Blueprint Gaming has provided a real Christmas gift when it comes to the bonus features here. Not only is the excellent cash collect round, seen in all Fishin Frenzy games, still in operation, but there’s also the pick a fish round, and a festive fishing feature too. Let’s take a look in more detail.
Wild Symbol
The fisherman is the wild symbol. In the base game he substitutes for any pay symbol, paying out 0.5x, 5x, 20x or 200x for 2, 3, 4, or 5 in a line. The wild symbol has a different function in the free spins round, which we’ll cover below.
Festive Fishing Feature
Unusually for a Fishin’ Frenzy game, there is a proper base game feature here too.
Above the reels, you’ll see a net. If you land any blue fish then they are gathered up and placed in this net. If and when the net becomes animated you’re given the chance to score one of the following bonuses:
- Free Spins: 10, 15 or 20 free spins
- Cash Collect: collects all fish on the reels and adds to your prize pot
- Cash Streak: increases the value of all fish on the reels and collects and adds to your prize pot
- Extra Fish: adds more fish to the reels, triggering a guaranteed win.
Scatter Symbol
The scatter symbol is the boat, the only function is to trigger the free spins round. To do so, you’ll need to land 3, 4 or 5 of them, starting the free spins round with 10, 15 or 25 spins respectively. Once the free spins round starts, you can’t land any further scatters.
Pick a Fish
After you’ve triggered the free spins round by landing scatters, but before the free spins round begins, you’ll see the pick a fish feature. This gives you one upgrade which stays in place for the duration of the free spins round. The options you could win are shown below.
- Cash Tag: a high paying symbol gets a cash value for this game
- Fish: receive more fish on the reels
- Fisherman: receive more fishermen on the reels
- Collect: collects the cash value, often multiple times
- Re-spin: grants a respin of all of the basic symbols, providing an improved win
- Games: grants a number of extra free spins
The Pick A Fish FeatureFree Spins Round
After the pick a fish feature is over and your upgrade is chosen, the free spins round starts. In this round, the fisherman acts as part of the cash-collect mechanic. He collects fish whenever he lands on the reels at the same time as them. Each fish has its own value of between 2x and 50x your bet.
Fishin Frenzy Christmas also uses the free spins round trail feature found in Fishin’ Frenzy The Big Splash. So, fisherman wilds are collected on a trail above the reels during the feature. Once you land a total of 2, 6 or 10 fishermen, you get another turn at the pick a fish feature.
Once you land a total of 4, 8, or 12 fisherman, you retrigger 10 free spins. These also have a potentially powerful multiplier of 2x, 3x, and 10x (respectively) which are applied to any collected cash symbols.
