & Beers slot, and when a wild beer glass lands beneath one, the tap opens and pours. As the froth settles, a multiplier appears on the glass, reaching as high as x1,000, and that figure determines what the payline running through it is worth. AvatarUX builds a full Oktoberfest around this single reveal, with a brass band, ferris wheel, and a barmaid who winks and gasps now and then, while the Xpress menu offers a guaranteed multiplier wild at 3 different prices.
The wild is a foaming beer glass in a gold frame, and it is the only symbol here that ever carries a multiplier.
When a wild lands, the tap over its reel turns on, sending beer into it, and a glass that catches the beer shows its multiplier once the flow ends. That figure multiplies any winning payline the glass completes, and multiple glasses with multipliers on one payline stack them into a combined value for that line.
Beer Features is the game’s own name for its 3 per-spin boosts, and Xpress on the right edge opens them. Only one can run at a time, and each has its own OFF and ON switch.
Flip one to ON and the Bet field changes to show the spin’s new cost, with the beer’s name shown on the Xpress icon and, for Lager, a blue spin button as a second reminder.
One rule sits over all 3. A round is limited to 15,000x the bet, and if it gets there, the round stops immediately, the win is settled at the cap and any features still due are dropped.
There are 4 payout sizes on this paytable, with no half-steps. A run of 3 pretzels or 3 hop leaves pays 1x the bet, the green feathered hat and the checked bow pay 2x, a keg or an accordion 3x, and 3 wild glasses bring 10x. No symbol pays for 2 of a kind.
The 5 paylines on the 3×3 are the 3 rows plus the 2 diagonals, and a win is counted from reel 1 onward, stopping as soon as a reel does not carry the symbol. Separate line wins on one spin are added together. Base spins return 95.99%, and there is a published rate for each Beer Feature as well, climbing to 96.01%, 96.08% and 96.10% as the three get dearer, all of it calculated across 5 billion rounds. Volatility is high, with 4 lightning bolts on the splash art. Operators can also run the game at 94.05% or 90.48%.
Stakes sit on 22 fixed steps instead of a slider, from €0.10 to €300 a spin, with MAX at the end of the list. The Xpress prices scale with whichever step is selected, so free play spans the whole spread and Dark Ale can be sampled at €25.00 a spin with the stake at its lowest, against €250.00 at €1.
| Symbol | 3 on a payline |
|---|---|
| Wild beer glass | 10x bet |
| Beer keg | 3x bet |
| Accordion | 3x bet |
| Green feathered hat | 2x bet |
| Checked bow | 2x bet |
| Pretzel | 1x bet |
| Hop leaves | 1x bet |
The table shows each symbol as a multiple of the bet, so a 3x line comes to €3.00 on the €1 spins this review played.
You are paying for a reveal, and it is a strong one. AvatarUX has made the arrival of a multiplier worth watching, and the wild it decorates has the reach to matter. The 3.7 rates the machine rather than the costume: one good idea, staged properly and priced 3 ways. The trick is the same at the €0.10 floor as behind the 250x toggle; Dark Ale only turns it up.
Our demo session opened at €1, and for a while we let it run with the Xpress menu shut. Most of those early wins sat in the €1.00 to €2.00 range, but glasses carrying x5, x10 and x20 appeared often, frequently boosting a small line into something better. For example, a pretzel line pays 1x the bet, or €1.00 on a €1 spin, but that same line with a x20 glass returns €20.00. The bulb columns beside the reels flare up after the beer lands, though this is purely decorative.
Trying the Xpress options, the cheapest buy Lager cost us €5.00 a spin, and it was here we first noticed the win banners, big splash screens the game drops over a good payout, named off the bar. First Pour headed a €26.00 round and Pretzel Power a €60.00 one, with the glasses keeping to x5, x10 and x20.
Golden Ale replaced it at €40.00 a spin, moving the glasses to x50, x100 and x200, and 3 kegs beneath a x50 along the top row came back €150.00.
Dark Ale, the priciest of the three at 250x a spin, unsurprisingly returned both our best results and our biggest losses. Its glasses ran x200, x250, x500 and x1000, and the round that mattered landed 2 of them at x200, one in the centre and one in the top corner. On this 3×3 both diagonal paylines cross the centre square, so the middle glass sat in 2 wins at once. The upward line read keg, wild, wild, which pays as 3 kegs, and with x400 of multiplier on it the €3.00 keg line, 3x the €1 base stake, became €1,200.00. The downward line read accordion, wild, accordion, 3 of a kind at x200 for €600.00. The Pretzel Power banner put the round’s total at €1,800.00. Our other highlight was simpler. A solitary x500 wild completed a keg line and paid €1,500.00.
Most slots with a multiplier wild simply print it on the symbol. The tap tips forward, beer runs down the reel, and the glass stays blank until the last of it lands. That gap is what makes the number an event.
The reels sit inside a tavern cabinet with the taps mounted on top, and the celebration spreads out past it, half-timbered fronts and a clock tower, string lights, blue and white canopies, stacked barrels, and a ferris wheel turning further back. Beneath the band, there is constant chatter and laughter, and that is the detail selling the party more than the trumpets do. Symbols bounce as they land, beer glasses add a clink, and winning lines mark up in yellow with the sum on top.
The barmaid is a classic Oktoberfest pin-up and the art makes no secret of it, plaited blonde in a flower crown, 3 mugs foaming over onto her tray. She sways on the spot, her hair moving with her, and Golden Ale gives her a gasp at the bigger glasses, a nice touch early on and useful in ordinary spins, where it flags a big landing. With Golden Ale or Dark Ale on, it comes round often enough that you stop seeing it.
Put this beside 3 Power Bears and you are choosing an outfit, not a machine. The engine is the same one the bear game runs: the wild tiers, the Xpress pricing, the payback, and the cap. The two sit level on our ratings, so the choice comes down to scenery: a smoky, bear-run casino floor or a beer tent with a brass section. On staging alone, this one feels slightly ahead, with a poured multiplier that feels sharper than a printed stamp.
There is a specific player for this, and it is not a wide group. Someone who wants no bonus round to work towards, who is happy for one number to decide the session, and who finds a tap tipping over worth the wait.
