Copy Cats Pokies
Love them or hate them, cats are all around us, and now they are filling the reels of Net Ents Copy Cats video pokie. It’s got cute cats, naughty cats, angry-looking ones and various paw prints landing over the 5 reels and 25 paylines of the game, paying prizes out whenever 3 or more of the same symbol stops across an active line in an unbroken sequence from the left side.
Wild symbols can help in this task, while a free spins bonus has richer reels and there’s a unique Copy Cats feature that can bring in some of the top payouts. Everything is designed in a cartoon style, from the street scene that makes a nice background image, to the animations that play out when winning lines are created. The reels are surrounded by a thin frame and the background image continues behind them, making the symbols seem to float down above the street.
Players will need to stake at least 0.25 on a spin of these reels, which may put off some people, so free Copy Cats video pokie games are offered, giving cautious gamblers a chance to test things out before committing to real bets. The high limit is for a stake of 125.00 per spin, and a review of the pay table shows how many times the line stake equivalent is won with each winning combination.
Playing Copy Cats
The various colourful paw prints are the lower value symbols, with the blue, green, purple and brown all returning 5x the line bet for 3, while 4 are worth 10x and full lines of the same symbol sees 25x the line bet paid out.
Medium-value symbols are of a half-eaten fish, (yummy), that pays 10, 20 or 30x, spilt milk that’s valued at 10, 30 or 50x and a wind-up toy mouse which is worth 10, 40 or 75x the line bet.
Copy Cats
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The Golden Cat
The top wins in the normal run of play come from the cats. A blue cat pays out 15, 50 or 100x the line bet, a purple cat is valued at 20, 70 or 150x and the big red moggie returns 25, 100 or 200x the line bet when landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels. Some brief animations will play out when a picture symbol makes up a win, with the fish flapping about a bit, and cats licking their lips to celebrate the win.
A golden cat is the wild symbol, which isn’t worth anything on its own, but can act as all but the bonus cat bell to complete winlines, either bridging gaps in a sequence of matching symbols, extending a win further across a payline, or even both at once.
Copy Cats Feature
If any cat, including the wild golden one, covers all 3 spots on the left-hand reel, the special Copy Cats feature will see any other cats on the other 4 reels turning into the triggering type. This isn’t guaranteed to make up a winning line, but in practice it frequently does and it’s a nice little cat treat for players to get their teeth into, especially if the high-paying red cat or the wild are the ones that fill the line, as this makes it easy to collect a bigger win.
Free Spins Bonus
One of those annoying cat bells is the scatter symbol and when this lands anywhere on reels 1, 3 and 5 at once, players are given 10 free spins. All cats on reel 1 become wild symbols, and the Copy Cats feature can still be triggered, which means any other cats will also become wild symbol in this round, making it much easier for punters to complete winning lines, or even several at once.
If 3 more scatters land in a free spin, an additional 10 extra games will be added on to any still left in the current round, but they can only be retriggered once, so the most free games that will be seen is 20. This should still be more than enough though, as the wild Copy Cat feature seems to happen quite a lot in the bonus round.
The Verdict
Although it isn’t mobile-optimised, Copy Cats is sure to be a successful pokie at desktop-based online casinos that carry to popular Net Ent range. It’s going to appeal not only to cat-ladies, but to anyone who likes the cartoon style and fun theme, plus of course, to players who just want to collect wins from some interesting bonus features.
The Copy Cats feature is particularly interesting, and has the potential for decent payouts, while the free spins where all cats can be turned into wilds is pretty much certain to result in a few coins being paid out before the round ends.