Fruit Charge

Similar Games:

Scarab, Stack Attack

Risk Scale:

Green (a few spins)

Minimum Play:

Similar to Scarab, though collected symbols don’t all turn wild on the 10th spin. Can play it the same way, but perhaps it’s worth being a little tighter.

Other:

Same fruit theme as Stack Attack, along with the same non-wild feature; also both found on Uswitch machines.

What is a Uswitch machine? Glad I didn’t take this photo for nothing:

It’s one slot machine where you can pick among many different games. I could have grouped Fruit Charge with the Scarab section of games, but I opted to pair it with the equally obscure Stack Attack instead.

Once you actually locate Fruit Charge, ideally you’ll find something like this:

You’ll notice it’s on a 10-spin counter like many Scarab-type games, and on spin 10, I initially thought all those locked yellow squares would go wild. Not so! You can hear the bewilderment in my video below.

Even on spin nine of 10 with seven locked symbols on a small board, you can lose, as I did in the video on this spin (in addition to all the spins leading up to it). Had that been regular old Scarab, it would have been a guaranteed win.

Unlike normal Scarab, those things you collect are not exactly wilds. On that 10th spin, whatever you’ve collected will turn the same symbol, but they won’t be true wilds. They’ll all be watermelons or grapes or cherries or whatever else. That means if you don’t have enough of them lining up from left to right, having a big cluster of them might still not grant you a win like it always would in regular Scarab.

Because of that, should you ever come across this, perhaps you should be tighter than you would be for Scarab. You’d want to be as late in the spin counter as possible with as many banked symbols as possible (just like regular Scarab in an ideal world). But I’d play something like three wilds on game three of 10 sometimes in Scarab if they are in favorable spots in the first three reels; I wouldn’t necessarily do that with this Fruit Charge game:

I’d probably take that for one spin and then move on if I don’t add more locked symbols. If your casino somehow offers this game, play around with it a bit and go in thinking of it like regular Scarab with a weird twist at the end.

Regardless, like with all Scarab games, never play when it’s on game 10 of 10. That remains true even here.

Here’s my video of Fruit Charge: