There is no shortage of features in Boat Bonanza Down Under. As well as your standard cash collects are free spins with a pick bonus where one of 16 modifiers is awarded each time.
Here is how it works:
Catch Cash Collect
The one constant in all fishing slots of course is the Cash Collect, initiated by the fisherman who hooks fish to collect the cash prizes.
So, amongst the pay symbols on the reels you will also see fish which display cash values of 2x, 4x, 10x, 20x, 60x or 100x. As well as having a cash value, landing 3, 4 or 5 of these on a payline will also get you a 4x, 10x or 80x payout.
At the same time, above the reels at any time you will see a fisherman dozing in an inflatable ring. With each spin he MAY move to right or left, but he remains above the reel set at all times. When he wakes up, he activates and catches the fish in the reel directly beneath, collecting their cash values as he does.
As well as the standard catch, there are 2 other ways in which the fisherman can collect prizes:
- Surf n Catch – if a wave appears behind the fisherman he is caught by it and moves across the top of the reels, collecting ALL visible cash values on fish as he does. And, a multiplier is activated with the same value as the number of reels where symbols are collected from. The multiplier is applied to the total win.
- Catch Symbols Down Under – sometimes when a Catch is triggered, an extra mystery prize is collected from under the reels too. This is either cash of up to 50x, a dud, or (in free spins only) an extra scatter to progress you further down the trail.
Pick Me Feature before Free SpinsFree Spins With SIXTEEN Modifiers
The shark scatter symbols is need to unlock the bonus round. Three or more landing at once unlocks the bonus. But before the round begins you get to pick modifiers from a shoal of fish that will help you in the round. There are no less than SIXTEEN possible modifiers to collect:
- 5 more free spins
- More chances of landing catches
- More chances of the Surf n Catch triggering
- More Catch symbols in play
- Lowest value pay symbol is removed from play
- At least ONE Catch symbol will drop on each spin
- The Catch Multiplier increases to 2x
- 1 randomly chosen Catch symbol is sticky for 1 spin
- 10 more free spins
- More chances of Catch triggers at 2x
- More chances of Surf n Catch triggers at 2x
- More Catch symbols AND the 2 lowest value ones are removed from play
- 3 lowest value pay symbols are removed from play
- At least THREE Catch symbol will drop on each spin
- Catch Multiplier goes up to 5x
- Up to 2 randomly chosen Catch symbols are sticky for 1 spin
NOTE: Multipilers in this part of the game ONLY apply to the Catch wins, not standard payline wins.
And … Trail Progression
During the free spins round, you can earn the chance to pick more modifiers and extend the round with more free spins by landing more shark scatters. These are recorded in a trail above the reels.
Every 2 steps on the trail gets you either another 10 spins with a multiplier of up to 10x (positions 4, 8 and 12) or another pick from the shoal of fish (positions 2, 6 and 10).
Free spins max out at 50.
