Jackpot Shanty Slot by Genii

Forget about looking for special jackpot symbols or color-coded tiers. The three jackpots in Jackpot Shanty are wired directly to scatter count, and the scatter is the same Jolly Roger flag in every case. Land three of them and the Minor pays 15x your bet as instant cash. Four lands the Major at 75x. Five sweeps the Mega at 500x, which is also the headline ceiling for the whole game. There are no progressive pots ticking upward and no separate symbol you're hunting for, just the same flag landing in larger groups.

Two scatters do something different. Instead of a cash payout, they fire the Respin, a single Hold-and-Spin where only Feature symbols stay live on the grid. Each one already on the board locks in place, the rest of the reels spin once more, and at the end every held flag reveals an individual cash prize scaled to your triggering bet. The respin is also a backdoor into the Minor: a third scatter sticking to the grid pushes you over the three-flag threshold and pays the 15x outright. So two scatters is never a dead trigger, it's both a small prize-reveal round and a fresh swing at the lowest jackpot.

The Wild is the pirate ship with the skull-and-crossbones flag flying off its mast, and it only appears on reels 2, 3, and 4. Reels 1 and 5 are wild-free, which is unusual enough to flag because it means a five-in-a-row hit on the top regular symbol, the Captain portrait at 800 coins, has to come the hard way without substitution help on the outer reels. Nine paying regulars round out the paytable and the full coin ceiling sits at 104,575, which only happens via a Mega trigger paid at maximum bet. There is no buy bonus.

The setting is the deck of a pirate ship looking out to sea, with mounted cannons on the rail, white sails rolled at the corners, and rope rigging running up either side. A distant tall ship sails past on the right horizon, a tropical beach island sits on the left, and the symbols mix premium pirate art (a Jack Sparrow-style captain in tricorn and bandana, a parrot wearing its own pirate hat, a gold-encrusted iron hook, a brass treasure lantern) with cracked stone J/Q/K/A block letters in gold, green, red and purple. It's a Saucify-engine release, which shows in the chunky symbol art and the slightly old-school 40-line, fixed-payline structure rather than the ways or cluster math Genii have used on flashier 2025 titles. If you came for the pirate aesthetic and a clean jackpot chase, that's exactly what's on offer.