Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania is a 5-reel 25-line video slot about a guy named Larry, who loves to catch and eat lobsters more than everything else. The slot has a marine visual design, a set of thematic pictures and a couple of features such as a wild symbol, a scatter and a Buoy Bonus with big prizes. This is the first part of Lucky Larry line-up created by IGT, and the bonuses are allegedly on the low side, yet the slot will attract you with good bonus wins and frequent winning combinations in base game. Wagering the highest amount, you can win $250,000 if landing five wilds.

Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania was originally released as a slot machine that gained ground in the U.S. and Canada. IGT then made its digital version for online casinos, preserving the key features and gameplay properties. Put it in short, this was one of trending games for casino-goers. For the last few years, the slot has also been available online, for real money and fun credits. IGT outfitted the game with a 5×3 board, placing it in front of an ocean and clear sky. Every element here refers to a fishing and ocean theme: line markers to the left and right are designed as colorful floats, the frame around the reels looks as if made of wooden planks, and the controls mimic boulders.

Bet sizes are made to appeal to every budget, from penny slot fans to heavy bettors. In fact, you can even play with a penny bet if to decrease the number of lines to 1 – the slot provides a control for doing so (needless to say, there is no reason in playing with only one line). The gameplay is predictable, fast and easy-to-understand – there is a Paytable button under the reels, which explains the rules and shows symbol awards. To get a line win, the player needs to land at least 3 identical pics on an activated line.

Symbols, bet sizes and payouts

There are two symbol groups in the slot:

1) Low-valued pics: Card values J, Q and K. Payouts for them vary between x5 and x150;

2) High-valued pics: Sea-themed pictures including a lighthouse (x300), a fishing boat (x500), a buoy (x500) and a Lobstermania logo (x1000). The payouts shown in brackets are for five of a kind. Actual dollar awards depend on your bet size and are calculated by multiplying a line bet by a paytable value for the specific symbol.

Bet sizes in the slot are as flexible as possible because they cover the widest gambling audience. On the Bet/Line meter you can see your current line bet and change it between $0.01 and $25. Given there are 25 paylines, the minimum and maximum stakes are $0.25 and $625 per spin with all lines in play.

Wild symbol

The wild symbol is represented by a red lobster wearing sunglasses and lying on sand with a cocktail glass in his claw. The wild is a very helpful icon because it substitutes for all non-feature images and helps them form combinations. Moreover, the wild pays out wins by itself, without the help of other symbols. Hitting 2 or more wilds on a payline awards x5 to x10000, which is equal to $250,000 at the best case scenario: You place the highest bet acceptable by the slot and get five wilds on an active line.

Scatter symbol

Another lobster, this time fixed in a wooden trap, is a scatter symbol. Three, four or five of them in any place award a reward based on a total bet, namely, x4, x25 or x200. Therefore, five scatters can bring you the maximum win of $125,000 (if wagering the max bet).

Buoy Bonus

The Buoy Bonus is the most outstanding feature of all the three slots in the Lobstermania series from IGT, and it is almost uniform across the three, except for some minor differences. To earn the bonus, you first need to hit three Happy Lobsters wearing a yellow shirt and cowboy hat, in any position. These Lobster symbols are then highlighted, while the remaining symbols become shaded. You are asked to pick any of the three lobsters to reveal the number of bonus picks awarded (2, 3 or 4).

On a new screen you will see Larry on board the Lobster Magnet boat and nine fishing floats in front of you. Your task here is to select the fishing floats to reveal your bonus, and the number of picks (2, 3 or 4) is equal to what you have been granted in the previous stage. After you made the selection, Larry comes up to a trap and extracts your catch.

Each pick of the float adds 2 or more lobsters to the trap, and each lobster will bring you 5 to 250 coins. The rules specified in the paytable state that you can win the following:

• Picking two floats, you can grab a total of x20 to x2000 a line bet
• Picking three floats, you can grab a total of x30 to x3000 a line bet
• Picking four floats, you can grab a total of x40 to x4000 a line bet.

Summary

Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania is a funny fishing-themed video slot with 5 reels and 25 adjustable paylines. Regular symbols come complete with three special symbols including a wild, a scatter and a bonus symbol, the last triggering a captivating and lucrative Buoy bonus with very high prizes. The slot is supported well by smartphones and other mobile devices.