Lobster Bob’s Crazy Crab Shack

Reel Kingdom’s massive claim to fame is their mega successful fishing slot series that started with Big Bass Bonanza, but Lobster Bob’s Crazy Crab Shack is not really another installment in that range. We admittedly thought so at first glance, but this is more of a 9 Masks Of Fire-inspired effort than anything else. The subsea setting is teeming with life and colorful symbols, and Lobster Bob is a happy chap sporting a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses.

The Crab Shack prize ladder can be seen on the left-hand side, and crabs crawl into the bottom of it when you land 3 to 9 crab symbols in view. This lights up the corresponding instant prize on the ladder, and you can win up to 2,000x your stake this way in the base game. The bonus round comes with a multiplier of x2 or x3, and it also applies to instant crab prizes. This subtle, yet significant, twist makes Lobster Bob’s Crazy Crab Shack stick out from most 9MOF copycat efforts, and it’s therefore well worth checking out.

Lobster Bob’s Crazy Crab Shack Slot Features

Keeping the Ante Bet active will cost you 50 % more per spin, and the benefit is that your bonus round chances are increased by an unspecified amount. The premium symbols pay between 7.5 and 37.5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and Lobster Wild symbols step in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve line wins. Wilds pay up to 125x your stake, but this requires 5 wilds on the same payline.

The Crab Symbol Instant Wins feature triggers when you land at least 3 Crab symbols in view, and the number of crab symbols correspond to an instant prize as seen on the left-hand side prize ladder. More precisely, you win 1x, 5x, 15x, 40x, 100x, 500x, or 2,000x your stake from 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 crab symbols anywhere in view, respectively.

You get a respin if you land exactly 2 scatter symbols in view, and they can nudge one position down without dropping off the grid. The triggering scatter reels nudge down, while the other reels respin, and this can help trigger the bonus round. The crab symbol instant prizes are collected and paid as usual, as well.

The Free Spins Bonus Round triggers from 3 scatters in view, and they appear on reels 2, 3, and 4 only. A bonus wheel spins to give you 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, or 30 free spins, as well as a randomly assigned win multiplier of x2 or x3.

The multiplier will not only boost any line win during the bonus round, but also any instant crab prize wins. Retriggering the bonus round gives you a new spin on the FS and multiplier wheel after the current round is finished. Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can purchase the feature for 100x the stake.

The 200 Spins Lobster Bob’s Crazy Crab Shack Slot Experience

You get a decent taste of the base game, before we purchase and trigger the free spins round at 0:45 into the 3:23-minute highlights video. We got 10 free spins and an x2 win multiplier from the bonus wheel, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

While many fishing slots, and not least the Big Bass Bonanza range, come with a laidback and cozy atmosphere, Lobster Bob’s Crazy Crab Shack comes across as a bit too much in your face “charming”. It’s like it’s trying too hard to compete for attention, and we got a visual overload from all the colorful stuff going on at the same time. The game is also heavily inspired by Gameburger’s smash hit, 9 Masks Of Fire, although it’s admittedly kind of fun to see the crabs crawl into the instant prize meter each time you land an instant prize.

Still, the prizes don’t go higher than 2,000x in the base game, same as in the obvious source of inspiration, but the big difference is that also the instant crab prizes are subject to the bonus round win multiplier. This bumps the max win up to a respectable 6,000x your stake, which makes Lobster Bob’s Crazy Crab Shack a decent competitor to 9MOF. Another detail to notice is that the FS multipliers are randomly assigned, and not fixed to a number of spins. We don’t think it’s enough to threaten the kings of the instant jackpot genre though, but some players might be amused by what’s on offer here.