Blankety Blank Slot

No game show in BBC history has quite the prestige of Blankety-Blank. The show was one of the first to feature a celebrity panel that would help both guests by predicting the missing word in a fun sounding phrase. The guest would come up with their answer and score for matching the missing word with the celebs. Favourite guests like Dave Lee Travis would appear time and time again, developing a name for themselves as a person reader who would be good at judging the kind of answers that the contestant would give. Over the years we saw hosts such as Terry Wogan and Lily Savage drop subtle double entendres as to what the missing word could be in suggestive lavish language. With the show being so loved over the years, it was common sense for a casino developer to marry the classic Blankety Blank theme with a similarly classic format, the slot machine, giving us the imaginatively title Blankety Blank slot.

With 20 pay-lines this 5 reel slot is set up in manner which will prove familiar to most slot players whatever their level of slot expertise. The machine differs in that it has some very unfamiliar pay-lines across the reels, but this shouldn't disturb any player. The feel to the machine is brilliant, with lovely chunky reels and a basic game that's larger than many of the online slot games on the market. You've got a low level soundtrack that enhances the game with tingling, twinkling sounds to set the right experience without overloading the player as some of the more garish slot soundtracks are prone to do.

Blankety-Blank features a lovely triple wild multiplier which will substitute for any symbol other than the scatter sub game symbols. The game is actually quite void of too many game show symbols (we were hoping for little DLTs and Wogans on the reels).

The bonus game feature is activated by spinning in the five letter symbols across all five reels in what seems to be on the surface a much harder bonus to achieve than the majority of slot sub games featured on online slots today. The B-L-A-N-K letters can scatter anywhere across the five reels, and in modern fashion each has an individual star-dusted sound when the scatter hits it's reel. Despite the sub games seemingly difficult activation, the game however has a large prize on offer in terms of a 30 free spin game which is a large amount of spins for this kind of slot. Once you've activated this sub game you're taken through to the real themed part of this slot where you get to chose one of five words to answer the classic clue and then you receive 5 free spins for every one of the computerised celebs that match your words. Once the game is over it's back to the main reels to continue with your free spins. Once you've had all the free spins you get to risk it all again in the Supermatch bonus in a similar pick an answer game.

Blankety-Blank is quite simply a lovely machine to play, we can't say that it's standout, or likely to win any prizes on a Saturday night game show, but what it is, is a solid, graphically excellent, well sound-tracked slot machine that does everything it does amazingly well.