Lucky Angler Slot for Ice-Fishing Fans

NetEntertainment has picked a simple but amusing theme for its slot title Lucky Angler: a series of wacky underwater characters trying to avoid the hooks of the ice-fisherman above. The background is an icy lake with a snowbound cottage in the distance, and the reel frame is fashioned from carved ice.

The sound effects back up the watery theme, with bubble noises accompanying the reel spins and cracking ice signalling the freezing of a Wild in place. During free spins rounds in particular, the sticky Wilds can trigger impressive wins. Lucky Angler features 15 fixed pay lines, but players can pick one of three coin denominations: 0.01, 0.02 or 0.05, and play up to 10 coins per line.

However, Lucky Angler also has the Win Both Ways feature, allowing winning combinations left to right from Reel 1, or right to left from Reel 5. This also means the bet is doubled to effectively create 30 pay lines, so the maximum a player can bet per spin in 15.00

Sticky Wild Leads to Multiple Wins

The Lucky Angler Wild is, appropriately enough, a golden fishing lure; when it substitutes for another symbol to create a winning pay line, a brief animation ensues showing a hapless fish being hooked. The Wild also crackles as it is frozen in ice; the sticky Wild then stays in position on the screen while the next spin takes place. If the Wild then forms part of a new win, it remains stuck in place for the following spin. Besides betting, The ice melts and the Wild unsticks when a spin results in no new wins.

In base play, Lucky Angler’s sticky Wilds only appear on Reels 2 and 4. During the free spins rounds, sticky Wilds can occur on Reels 2, 3 and 4, which can lead to multiple four- or five-match wins at once.

Symbols Mix Seafood and Poker

Lucky Angler uses the poker symbols 10, J, Q, K and A, like many slots, but in this case they are carved from blocks of ice. The prizes are pretty standard, starting at 5 credits for any three of a kind and rising to 200 credits for five As.

The themed symbols in Lucky Angler are deliberately humorous, showing underwater creatures with different attitudes. A shy hermit crab lurks in an old boot, winning up to 700 credits for five of a kind. A scared lobster wins up to 750 credits, and the cheerful blue fish has a top prize of 1,000 credits. The friendly golden fish score 1,500 credits for five matches, topped by the smirking red fish, at 2,000 credits for a full pay line.

Up to 20 Free Spins

A school of fast-swimming fish form the Lucky Angler Scatter icon, and they also animate in a migratory rush to celebrate big wins. Three Scatters in any position activate 10 free spins, four Scatters trigger 15, and five Scatters gets the player 20 free spins.

Because the sticky Wilds can now appear on Reel 3 as well, they can prove very useful in this round. If the player racks up four or five stuck Wilds in the first few free spins, these can stick in place for the rest of the round, as two consecutive Wilds on Reels 2 and 3 will result in a win on every spin.