Ocean Oddities

Ocean Oddities: A Doubling That Applies Across Several Lines at Once

The wild in this quirky underwater slot has a reach most doubling wilds do not. Rex the Dogshark appears on reels two through five and substitutes for every symbol including the scattered Pearls, and during free games every combination he helps complete has its prize doubled.

The phrase worth focusing on is that the doubling can apply across several paylines at once. On twenty-five variable paylines, a single wild position sits on multiple lines simultaneously, so one Rex landing during the bonus can double each of the combinations passing through it rather than just one. That multiplies his effect by however many lines he intersects, which is why the free games hold the bulk of the game's potential rather than the base reels.

His substitution for the scattered Pearls is also unusual. Scatters are normally exempt from wild substitution precisely because allowing it makes the bonus easier to reach. Here Rex can help produce the three Pearls needed to trigger ten free games, so he contributes to both the trigger and the round itself.

One detail runs against the usual convention: all symbols, Pearls included, pay from left to right. Scatters in most games pay from any position, and here they do not, which makes the trigger a directional requirement rather than a free count anywhere on the board.

Further Pearl scatters can retrigger the round for an extended run.

Two progressive jackpots run alongside the main game, a Major starting at $1,000 and a Minor at $250, both awarded randomly regardless of bet size.

No volatility rating is listed. The listed top award is 40,000 times your bet per line.

Ocean Oddities suits players who appreciate that a wild's value depends on how many lines it touches rather than simply on its multiplier, and who will note that Rex covering four of five reels gives him a great deal of that reach. Anyone assuming the Pearls pay from anywhere on the board, as scatters normally do, should check that assumption here, because the left-to-right requirement makes the trigger meaningfully harder than a standard scatter count would be.