Funk Master

Funk Master by Netent invities you to the shiny 70s, featuring a dozen of lucky disco balls. The 8×8 cluster pays grid is where the Dancing Wilds get groovy with it, sticking around for indefinite Avalanche wins as long as they get to contribute. This eventually leads to the bonus round, where everything is taken up a notch.

The Dancing Wild Hotspot is key to triggering the feature, as it spawns an extra Dancing Wild when all 4 positions are unlocked by winning symbols. The visuals tend to get a bit too monotonic after a while though, and you might need a pair of shades to keep your cool. Multiplier symbols are your best bet for larger payouts, and the bonus round involves reel expansion and plenty of dancing wilds for payouts up to 3,337x your stake.

Funk Master Slot Features

All winning clusters are removed via the Avalanche mechanic, and new and/or existing symbols will then drop down to fill the gaps. This process repeats indefinitely as long as you keep winning, and the wild symbol steps in for regular pay symbols to help complete wins in different ways we’ll cover below.

The Dancing Wilds appear both in the base game and during the bonus round, and they remain in play when part of a winning cluster. The dancing wilds move to an adjacent empty position as the regular winning symbols are removed, and this will potentially assist you in prolonging the winning streak.

The Dancing Wild Hotspot is a 2×2-size highlighted square that’s randomly positioned for each spin, and you unlock Hotspots by landing winning combos in this square. When all 4 positions have been unlocked in the same cascading sequence, a single Dancing Wild is spawned. All Hotspot positions become locked again as each new spin starts in the base game.

The Multiplier Symbols can also appear in both the base game and the bonus round, and they come with multiplier values of x2, x3, x5 or x10. The multiplier will boost the current win, and landing more than one multiplier symbol sums up their respective values before being applied to the win.

The Bonus Round triggers when you have 3+ Dancing Wilds going at the same time, and this gives you 6 free spins as the cascading sequence ends. The triggering Dancing Wilds remain in play for the duration of the feature, and the Dancing Wild Hotspot increases to size 3×3. You now get +2 extra Dancing Wilds added to the mix if all 9 Hotspot positions are unlocked, in addition to +1 extra row up added up to a maximum of 12.

If you’re itching to sink your teeth into the main dish as soon as possible, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can take advantage of the Bonus Buy option. This will set you back 125x your stake, and it guarantees 6 free spins. The bonus round triggers organically only once in 397 spins on average, making the buy option shortcut even more tempting.

The 200 Spins Funk Master Slot Experience

We had a groovin’ time testing NetEnt’s disco-inspired Funk Master, despite the overload of disco balls, and we’ve whipped together a brief and edited highlights video for you as usual. Only our best moments are included for your viewing pleasure, and you can check it all out by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

NetEnt has created an enjoyable 70s-inspired slot with Funk Master, but the game kind of lacks personality due to overdose of disco balls and the superficial and glossy visuals. There is no lead character to focus on either, like in their previous Disco Danny, and the math model is not all that impressive compared to Jammin’ Jars 2, which is an obvious competitor. A 3,337x potential worked when NetEnt was king back in the day, but things have changed.

The features are enjoyable to a certain extent, but there isn’t anything really new to see here. You get dancing wilds in different ways, and as these prolong winning streaks you’ll hopefully rack up a few multiplier symbols to boost the total win. Everything is enhanced in the bonus round, of course, as the grid expands as ever-more dancing wilds come into play, but overall Funk Master failed to rock our world as much as it could have with a tad more heart and soul poured into the production.