Jeff & Scully Slot Overview

Jeff & Scully is a new casino slot from ELK Studios in which you travel deep into the Navada desert, where oddballs Jeff & Scully spend their days solving history’s biggest questions. Is JFK alive? Why fake the moon landing? Who really built the pyramids?

ELK has certainly managed to create an interesting theme for this one. Jeff & Scully are your typical conspiracy theorists and are paired up with one of the most innovative, confusing products we’ve seen in a while. Just understanding how you made a winning combination required us to open up the paytable and read, which we rarely have to do. It’s usually quite straightforward with lines or ways, but ELK is having none of that here. This crazy scene required equally crazy mechanics, and we’re here for it. If you don’t want to spend a while reading the ingame information when the game is released, we suggest you follow us along this review and journey. Let’s dig in!

A screenshot from the base game view

Jeff & Scully is a video slot from ELK Studios that features a setup of 7 reels and 7 rows. To make a winning combination, 4 matching symbols in the corners of a rectangular area are needed, but we’ll cover that more in-depth later on. Players can choose between making a Min.bet of 0.2 and a Max.bet of 100. The game has a disappointing RTP of 94%, medium/high volatility, and can net you a max win of 10000x the bet.

This ain’t your typical 5x3 Book game. It’s intricate, but when you start understanding how the mechanics work, it won’t be too hard to follow. The features are Wild Symbol, Scatter Symbol, Area Win, Sticky Redrops, Jeff Area Win, Scully Area Win, Multiplier, Instant Pay Coin, Free Spins, Super Free Spins, and X-iter Buys.

Jeff & Scully Slot Information

The game takes place in the middle of the Navada desert. You can see Jeff & Scully’s backs, as they admire the grid and the conspiracy theories it contains. Except for the colorful symbols, the scene is quite dim, which creates a nice contrast. With that said, we wouldn’t mind some additional landscape or likewise to make it all a bit more pleasing for the eye. But hey, these two fellas are completely zoned out and focused on their theories, so they probably don’t really care about what’s going on around them. 

Jeff & Scully can be played on all common mobile devices and desktops. A winning combination is created by landing 4 matching symbols, one in each corner of a rectangular area. 

The lower-paying symbols include chemtrails, cows, aliens, and pyramids. Four-of-a-kind with these pay 0.05x-0.2x the bet, but that increases rapidly when the connection is bigger. The higher-paying symbols consist of JFK, Astronauts, Jeff, and Scully. Four-of-a-kind with these pays 0.75x-1x the bet. There are plenty of mechanics that help boost your winnings, but more on that in a bit.

Jeff & Scully Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot Jeff & Scully?

You can win up to 10000x the bet.

What features are available in the slot Jeff & Scully?

The features are Wild Symbol, Scatter Symbol, Area Win, Sticky Redrops, Jeff Area Win, Scully Area Win, Multiplier, Instant Pay Coin, Free Spins, Super Free Spins, and X-iter Buys.

Wild Symbol

Wild symbols enable more winning areas by substituting for other paying symbols.

Scatter Symbol

A Diamond acts as the Scatter symbol, which you need to collect 3 or more of to trigger the Free Spins feature.

Area Win

Instead of ways or lines, you need to land matching symbols, one in each corner of a rectangular area to trigger a win. Wins will be paid out depending on the size of the area. For example, one symbol each in the top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right corners of the grid would be 7x7 (49 symbols). We’ll put an image below for demonstration. 

A demonstration of the area win mechanic

Sticky Redrops

Area Wins trigger a re-spin where Multipliers, Instant Pay Coins, Scatter symbols, and Wild symbols remain sticky. 

Jeff Area Win

If you create an area win with the Jeff symbol (red), other symbols inside of that area will also pay out as if they created the area win. 

Scully Area Win

If you create an area win with the Scully symbol (green), symbols will be swapped around to provide additional area wins elsewhere.

Multiplier

Landing a Multiplier symbol within an area win will multiply the win of said area. 

Instant Pay Coin

Golden Coin symbols can land. If they are within an area win, their values are paid out times your bet. Like in Pirots, a Max Win Coin is available, immediately paying out the max win of 10000x the bet if included in an area win. 

Free Spins

The Free Spins feature is triggered by landing 3 Scatter Symbols within an area win. During Free Spins, Multipliers and Instant Pay Coins remain sticky throughout the entire feature. 

Super Free Spins

The Super Free Spins feature is triggered by landing 4 Scatter Symbols within an area win. During Super Free Spins, Multipliers and Instant Pay Coins are sticky and also increase in value for every Free Spin. 

A screenshot from the super free spins feature

X-iter Buys

As per usual, there are 5 various X-iter Buys available at different costs:

3x = Activates the Bonus Hunt, where only two bonus symbols are needed to trigger the Free Spins feature. 

10x = Activates the Max Grid Feature, where the entire grid is full of symbols.

25x = Guarantees that either the Jeff Area Win or Scully Area Win is triggered.

100x = Triggers the Regular Free Spins

500x = Triggers the Super Free Spins

Jeff & Scully Slot Conclusion

Holy moly, that’s all we have to say. This one certainly required some extra strong coffee. Not because it was boring; the opposite. It’s a slot game where ELK’s extremely high level of innovation really shows, and it requires quite some focus to really grasp. To some, that might sound like a bit much, as most of you probably don’t want to get a PhD to understand a slot machine, but it’s not as bad as we might be making it out to be. 

Sure, if you just enter the game and start spinning, it’s probably going to take a while until you get a hang of it, but hey, now you’ve read our review so you’ll be an immediate expert. It’s really just about understanding the area win, and you’ll be just fine. 

Thematically, we are pleased. It’s not the most eye-pleasing slot, but it’s undoubtedly something we haven’t seen before in terms of background story, making us intrigued. Both the title and the scene remind us of Beavis and Butthead, another game that we rate highly because of its theme. Many providers just create a game and slam on a generic skin, so a game like Jeff & Scully stands out immediately. 

Although we’re impressed with the brains behind the Area Win mechanic, it remains to be seen whether it’s a hit or not. Our worry is that it makes the game quite hard to follow. The grid is large and the symbols drop quickly, so most often, you won’t see that you’re about to make a connection until you do, which does remove some suspense. 

Jeff & Scully by ELK provides very innovative gameplay and an interesting theme.