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Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum! That’s the music I hear each time I start playing the Pink Beard pokie. There are plenty of things that remind me of the Pirates of the Caribbean in this slot. First, Captain Pink Beard is guarding golden coins with human skulls on them. Next, there is the Kraken that attacks the ship.
You will be arriving just at the moment when the Kraken is grabbing our beloved captain. On the other side of the ship, his loyal parrot is sleeping, as if nothing is happening. Now, Captain Pink Beard does not expect you to save him. He just wants you to save the loot before it is too late.
At first glance, it seems that our captain lacks a proper crew. He is the only human on the deck. Other pirates have either escaped or finished at the bottom of the sea. All Pink Beard has left is a bottle of rum, an old compass, and a couple of bombs.
The most important item on the ship is the treasure chest. He has several important roles in this story. Apart from being a Wild, it also acts as a Scatter that triggers additional features. Simple playing cards are used as low-value symbols.
If you want to stay on this ship, you need to obey the commands. So, everything your captain says – you do. Otherwise, you will walk the plank. The Pink Beard slot is played on a 5×3 grid and offers 10 fixed paylines. The PoggiPlay product pays both ways. This means that you can form winning combos starting from the leftmost reel and vice versa.
You need at least 3 matching symbols on a payline to win a payout. When you set your bet, you are ready to hit the Spin button. Or activate up to 1,000 automatic spins if you don’t want to spin the reels yourself.
If you obey the rules and catch the Kraken, you may pocket as much as 1,090x the bet in this medium-variance pokie. Pink Beard RTP is 94.58%.
Even though it looks a bit sus how the Kraken is holding captain Pink Beard, believe me when I tell you that the creature will not harm him. The Kraken is there to guard the treasure and save the golden coins.
You will be opening treasure chests to discover Expanding Wild Multipliers, Scatters, and Sticky Wilds. The latter appears only in the Free Spins feature. It is up to you whether you will wait for the Free Spins feature to be triggered regularly, or you will simply buy the feature.
Treasure chest Wilds only appear on the 3 central reels. Once a Wild lands on the grid, it will expand to cover the entire reel. Each time a Wild is a part of the winning combo, the treasure chest will open. If it displays coins, the Wild will reveal a 2x, 3x, 4x, or 5x multiplier.
If more Wilds are included in the same winning combination, they are added together. I was fortunate to get 3 Expanding Wilds at the same time in the base game. Several treasure chests revealed multipliers, a total of 10x. I won 90x in that round.
When 3 or more Wilds are opened in the same spin, you trigger the Free Spins feature. So, this means that you need to land a winning combo with 3 Wilds and those 3 Wilds have to open in order for you to get between 5 and 15 free spins.
In the Free Spins feature, you get more chances to land Wilds than in the base game. Again, Wilds appear on the 3 central reels. When you land them, they expand. However, the unused Wilds (the Wilds that are not part of any winning combination), remain locked on the reels.
So, we have Sticky Wilds that are removed from the grid only when they become a part of the winning combo. On every spin, you are guaranteed at least 1 Expanding Wild on the central reels. I didn’t have much luck with this feature. I triggered free spins only twice and didn’t get many multipliers. My biggest win was 150x.
For a price of 50x the bet, you can buy 10 free spins. As I said many times before, the option to buy the feature in most cases is not worth the money. However, since it took me so long to trigger free spins regularly, I tried the option several times. I won more than 50x only once.
I always love a good pirate story. Even though I am afraid of deep water, I enjoy spending time on a ship. Especially if I have a life jacket I can count on, eh? The Pink Beard pokie is something that you should definitely check out.
It houses great visuals and a very good soundtrack. The reels run as smoothly as possible thanks to the excellent quality of the slot.
Even though I didn’t have plenty of luck with free spins, my favourite part is the Free Spins feature with Expanding Wilds that can turn into Multiplier Wilds and Sticky Wilds.
Also, Expanding Wilds may come with decent multipliers in the base game and deliver tasty wins while you wait for the Free Spins to be triggered. I rate the Pink Beard slot 7.6.
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