Monkeys Go Bananas MultiMax is a video slot game with a light-hearted theme featuring monkey pirates sailing the high seas. Developed by Yggdrasil Gaming, the game offers a unique combination of features built around increasing multipliers and avalanches.
The base game uses a standard 5-reel 243 ways to win layout. Winning symbols disappear from the reels, causing new symbols to fall into the empty spaces. This avalanche mechanic continues as long as winning combinations appear. With each Avalanche win, a Wild symbol is guaranteed to land in a randomly selected empty position.
These Wilds substitute for all regular symbols to create potential additional wins. More importantly, each wild symbol also adds +1 to the multiplier of the reel it lands on. These reel multipliers can be multiplied together if wins include symbols on multiple reels with active multipliers.
The Free Spins round, triggered by landing 3 Scatter symbols on the middle reels, awards 8 Free Spins. The key difference here is that the reel multipliers do not reset between spins, even if there are no consecutive wins. This allows the multiplier to increase progressively throughout the Free Spins round. In addition, wins during Free Spins pay from left to right as well as right to left, effectively doubling the number of possible winning combinations.
Another element of excitement during the Free Spins comes from the Bomb symbols. These can land on any reel during a Free Spin and come in three power levels. Depending on the power level, the Bomb symbol will explode, removing itself and surrounding symbols and triggering an avalanche.