Soaked By Seamen bonus modes, and what each shortcut costs

Rigged spins vs super rigged spins

Three bonus symbols award five spins. Four award eight, and those eight are a different proposition: the stronger mode hands out more frames per spin on average. In both, position multipliers are kept for the whole feature instead of clearing between spins, and every further bonus symbol that lands adds one more spin.

Five spins sounds thin and is not, for the same reason the base game is not thin: the respin chain runs inside the feature too. A paying spin in a feature can resolve into four or five separate events, each raising positions that the next spin will land on. The number on the counter is the number of starts, not the number of things that will happen.

Boosters and bonus buys, priced in a ladder

There are four priced entries and they are not variations on one button. The cheapest costs two and a half times the base bet and guarantees a bonus symbol in one particular place on the board — one symbol, not a feature. The next costs forty times the base bet and guarantees an opening spin that starts with four coconuts and one banana already on it.

The third costs four hundred times the base bet for the same idea at a larger scale: ten coconuts and one banana on the opening spin. The fourth costs three thousand times the base bet and does something different in kind — it starts a spin with a multiplier of fifteen already on every position of the board.

Read that ladder as prices rather than as features and it tells you something useful. Two and a half gets you a chance at the feature. Forty and four hundred get you the coconut values, which are the five-to-one-hundred steps described on the symbols page. Three thousand gets you the board itself.

The side bet that pays on a named outcome

Separately from all of that, the game sells an add-on that raises the cost of every spin and pays a fixed amount if a specified thing happens, on top of whatever else the spin pays. The named outcomes are things you can count: at least five frames in one spin, at least seven, at least ten, a position reaching a multiplier of twenty or more, and a banana expanding.

More than one of these can be placed at once, and the cost and the payout depend on which outcome is chosen. What makes it unusual is that it is a bet on the machinery rather than on a result — you are not backing a win, you are backing the frame count.

Whether that is clever or expensive is a matter of taste, and both opinions are easy to find. What is not a matter of taste is the arithmetic: every add-on raises the per-spin cost, and a per-spin cost is the one number in gambling that compounds without any help.

What a 3,000x entry means at the smallest stake

The studio publishes the stake interval in euros, from twenty cents to one hundred. Take the floor of that interval, the cheapest spin the game will sell you, and the four entry prices come out at fifty cents, eight euros, eighty euros and six hundred euros.

At the top of the interval the same four come out at two hundred and fifty, four thousand, forty thousand and three hundred thousand. Nobody is clicking the last of those, which is rather the point of writing it down: a multiple of the base bet is a number that stays small-looking at every stake, and the thing it multiplies does not.

What those sums are in pounds is between your operator and your account, and nothing on this page can tell you. The ratios are fixed; the currency is not.

Reading a price before you pay it

All four entries, the add-on and the offered extra spin share one property: they are priced against a board you can see, at a moment when that board looks promising. That is not a trick, it is the design, and it works because it is honest about what it is selling.

The defence is arithmetic rather than willpower. Convert the multiple into the currency of your account once, at the start, and the ladder stops being four buttons and becomes four prices. Most people find that two of them disappear immediately.