Pirates Pub Slot by Pragmatic Play 🎰 Free Demo and Review

Pirates Pub Review

A place like Pirates Pub is probably better to avoid unless you’re ready to play rough, and things can get quite rough in this volatile buccaneer adventure from Pragmatic Play. This pub is more of a resting place between adventures, perhaps, or where the next plundering expedition is planned out in detail. The base game is rather uneventful, but you can land decent line wins, and the wild symbol is the most lucrative symbol in this game.

Not only does it pay decent wins on its own, but it’s also instrumental in triggering the bonus round. The feature plays out in 2 stages, and you will many times not win all that much in stage 1. The idea is to land wilds to mark and/or upgrade marked positions, and the marked positions turn into wilds or additive multiplier wilds for up to 5 free spins in stage 2. This is where you get to cash in, and up to 5,000x your stake is possible via this feature.

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Pirates Pub Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 6.67 and 33.33 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the game logo Wild symbol can land anywhere to step in for pay symbols. This helps create and/or improve wins, and the wild also pays 55.56x your stake should you land 5 wilds on a payline. Wilds can do more than just substitute for winning symbols and create wins, however, as we shall see below.

You need 3 wild symbols anywhere in view on the same spin to trigger the Bonus Round, and this gives you 5, 6, 7, or 8 free spins randomly assigned. If you land 4 triggering wilds you get 8, 9, 10, or 11 free spins, also randomly assigned. Finally, landing 5 triggering wilds gives you 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15 free spins, awarded randomly as well.

The triggering wilds mark their respective positions with a frame as the bonus round starts, and all new wild symbols that appear will mark their position with a frame as well. Wilds landing in a marked position upgrades the frame, and each frame can be upgraded up to 5 times. You can retrigger the bonus round with a random amount of extra spins from the relevant range, and this happens when you land 3, 4, or 5 wilds on the same free spin.

When you run out of free spins in the first stage of the bonus round, the second stage will play out immediately. You get 2, 3, 4, or 5 free spins for the second stage, and once again the number of free spins you get are randomly assigned.

All framed positions become wild for the duration of the second stage of the feature, and the upgrade of each frame corresponds to a wild multiplier up to x5. Multiplier values are added together if more than one wild is part of the same win, and the sticky wilds pay the same as regular wilds if you land 3 to 5 wilds on a payline. They do not substitute for regular wilds, however.

On a final note, non-UK players, and anyone living in an eligible jurisdiction, can purchase the bonus round for 70x the stake. This is done via the Bonus Buy menu you may see on the left-hand side. The bonus round comes with an organic hit rate of 1 in 141 spins, which can be good to know in this context.

The 200 Spins Pirates Pub Slot Experience

You get to see a few wins here and there in the base game, before we purchase the bonus round at 0:42 into the 2:55-minute highlights video. We got 8 free spins for the first part of the feature, with 3 bottom row positions framed from the get-go. You can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The Pirates Pub certainly seems like a jolly place, a notion the soundtrack only accentuates, and it’s only too bad that the grid blocks most of the view. You don’t get to see much of what is going on in the background in other words, and nothing too exciting goes on in the base game to be honest. Wilds can help you out on occasions, and create decent line wins, but what you really want them to do is trigger the bonus round.

The more triggering wilds, the more initial free spins you stand to win from the randomized system, and stage 1 is all about racking up and upgrading frames. You want as many upgraded frames as possible, of course, and preferably on the first 3 reels. This can lead to a climactic second stage with plenty of multiplier wild payouts, and you can get away with up to 5,000x your stake on a lucky day. The max win hit rate is 1 in 7,898,894 spins, which is decent, and Pirates Pub is well worth a visit for a mood-lifting rumble or two.