Abra-Kebab-Ra

The kebab, just like the fruit machine, is something that we've always associated with drinking as many, many people in the UK love to spend their hard-earned on this post-pub delicacy after a weekend session. Wouldn't it therefore be great if you combine these two staples of British drinking society, the kebab and the fruity, in one great game? Well guess what? Now you can with the great Microgaming fruit machine Abra-kebab-ra.

The game is a standard fruit machine with an uncomplicated three reel set up featuring one pay-line. The music and graphics on the machine fall into a vague Arabian Nights theme, with the classic fruit symbols which characterise this kind of popular UK gambling game. The machine is well designed and as with all Microgaming fruit machines the main game has a lovely pseudo-mechanical feel to the reels and the overall design is clear and uncluttered, giving you very easy pay-table views you can get acquainted quickly with the wins available from this great little fruity.

The game doesn't have any wild or scatter symbols but more than makes up with the favourite fruit machines features of holds, nudges and stoppas, and anyone who's even stepped foot in a pub in the last ten years will be familiar with how these fruit machine mechanisms work. The pay table is good for this kind of fruit machine and you'll be glad you aren't sitting at the bar when you realise the wins available from this cute, compact fruity stretch as far as a thousand coin payout for the top jackpot win.

Three magic lamp symbols on the board will let the genie out of the bottle as the bonus game activates. The bonus game is the classic three reel fruit machine hi/lo game where each reel corresponds to a different prize. There is of course a second screen for the bonus game so you can concentrate on this single reel game. The genie on the page is very reminiscent of the genie from Disney's Aladdin and this character dominates the graphical feel to the bonus page. The 3 bonus ladders feature the standard cash out bet multiplier ladder, kebab-themed reel sub game ladder and of course the legendary nudge ladder that characterises so many fruit machines both old and new. The reel sub games have great names which will keep you chuckling for a long time such as ‘Lamb, bam, thank you man' and are variations of the reel games even the most inexperienced of players will find familiar. Each hi/lo reel has a higher or lower button located unsurprisingly above and below the reel window so you can change which of the three ladders you're playing for in accordance with which reel you decide to go hi/lo on. The bonus game has the nice feature of the entire numerical reel laid out beneath the reels so you can see exactly where you are in the hi/lo game.

This fruit machine is so great you'll want everyone around you to shish up and be quiet or they'll probably end up on the end of a skewer, and what a pitta that would be. With the fantastic wins available on this fruit machine you won't just be a doner as this fruity is capable of streaks hotter than any chilli sauce.