Uncle Profit

Uncle Profit: Slot Overview

When it comes to garden ornamentation, few items are as divisive as the humble garden gnome. Some love 'em, others not so much. Interestingly, it's been said their history stretches back to ancient Rome, where the fertility god Priapus and his permanent erection was one of the most common. Red-hatted gnome statues, as we know them, apparently first appeared in Germany before spreading across Europe and the world. Not one to shy away from a contentious topic, developer Print Studios has taken on garden gnomes, and one of their biggest nemesis, in the online slot Uncle Profit.

If you hear the words 'garden gnome' and picture a calm, quiet, staid suburban environment, then you're on the same page as Print Studios. Uncle Profit takes place on an Edward Scissorhands-like street of colourful houses, manicured lawns, and a healthy sprinkling of gnomes. The gnomes in question look to be in total relaxation mode, chatting socially, enjoying a beer, basically living their best lives. However, this suburban Nirvana is disrupted by a chap named Uncle Profit, and while he could end up being a player's best friend on account of his ability to generate wins, he really doesn't like gnomes. To the point of drive-by shooting them, in cold-blooded porcelain executions.

Uncle Profit is a cluster pays slot, played on a 5x5 gaming grid. Winning combinations are formed when 5 or more matching symbols are connected to each other in horizontal and/or vertical directions. It is possible to stake 20 c to $/€20 per spin, buy the bonus round or utilise an adjustable scatter boost function. The RTP for the default bet is 96.08%, and volatility is medium-high.

Four letter box symbols and some mushrooms are the lower value symbols, while the higher pays are a grill and four gnomes. Five-of-a-kind winning clusters pay 0.1 to 1 times the bet, whereas 15+ OAK clusters are worth 15 to 100 times the bet. Raccoons in rubbish bins are wild, and they replace any regular paying symbol.

Uncle Profit: Slot Features

Accompanying the gnomes are features such as Uncle Profit Collection, a Gnome Shooting Gallery mini game, the Gnome Festival bonus, and feature buys.

Uncle Profit Collection

If the Uncle Profit symbol lands on a winning spin, it converts each winning symbol into a coin, awarding a random prize.

Gnome Shooting Gallery

There is a chance this feature triggers in the base game when Uncle Profit lands. When activated, players can collect a presented Bronze Prize or gamble to possibly win better prizes in the Gnome Shooting Gallery. During the Gnome Shooting Gallery mini-game, increasingly valuable prizes are presented, which the player can collect by shooting a gnome at any time. A longer wait time means larger prizes, but the police may arrive to shut the whole thing down, awarding no prize.

Gnome Festival Bonus

Landing 3 or more scatters awards 5 free spins. During this feature, winning symbols lock in place while other positions respin. If the win is improved, the lock and respin repeats. Free spins also have a Coin Multiplier that increases on each spin from x2 to x100, which is applied to any coin collection. Wilds can absorb all winning symbols (except other wilds that absorbed symbols), gaining a coin multiplier for each absorbed symbol, respinning the grid, and automatically converting to a coin if Uncle Profit lands.

Bucket symbols highlight the position they land on, giving them a frame. If a Bucket lands in a highlighted position, it changes the frame's colour to gold. Coins revealed in a highlighted position upgrade to the frame's matching colour. If the feature was initially triggered with 4 scatters, it starts with 6 silver highlighted positions or 6 gold highlighted positions if triggered by 5 scatters.

Feature Buy

From Uncle Profit's Feature Bet, it is possible to trigger the 3, 4, or 5 scatter Gnome Festival for 100x, 250x, or 500x the bet, respectively. It is possible to land extra scatters, for example, landing 4 of them when buying the 3-scatter feature.

Uncle Profit: Slot Verdict

Coin win slots are able to evoke a wide range of emotions when done right. There's the satisfaction of actually getting coins on the board, the anticipation of what each coin might actually award, and a cherry on top thrill if the game has some sort of boost mechanism. Happy to say, Uncle Profit is capable of triggering the full emotional roller coaster for lucky players as they wade amongst gnomes and journey through the game's suburban bliss (or hell, depending on your thoughts), in a sensible family-friendly four-door sedan.

Glimpses of what the game can do are hinted at in the base game, but it is more of an appetiser for the main event. Even so, it is possible to jump-start the pulse in the base phase of play, thanks to things like the Gnome Shooting Gallery, tempting players to wait or start blasting, in a similar spirit to Huntress Wild Vengeance's Hunt mini-game. The Gnome Festival bonus is where Uncle Profit really steps up. One way it does so is through the increasing Coin Multiplier, and knowing that an x100 is guaranteed on the final spin makes the end of the round a real nail-biter. The lock and respin element plays an important role, too. But it's the interaction between bonus round mechanics that really elevates Uncle Profit, as the lock and respin of winning symbols spreads them across the grid, allowing Uncle Profit to convert a bunch of them to coins, upgradable by highlighted positions, before being hammered by the Coin Multiplier.

It's the sort of good stuff that makes it possible to imagine Uncle Profit blasting its 50,000x cap, the biggest max win figure in a Print Studio slot to date. In short, for a coin win slot with an amusing garden gnome theme, and excellently intertwined features capped by hulking winning potential, Uncle Profit is a highly compelling choice.