Rich Pirates Slot
We hope you’re not against pirates hopping aboard other ships, as that’s part of the game when you sail the seas with Rich Pirates, a real cash slot from Casino Web Scripts.
You can be as rough and tough as you like with these chaps, but it’s best to lay low and remain out of sight. Let them plunder while you go in search of rarer booties. Not that kind of booty!
With a spin of the wheel, as the captain of the helm, the open sea is before you and the crew, with the worst of storms being the 5-reels and their turbulent 5 winlines. Although that amount might not sound troublesome, think for a moment how volatile the game will be for having a lesser amount of spaces to create a win. Then again, did you really expect pirating to be an easy gig…?
Yo Ho Ho
As far as travelling about with Rich Pirates go, it’s not nearly as overwhelming as some of the designs we’ve encountered from the brand. In fact, some might say this is among the plainest set of graphics yet, which is saying something!
When you take your first look (maybe you even have), you may think we’ve lost the plot when we say this design is plain, but if you’ll indulge us for a moment, you’ll begin to see what we mean. Let’s compare this game to that of Reel Bar, a small real cash slot like this one.
That title has a lot more stylised widgets to distract you, adding to the frenzy of the design. However, Rich Pirates uses mundane but still aesthetically pleasing buttons instead. These might sound like trivial elements to pick up on, but they all go towards making the title what it is; too many images creates a sensory overload.
Captain of the Sea
We could tell you all about each of the symbols, what they mean and what they pay out, but you can discover most of that for yourself, playing for real or in the demo mode, and so we thought we’d skip ahead to the good stuff. To the icons that you can’t easily find out about unless you play them; first up, we have the bonus symbol.
Designed to look like a large pirate ship, this tile is needed in groupings of between three or five, with these three matches delivering a bonus round consisting of seven other ships.
Customers have to select a ship to board in order to be given a prize; the pirates will move in, take over the vessel, and the cash becomes yours. They will continue to do this until you take a ship that waves its white flag of surrender, the ‘COLLECT’ sign.
If you’re an experienced player with the Casino Web Scripts brand, this type of mini level will be very familiar to you, as it’s basically what the brand regurgitates over and over, merely employing a different design. It’s a shame, as over time the appeal of the bonus levels begins to wear very thin.
A Win is more than a Win
There are plenty of ways to win at Rich Pirates, with some avenues being more intensely rewarding than others; the categories are broken down into normal wins, big wins, mega wins and then jackpot wins.
Out of the icons available, the skull and crossbones, one-eyed pirate, and friendly monkey are the key to the payouts mentioned above. You’ll know when a win comes your way, as the network of images lights up, though none do it quite as much as when you get a full grid of icons – that’s when the jackpot of over 66,000 coins becomes yours. Gems will fall from the top of the screen, and a counter will begin to add up all the money.
Fancy a Punt, Matey?
Assuming you’re not intending on playing for fun, as a paying customer you’ll need to provide between a 1 and 500-credit stake, with both sums and those in between placed upon each of the winlines. That means high rollers are looking at paying out a whopping 2,500 coins just to play!
In terms of variance and volatility, two of the main ways we judge a slot machine and its gameplay, the variance here is medium, with a fair selection of features provided to keep you busy, but not inundated. As for the challenge factor, that falls somewhere in between medium to high, simply because of the enormous risks taken with high pay-ins and the gamble round.
