Nunchucks Review (2026) – NetEnt | 12,000x, The Nun Squad & Stacking Super Bonus Spins Reviewed on: October 28, 2026 (Exclu

The music hits first, and it's an instant feel-good — within seconds, you're drawn in, mostly asking yourself "what is this?" Nunchucks by NetEnt answers that question with a rosary in one hand and a pinless grenade in the other: Sinpin's gang has been robbing the city's communion boxes, and Mother Sofia and Sisters Faith, Hope, and Love are dusting off their old training to save the parish. Underneath sits a 6x4 grid paying across up to 4,096 ways, four Nun symbols that each trigger their own feature and can kick off Re-Spins, and two bonus modes — Bonus Spins and Super Bonus Spins — where the second keeps every Nun feature active and stacking for the whole round. RTP is 96.21%, volatility is High, hit frequency is 28.00%, and the max win is 12,000x. We've seen people complaining about this game on NetEnt's own site, but we honestly like it. You won't find anything extra innovative or groundbreaking here — but the stacking of features, especially in Super Bonus Spins, is executed well, and the theme and graphics are something else.

Visuals & Theme: The Opening Credits of a Show We'd Watch

Graphics Score: 8.20/10

NetEnt has once again executed its graphics almost perfectly. The comic-book panel framing, the gothic cathedral backdrop, the grenade, shuriken, crucifix, and collection-box symbols, the nunchuck lettering on the logo, and the slit-eyed close-ups of each Sister all lock together into a single, confident style. It's easy to get into, and it's a theme we — and most likely you — have never seen before. Retired-assassin nuns defending their parish from a cigar-chomping gang boss is the kind of premise that sells itself in a sentence.

What lifts it beyond "good-looking" is that the characters have real identity and personality. The stern nun gripping her nunchucks, the wide-eyed Sister with the grenade at her ear, the cool-headed shuriken thrower, the elderly Sister with the glasses and the cross — and the tattooed, cigar-chomping gang boss glaring out of the Bonus symbols. The whole presentation feels more like the intro to some cool movie or series than a slot, and the music carries that same energy, putting you in a good mood from the very first spin.

The detail extends to the win celebrations too. Big-win animations come with lines like "Nun Too Shabby" and "Sweet Mother Superior!", and that kind of attention to detail is something we always notice and always praise. The 8.20/10 reflects a theme, soundtrack, and art direction that are this game's best features.

Technical Deep Dive: Competitive Numbers, One Buy to Avoid

RTP: 96.21% (96.05% with buys enabled) | 94.04% / 94.05% | 92.04% / 92.05% | Volatility: High | Max Win: 12,000x | Hit Frequency: 28.00% | Bonus Spins Frequency: 1 in 250 spins | Grid: 6x4, up to 4,096 ways | Bet Range: €0.20–€40

The top 96.21% RTP clears the competitive threshold, and versions with the Elevate buys enabled run at a near-identical 96.05%. Lower tiers sit at 94% and 92%, none of them anywhere near the 90% mark. A 28.00% hit frequency keeps the base game ticking, and Bonus Spins arrive on average once every 250 spins.

The 12,000x ceiling is more than competitive by 2026 standards, and it applies across the base game, Re-Spins, Bonus Spins, and Super Bonus Spins. Paired with the way Nun features stack, it confirms there's real potential here.

Elevate Feature menu (96.05% RTP), with ratios against the 12,000x cap:

• Bonus Hunt — 3x bet per spin, higher chance of special features

• Guaranteed Nun — 25x bet, at least one Nun lands — 480x

• Bonus Spins — 100x bet, guaranteed Bonus Spins, with Super Bonus Spins also possible — 120x

• Super Bonus Spins — 300x bet, 8 guaranteed Super Bonus Spins plus at least one Nun — 40x

• Super Nun Spin — 500x bet, at least one Nun plus a greatly increased chance of Bonus or Super Bonus Spins — 24x

Only one Elevate option can be active per round, and the chosen mode stays switched on for every spin until you turn it off — worth keeping an eye on. The value at the lower end is excellent: Guaranteed Nun's 480x ratio is exceptional, and the 100x Bonus Spins buy lands at an excellent 120x with the added chance of upgrading straight into Super. The 300x Super Bonus Spins buy holds a comfortable 40x.

⚠ Super Nun Spin is the one to skip: At 500x, it costs more than the 300x Super Bonus Spins buy, yet it doesn't guarantee any bonus at all — only a Nun and a "greatly increased" chance of Bonus or Super Bonus Spins. Against the 12,000x ceiling, that's a tight 24x ratio for a spin that may not reach a bonus round. If Super Bonus Spins is the goal, the 300x buy gets you there for less, every time.

Mechanics: Four Sisters, One Stack

Innovation Score: 6.50/10

Nothing in Nunchucks is groundbreaking. Mystery symbols, Wild reels, reel multipliers, and Re-Spins are all familiar tools. What earns the 6.50 is how they're assembled — four distinct features that combine, an Upgrade Nun that boosts them, and a Super Bonus Spins mode that lets them all stack for the whole round.

