Loose Cannon is a pirate-themed video slot with five reels and three rows. The reels are beautifully placed on a ship deck amidst barrels and chests loaded with gold and gems. A calm sea, star sky and a peaceful merchant vessel running away from pirates add to the overall atmosphere, creating an enthralling video slot that is well worth a go. In Loose Cannon, the developer has put in place the 243 Ways To Win model, which is Microgaming’s proprietary system based on a no-payline format. You are awarded coins according to paytable values when three or more identical symbols occur anywhere on consecutive reels, beginning with the utmost left reel. The name of the format implies that the slot has 243 potential patterns (3 of degree 5) of how symbols can be arranged on the reels. The minimum and maximum stakes are $0.30 and $37.5 per spin, respectively. Payouts are not at all huge but they occur very often. The top three awards in the game are $312.50 (five Loose Cannon logos), $250 (five pirates) and $218.75 (five lady pirates).

Bonus features

The Sailing Ship is a wild symbol that substitutes for normal icons. It does not create winning combos by itself but offers a few lucrative perks. First, getting the wild on the central reel makes it replicate itself onto all symbol positions on that reel, thus you will obtain three wilds and get more chances to form a good combo. Second, the ship pictured on the wild symbol can fire cannonballs in all directions and transform a random number of normal icons into wilds for even more winning opportunities.

Three scatters (Compass and Octopus sitting on it) trigger 15 free spins that can be retriggered by landing three scatters again during the feature. In free spins, winning combos pay in both ways, from the left AND from the right, which will help you boost your coin balance in the game.