The setting might have changed, but the features have a familiar ring, albeit without a fish in sight!
Money Symbols and Multipliers
Rather than bass, horses now represent the money symbols. They drop on any spin, taking on a random value when they do: 0.2x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 200x, 250x, 333x, 500x or 1,000x.
A money symbol won’t pay out every time it lands. Instead, the value of money symbols is randomly collected on some spins. When that happens, a random multiplier also comes into play: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 10x, 30x, 40x or 50x. This multiplier is applied to the total of all the collected coins before the win is paid out.
Money collect – the finishing post moves across the reelsFree Spins With Pick Me Round, Wilds and Multipliers
Things get considerably more interesting in the free spins round.
First of all, you need 3 or more scatters to land in the base game to trigger this feature. This can happen in one of two ways. You may just land 3 scatters on a lucky spin OR you may land two and a third may be introduced like this:
- If the two scatters can drop a row each without leaving the reels then they do so then lock in place whilst the others re-spin to see if a third comes up.
- A lasso appears in an overlay on top of the reels before randomly adding a third scatter.
Before the round starts you get a pick me game where each pick will reveal a modifier to be used in the free spins feature. The picks continue until no modifier is picked. These are the possible modifiers:
- Up to SIX extra free spins
- Up to THREE + 1 Fixed Horse symbols. Each one gives you one GUARANTEED money symbol per free spin
- Up to THREE Wilds in the collection before the round starts. This is important because collecting wilds during the round unlocks more features
- Up to TWO removals of the lowest value money symbols (2x then 5x) from the table so that higher value ones land in the round
Once you’ve made your picks, then the round starts.
During free spins, when a Wild lands, it collects up the value of all money symbols on the reels. And all Wilds are then collected too.
This is the basis for the game, but it gets better as you collect more wilds. Every 4th Wild you collect gets you 10 more spins and increased the multiplier applied to money symbol collections to 2x, then 3x, then 10x, then 20x, then 30x, then 40x, then 50x.
At 50x, there are no more extra spins and the game ends when your spins are all gone.
And finally, Pragmatic Play have added some more random events to the free spins round.
- If there are Wilds but no Money symbols after a spin, money symbols may be added to the reels at random. OR a stampede occurs in which horses race across the screen and all symbols are changed EXCEPT For the Wilds.
- If there are Money Symbols but no Wild symbols after a spin, the lasso may appear to randomly add Wilds.
- At the end of any spin the lasso can appear and pull Wilds and Money Symbols onto the reels from the bottom of the screen.
