Barber Shop is a Thunderkick powered video slot with 5 reels and 25 pay-lines. This slot game offers a few features that you could benefit from. Here, you can encounter locked symbols, free spins, re-spin and Inwinity feature. The reels feature cartoon-styled men with variety of facial hair, and tools which are necessary for a barber to shave its customers. Give this slot a go here for free or visit Thunderkick Casinos to play for real money.
Before you sit in the chair to take a haircut in this saloon, you should adjust your wager. This can be done via "bet", and once you click on it a black panel will open showing the available bets which span from 0.01 to 100. When you choose your wager, click "Spin" to start the reels turning or if you wish to turn the reels automatically for a preset number of times you should hit "Auto-play".
Many Thunderkick powered slot games are attention grabbing, and this one is no exception. Unlike so many other slots that offer a myriad of features, this one offers a few of them which can earn you a substantial amount of money. These features include a bonus symbol, and aforementioned Inwinity and Re-spin feature.
After each winning spin the symbols creating a combo will get a coat of shaving cream, and will remain fixed in place for the re-spin that is to follow. If that re-spin creates another winning pay-line, it will also get the shaving foam coating, and remain fixed for yet another re-spin. A good run here can bring a bunch of money. These re-spins will continue until no more matching symbols are added to the combination, and at that point your prize will be calculated.
Bonus symbol of the game comes in the form of "bonus" word written all over the sign. If you get 5 or more of these, the Free Spins round will be triggered, and you will be awarded with 10 free spins. Any additional bonus symbol you land will grant you 2 additional free spins. The maximum number of free spins you can get is 30. With each spin within the bonus round, the multiplier will increase by one level. The multiplier levels go as follows: 1x, 2x, 3x and 5x.
After you've used up all the free spins, and after the bonus round ends, the Inwinity Spin feature will be triggered. Once activated, the Inwinity Spin feature will enable the reels to continue on spinning until you land a winning combination. Winning combo in this round is guaranteed.
Game Play
Bet: Choose the bet you wish to make.
Spin: Start the game.
Auto Play: Turn the reels without interruption for a preset number of times.
Barber Shop Uncut, is the sequel to the hair-raising original Thunderkick's game, Barber Shop. Why hair-raising? Because a lot of players got a hair-raising shock when the game couldn't live up to expectations! Hahaha. Many players complained about the low payouts from the game, but I myself found it acceptable, only because I had managed to get some nice wins from it. And so, with Barber Shop Uncut, I was expecting a similar game play from it, albeit some changes made to its paytable, but graphics and presentation wise, it looks identical to the original.
The blonde-moustached guy is now the highest paying symbol, replacing the bearded man, but the win value has been greatly reduced from 40x the total bet to only 15x now. All the other symbol values have been reduced as well, making this new paytable a very low one indeed. Argh! I hate it when things have been made no better than the original. If the 40 paylines of Barber Shop Uncut were supposed to cover back for the symbols value reduction, then this has not materialised at all in the many games that I have played so far. The payouts in the base game were simply way too low for anyone's liking, and the 40 paylines just did not deliver the goods. I found this very disturbing and very disappointing indeed!
What is even worse, the Free Spins game, activated by getting 5 Bonus symbols anywhere on the reels, now pays a flat 3x for all wins from the 10 free spins awarded, as compared to the variable 1x - 5x in the original game. Whilst bigger wins could be achieved with the 5x multiplier, the 3x simply failed to provide any good decent payouts. After playing more than 40 Free Spins games, the best win that I could get was a miserable 147x my total bet amount. My best win from the old game was 557x, so imagine the great difference in the winning potentials between the two games. What Thunderkick has done to Barber Shop Uncut is similar to what most other game providers have done to their games too - making the payouts much lower and smaller, for better revenue. Good for game providers, horrible for players!
Thunderkick's games have never been of the high volatility or high variance kind, except perhaps for Birds On A Wire, but personally, I could still accept the changes made to Barber Shop Uncut if the game could play and pay better than what it is doing now. I was totally disappointed with it, and playing the game on many separate occasions only got me infuriated, without getting any sort of satisfaction at all! A very poor sequel to an otherwise fairly good game!