Lucky Larry's Lobstermania Slot – Free Demo

A fifteen-line frame on the lobster grounds

It's not difficult to grasp why angling is such a well-liked theme for slots, since like the fishermen, bettors pursue their fortune and are prepared to accept risks doing so. It's the lobster vessels working the North Atlantic coast that is probably best recognised to most of us, likely as a consequence of the many Hollywood films made on the topic, although snaring shellfish reaches as far back as antiquity.

King Show Games has crammed this game full, from the layout of the reel set to the theme. Lucky Larry's Lobstermania carries us out to the lobster grounds. More precisely, it's the buoy-dotted water that also acts as the backdrop for this online slot. I played 460 spins of it at a stake of 1.80, wagering 828.00 and taking back 871.56, which moved the balance from 5,000.00 to 5,043.56.

Lucky Larry's Lobstermania is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with 15 fixed paylines, and there's ample potential here, as five Larry wilds across a payline pay 200x. The largest single win I saw was 102.60 on spin 34, 57.0x the stake, so my sample says nothing about how often the top line actually completes.

Larry, the scatter and the two-symbol payers

The Larry wild is at the centre of attention in this angling-inspired slot, and it stands in for everything except the Scatter and the Buoy Bonus symbol. Larry and the Lobstermania logo are the only two symbols that pay from two on a line at all. Naturally, you'll find a scatter that pays anywhere on the reels rather than on a line. Only the highest scatter is paid in a game, and the scatter win is added to any line wins and to a bonus landing on the same spin. It pays 5, 25 or 200 times your total bet for 3, 4 or 5 of them.

Wins are read from left to right beginning on the leftmost reel. Of my 460 spins, 184 paid something, a hit rate of 40%, and 108 of those paid back less than the 1.80 stake. Only the highest win counts on each of the 15 lines, and all of them are always in play. The longest I went with nothing at all was 14 spins, ending on spin 89.

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Four buoy rounds across 460 spins

There is one bonus feature in the game, the Buoy Bonus. It landed four times in my run, on spins 14, 74, 98 and 251.

Three bonus symbols on a played line, on successive reels from the far left reel, trigger the round. The gaps between mine were 60 spins, then 24, then 153. You choose 2, 3 or 4 buoys from a set of 9, each granting between 0.20 and 15.00. How many picks you get is decided by the bonus symbols themselves, which turn into pick options when the round opens. The selections are tallied into a single payout. My four rounds paid 24.0x, 1.4x, 5.6x and 8.8x the stake, 71.64 in total.

Minty’s Closing Thought: The four Buoy Bonus rounds paid 71.64 credits between them, 8% of everything the session won, which leaves the fifteen fixed lines responsible for the other 92% in wins that mostly came back under the stake. Put beside the forty-line builds on either side of it — IGT's Lucky Larry's Lobstermania 2, or King Show Games' own Wolf Peak — this one keeps its money in the base game.

A balance that stayed inside 257 credits

Expect no elaborate cutscenes or sophisticated animations here. It's not overwhelmingly hard to learn, although it does take a few rounds to adjust to everything that's going on; in fact, Lucky Larry's Lobstermania is a rather plain and uncomplicated slot. Across the whole run the balance never travelled more than 257.22 above where it started, peaking at 5,257.22 on spin 100, and never more than 9.00 below it, with a floor of 4,991.00. Moreover, hanging so much of the game on a single pick round unavoidably results in lengthy gaps between bonuses. Three of my four rounds came in under 9x the stake, and the four together made up 8% of everything I won. My 460 spins yielded four of them, one on spin 14 and then nothing until spin 74, but the base game keeps ticking over, with 184 of those spins paying something and the session finishing at 105.3%.