Go Wild with Jogo Do Bicho by BGaming

Birthed in the vibrant heart of Brazil in the early 1900s Jogo Do Bicho is an odd cultural event that became a national pastime. Baron Drummond, the overseer of the Rio Zoo, started selling tickets to his ‘Guess the Animal’ game. The animal was hidden from view and in the evening lucky ticket holders won cash prizes! This game became known as Jogo Do Bicho which literally translates as “Animal Lottery”!

BGaming has taken this treasured culture experience and brought it to life in a fun and entertaining lottery-style game for you to enjoy on your desktop, laptop or mobile device.

More Details A Fun Animal Lottery

The zoo-based genesis of Jogo Do Bicho is why the 5x5 grid contains animals of all sorts and sizes. From your household cat to an exotic elephant, you can bet on them all. You’ll also notice that each animal has been assigned a sequence of numbers which are used for a bet setting simply called ‘Advanced’.

While we don’t have a curtain covered cage to hide the lucky animals from view Jogo Do Bicho does have five wooden crates (number 1-5) which will break open to reveal the winning animal symbols.

The entire gameplay experience is underpinned by a funky tune that will immediately put you in the mood for dancing the night at the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

More Information This Game Roars With Options

BGaming’s Jogo Do Bicho contains elements of lottery games, the simplicity of keno and the entertainment of slots. Much like its progenitor the online version is also incredibly intuitive and offers both low and high stakes gambling with bets between €1.00 and €100.00 per line.

✓Aim of the Game

Jogo Do Bicho has not strayed far from its roots. The aim of the game is to select a number of animals and then see if they are the ones hidden in the crates? Simple as that. It is also important to keep in mind that whether an animal is revealed in the first or lower crates impacts its value on the line.

✓Animal Bets

When betting on the animal symbols you have the option to bet on how many of them you want to use to make up a winning line. The more animals in your line the higher the risk, but so are the rewards:

Simple Bet: Each bet in this mode will only place a single animal symbol in a line. You can, however, place as many lines, each with a different animal, as you wish. Each line, however, costs you an additional stake.
Double Bet: Here you bet on 2 animals. As before you can make as many 2 animal bet lines as you like with each one costing you another full stake. Creating lines that use the animals from crate 1 and 2 will net you 95x your stake.
Triple Bet: Here you bet on 3 animals. A winning selection that uses the animals from crates 1, 2 and 3 will pay you out 700x your stake per winning line. Any other 3 symbol line will payout 42x your stake.
Quadra Bet: Time to hit it big! If you manage to guess a line which contains the animals from crates 1, 2, 3 and 4 you will be rewarded with 4000x your stake. Any other 4 animal combination still pays a healthy 500x your bet.
Penta Bet: The sky is the limit with this one. Making a correct selection that uses all five animals from the crates pays out a whopping 17000x your stake!

When you consider that Jogo Do Bicho allows you to bet up to €100.00 per line, that is a potential jackpot payout of €1,700,000.00!

✓Number Bets

Number based bets in Jogo Do Bicho take a little bit of getting used to, and the risk to reward seems far less appealing than simply betting on the animal symbols.

Each time an animal pops out a crate it will have a 4 digit number underneath. You place a bet that the numbers you select will either match the last 2 digits (Tens), the last 3 digits (Hundreds) or the full number (Thousands).

Tens Bets: Here you try to guess the last 2 digits on any of the 5 animals to be revealed. Correctly guess the last 2 digits of the first animal will payout 50x your stake.
Hundreds Bets: This bet has you guessing the last 3 digits of any of the animals in the crates. Guessing the last 3 of the animal in crate one will payout 500x your stake.
Thousands Bets: This will require you correctly type in a matching 4 digits number sequence. Correctly guessing the first animal's sequence will payout 5000x your stake. The full sequence for animals in the remaining crates still offers an appealing 600x your bet.

Alert It Might Make You Batty

If you enjoy lottery games or even Keno then Jogo Do Bicho will appeal to you. While the game has great a aesthetic, catchy music and of course some really massive jackpots slots players might get a little frustrated by the slower pace of the game. There is no Autoplay and no fast reveal option which means you need to manually click to bet (even if it is to rebet) and wait through some protracted reveals as each crate opens separately. That being said with a potential €1,700,000.00 jackpot on the line it might be worth the wait.