Ways and Wilds

Wins pay across up to 4,096 ways, with 3 or more matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left. Wilds substitute for every symbol except Bonus, Super Bonus, and Nun symbols, and a Wild landing on top of a Nun doesn't stop that Nun from activating its feature.

The Nun Features

Nun symbols can land in the base game, Bonus Spins, and Super Bonus Spins. Each one activates its own feature, and several can be active at once, firing in sequence:

• Colossal Nun — creates a Colossal Mystery Symbol from 2x2 up to 4x4, which reveals a regular paying symbol, or a Giant Wild if it overlaps a Wild Reel

• Wild Reel Nun — turns the entire reel it lands on into Wilds, with every additional Wild Reel Nun doing the same to its own reel

• Multiplier Nun — awards multipliers to one or more reels; when a win runs across multiplied reels, their values are added together, and a Colossal symbol spanning several multiplied reels adds all of them

• Upgrade Nun — doesn't start a feature of its own, but boosts the ones already active: growing the Colossal symbol by one level, doubling active reel multipliers, or adding 1 to 3 more Wild Reels

The interplay is where it gets good. A Colossal symbol overlapping a Wild Reel becomes a Giant Wild, and a Giant Wild stretched across several multiplied reels collects every one of those multipliers.

Re-Spins

A landed Nun can also award Re-Spins — the nun beside the grid calls out "RESPIN!" when it happens. Every Nun feature activated before the sequence stays active throughout it, new Nuns can land and add their features on top, and the Upgrade Nun can appear to boost what's already there. Wins are paid after every Re-Spin, and the sequence continues until no further Re-Spin is awarded.

Bonus Spins

3, 4, 5, or 6 Bonus symbols award 8, 10, 12, or 14 Bonus Spins. Nuns and Re-Spins work exactly as in the base game — but once a Bonus Spin and its Re-Spins are finished, every active Nun feature resets. Each spin starts from scratch, which makes standard Bonus Spins feel like a run of separate base-game spins with better odds rather than a round that builds.

Super Bonus Spins

If at least one of the landed Bonus symbols is a Super Bonus, the round becomes Super Bonus Spins instead — and here, every activated Nun feature stays active for the entire round. Wild Reels stay Wild, reel multipliers stay on, Colossal symbols stay big, and every new Nun and Upgrade Nun keeps stacking on top. Features only reset when the whole round ends. This is the persistence we always look for, and it's the mode where this game's potential lives.

Expert Insight: The Upgrade Nun is what turns Super Bonus Spins from good into dangerous. In standard Bonus Spins, an Upgrade Nun can only boost whatever happens to be active on that single spin before it all resets. In Super Bonus Spins, it boosts a board that has been building since the first spin — so doubling the reel multipliers means doubling every multiplier collected across the round so far, and an extra 1 to 3 Wild Reels sit on top of every Wild Reel already locked in. Combine that with Multiplier Nuns adding reel values together and a Colossal Giant Wild spanning several multiplied reels, and you can see exactly how a round reaches toward 12,000x. It's also the clearest argument for the 300x Super Bonus Spins buy over the 100x standard one: you're paying for persistence, not just spins.

Potential & Entertainment: Potential Confirmed, Patience Required

Potential Score: 8.30/10 | Entertainment Score: 7.80/10

Potential lands at 8.30. A 12,000x max win is more than competitive, and alongside High volatility and the stacking Super Bonus Spins, it confirms that the potential is genuinely there. The Elevate menu supports it too — an exceptional 480x ratio on Guaranteed Nun, an excellent 120x on the Bonus Spins buy, and a comfortable 40x on Super Bonus Spins, all at 96.05% RTP. The only real drag is Super Nun Spin, which charges 500x for a chance rather than a guarantee, and standard Bonus Spins resetting every spin, which keeps the cheaper bonus from building in the way the Super version does.

Entertainment sits at 7.80. When the Nuns land, this is a genuinely fun game: features combining on the grid, Re-Spins chaining, and the soundtrack and big-win lines like "Nun Too Shabby" keeping the mood high throughout. The honest downside is what happens when they don't. If you don't land Nun features, you'll get bored pretty easily — the base game on its own is plain ways play, and there's nothing else to carry it between Nun appearances. We've seen players complaining about this game on NetEnt's own site, and that dry stretch is likely part of it. We honestly like it anyway; the highs are good enough, and the presentation is good enough, that the patience pays off.

Final Verdict: Sweet Mother Superior

Nunchucks is a nice slot, and its best features are the ones you notice first. The music draws you in instantly, the graphics are executed almost perfectly, and the cast of retired-assassin nuns has more identity and personality than most slots manage — it feels like the opening of a movie or series we'd actually want to watch. Big-win lines like "Nun Too Shabby" show the kind of attention to detail we always praise.

Mechanically, it's not groundbreaking, and it doesn't pretend to be. But the stacking of Nun features in Super Bonus Spins is executed well, the Upgrade Nun gives that stacking real teeth, and the 12,000x max win is more than competitive. The Elevate menu is well priced, with one exception in Super Nun Spin.

The limitations are plain: standard Bonus Spins reset every spin, and if the Nuns don't land, boredom sets in quickly. If you're looking for something extra innovative, this is not it.

Great theme. Great look. Stacked nuns.