Deep Sea Treasures Slot Machine
This slot offers a glimpse of the sea and the creatures which inhabit the depths of the ocean. These include a starfish, a turtle, an octopus, a puffer fish, a clown fish and a shark which is not only the biggest paying at the slot but is also the wild. All of the symbols are drawn in a cartoon style with particularly big eyes, adding an element of humour to the reels. This slot has an original take on the wild symbol as well as a much more involved free spins feature than normal.
As you might expect, this slot is set on the ocean floor, with coral framing either side of the reels. The puffer fish feature symbol and the shark both feature animation when they come into play – the puffer fish looking slightly confused as he darts his eyes from left to right, while the shark appears to come out at you 3D style, biting as he emerges. The other symbols at the slot are the playing card symbols from 9 to Ace, these very colourful and surrounded by bubbles from the sea. A calypso style theme tune plays throughout your time at the slot, adding to the nautical theme of the game.
Setup and Play for Deep Sea Treasure Slot
This slot has five reels and 20 win lines, much like the majority of Blueprint’s games, although the key difference here is that you’ll have the opportunity of playing just 1, 5 or 10 lines, which is unusual. You’ll choose your stake per line which you’ll multiply by the number of lines to give you your total stake for the spin.
To win you’ll need to land consecutive symbols from left to right on a win line, some symbols paying out for just 2 or more, while you’ll need at least 3 of the others. The top paying symbol in the game is the shark wild, which will pay 10,000 coins when landing five in a row. The clown fish comes next at 500 coins, while the turtle and the starfish pay 250 and 200 coins for five in a row respectively. The octopus, the anchor and the playing card symbols make up the rest of the symbols at the slot.
You’ll find an auto play option where you can set the slot running for 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 automatic spins – this will stop if you land a feature however.
The shark wild symbol acts a little differently to normal wilds. Yes, it will substitute for any other symbol (apart from the bonus symbol) as the wild at any other slot would do, but after you’ve gained a win using the symbol, a random multiplier will be added. This multiplier will be between 2x and 10x, making this a much more valuable wild than found at the majority of other games.
The final symbol is the puffer fish, this being a scatter symbol. If this symbol appears anywhere on the reels 3 or more times, the free spins round is activated.
Deep Sea Treasure Feature Round
The feature actually has 3 different parts to it. Firstly you’ll have a pick-em style round, where you’ll choose one of the three (or more) puffer fish. This will reveal the number of free spins you’ll have – you’ll also see the number of free spins you would have won if picking the others, so you’ll know whether to be happy with the puffer fish, or if you’ll want to wrap him in some newspaper and enjoy him with some chips later in the day.
The free spins will now take place, these using the standard gameplay, including the use of the wild multiplier.
At the end of the free spins round you’ll be taken to a screen showing the octopus surrounded by a number of treasure chests. This is another pick-em round, this time choosing the size of the multiplier that will be applied to the entire feature – as you can imagine this is an important choice. Once again, after your pick is revealed, you’ll see the other potential multiplier sizes. The maximum multiplier applied is 12x.
Deep Sea Treasures Conclusion
When you first start playing this slot you might come to the conclusion that it’s something of a standard game, featuring wilds and a free spins round like many others. However, both of these have a certain twist. The multiplying wilds idea is a good one; however this is trumped by the feature round. It’s usual to have a free spins round with a multiplier attached, however to have the multiplier attached at the end of the round is certainly different – the choice of multiplier be a very big moment if the free spins round has been particularly profitable. The features turn this slot from a standard game to a very good one.
