Friends

Meet the cast of the immensely popular TV series on the slot from WMS, powered by Scientific Gaming. Friends ran for 10 seasons and became one of the most successful sitcoms of all times. The humorous take on a group of six people sharing apartments in Manhattan has been broadcast in dozens of countries and has been now immortalized on a set of slot reels. A Wheel Bonus with four features and coin wins as well as a fixed jackpot of 2,000x times your bet will ensure you well be having a good time while the friends will cheer you on in the top display.

Slot Details

Friends is a video slot with five reels, four rows and 40 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for three to five matching symbols on a line from left to right only. You can relive the glorious times of the sitcom on desktop or mobile from 0.50 to 100 credits per spin. The game has medium volatility with an RTP of 96.%.

The well-known Manhattan skyline from the series is in the background of the typical SG Digital game window that is used by multiple of its studios, among them Bally, Barcrest and WMS. The screen is divided into two parts, the bottom for the reel set while the upper acts as an action display where you play some of the features and any other times shows some scenes from the sitcom. Original songs from the series are the main audio and provide added authenticity.

The pay symbols are all images and icons from the series, starting with guitar, coffee cup, cafe logo, ducks as well as Turkey Scene, Phone Call, Kissing Couple, Male Cast, Bed Scene and Party Scene. The pays are mediocre as most of the time on slots from Scientific Games. A five of a kind will get you 0.2x to 0.8x your bet. Yeah, that is not a typo.

The game has two wilds, the regular with the series cast in a blue frame appears on all reels and pays 10x your bet when five land on a line. The Jackpot Wild is the cast in a green frame and appears on the centre reels only. A gamble wheel acts as the scatter.

Friends Slot Features

Released in 2014 to land-based casino floors by then subsidiary Bally Technologies, the task to bring the game into the online world fell to Williams Interactive (WMS). While it suffers badly from low line pays, a full screen of wilds will give a mediocre 400 times your bet, they made an effort to included ample features into the gameplay that are connected to the sitcom.

It all hinges on the Wheel Bonus, which is triggered when you land three fully stacked scatters on reels two, three and four. The wheel will appear in the top display and spin once to award one of the prizes shown on the 12 wedges. Worth noting is that the Jackpot Wilds cannot appear during any of the features.

• Coin Win: The least desirable outcome as most you can win is 25x your bet.
• Thanksgiving Bonus: 10 free spins with an x3 win multiplier which cannot be retriggered.
• Wedding Bonus: 10 free spins with sticky wilds which cannot be retriggered.
• Party Bonus: 11 free spins with one to two stacked walking wilds. It starts with wild reel 1, followed by wild reel 1 and 2 on the second free spin and carries on until they reach reel 5 and then reverse course, moving by one reel to the left on each free spin until the last wild leaves from reel 1.
• Bamboozled Bonus: Pick-and-Click bonus game with coins wins and three fixed jackpots at 25x, 100x and 1,000x your total bet. Pick until you win either one of the jackpots or unveil the GIMMIE AWARD icon. The latter will end the game and pay the accumulated coin wins.

The game has one more feature that will make the torturous gameplay with small wins worthwhile if you have a very lucky day. Land three fully stacked Jackpot Wilds on reels two, three and four in the base game to win a respectable 2,000 times your bet.

Final Verdict

You would think a game provider with such a pedigree as Scientific Games would put all resources into creating something truly unique that equals the popularity of the fabled TV sitcom. Instead, they turned it into a low-volatility, low-pay, low-entertainment freak show with next to no win potential unless all stars align on a very lucky day to let you win the fixed jackpots. The base game and features are utterly useless as you will have a hard time winning more than 50x your bet. But I guess, fans of Friends will keep it in the casino lobbies by giving it the odd spin out of nostalgic reasons. I wish nobody would bother.

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