3 Volcanoes Blast Slot Review
Mount Erebus sits at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, and it's one of the very few volcanoes on Earth holding an open lava lake 🌋 that's never once gone out.
The gas plume coming off it carries gold. Tiny crystals, about 80 grams a day, riding the wind out and settling into the snow ❄️ for something like 600 miles in every direction.
That's real money 💰 leaving a hole in the ground daily, in the one place on the planet where nobody can go and pick it up. Scientists find the flakes in the ice, write it up, and go home. Not a gram of it has ever been cashed.
Which brings us to 3 Volcanoes Blast slot from Platipus Gaming, where the gold still comes out of the mountain, only this time you're standing close enough to catch it.
Gameplay
Platipus has stuck 3 cartoon volcanoes with angry faces above the reels, colored green, red and blue and labeled REVIVE, MULTI and EXTRA. Behind them is a deep blue wash with smoke and particles drifting through it, and the reel panel is framed in orange.
The middle row is picked out in red and orange against the navy of the other 2 rows, and that's not decoration.
The main game pays nothing at all. The rules screen states that the game has no paylines and that all prizes are awarded during the Bonus Game - you’ve been warned.
The 4x3 grid gives you 12 cells to fill, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. is 96.2%, volatility is high, and the max multiplier is 6,700x. The max win is $335,000, with bets running from $0.20 to $50.
Starting at the bottom of the paytable, the Bonus symbol carries a value of 0.2x, 0.4x, 0.6x, 0.8x, 1x, 1.2x, 1.4x, 2x, 3x or 4x.
The Sticky pays 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x or 9x. It lands in the main game and freezes where it is, locked in position until the Bonus Game starts.
Then come the jackpots. The Mini awards 10x, the Minor awards 20x, and the Major awards 50x. The big daddies pay as follows: the Grand Jackpot offers 500x and the Ultimate one pays 2,000x. More on these later.
The Mystery symbol has no payout of its own and turns into a Bonus, Collect, Mini Jackpot, Minor Jackpot or Major Jackpot at the end of the Bonus Game. Mystery Jackpot works the same way but only ever becomes a Mini, Minor or Major Jackpot.
The Collect symbol has no fixed value either. It sweeps up the accumulated prizes from every Bonus, Sticky, Mini Jackpot, Minor Jackpot and Major Jackpot already sitting on the reels, applying each cell's current multiplier to whatever it takes.
Features
HOLD AND WIN:
The Bonus Game starts when 4 symbols land in the middle row of the reels (all 4 positions at once), and the round opens with 3 respins.
Every symbol that lands stays locked for the rest of the round, and each new one landing resets the counter back to 3 respins. The round ends when the respins run out or every reel position is filled.
At the end, any Mystery and Mystery Jackpot symbols still on the board reveal what they turned into, the cell multipliers get applied to the prizes sitting in those cells, and the lot is added up and paid.
Fill all 12 cells of the main reels and the Grand Jackpot is yours.
With the Extra sub-feature running, filling all 20 cells awards the Ultimate Jackpot, and an Ultimate Jackpot win doesn't cancel out a Grand Jackpot win.
The Mini, Minor and Major Jackpot symbols can also turn up at random during the round and pay their jackpot on the spot.
Which of the 3 volcanoes are switched on is decided by the colored lights carried by the symbols that trigger the round, and one that starts off can still be woken mid-round if a symbol carrying its light lands.
Before you start reading the mountains for clues, Platipus prints this: "Volcano growth is visual only and does not affect the chance of triggering the Bonus Game."
Revive
Once per Bonus Game, when the respins reach 0, Revive gives you back 3 respins. One extension, one time, and then the round dies like every other round.
Multi
The moment Multi switches on it's guaranteed to drop 1 to 8 multipliers onto random cells, and it may add more after any respin.
Each multiplier landing on a cell raises that cell's total multiplier by 1, they stack across activations, and they reset when the round ends.
That stacking is what turns a board of 0.4x coins into something worth counting, especially if a Collect shows up after the multipliers have piled on.
Extra
Extra adds a row above the reels and a row below, taking the screen from 4x3 to 4x5. Switching it on is the only way the Ultimate Jackpot comes into play, because the Ultimate needs all 20 cells filled.
BUY BONUS:
The Bonus Game costs 60x and the Super Bonus Game costs 160x, and both drop you straight into the round. The RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. for both is the same as the base game. What the extra 100x on the Super Bonus Game buys is all 3 modifiers firing at once.
Performance
The slot never blew up on me. The respins fired on cue and the end-of-round reveals landed without a stutter.
Maximum Win
The max multiplier of 6,700x at the top bet of $50 produces the max win of $335,000. The smallest bet you can place is $0.20.
Conclusion
The game's money all lives in the Bonus Game, because there's nowhere else for it to live. The main game pays zero.
The 6,700x max multiplier (decent for a highly volatile game btw) sits well above the Ultimate Jackpot's 2,000x. The biggest number in the game isn't won by a jackpot at all.
At 96.2%, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. sits in the range that supports longer sessions, which is the number that matters most in a game where nothing pays until the middle row fills. Mind you, there are the buy bonus shortcuts.
Speaking of which, the good thing about the buy options is you don’t take a kick in the RTPs.
Low-risk players should avoid this game. A slot with no paying base game gives a small bankroll nothing to stand on, and grinding at $0.20 waiting for 4 symbols to hit the middle row is a long, quiet afternoon that’ll end in tears.
Balanced players who can sit through the dry patches and take the cheaper buy when the patience runs out are in the right seat, and high-risk players buying the Super Bonus Game are the ones that 6,700x was drawn for.
Slot Details
Game Provider: Platipus Gaming
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: N/A
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 96.2%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).
The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: High
Bonus Round: Yes
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Re-spins
Max Multiplier: 6,700x
Max Win: $335,000
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