It's Shark Time 2 Slot – Free Demo

The cash rides on the sharks

It's Shark Time 2 is a goofy, endearing and fairly straightforward 5-reel, 20-payline slot from ElaGames, and on the surface it may resemble an amusing pc-game for your youngster. The 20 lines are fixed, so the stake is the only thing to set.

At the heart of It's Shark Time 2 are the Cash Prize sharks. Each one carries its own cash value, and it's the count you collect that the ladder pays against. They come to especially good service in the free spins bonus, where they'll populate a panel as they land on the reels. Three or more Cash Prize symbols landing anywhere award the Cash Bonus in the base game as well, paid off that same ladder.

What the wheel will not stand in for

It's tough not to warm to the vivid and cheerful cartoon-style artwork and the over-sized symbols. They stubbornly decline to squeeze into the frame. I played it at a 5-credit stake throughout.

Open water is the backdrop for this game, and the reels are ruled by the marine life. Below the sharks, the red 7 is the best of the line symbols at 50 times the stake for five. The shark is the chief of this group. Blue and gold sharks share that top paytable line. It grants 125 times your stake if you land 5 anywhere, but more crucial still is the ship's wheel wild symbol, which stands in for all symbols except the sharks and the Bonus anchor. Four sharks anywhere pay 50 times the stake and three pay 12.5. The sharks and the anchor pay any way rather than left to right. The wheel will happily complete a pufferfish line for 25 times the stake at five, but it never helps with either of them.

Three anchors on the middle reels

Keep a watch out for the Bonus anchor symbol, and if three or more land anywhere on reels 2, 3 and 4, the free spins bonus is set off. In 230 spins that happened to me once, on spin 42. The game hands you 7 free spins. Mine were worth 275 credits, 55 times the stake.

Minty’s Final Note: One anchor trigger in 230 spins carried 55% of everything the session won, and the balance still closed 649 credits down on where it started.

Seven spins to fill twelve positions

A 4x3 panel enters play in the free spins bonus. The blue shark turns into the gold shark for the duration. The Cash Prize sharks you collect remain fixed there, and the round concludes when all 12 positions fill or the spin meter reaches 0. Every spin that brings in nothing simply burns one off the meter. Then the prizes are tallied. The ladder opens at 1 times the stake for three collected and climbs through 25x at six, 100x at eight and 500x at ten. Filling all 12 positions is worth 3000x on the ladder. Eleven positions pay 1000x, so the last shark trebles the round.

One trigger in 230 spins

There's honestly not a great deal to It's Shark Time 2. What's there is highly amusing all the same, and the theme might not suit everyone. My longest stretch without a win ran 16 spins and finished the session on spin 230.

The instant the anchors land and the panel opens up is the best part of the game. It arrived once for me, and the 5,104 credits it left behind was as good as it got.

I can't claim It's Shark Time 2 treated me gently. The low point of the run was the figure I finished on. Across 230 spins at a 5-credit stake I staked 1,150 credits and got 501 back. Take the bonus out and the other 229 spins returned 226 credits between them. That's a 43.6% return that left the balance down from 5,000 to 4,351, with only 47 spins paying anything at all and 31 of those paying under the stake. The next four best spins after it paid 22, 17, 17 and 15 credits. The one bonus I landed, on spin 42, was where the entire session sat: 7 free spins for 275 credits, 55 times the stake and 55% of everything I won.