Booty Time Pokie
While some players may be disappointed to find out that this game is nothing to do with casual sex, most will still be quite pleased with the pirate theme, free spins, multiplier wins and scatter payouts. It sails into online casinos that use Microgaming software, which means that it comes from one of the most popular and certainly most prolific games developers that has a great reputation for trustworthiness and reliability.
So playing this game shouldn’t shiver the timbers of anyone, while fun graphics and images add to the enjoyment.
Playing Booty Time
There’s nothing unusual about the layout of this pokie, as it’s a classic 5 reel design with 25 paylines. Players can choose to activate anything from just a single one, which is fairly pointless, to all 25, which makes far more sense and ensures that all possible wins are collected.
Those with smaller bankrolls can wager just 0.01 on a line, while coins go up to 1.00 and 10 coins can be staked on each payline for a total maximum bet of 25.00. Hardly a king’s ransom, but perfectly adequate for the vast majority of people.
Simple + and – buttons give players control over how much they wager, and once the amount is set, it’s time to check out the symbols and see what rewards are paid out for each combination.
A nice backdrop of a pirate ship’s deck, with blue skies and flags fluttering in the breeze sets the scene, and the symbols are designed to complement the pirate theme, with the high card 9, 10, J, Q, K and A all appearing on tattered flags.
Wins are created when identical symbols land across an activated line, starting from the left hand reel, with the lower value symbols bringing in rewards that go from just a couple of coins to 250 depending on which appears and on how many adjacent reels.
The more interesting and higher paying symbols are all images of piratey-type stuff, so there’s a bottle of dangerous-looking drink, complete with skull and crossbones, while the pirates themselves turns up in the highest paying symbols.
Rather than your standard pirates, the heroes of this game are various birds who are depicted getting ready to fire a cannon and at the wheel of their trusty ship, while Captain Squawk himself is the top paying symbol, treating players to 2500 coins if he lands across a full line of 5 reels.
Booty Time
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Extra Booty
Naturally there’s more to this game than just spinning reels and waiting for the right symbols to turn up, as a couple of special icons are provided to trigger all the bonus bits.
The Booty Time logo is a wild, so it will act as any other standard symbol to help complete winning lines. A booty bonus is that any time it does this, the subsequent payout will be doubled, so for example, if 2 of the A symbols and a wild make up the line, instead of the standard 10 coin payout, 20 coins will be awarded.
The other bonus here is a free spins round, triggered by landing at least 3 of the treasure chest scatter symbols anywhere on the reels. The scatter has the dual role of paying out wins worth several times the total bet amount and then players get to enter a side game before the free spins start.
Firstly, they click on one of the scatters to reveal a number, and they then go to a second screen to click on more treasure chests until they reach the number that they uncovered in the first place. Accumulated free spins and any multipliers unearthed will then play out, plus there’s a guaranteed 3 free games with a 2x multiplier in place.
It’s a somewhat complicated way to get to the bonus round, why they could have just had players click on 2 treasure chests to reveal what they are getting is anyone’s guess, but I’m not a professional games designer, so the guys and girls at Microgaming must know what they are doing. It’s a minor note that’s worth pointing out but really doesn’t distract from the overall game at all.
Hoist the Mainsail or Walk the Plank?
There’s a lot to like about Booty Time, with the picture symbols being particularly well designed, although whether players like the usual 9 through to A symbols or want to see more related to the theme is a matter of taste.
Payouts are decent enough, there’s a good bet range, and coming from Microgaming, players can be sure that their bankrolls won’t be unfairly plundered by Captain Squawk and his crew.