Pink Elephants Review

Known for developing slots with strange, somewhat weird themes, Thunderkick chose a bizarre and wonderful theme for one of their most successful slots in recent years: Pink Elephants. As the name suggests, the Pink Elephants slot is themed around Pink Elephants!

A unique slot game, Pink Elephants, is built around a 4,096-ways-to-win format. It can run as little as $0.10 to as much as $100 per spin. The game itself is built around a 6-reel, 4-row format. Like all Thunderkick slots, you’ll find an array of in-game features, including autoplay (letting you set up to 500 spins play out automatically) and a “slam stop” mechanic, decreasing the amount of time it takes between spins.

If you aren’t aware, seeing pink elephants is a euphemism for drunken hallucination, a state induced by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens during alcohol withdrawal. The term Pink Elephants can be traced back to the early 20th century; it was first made famous in Jack London’s 1913 novel John Barleycorn. It’s a pretty unusual theme – but Thunderkick has pulled it off well. The game offers everything from great bonus features, wild symbols, elephant orbs, free spins and a mystery bonus round! It’s also one of their highest-paying slots, offering you the chance to win as much as 8,200X your stake!

In this Pink Elephants slot review, we will give you an in-depth and comprehensive breakdown of the game. We’ll show you how to trigger the feature and how the bonus features work. We’ll dive into all elements of this popular online slot so you know what to expect when trying it out for yourself.

In their Pink Elephants slot, Thunderkick has decided to use a fairly common selection of symbols; the low-value icons are represented by playing card values, including 10, J, Q, K and Ace.

The game’s high-value symbols include four different Meerkats and the game’s highest-value symbol – the Pink Elephant symbol. During the bonus round, elephant orbs appear on some of the premiums. We will cover this in more depth later on in this review.

Pink Elephants has a fairly decent RTP, coming in at 96.1%. This is a fixed RTP, meaning you won’t find the game offered in different RTP settings at different online casinos.

We should point out that this ways-to-win game is very volatile – and the base game can be pretty unforgiving a lot of the time. This means that you can expect to see many dead spins. If you’re looking to play Pink Elephants, you’ll want to be keeping an eye out for the main bonus round, as this is where you will find most of the game’s potential.

Pink Elephants – while capable of producing some decent-sized wins in the base game – is all about the main bonus round, which takes the form of a free spins feature.

In this next part of our Pink Elephants slot review, we will be looking at how this free spins feature works. We’ll also cover a nifty little mystery scatter symbol bonus that can trigger on any spin during the base game.

Free Spins

The bonus game in Pink Elephants is triggered by landing three, four, five or six of the Peanut scatter symbols anywhere in view. You will then be awarded 7, 11, 15 or 19 free spins, respectively. You’ll then see a little animation play out, and you’ll be taken to a new game screen where the free spins will begin.

Now, once you’re in the bonus game, you’ll notice that the four premium Meerkat symbols have circles around them on the left-hand side of the screen. Also, some of the Pink Elephant symbols have glowing orbs attached to them. Each time one of these Pink Elephants lands in view with an orb, the orb will add to a counter on one of the Meerkats. Each time you fill one of the Meerkat’s metres during the bonus game, that symbol will change into a Pink Elephant for the remainder of the bonus. It’s here that the game’s main win potential is found.

The Elephant orbs are crucial to collect – and while they do seem to ‘dry up’ towards the latter stages of the bonus game, they can drop in quite a lot at the beginning.

It’s also possible to re-trigger the bonus round. This is achieved by landing two, three, four, five or six of the Peanut scatter symbols anywhere in view during the free spins feature. Doing so will award you an additional 3, 5, 7, 9 or 11 free spins, respectively.

Mystery Scatter Symbol Feature

Thunderkick has built quite a cool little mini bonus game into Pink Elephants; it allows you to trigger the free spins – starting with as many as 19 free spins – without manually landing the free spins bonus.

During the base game (on any spin), you may hear some strange noises appear. This can see anywhere from one to six scatter symbols placed onto the reels before the spin. This gives you a great chance of triggering the bonus game. From our experience, when this bonus is triggered, it leads to the main free spins feature activating around one in three times.

Thunderkick came under pressure from players to create games that offered more win potential in the past. While the software provider was good at developing creative bonus features, offered decent RTP percentages and allowed players to bet high, their games are often quite low variance – resulting in small wins. However, that all changed with the release of Pink Elephants. The game – one of their most popular slots online – has proved immensely successful, allowing you to win as much as 8,200X your stake on a single spin.

The strange, creative – and downright weird – theme works well. Thunderkick has added a plethora of fitting sound effects and animations to complement the gameplay as best they can. We like the game for several reasons – and even the way it looks, built with six reels and four rows – sets it apart from many of the games we see released today.

Naturally, with a game capable of producing wins as high as 8,200X your stake, Pink Elephants is very volatile. If you’re looking to play Pink Elephants for yourself, you may want to consider lowering your bet amount. That’s because the high variance nature of the slot means the base game can be pretty cruel at times. It’s not unusual to run into quite a large number of dead spins during the game.

While often hard to trigger, the free spins feature can be very lucrative too. Although, it’s very volatile, so it’s not uncommon to see some bonuses pay next to nothing. You need to hit the extra free spin re-triggers and land a ton of orbs at the beginning for it to pay off!