Enable Ante Bet For Better Chances of Landing Free Spins
Before we get started on the main action, consider the Ante Bet Feature. This increases your current bet size by 50%. If you were betting £1, you’ll now be betting £1.50. For this increased wager you get more scatters dropped onto the reels which gives you a better chance of hitting the free spins round, theoretically.
And as we shall see, the free spins round is what this game is all about.
Collect Fish Money Symbols
Throughout the base game and bonus rounds you should look out for the fish symbols that drop onto the reels displaying a money value from 0.2x right up to 1,000x. At RANDOM, after ANY base game spin, ALL those money values may be collected and paid out. When this happens, your friendly fisherman will cast his net across the reels to drag in all the money.
At the same time, a random multiplier of up to 50x will be revealed from a treasure chest by the boat and may be applied to the total value of all those money symbols too. This could potentially lead to quite a windfall.
Remember, this is a random feature that can drop at any time.
Fisherman Collecting Cash In Amazon ExtremeHow Free Spins Works In Amazon Xtreme
Pragmatic Play have really gone to town on the Free Spins round with lots of enhancements, modifiers, progressions and elements of jeopardy to add to the excitement in this game.
Unlocking the Round With Scatters, Re-Spins and Crocodiles
To start, you need to land 3 or more scatters which gets you 10 free spins.
Remember, if you have the Ante Bet on then you increase your chances of triggering the round. You might land 3 or more scatters in one go, but there is also a chance that if you land 2 then you will be granted a re-spin where reels with the scatters already on them drop one place each before holding for the re-spin. This gives you the chance to increase from 2 to 3, 4 or 5 scatters to set up free spins. Alternatively, a crocodile can appear at random to turn one standard symbol into a scatter.
Landing 2 Scatters – 3 are required to unlock free spinsPick Modifiers Before the Free Spins Round Starts
Before the free spins round starts you must pick modifiers from the screen. You keep picking until you reveal a boot at which point your free spins start. If you landed 4 or 5 scatters, some modifiers will already have been chosen for you to give you a head start.
The potential modifiers are:
- Additional free spins – up to 6 spins can be awarded this way.
- Guaranteed fish – get up to 3 GUARANTEED fish symbols landing on the reels on EVERY spin in the free spins round.
- Fishermen Wilds – Get a head start in collecting these symbols which unlock extras in the free spins round. You can start with up to 3 fishermen wilds on every spin.
- Removing the lowest value fish symbols – you can remove the 2x and 5x symbols in the pick me feature, so that more high value fish symbols appear on the reels.
Fishermen Wilds Collect Fish Values and Re-Trigger the Round
Watch out for those Fishermen Wilds because they are key to your success in the bonus round. When they land they collect the values of all the fish on the reels.
Fishermen Wilds are also collected and every 4th to be collected gets you 10 more spins AND upgrades the multiplier applied to fish collections from 2x to 3x to 10x to 20x to 30x to 40x and finally to 50x if you manage to upgrade 8 times!
There are also several mechanisms built in that give you an extra chance of success on spins without wilds or money symbols. These work as follows:
If you land Fishermen Wilds but NO fish symbols then fish symbols may be added at random .. or a waterfall appears and changes all symbols on the reel except for the fishermen wilds.
And vice versa – if the reels stop and you have fish symbols but NO Wilds, then wilds will be pulled up onto the reels with a fish hook.
And finally, if you land a spin with NO wilds OR fish, then a fish hook may appear and drag reels up until both types of symbols are visible.
