Slot providers do occasionally seem to forget that their target audience is adults. You’ll be staring at a screen full of smiling animals, primary colors and cartoon fire engines, wondering whether you’re meant to be gambling real money or learning what noise a cow makes.
The new Lucky Stamps slot from Endorphina appears to be guilty of this, looking less like a casino game and more like something that should be interrupted every ten minutes by an advert for sugary cereal.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Lucky Stamps is a classic three-reel slot with three rows and five paylines. Betting starts at just $0.05 and tops out at $80 per spin. If you’re willing to go all the way to that upper limit, you’ll have a shot at winning up to $256,000 thanks to the slot’s 3,200x maximum multiplier.
The slot features high volatility, so there won’t be a stream of small, consistent wins while chasing the bigger payouts. Its expected RTP is 96.08%.
Sitting above the slot’s reels are three anthropomorphized emergency vehicles: an ambulance, a fire truck, and a police car. Green, red and blue emergency-light Token symbols can appear during the base game, with each color linked to one of the vehicles. Once a vehicle has collected its corresponding Token, it can randomly race off to an emergency and trigger one of three bonus games.
The ambulance takes you into the Medic Free Games feature, which begins with eight free spins and a 1x win multiplier. Bonus symbols can land during the feature, with each one adding another free spin and increasing the multiplier by one.
If the fire truck gets the call, you’ll trigger the Fire Pick’Em bonus. Twelve flames appear on screen, each hiding one of four prizes. You keep picking flames until you uncover three matching prizes. Green awards 20x your bet, blue pays 50x, purple is worth 200x, and finding red will be 500x your bet.
Finally, the police car triggers the Crime Hold Bonus, which is basically a Hold and Win feature. Police symbols stick to the middle reel and collect prizes from criminal symbols landing on either side. Criminals can carry regular cash prizes or one of four jackpots, ranging from 25x your bet all the way up to 1,000x your bet.
Has Endorphina lost the plot with the Lucky Stamps slot?
If you’re not a parent, go look up Firebuds. The Lucky Stamps slot is basically Firebuds with a set of reels. And I really don’t get it.
Sometimes there’s a fine line between something made for kids and something made for adults. Candy Crush and plenty of other mobile games are great examples of just how blurred that line can become. The Lucky Stamps slot, however, leaps over that blurred line to the point where it had me thinking my seven-year-old is too old to enjoy it.
I give the Lucky Stamps slot a four out of ten.
If you’re looking for a few Endorphina slots that aren’t made for toddlers, try out Voodoo and Sloth Game.
