Crabbin’ For Cash Megaways

Crabbin' For Cash Megaways: Slot Overview

Pots at the ready, players, we're going a-crabbing with developer Blueprint Gaming in the online slot Crabbin' For Cash Megaways. It's been quite a journey to get to this point, winding our way through a couple of Crabbin' For games, Big Catch games, even a Rhino one, not to mention foundational releases like Fishin' Frenzy and Big Bass Bonanza. In other words, Crabbin' For Cash Megaways is a real melting pot of former ideas, games, and features, a sort of United Nations get-together, or riding the bus through central London and hearing 50 different languages, none of them English.

The middle of the open water is where Crabbin' For Cash Megaways is situated, its gaming grid floating beneath a boat in clear blue base game waters that get a golden touch when the free spins round is activated. Nothing more to say about the game world which has the goto looks and cheerful tunes fishing slot fans will be well used to.

A bubble-framed Megaways 6-reel action area is where Crabbin' For Cash Megaways is played; each reel lands 2 to 5 symbols, producing up to 15,625 ways to win. Since there are no paylines, winning combinations are created on the grid when matching symbols land on adjacent reels, beginning from the leftmost reel. Cascading wins do not occur in this medium-high volatile slot where a greater emphasis is on collecting Cash symbols. With a default RTP of 95%, gamblers have access to stakes of 10 c to $/€100 per spin.

Here's a look at the regular pay symbols, beginning with 10-A low pay card ranks, awarding 2 to 5 times the bet for a 6 symbol way, then any combination of crab symbols, a hat, a life ring, a crab trap, and an anchor. The high pays award 10 to 200 times the bet for hitting a 6 OAK win. As per usual, the Fisherman symbol is wild, substituting for all regular pay symbols, but it only shows up in free spins or Lightning Spins.

Crabbin' For Cash Megaways: Slot Features

Reelin' in the cash is one of Crabbin' For Cash Megaways' main activities, available during Lighting Spins and free spins rounds.

Cash Pots

The game has 4 Cashpot values – the 10x Mini, 25x Minor, 100x Major, and 2,000x Mega. These symbols only turn up in free spins or during Lightning Spins, where they may be collected by a Fisherman symbol.

Lighting Spins

Hitting 4 Lightning Spins scatter symbols triggers 3 Lightning Spins. During the feature, only Cash values, Cashpots, valueless pip symbols, or Fisherman symbols land on the reels. When a new Cash, Cashpot, or Fisherman symbol hits, they lock in place and reset the spins to 3. Landing a Cash or Cashpot symbol awards their value. Landed Fisherman symbols collect the Crustacean Cash currently on the reels. A Golden Fisherman multiplies all Cash values collected by up to x10. If you manage to fill the whole grid, then an x5 multiplier is applied to the total symbol value on the reels. The feature ends when spins do, or the grid is filled.

Free Spins

Hit 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatter symbols to win 10, 15, 20, or 50 free spins, respectively. Next, the Pick A Crustacean phase takes place. Players pick crustaceans to reveal upgrades. Picks continue until 5 upgrades have been made or 'Start Free Games' is revealed.

• Hat Tag - adds a Cash tag to this symbol with values of 1x - 10x bet the Fisherman can collect.
• Ring Tag - adds a Cash tag to this symbol with values of 1x - 10x bet the Fisherman can collect.
• Cage Tag - adds a Cash tag to this symbol with values of 5x - 20x bet the Fisherman can collect.
• Anchor Tag - adds a Cash tag to this symbol with values of 5x - 50x bet the Fisherman can collect.
• +Collect - Cash values are collected multiple times.
• Re-spin - non-Cash and Fisherman symbols respin. Respins continue until the win is no longer improved.
• +Games - up to 5 additional spins are awarded.
• Next Level - the free spins trail moves along to the next retrigger position. When awarded on the initial entry, players start from the retrigger position shown.
• Pick a Crustacean - extra picks are added to the remaining trail.
• Minimum Megaways - a minimum number of Megaways are guaranteed of 5,000, 10,000x or 15,625.

Once picks are complete, free spins begin. The Fisherman symbol is active in the bonus, and he collects any Cash symbols in view on the reels. Fisherman symbols are collected as well, like so:

• 4 collected Fisherman – 10 extra free spins + an x2 multiplier.
• 8 collected Fisherman – 10 extra free spins + an x3 multiplier.
• 12 collected Fisherman – 10 extra free spins + an x10 multiplier.

Bonus Buy

Players are able to buy the free spins feature or the Lightning Spins round from the bonus buy. Both options cost 100x the bet. The RTP for buying free spins is 95%; for Lightning Spins, it's 95.01%.

Crabbin' For Cash Megaways: Slot Verdict

Sometimes reviewing a Blueprint Gaming slot is like accidentally falling through a wormhole to a parallel universe where everything is kinda the same, but also, something's a little bit different. Or it's like bursting in on one of Victor Frankenstein's experiments as he splices together bits and pieces of organic material from all over the place – a foot from here, a spleen from there, ears from somewhere else. Crabbin' For Cash Megaways is a classic example, grafting bits of gaming DNA from sources as diverse as Crabbin' For Cash, Big Catch Bass Fishing Megaways, and Rhino Rampage. Likely, there are other related games we could add to that list, but life is too short to trawl through them all.

As a result, it can be hard, almost painful, to enter one of these BP Frankenstein slots with an unbiased blank slate. Don't they say the definition of madness is doing the same thing again and again, expecting different outcomes? Okay, okay, Crabbin' For Cash Megaways is a bit different, in some ways, collectively speaking, than those games which came before it. It's just that there are so many similar examples they blend blurrily together. This is compounded by the fact there are so many fishing slots in general that operate in similar ways. Even crab ones.

Still, with all that in mind, Crabbin' For Cash Megaways is an okay game – in a vacuum, fair dues. Winning potential is theoretically decent and the Fisherman symbol collecting money symbol dynamic has proven to be a hugely popular one which never, never seems to end, so there are sure to be players who will lap Crabbin' For Cash Megaways up. On the subject of Frankenstein, here's a quote from Mary Shelley's book to end the review; 'Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.' Suddenness doesn't often enter the vocabulary when dealing with the way Blueprint Gaming glacially evolves some of its slots like a primordial soup of organic molecules forming more complicated building blocks of life after countless replications.