Jacques Pot Gourmet is 5 reels and 20 pay-lines video slot powered by Rival software provider. The slot is inspired with restaurant cooking. Chef Jacques will teach you to cook delicious meals if you give him a chance. The reels are set against the kitchen backdrop, and all symbols are theme related. Give this slot a free spin here or visit any of the Rival Casinos to play for real money.
Before you start the heist op, you should set your bet. By clicking on "+/-" you can set the coins size which ranges from 0.01 to 0.25. The number of lines can be set by clicking on "Select Lines", and by clicking on "Select Coins" you can set the number of coins per line. "Bet Max" sets the maximum bet and starts turning the reels automatically. "Auto" will turn the reels automatically without interruption but it is available only when playing for real money, and "Spin" will set the reels in motion.
Salt and Pepper symbol is the Expanding Wild symbol, and it appears on reels 1, 2 and 3. All wins are multiplied by the number of expanding Wilds on screen.
The Food Mixer symbol is the scatter, and if you land 3 or more of them anywhere on the reels you will trigger Free Spins. Once you trigger it, you will be awarded with 10 spins plus all of them will be subjected to x2 multiplier.
You can trigger Burger Creation bonus round only during Free Spins feature. You need to land 3 Chef Jacques symbols in order to trigger the bonus. You will be taken to an empty screen with burger bun, and you will have to catch the ingredients by moving the bun back and forth across the screen. The more you catch the bigger the prize. You can win up to x200 your bet.
Game Play
+/-: Set the coins size.
Select Lines: Set the number of lines.
Select Coins: Set the number of coins to bet per line.
Bet Max: Set the maximum possible bet.
Spin: Start the reels.
Auto: Set the reels in motion without interruption for a chosen number of times.
Honestly speaking, I wasn't interested in this Rival game since some years ago, but I have played it on and off, and without getting any wins from it thus far. However, things changed a bit recently, more like my luck got better I guess, and I finally got my first decent win from this game. That too took 2 separate plays to get it, but I'm not complaining now, hehehe.
Jacques Pot Gourmet Slot is not a new game at all. It's been there for as long as I can remember, but it's not a game that attracted my attention or interest. For a start, the graphics aren't exciting, the overall presentation isn't that nice, and the colours are rather muted and non-vibrant. What I don't like even more, is that both the Wild and the Scatter symbols are non-paying, thereby omitting a lot of extra winning chances from the game, and that the other symbols in the game have very low win values too, a big deterrent to me!
The only exciting bit about this game is that the Wild symbol can expand into a full Wild Reel, but only on reels 1, 2 and 3, and multiply all wins by either 1x, 2x or 3x, depending on the number of Wild Reels in that winning combination. Not really exciting enough, but getting 3 Wild Reels at a time can indeed produce some good wins nonetheless. However, the 10 free spins, which has a 2x multiplier, cannot be retriggered, and you get only 10 free spins, regardless of triggering it by getting 3, 4 or 5 Scatter symbols. That sucks a bit.
Oh yeah, Jacques, the Chef, is the Bonus symbol, also a non-paying symbol, argh, and appears only during the free spins. Get 3 or more of him anywhere on the reels and a Bonus game is awarded. It's a very simple bonus game - catch the falling ingredients onto the burger bun and win a prize for the burger you have created. The more ingredients you can catch, the better the prize. It was in this bonus game that I got my best win, winning $80 on a $0.40 bet, for a nice 200x total bet win! Whoopie! That win changed my opinion on this Jacques game, a game that I thought would never pay good, but I was wrong, hehehe.