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• The bright Tiki symbols have the biggest payouts, going up to 10,000x for 30 of the red symbols together, and they can arrive stacked.
• Pineapples, coconuts, seashells and flowers add to the vibrant, summer vibes on the Aloha! slot
• The free spins symbol takes the form of a stamp with a pretty scene on it
• The question mark replaces any other icon except the free spins symbol

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To begin with, try your luck at a demo or free game. Here you can bet with virtual money and explore all the options and features that exist in the slot. Spend as much time as possible experimenting and playing for free, since there is never enough time to reach a comfort level in punting. Start placing a wager with real money only when you have some sense of confidence with virtual money.

Games Similar To Aloha Slot

There are many games similar to the Aloha slot, all of which are based on a fun Hawaiian theme. One game similar to NetEnt’s Aloha slot is Maui Mischief by Old Skool Studios which released in 2020. The game uses a 5×3 layout with 25 paylines and it has an RTP of 96.47%. Symbols in the slot include tikis, moon and sun symbols, as well as the traditional low-paying playing card suits too. Some of the special features in the slot include a free spins mode, multipliers, scatter symbols, wild symbols, and more.

Another game similar to the Aloha slot is Tahiti Gold. Developed by ELK Studios, the game uses a 6×4 layout with 4,096 paylines, and it has an RTP of 96.1%. Symbols in the game include tiki statues, lizards, sun symbols, frogs, and more. Special features you can enjoy here include an avalanche mechanic with cascading wins, bonus games, 3×3 mega symbols, sticky wilds, and so much more.

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They’ve accompanied me to vote in an election so often it’s become as unremarkable as a school closure, say, or a Partygate scandal. At this point, wild stories about new kings or mad presidents are accepted stoically, and with the same question about wifi access.

This wasn’t going the way I had thought. But then, how is history supposed to go? When the Queen’s death was announced, I was shouting at the dog in a vain attempt to stop him from crapping on the patio. I then enacted the formal protocol of texting my other half “omg Queen’s dead” – right underneath a text asking if it was bins night or recycling night, and above another saying “the person not the band” – while bellowing at the children to turn off a teen YouTuber called Sniper Wolf and put the BBC on.

I had imagined that the momentousness of the occasion would make this an easy choice, but what we actually got was several minutes of Sniper Wolf accompanied by a physical tussle for the remote with a now very excited (and freshly evacuated) dog.

Everywhere I looked, there were opinions. So many that, by the time we got to Swindon, I could feel my phone creaking with them, filling up with the hot takes happening on Twitter. “Whatever you think of the monarchy,” they all started. “Whatever you think of the Queen...”

Social media is a kicker in a crisis. Previously, we’ve only had a tiny number of people to take a snapshot of the nation. Now, future historians will get a 60-million-piece metaverse puzzle to assemble, holding ancient Facebook posts up to the light and speculating about a culture that believed the souls of elderly queens were silently harvested by Paddington Bear.

“What do you think about the Queen?” I asked my children. “Some people really like her,” they said. “Some people don’t. She couldn’t do what she wanted because she’s not really in charge any more.”

“The Queen was just a person,” I told them. “She was a great-grandma, and she liked dogs, and her family are sad that she died. She was also the head of a system that has made a lot of people sad for a long time – she didn’t work to dismantle that system, and she definitely benefited from it.”

“Maybe it’s hard to get rid of something bad when it’s really convenient,” my daughter replied. “Like Amazon.”

“Sure. Yup. Yes,” I agreed, and involuntarily visualised my online basket, currently containing an inflatable dinosaur outfit and a car-seat cover for a Ford C-Max.

“Can you think of any other English queens?” “Boudicca,” said my youngest, who is doing the Romans at school and identifies with women who raze cities to the ground. “Margaret Thatcher,” said my eldest, with a wry smile. She’s an 11-year-old socialist with a YouTube shorts history full of French-braiding tutorials and Mick Lynch making speeches on breakfast TV. My queens, I thought.

