Sleepy Grandpa

Sleepy Grandpa: Slot Overview

You know, despite the huge amount of things to do on this planet, watch telly, read a book, ride a bike, drink a beverage, wingsuit flying, it's hard to beat a good old nap. When it's warm and cosy inside, there's nothing on your schedule, and your eyelids are getting heavy, what could be better than letting go of the waking world and drifting away to the land of nod? If you're a fan of slumbering, you're not alone because the main character of Backseat Gaming's slot Sleepy Grandpa, is partial to naps, too. Fortunately, he doesn't spend the whole game in siesta mode. He also takes part in digging up Coin symbols worth up to 1,000x each, potentially boosted in the bonus round where a Global Multiplier of up to x10 increases any win.

If there is one location that almost always looks like a nice place to be in an online slot, it's down on the farm. Providers are keen to portray this side of life as sunnily as possible, almost as if there's no hard work involved, it never rains, food grows itself, and everything exists in wonderful pastoral harmony (Rabbit Royale from ELK Studios is one possible exception). So it is in Sleepy Grandpa, which packs in a red barn, some green green grass, happy animals, a windmill, and a cheerfully cloudy sky. The soundtrack is equally cheerful, and the finishing touch is Grandpa himself, happily snoozing on a bench with a mud-covered shovel in hand. So content does this man look, we might have to join him for a few zzz's…

Hmm, maybe later. For now, let's pick a bet instead where the options vary from 10 p/c to $/€100. Alternatively, players can choose the bonus buy, which provides one option – free spins for the cost of 100 times the bet. Playing in the usual mode attracts a default RTP of 96.23%, or when buying free spins, the return increases to 96.39%. With a medium volatile math model, no matter how you play, Sleepy Grandpa has a hit frequency of 37.5% and takes place on a 5-reel, 4-row grid matrix with 26 paylines.

For symbol payout info, Sleepy Grandpa has nine regular paying symbols. The low-value lot are 10 to A card ranks, worth up to 1.2 to 1.8 times the bet for 5 OAK, while the high pay bunch are a chicken, a sheep, a pig, and a cow paying 6 to 10 times the bet for a 5 OAK win. Sleepy Grandpa doesn't have wild symbols in its base or bonus game, but it has a couple more special symbols to help inject excitement.

Sleepy Grandpa: Slot Features

Sleepy Grandpa's features also revolve around aspects of farming and include the Dig feature, the Tractor feature, and a bonus game.

Dig Feature

When at least 1 Farmer symbol and at least 1 Dirt symbol land at the same time, the Farmer digs up the Dirt. This reveals a Coin symbol bearing a value of 1x-3x, 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, 75x, 100x, 250x, 500x, or 1,000x and is added to the Farmer. One Farmer symbol per reel can land at the same time. If more than 1 Farmer symbol lands, each Farmer will dig up each Dirt symbol one time. When all Dirt symbols have been dug up, all Farmer symbol values are added together and awarded.

Tractor Feature

If a Farmer symbol or a Golden Farmer land on the reels but no Dirt symbols land at the same time, there is a chance the Tractor feature triggers. When it activates, the Tractor ploughs the field and removes all symbols except scatter symbols or Farmer/Golden Farmer symbols already present. The Tractor will leave 1 to 10 Dirt symbols behind it, triggering the Dig feature. Tractors are present in the base and bonus game.

Bonus Game

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols in the base game awards 10, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively. Only one scatter symbol can land on each reel. In the bonus game, there is a chance the Gold Farmer symbol lands – only one can appear in a bonus game. The Golden Farmer is sticky, so it stays on the reels till the bonus game ends, triggering the Dig feature whenever Dirt symbols land.

The bonus game also has a Global Multiplier with levels of x2, x3, x5, and x10. Each level has 4 empty slots that are filled by landing Farmer symbols. If a Golden Farmer is on the grid, it fills one slot on each spin. When 4 slots are filled, the Global Multiplier levels up to the next multiplier level. Each time the Global Multiplier levels up, +3 free spins are awarded. The Global Multiplier applies to all wins and to all Coins that are dug up.

Sleepy Grandpa: Slot Verdict

So far, the partnership between Backseat Gaming and Hacksaw Gaming has been a rather fruitful one, as the slots the younger studio has been turning out haven't been bad at all. A bit on the simple side compared with its more established, dare we say more competent partner, but there's nothing wrong with starting somewhere modest, and finding your feet, before really going haywire. Sleepy Grandpa is a good example. It's a pleasant-looking and sounding slot with one or two interesting gaming elements to help you and Grandpa keep your eyelids open and stave off sleep.

Not saying Sleepy Grandpa is a sleep-inducing game. It's a sort of mix of Fat Rabbit since tractors can turn up useful symbols in a similar vein to the Harvest feature and Fishin' Frenzy/Big Bass Bonanza. Really, it's like a farmyard version of a classic fish-themed money symbol collection game, so let's thank Backseat Gaming for using a different topic rather than sending players out to sea, again, for the millionth time. As such, for players in the frame of mind for a game that delivers Coin symbols, with rather large potential values, alongside a collection system but have had a gutful of fish, then Sleepy Grandpa could be the remedy. What makes triggering the bonus game attractive is not just the Global Multiplier (which applies to all wins, not just Coin collects) is the chance to hit a Golden Farmer, increasing the game's originality.

If one was needed, the final incentive might be Sleepy Grandpa's winning potential of 10,000x the bet. Not a major eye-popping number in this day and age, but for a money collection game of this style, it's quite high. Certainly high enough to keep even the sleepiest gambler wide awake if they won it, or at least give them something to dream about achieving while dozing.