Lucky Bass: Mega Cash Collect Slot by Playtech

The base game runs the same Cash Collect loop Playtech drops onto theme after theme. A Cash Collect symbol lands on reel 1 or reel 5 and sweeps up every coin sitting on the board: the green Cash Bass coins, the blue swordfish Free Games coins, and the Diamond. Two Cash Collects in view? Both collect the full board. Pair a Diamond with a Cash Collect and you also grab one of four fixed prizes at random, Mini, Minor, Major or Grand. Those aren't progressive, and they can land again and again.

The base spins don't do much beyond that, and that's the honest catch here. Nearly everything worth chasing lives inside the Cash Collect Free Games, so getting in is most of the game. A Cash Collect on reel 1 or 5 gathers the swordfish coins, and their combined values set your spin count. Above the normal reels sit extra rows, locked at the start. When a Cash Collect lands next to a Harpoon coin it strips a lock away from the bottom up, and clearing the top lock uncovers a frozen Cash Collect waiting there. Every Cash Collect that drops sticks for 3 spins, or 5 if it lands on that top row, so a long round keeps more collectors live on the grid.

Three extras ride along in the bonus. Dropping Wilds pour a stack of Wilds down the reels and add an additive multiplier up to x3. A Cash Spreader scatters loose coins across the board, then becomes one itself. And Bubble Catch is the clever one: a bubble carries a caught coin upward each spin, and a cash coin trapped in a bubble doubles its value every time it's collected until it grows into a Diamond. On any spin, a Fish Swarm or Harpoon can toss in stacked Wilds, drop an extra Cash Collect or coin, or boost the values already showing. The Wild fills in for everything except the Cash Collect and the coins, which keeps the collect maths clean.

Prefer not to grind base spins? There's a Buy Feature straight into the Free Games and an Extra Bet that widens the trigger odds. The setting is cheerful stuff: turquoise water over a sandy reef, purple and pink corals and swaying kelp, with a pipe-smoking old fisherman in a yellow raincoat and a dollar-sign bucket hat parked beside the reels.