CritterPop

Get ready for a cosmic journey in search of unsuspected treasures

The CritterPop online casino game takes place in space, where gasses, planets and stars swirl around a scene of cosmic wonders and creatures. The creatures represent high-value symbols on an expandable grid that activates the 5-reel, 3-row base game. Around the grid, you’ll see numerous buttons, including Ante Bet, Bonus Buy and various other information and options.

One of the options you will instantly notice is the selection of bets, these range from $0.20 to $100. Pressing the Ante Bet button increases the bet by 25% while doubling the chances of triggering free spins. CritterPop is a very volatile slot game that theoretically has a payout ratio of 96.08%. The maximum payout for this game peaks at 20,000 times your original bet.

On the 5×3 layout, you have 486 ways to win, as the winning options pay out in both directions, from right to left. So 3 or more matching symbols on adjacent reels can start from either the left or right side of the grid. However, 5 matching wins only pay on one side. The card signs that go from 10 to A represent low value symbols that award 1 to 1.5 times your bet for 5 of the same type. Then there are 6 animals which represent high value symbols and pay 2 to 6 times your bet for 5 of a kind. The two most lucrative symbols are the tiger and the mammoth which are essential for the Rewards Reel phase of this game. The Wild has the ability to substitute for all regular symbols, but it only appears during the free spins.

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Impressive features that offer the prospect of winning up to 20,000 times your bet

Just like the main PopWins mechanism, CritterPop also offers a free spins bonus round, as well as a number of reel modifiers and the Base Game Unlock feature.

PopWins

Each winning symbol that appears on the board is replaced by two new symbols, thus increasing the winning opportunities and the height of the reels. If a win results from this process, the PopWins function is triggered again, as long as a win is formed. In the basic game, the reels can extend up to 6 positions high, where there are effectively 15,553 ways to win, or 8 high in the free spins where 65,536 ways to win become active in both directions. When the reels reach their maximum height, the exploded symbols are replaced by one.
Base Game Unlock feature: in the base game, when the reels are fully expanded to 6 symbols high, you get 2 free spins on the expanded reels as part of the Base Game Unlock feature.

Free Spins

When 3, 4 or 5 Scatters symbols land in the base game, it triggers the free spins mode with 2,048, 6,250 and 15,552 ways to win on 5×4, 5×5 and 5×6 grids respectively. Before the free spins begin, a sequence of Rewards Reels is activated in a foreground. A spin occurs where there is an opportunity to win additional free spins, a high starting win multiplier, larger win multiplier increments, random 2×2 and 3×3 symbols, random Wilds symbols, tiger and mammoth symbol multipliers. Once this round is activated, all winnings from the Rewards Reels are carried over to the free spins.

During the free spins sequence, the reels do not reset to their original size. Instead, they drop to the height of the lowest reel reached on the current spin. For example, if the reels reach a height of 7-7-7-8, they will drop to 7-7-7-7-7. If the reels reach 8 symbols high, more than 2 free spins are awarded and the multiplier is increased by 2 more times. In addition, the grid stays at this height until the feature ends. The win multiplier starts at 1x or more, depending on the winnings in the Rewards Reels round. It increases after each winning stunt and does not reset between free spins.

Different modifiers & symbols appear during the bonus round.

Bonus Buy-In

When available, the Bonus Buy-In feature gives you three ways to buy free spins. It costs 125 times the wager for the regular bonus purchase, 250 times for the plus bonus purchase and 500 times for the max bonus purchase. They have 2,048, 6,260 and 15,552 initial ways to win respectively. In theory, the more expensive bonus purchases offer better free spin rewards.