Doctor Love On Vacation Slot by Light & Wonder

The wild does two jobs here, and that is what separates this from the first game. Doctor Love still stands in for everything except the scatter, but on top of that he doubles whatever payline he completes. Land him inside a paying combo and that prize is paid at twice the value before anything else is added.

The trigger is the Surfboard scatter, not the old Love Meter. Three or more anywhere hand out four spins per surfboard, so three boards give you twelve, four give sixteen, and five push you to the maximum twenty. Every win during those spins is tripled. Now combine the two rules: a wild that doubles, sitting inside spins that triple, pays out at six times. So the run can land x6 wild wins, and since the Surfboard can reappear mid-feature, the count tops up again without ending the round.

The setting swaps the hospital for a holiday. The grid sits inside a bamboo frame against blue sky, palm fronds and a sandy beach, with the gold logo arched overhead. The cast is the same gang gone tropical: a grinning Doctor Love in sunglasses surrounded by hearts, a red-haired nurse, and a badly sunburned man clutching his chest. Around them sit the prop symbols that fill the lower pays, a pink first-aid suitcase, a striped deck chair rigged with an IV drip, a Get Well heart in a flower lei, a martini with a thermometer for a stirrer, a beach ball and a little green turtle plush.

It plays on 20 selectable lines with no buy bonus and no jackpot, so everything rides on getting three Surfboards out and hoping a wild lands during the tripled spins. If the gag-heavy tone lands, the original Doctor Love keeps the same humour in a hospital instead of on the sand.