This pokie from Genesis Gaming looks very different from the type we are used to from this supplier. The images appear to be lifted from a children’s book, with hand drawn symbols and text in soft pastel colours decorating the reels. It may not appeal to everyone, but it’s certainly unusual and Genesis Gaming should be applauded for bringing out a game that doesn’t follow the herd.
There’s a bit of a pun going on in with the title, as Lucky Rabbit’s foot has been turned to loot and there’s plenty of loot to win when the 5 reels land in the right places.
The whole game is beautifully designed, with the reels surrounded by further hand drawn pictures including a picture of a town above them, complete with cars driving across the landscape and clouds floating above. On either side of the reels are pictures of plants and even the control buttons below them are presented in the same style.
Another thing that’s a bit different is the 4 rows of symbols on screen, when most pokies only have 3. There’s 50 paylines to play with, so spinning up a win should be fairly easy, with players getting a prize whenever 3 or more examples of the same symbol come to a rest across an active line, running from the left side.
To place a bet, players need to head to the control buttons and can stake from as little as 0.01 to as much as 0.20 per coin, adjusting the amount using the + and – buttons that are hidden in a bucket of carrots, while they can play any number of coins from just 1 to 20 per line and activate a single line, or go up to all 50.
It’s a good selection of potential bet sizes that means covering all lines and therefore qualifying for all winning combinations that land on the reels costs as little as 0.50 and high rollers can stake a big 1000.00 per spin.
A look at the paytable shows how much will be won for each winning line of symbols, with the playing card 9, 10, J, Q, K and A making up the lower values. They are all rendered in the same whimsical style as the rest of the game, surrounded by intricate designs and flowers, so even though card symbols appear on lots of other pokies, they manage to fit in with the theme of this game and look great because of it.
Higher value symbols are also card-related, with the clubs, diamond, hearts and spades complete with cute bunny rabbits completing the line-up of standard icons. Whatever symbols are part of winning combinations will become animated a bit, with the rabbits bouncing around in celebration for example.
While the standard gameplay is entertaining enough, there are a couple of bonus symbols to add a little more variety, with a wild symbol helping players to get more wins when it acts as any other standard one if that will complete a line. There’s no value attached to the wild on its own though, but it can sometimes be stacked several high on a reel to potentially complete several lines at once.
The scatter is the Lucky Rabbit’s Loot logo, and it doesn’t need to land in any set position to reward players with 8 free spins whenever 3 or more appear after a spin. During these free games, the wild symbol will expand across all 4 rows of whichever reel it lands on, spelling out the word ‘wild’ as it does so and again potentially completing several winning combinations at once..
The free spins can be retriggered if 3 or more scatters land again, with a further 8 being added on to the end of the current round.
Lucky Rabbit’s Loot is highly original in design and overall appearance, although as far as features go, it’s fairly standard with just the 4 rows of symbols and 50 paylines being unusual attributes. That’s not to say it’s a bad pokie, but apart from stacked wilds in the base game and expanding wilds in the free spins, there isn’t anything particularly unusual about the way it plays.
Still, the way it looks is sure to attract lots of players, and they will find a perfectly good game that tends to pay out lots of smaller wins rather than a few bigger ones, while the wide bet range should suit just about any bankroll.