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In London, it soon became apparent that the new school shoes, like the PE trainers, were giving her blisters. With kids, there is no emergency like a shoe emergency, so we made a tactical decision to skip Green Park and – solemnly – seek out some fresh kicks in the sale. Besides, I heard that the Queen loved Sports Direct, never setting foot in a JD’s. It tells you everything you need to know.

Trying to see a bit of history, we took a taxi, and at 11am we were yards from St James’s Palace. I asked the driver if business was good and he said yes, since the day before, definitely. He gestured at clusters of people looking lost on street corners, holding bunches of flowers and peering at their phones. I asked what he thought about it all, and after a pause he gestured a flat palm at the crowds again, turned to me and raised his eyebrows. No comment.

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Special Features

One of the reasons NetEnt’s Aloha slot has become so famous is that it’s jam-packed with special features. For example, the red, green, and blue tiki symbols can stack and count as two symbols. What’s more, the question mark symbols act as wilds, substituting for other symbols to help create more wins.

The Aloha slot also has a sticky win re-spins mechanic, which is randomly triggered on a cluster win. When triggered, the winning symbols are held in place and all other symbols re-spin, if the winning cluster increases, the new winning symbols stick and another re-spin is triggered. This continues until no new winning symbols appear on the reels.

Finally, the Aloha slot has a free spins mode which is triggered by landing four, four, five or six free spins palm tree symbols, rewarding you with nine, 10, 11 or 12 free spins. During the free spins mode, landing additional palm tree scatter symbols will unlock up to four more free spins. The free spins mode also has the symbol drop mechanic where low-paying symbols are removed to improve your chances of making wins.

2022's labour market slows into autumn

Published: 13 Sep 2022

The number of jobs in the UK rose to a record 35.8 million in June 2022, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), yet job vacancies have dropped.

The figure is up 290,000 from March 2022 and exceeds pre-Covid levels recorded in December 2019.

The number of job vacancies in the UK also fell to 1,266,000 between June and August 2022. This represents a decrease in vacancies of 34,000 from March to May 2022, which is the largest quarterly fall since 2020.

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Hiring demand increases as unemployment rates fall

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Lauren Thomas, UK economist at job site Glassdoor, said any companies struggling to hire should target students and the over-65s.

She said: "The ONS’s latest labour market report tells us that summer’s red-hot labour market is starting to feel an autumn chill, with vacancies down for the second month in a row after nearly two years of nonstop growth.

"Employers struggling to hire should focus on the over-65s, whose employment rates are tied for the second-highest on record. Students are another possibility to focus on; they’ve driven a large share of the rise in economic inactivity during the pandemic, but many will be returning to the labour market after their programmes end."

There was growth in average pay for workers of 5.5% – including bonuses – between May and July 2022. However the data also showed a drop in real pay for workers during the time period, owed to the high levels of inflation currently experienced in the UK.

Real pay dropped 2.6% between May and July, just shy of a record 3% experienced earlier this year.

The disparity between the public and private sector was also shown; average regular pay growth for the private sector was 6% from May to July, and 2% for the public sector, the largest gap between the two outside of the pandemic.

Martin Beck, chief economic advisor to economic forecasting group EY Item Club, said the pay figures will influence the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to continue to raise interest rates.

He said: "We expect that the significantly faster growth in pay than the pre-Covid norm will probably carry more weight in the Monetary Policy Committee's thinking in advance of next week's monetary policy decision than the weakness of employment growth or the fall in vacancies.

"The forthcoming energy price cap for businesses should cut the risk of a substantial rise in redundancies, which also points in a hawkish direction for interest rates. The EY Item Club expects unemployment to rise, but anticipates a softer landing compared to past economic downturns. So, on balance, the MPC is likely to take the latest developments in the jobs market as a reason to continue raising interest rates.”

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