Introduction to Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot!
Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot! is a casino slot from Nailed It! Games with a bonus game, looking like the strategy type guessing game, Battleship. It’s a game of two players where you shoot missiles at the other player’s gameboard, hoping to hit one of the ships he has placed on his board. You take turns, so then it’s time for the other player to shoot on your board with the intention of sinking your ships. Battleship is a pencil and paper game dating back to World War I, but is today typically played on a gameboard.
The bonus game will also feel familiar if you’ve played Riptide Pirates or Riptide Pirates 2: Kraken Riches. Let’s see what’s new in this latest release.
Theme, Gameplay, and Payouts
Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot! is a video slot from Nailed It! Games featuring 5 reels, 3 rows, and 20 paylines. The Min.bet is 0.2, and the Max.bet is 40. The game has an RTP of 96.04%, and the volatility is high. Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot! has a max win of 6,088x the bet, and the hit frequency is 29.45%.
When you open the game, you will see three cannons pointed towards a game board of burning ships. These cannons are then moved to the top of the screen, and the game’s five black reels pop up beneath. The background has a close-up picture of a burning ship with small fire sparks traveling upwards. To the left is a display of the jackpots, with the 5,000x Mega Jackpot at the top. To make a win, you need to land 3 or more matching symbols on one of the 20 paylines going left to right. All wins must start on the leftmost reel, and you can access the game on mobile phones, tablets, and desktop computers.
The lower-paying symbols in Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot! are 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A. They pay 1.2x the bet for a 5-of-a-kind win. The higher-paying symbols are two male pirates, two female pirates, and an undead pirate. They pay between 2x and 5x the bet for wins of 5 symbols. The Wild Symbol substitutes all symbols except the Bonus Symbol.
Special Features & Slot Mechanics
What is the max win in the slot Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot!?
You can win up to 6,088x the bet.
What features are available in the slot Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot!?
The features are Wild Symbols, Bonus Symbols, Bonus Game, Reset Counter, Bonus Recharge, Feature Buy, and Boost.
Wild Symbols
Wild symbols are used in place of all the regular symbols to help complete winning combinations, but they can’t substitute for Bonus symbols. Wild symbols occur only in the base game.
Bonus Symbols
There are three Bonus symbols, each of which is associated with a different cannon used in the Bonus Game. When a Bonus symbol appears in the base game, it is gathered up for the cannon that matches it.
The more Bonus symbols you collect, the greater the chance that its associated cannon will be activated when the Bonus Game starts. Each Bonus symbol also has the possibility of triggering the Bonus Game.
Bonus Game
The Bonus Game is played on a sea grid of 100 positions in a 10x10 formation, containing boats, Jackpot ships, treasure chests, and various other prizes. The Bonus symbol, which sets off the feature, determines which of the three cannons will be active. Just one cannon can be used in each Bonus Game.
Each cannon has a fixed number of shots and fires at random targets upon the board. When a target is hit, the number of shots is reset to the amount from which it started.
The Jackpot Cannon hits a Jackpot ship on its first shot and begins by firing three shots. The Chest Cannon hits a treasure chest first and also starts with three shots. The 4 Shot Cannon begins with four shots and fires at random from the outset.
The 28 standard boats give out prizes worth between 2x and 10x the bet when they are sunk. There are also four Jackpot ships, each consisting of a number of sections and giving out a bigger prize when all the sections of the ship have been destroyed. The ship with one section pays out 15x the bet, the two-section ship pays 50x, the three-section ship pays 200x, and the four-section ship awards the highest prize of 5,000x the bet. If you hit part of a ship without sinking it, you receive 1 times your bet for each section destroyed, with the exception of the last shot, which sinks the ship.
Six treasure chests may also show up, each one holding a different bonus modifier. The chests are worth between 10x and 100x the bet. The Prize Booster immediately adds to your winnings 2x, 3x, 5x, or 10x your bet and raises all the regular boat prizes by the same amount. The Continuous Prize Booster works in a similar way but keeps on increasing the boat prizes after each turn for the rest of the feature.
The Jackpot Hunter feature causes one of the sections on each Jackpot ship to be hit immediately, pays out 2x the bet right away, and multiplies all the other remaining boat prizes. Cluster bombs blow up between three and five boats at a time, and if all of the boats have already been sunk, then no further shots are fired.
A bonus modifier can only be obtained once in the same bonus game. The Bonus Game concludes when you have used up all your shots or when all the boats and Jackpot ships have been destroyed.
Reset Counter
The Reset Counter shows up once you have finished your first Bonus Game and then counts down while the base game is in progress, decreasing by one for each spin. If another Bonus Game starts before the counter reaches zero, you continue with the same Bonus Game board exactly where you left off. Once the feature ends, the countdown continues with your next base game spin.
When the counter reaches zero before a further Bonus Game is triggered, the whole Bonus Game board is reset, and all progress is cleared. The counter then remains inactive until the next Bonus Game starts.
After each activation, the reset timer increases in length: the first countdown is for 100 spins, the second is for 125 spins, the third is for 150 spins, and all the subsequent activations last 200 spins.
The progress you make won't be reset by changing your bet, and the Reset Counter remains unchanged while the Bonus Game is active.
Bonus Recharge
The Bonus Recharge pops up when you finish the Bonus Game, offering you the chance to continue playing for a preset cost. If you reject, your winnings will be paid out, and you return to the base game.
Feature Buy
You can buy direct access to the Bonus Game for the price indicated in the game. The cost differs depending on your progress. As soon as it is activated, the Bonus Game begins with one of the three cannons being chosen at random.
Boost
The Boost Feature costs 2.5x your base bet and increases your chances of triggering the Bonus Game. It doesn’t affect the paytable.
Final Thoughts on Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot!
Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot! focuses as much on giving you pleasant reels to spin as loading up the cannons and turning your visit to the casino into a high-stakes naval warfare scenario. Since it has high volatility, you could end up spending some time watching your coins disappear like smoke rising from a sinking ship, but that 6,088x max win is the treasure chest at the end of the rainbow, or in this instance, the burning horizon.
The highlight of the game is the bonus round in the form of a Battleship-style game, in which you get the chance to blow up ships and search for jackpots on a 10 by 10 grid. It's quite satisfying to see the destruction take place, particularly when a Cluster Bomb is landed, and half of the enemy fleet disappears in a burst of digital gunpowder. The Reset Counter lets you continue from where you left off if you activate the feature again soon after, although if you wait for too long, the entire board will be reset and you'll be back at the starting point.
The feature is very similar to the Bonus Game in Riptide Pirates. The jackpots, the chests, and the multipliers are the same, but you have some new additions too. In the forerunner, you can also activate up to four cannons in the bonus game, but you’re only able to master one of the three guns in this one.
Riptide Pirates 3: Cannons Hot! by Nailed It! Games replaces the usual Free Spins feature with chaotic cannon fire, so each bonus round feels like a somewhat pyromaniac board game.
