You wash up on a sunny shore beside a snapped mast, with blue-green surf and a cartoon shipwreck standing in for a gloomy pirate cove. Three open chests overflowing with gold perch on the reel frame, each tinted differently, while wooden boards along the left side list four jackpots. Five reels carry four rows each.
Theme and Gameplay
Picture symbols include a white-haired monkey with an eye patch, a polished compass, a scarlet parrot and a scroll chart with an X on it. Smaller wins come from the lettered tiles, jack through ace, drawn in chunky weathered type. Each picture rests on a tile of its own colour, so none blur together. Rounded artwork and sunny hues keep the mood light.
Slot Features
Wilds may drop onto any reel in either mode. They stand in for every symbol bar Scatter and Bonus.
Scatters visit only reels one, three and five. A trio of them grants 8 free spins where only the premium pictures appear, so every spin leans on the better payers.
Chests drive the coin feature. Whenever a coloured coin drops in either mode, it goes into one of the chests, which the game calls hills. At a random moment a hill can overflow with precisely the number of coins required to set off the bonus game, and those coins match the hill’s kind: Collect, Double or Mystery.
The kinds only come into play inside the bonus. A red Collect symbol gathers every value currently on view. A green Double symbol doubles each visible value. A blue Mystery symbol becomes a Mini, Minor or Major symbol, then continues as a normal Bonus symbol. Several kinds may be live simultaneously.
Six or more Bonus symbols landing on one spin start the bonus game, in either mode. Every one of them carries across, and you start with 3 respins. A new coin touching down brings that count back to 3. Respins running dry, or a grid without gaps, closes it and pays what has been gathered. Fill every spot and the x5000 Grand prize comes into play.
RTP and Win Potential
A return of 96.00% and a 10,000x ceiling make a sensible middle ground. Ordinary Bonus symbols carry x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7, x8 and x10, while the jackpot symbols pay x15 for Mini, x50 for Minor and x150 for Major. The Grand is listed at x5000. Once a round reaches the 10,000x cap, nothing more is added.
My Thoughts On This Slot
The chest idea is the highlight, because it gives routine spins a feeling of building toward something, and the rules are brief enough to grasp quickly. Against that, six symbols are needed on one spin, so the bonus may be rare, and free spins limited to premium pictures could feel short to some.