Pirates' Plenty slot

What the Pirates' Plenty slot is about

Pirates' Plenty comes from Red Tiger, the studio founded in 2014 and owned by Evolution since December 2020. Reference listings date the game to 2018, while Red Tiger's own page gives a release date of 27 February 2019; the difference may reflect separate launch dates in different markets. The theme is a cartoon-styled treasure hunt with a ship's crew, a monkey and a ghostly captain, aimed at adult players who like a game with a sense of progress.

That sense of progress is the game's main idea. Most slots treat every spin as a closed event. Pirates' Plenty adds a collection meter, the map, which carries over from spin to spin until it is complete. Collection features like this are sometimes called persistent-state features, and they work very differently from the feature trail on a UK fruit machine, even though both show progress on screen.

How the Pirates' Plenty slot machine works

1. Set your stake. It is spread over the 20 paylines.
2. Spin. The random number generator decides the full result before the reels move.
3. Line wins pay for matching symbols from the left, as shown in the paytable.
4. Any map-piece scatter that lands advances the map one step.
5. In the base game, the Wild Monkey may appear and clear low-paying symbols.
6. Three Ocean Spins symbols start the free spins; otherwise the spin ends and, after at least 2.5 seconds, the next can begin.

The map and the sixth Treasure Reel

Map pieces land at random. Each one moves your marker along the map, and when you reach the end the game adds a sixth reel, the Treasure Reel. Red Tiger's description says that once opened it stays open, so the game is then played on a wider grid, the 6x3 layout described as an expanding reels feature. Wild Ships, carrying x2, x3 or x5 wild multipliers, only appear after this point.

A sixth reel matters because a line can now run further. A five-symbol line win can become a six-symbol win, and a Wild Ship on a winning line multiplies the result. How progress is stored, and whether it is kept separately for each stake level, is explained in the help screen; read it before changing your stake mid-session.

A nearly complete map does not make the next spin more likely to pay. Progress on the map changes which features are available, but every spin's outcome is still drawn independently.

How the Wild Monkey clears the reels

The Wild Monkey is a base-game feature. When it lands, it removes all low-paying symbols and lets higher-paying ones take their places, then stays in the position of the last symbol it removed. It is a form of symbol upgrade, because the screen is effectively refilled with better symbols.

Worked example at 50p

Imagine a spin where reels 1 to 3 show mostly low symbols with a single high-paying symbol on reel 1. The monkey lands and clears the low symbols; new symbols fall in, and two more of that high symbol appear, making a three-of-a-kind line through the monkey's final position. If that line pays 1x the stake, the 50p spin returns 50p, which UK rules treat as a return equal to the stake and so not celebrated as a win. If it had joined up four of them instead, the payout would be higher. The symbols and pays here are illustrative; the paytable lists the real ones.

Pirates' Plenty free spins: Ocean Spins and Treasure Chests

Three Ocean Spins symbols award 10 free spins. During the round the Ghostly Captain can land and hand out Treasure Chest keys. Every three keys open a chest, and each chest turns one or more low-paying symbols into wilds for the rest of the round and adds extra spins.

This is a classic symbol transformation bonus: each chest makes the reels richer for every remaining spin, so chests opened early are worth more than chests opened late. A round that finds no keys pays only ordinary line wins.

Pirates' Plenty RTP and volatility explained

The commonly listed RTP is 95.07%, while Red Tiger's current game page shows 95.70%. Red Tiger supplies several RTP variants of many games, so the figure in your casino's version could be either of these or another setting. Volatility is rated high, and Red Tiger lists a hit frequency of 32.98%, roughly one spin in three returning something, often less than the stake.

At 95.70% the same 100 spins at £1 would cost £4.30 on average, 63p less. Real sessions vary far more than that, because high volatility spreads results widely around the average.

Pirates' Plenty max win in pounds

The max win usually quoted for Pirates' Plenty is 5,000x the stake. Red Tiger's own page lists a maximum payout of 4,359x, which may relate to a different version. Here are both, at UK stakes:

Either way, it is a ceiling rather than an expectation. Our explainer on max win caps covers how and why these limits are set.

Is the Pirates' Plenty slot worth it?

The map is designed to keep you playing until it is complete, which is worth knowing in advance. Decide your budget and session length before you start, and stop when you reach either. The slot session limits guide has practical ways to do that.

Slots similar to Pirates' Plenty

Dragon's Fire and Dynamite Riches share the studio's high-volatility style, while Cash Volt is a calmer single-feature game. For a series where collection is the whole game, see ELK Studios' Pirots.

Pirates' Plenty demo: checking the RTP and rules

1. Log in to a UK-licensed casino; demo play is only available after age verification.
2. Open Pirates' Plenty and tap the information or menu icon.
3. Read how map progress is stored and whether it is linked to your stake.
4. Check the Ocean Spins rules: keys per chest and what each chest changes.
5. Find the RTP at the end of the rules and compare it with 95.07% and 95.70%.

Our guide to finding a slot's RTP explains where Red Tiger and other studios place the figure.

UK rules for the Pirates' Plenty online slot

Red Tiger's international listing shows a feature buy toggle and a stake range up to €50. Neither applies in Great Britain: slots supplied here don't offer bonus buys (see bonus buy in the UK), and the Gambling Commission's stake limit guidance (opens in a new tab) caps each spin at £5 for players aged 25 and over and £2 for those aged 18 to 24.

Since 31 October 2021, the online games design rules (opens in a new tab) have also removed autoplay, turbo and slam-stop and set a minimum spin of 2.5 seconds. Your net position and balance must be on screen throughout, which is useful in a progress-led game like this one; see the net position rule.

Where to play Pirates' Plenty in the UK

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