Big Top Tombola

By Matt Kennedy | Updated 8 January 2016

Get ready because the circus is coming to town with this entertaining online video slot powered by Virtue Fusion. Big Top Tombola consists of 20 paylines and 5 reels. The graphics are wonderfully bright and colourful, bringing the wonders of the circus to life before your eyes. This game comes with a wild symbol, mini bonus rounds and a generous progressive jackpot which can reach well into the thousands and perhaps beyond.

Theme

Big Top Tombola has a concrete circus theme, complete with clowns and dancing elephants and enough dazzling performance acts to keep you engrossed for hours. The reels are situated inside a classic circus tent where all the action comes to life before our eyes. There are buttons around the reels that trigger some great sound effects to make the vibrancy and essence of the circus more real. Icons on the reels include a clown, a lion, a ringmaster, a performing elephant, a strongman and poker symbols such as Q, K and A.

Wild Symbol

The big top icon acts as the wild symbol which has the ability to substitute for other regular symbols on the reels. It can do this for most symbols except for the Golden Ticket bonus icon which cannot be replaced. By substituting for other icons, the wild is able to gain even more great winning combinations to add to your total payout.To get your hands on the progressive jackpot, you must have five wild symbols appear on an active payline. The only way to win this though is to be betting a minimum of £5 on the associated betting line.

Golden Ticket Bonus

This round is triggered when the Golden Ticket bonus icon appears on the first reel of any of the active paylines. Once triggered, the tombola starts to spin like crazy and you must help the ringmaster to stop the tombola circling itself. If you do this right, you will receive a raffle ticket holding a multiplier value which will be added to your winnings. 

Matt Kennedy

Matthew Kennedy co-founded Take Marketing Limited in 2008 alongside Becky Mosley and has worked in the UK online gambling industry ever since. He runs the technical side of the operation, building and maintaining the platforms that power Top Online Bingo Sites and the wider Take Marketing portfolio.

Matt’s role is hands-on. He writes the code behind the offer feeds, the comparison tools readers use, and the back-office systems that keep every bingo room listing accurate and current. If you have used a feature on this site, the chances are he built it. He is also responsible for site performance, mobile usability, and the technical SEO that lets a small independent comparison site compete with much larger publishers.

Over 17 years in the industry, Matt has worked directly with affiliate platforms, bingo operators, and software providers. He has watched the UK bingo market move from desktop Flash games to mobile-first apps, lived through every iteration of UK Gambling Commission rules, and built the systems that keep our coverage compliant as regulation evolves. He has a particular interest in responsible gambling tooling and player-fund safety — the parts of the industry most people do not see but that matter most.

Matt is a Companies House registered director (Take Marketing Limited, company no. 07619813) and is based in Lincolnshire, England.

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