Jurassic Island Slot by Playtech

A moustached Victorian big-game hunter sits to the left of the reels, monocle screwed in and rifle across his knee, while a green-mohawked raptor rears up on the right. Behind them, dusty red-rock canyons and a smoking volcano sit under a pink-orange dusk. The high-paying symbols are painted dinosaurs, the green-crested raptor leading, then a purple raptor and a blue feathered archaeopteryx, with a parasaurolophus and a red pterodactyl below them. The card royals underneath are assembled from white bones, which is a nice touch for a low-symbol set that usually gets ignored.

The wild only turns up on the middle three reels, never the outer pair. When it lands it comes in stacked and expands to cover the whole reel, so a single hit on reel three can complete several of the 25 lines at once. That is the main way the base game builds a decent hit, since the raw symbol pays are modest until you reach five of the top raptor.

The triceratops-skull scatter does double duty. Land three and the free games open, four pushes the count higher, five hands you thirty spins. Before the round starts you choose between two modes, and they pay in different shapes. Multiplier Free Games runs the spins with a win multiplier attached to every result. Carnivore Free Games skips the multiplier and instead crowds the reels with the high-value meat-eaters, thinning out the bone royals so more of your spins land in premium territory. Same trigger, two ways to cash it in.

The skull also feeds the Hot Shot Hunter, a shooting pick round where you fire at targets to uncover instant cash amounts. No buy option and no jackpot here, so everything runs off the scatters and that expanding wild, with the ceiling set at 5,000x the total bet.