Crabby’s Gold

Crabby's Gold: Slot Overview

Grab ya cannon balls and rum players; we're sailing the seven seas with developer Play'n GO in an online slot of piracy and adventure. The name is Crabby's Gold, and it is a slot full of surprises. Well, there's one major surprise as well as a bunch of smaller, let's say, minor eye-openers. Apparently, pirates, real-life pirates, not pixelated ones, very rarely buried their treasure, and why would they? Wouldn't it be better to divvy up the loot and hit town? Crabby's Gold, on the other hand, hides a significant pile of potential rewards for lucky players to attempt digging up with the aid of a Hold'n Spin, Doubloon or Nothing, and wild symbols that get more potent as they're unlocked.

Play'n GO has picked a very nice day to do a spot of pirating. The sun beats down on a white sand paradise, where inviting blue water holds a ship up in the left side of the background, while the right side has one of those spooky rock formations shaped like a skull. Despite that hint of the macabre, Crabby's Gold isn't a darkly grim slot. On the contrary, its cheery buccaneering tune, wacky characters, and glistening optics put a warm spin on things, making for an optimistic start to the treasure hunt.

A 6x4 reelset is where Crabby's Gold drops its symbols, and there are 4,096 ways to win, starting from the leftmost reel. Its volatility is rated medium, or 6 out of 10, which is a little surprising considering the claimed max win potential, and while the highest RTP comes in at 96.25%, there are four lower return configurations, as well. Bets are tied to a progressive feature, so choose wisely, and the options range from 10 c to $/€100 per base game round.

Green, blue, purple, and red bits of nailed together pieces of wood are Crabby's Gold's J-A low pay symbols, awarding 1 times the bet for a 6-matching symbol combination. Its high pays are 5 character symbols, worth 2 to 5 times the bet for 6 OAK.

Crabby's Gold: Slot Features

Getting at or near, or not, to Crabby's Gold's impressive win cap means making use of features such as Coin collecting, a Hold'n Spin, a Doubloon or Nothing gamble, plus Rum Wild levelling up.

Coin Collect

Coin Pouch symbols land on the leftmost and rightmost reels to collect Coin symbols. Coin symbols have values of 0.5x to 25x the bet. If 2 Coin Pouches land, Coins are awarded twice. If Coins land without a Coin Pouch in view, they are collected by the Treasure Chest, which can grow in size. When a Coin is randomly collected by the Treasure Chest the Hold'n Spin feature can trigger.

Hold'n Spin

When triggered, the Hold'n Spin lands Coins that do not show values. When the feature ends, each coin flips to reveal a multiplier of 1x to 30x the bet. Hit Coins become sticky until the round ends. Three respins are initially awarded, and the respin counter is reset to 3 when new Coins land. The maximum number of respins is 30. When the round ends, players can collect or gamble their winnings.

Doubloon or Nothing

If gamble is chosen at the end of the Hold'n Spin round, the game enters the Doubloon or Nothing. In 1 spin, Double Coins and Wipe Coins may land. If more Double Coins land, the winnings from the Hold'n Spin are doubled. If more Wipe Coins land, the winnings are wiped to zero. The gamble can be made up to 4 times.

Rum Wilds

The Rum Barrel Meter is filled by collecting Rum Bottle symbols to unlock the game's wild symbols. Every 6 collected Rum Bottles unlocks a new wild stage, with 5 stages to unlock.

• Stage 1 - starting stage with the regular wild.
• Stage 2 - unlocks a Multiplier Wild with values of x2 to x5.
• Stage 3 - unlocks Expanding Wilds and Multiplier Expanding Wilds with values of x1 to x5.
• Stage 4 - unlocks Expanding Sticky Wilds and Multiplier Expanding Sticky Wilds possessing values of x1 to x5 with 3 respins.
• Stage 5 - unlocks Expanding Walking Wilds that move left with respins until off the reels or a maximum of 10 respins. Also unlocks Multiplier Expanding Walking Wilds that move left with respins until falling off or a maximum of 10 respins holding values of x1 to x5.
• Stage 6 - unlocks the Mega 2x2 Wild.

Crabby's Gold: Slot Verdict

The local online casino pirate slot shelf might be overflowing with alternatives, but Play'n GO has imbued Crabby's Gold with enough attributes to make it stick out from the bunch. Presentation is one such area, and Crabby's Gold's bright appearance and jaunty tunes make it an easy pirate slot to warm to. A progressive feature that widens what wilds can do when players level up provides an ongoing mission to achieve, and the Hold'n Spin is there to help keep them entertained along the way. There's nothing especially ingenious about the features on an individual basis, but when put together, they form a fairly solid mix.

Crabby's Gold's big bombshell is the claimed 70,000x max exposure. How Crabby's Gold might manage to hit that number is up for debate. Technically, filling all positions in the Hold'n Spin with 30x coins, then successfully doubling the win four times in a row via the Doubloon or Nothing gamble comes out at 11,520x (which is the feature's limit), so getting them Multiplier Expanding Sticky or Walking Wilds with respins might help do the trick. There are a lot of ways to win at 4,906, and seeing Crabby's Gold achieve its full potential would be quite a coup for Play'n GO, but knowing PnG's track record of making excessive claims, don't hold your breath.

The gamble or nothing feature is essentially a glorified card gamble from earlier releases like Book of Dead and we'd be surprised if we'd ever see any hit over 5,000x on this slot. Either way, win the lot or not, Crabby's Gold puts on a nice pirate environment in which to try and win a stack of coins.