Pirates Pub

Just as you can tell the setup from the name Pirates Pub, it’s actually a super simple slot. You have a 5×3 playing area with 9 paylines, allowing you to bet as little as $0.09. While playing, you only encounter a Wild which is also the Scatter to win Free Spins.

You quickly feel the extremely high variance while spinning. Wins are often quite nice, but are rare in this slot with an RTP of 96.03%. You can read how Pirates Pub came out of the test in this slot review.

How to play Pirates Pub

Upon opening Pirates Pub, you see an average playing field with 5 reels and 3 rows. The bizarre thing is that it only includes 9 paylines. Since you can bet at least $0.01 per payline, your minimum and maximum bets are $0.09 and $99.

Combinations apply from three matching symbols on any of the paylines. In Pirates Pub, the first symbol must be on the left and the others on connecting reels. There are 11 symbols to look for, including 4 with low, 3 with medium and 3 with high payouts.

The card symbols will give you up to $4 for a full row at a bet of $0.9. Then there are the fish, beer and rum symbols for eating and drinking in the bar. The drinking gives you your bet back from 3 on a payline. The best paying symbols are the crossed swords, pirate hat and gold coin.

Pirates Pub is an excellent change in a market dominated by feature-packed slots.

Bonus features of Pirates Pub

In Pirates Pub you will encounter only two special features. You need these to unlock the maximum win of $5,000 times the bet. What these bonus features do and how to trigger them, you can read here.

Pirates Pub Wild and Scatter

On the reels you will encounter the Pirates Pub logo. This wheel serves as both Wild and Scatter. It thus substitutes for all other symbols. Moreover, this is the best paying symbol. If you collect three of them on a payline, they pay $2 on a bet of $0.9.

Pirates Pub compared to 3 other slots with similar theme

Free Spins

If you see at least three Wilds on your screen, you trigger the bonus game. Pirates Pub gives you any number of Free Spins depending on the number of Scatters:

• 3 Scatters: 5, 6, 7 or 8 Free Spins
• 4 Scatters: 8, 9, 10 or 11 Free Spins
• 5 Scatters: 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 Free Spins

The bonus round has two parts. First, you play the slot just like in the base game. The only difference is that the position of all Wilds is marked with a frame. This also applies to the Pirates Pub symbols you used to trigger the Free Spins.

If the same box sees another Wild, the frame is upgraded. With 3 or more Wilds you retrigger the bonus game for extra spins.

After you used up all the Free Spins, it’s time for the second part of the Pirates Pub bonus round. All frames now get a Sticky Wild with Multiplier equal to the level of the frame. At most, this will be a x5 Multiplier. You will again receive 2 to 5 Free Spins that you cannot trigger again.

Bonus Buy

In this slot with extremely high variance, it can take a while to trigger the Free Spins bonus game. That’s why the operator gives you a Bonus Buy feature. For 70 times your bet, you buy a spin with at least 3 Wild Scatters.