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out of the ice slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

I wasn’t sure if the creatures displayed on the reels of Out of the Ice were supposed to represent actual earthbound organisms found deep in the polar regions. Thankfully, the paytable gave me a helping hand before I made a fool of myself trying to assign names to these strange looking animals! The Purple, Green, and Blue Dragons at the top of the paytable put paid to any debate right away – these creatures might be inspired by earth-like creatures (there’s some pretty alien-looking madness living deep down in the oceans, you know…) but they certainly aren’t meant to directly represent anything alive today. Overall, whilst there are plenty of other “ice-themed” online slots, there is something unique about Out of the Ice which kind of puts it in a theme category all of its own.

Let’s have another look at that paytable… that’s the one mentioned in the previous paragraph that begins with “here be dragons”.  Well, there are actually two symbols that precede the dragons, but don’t have any actual payout attached to them. Instead, we have a female “Merfolk Multiplier” who can award multipliers of 2x, 3x, 4x, or 6x, and a male one that boasts bigger multipliers of 8x, 10x, 20x, and 40x. Shhhh… nobody tell the feminists… it’s the patriarchy all over again! The actual paying symbols are topped by the Purple Dragon, who awards 10x your stake for five of a kind, followed by the Green Dragon at 3.75x, and the Blue Dragon at 2.5x. As you can see, the paytable tapers off quickly in the Out of the Ice video slot.

A single selector is used to choose your bet size, which can range between €0.20 per spin all the way up to €100.00 per spin. The steps are nicely small and granular towards the bottom end of this scale but start to jump wildly towards the top end – for example, the option before €100.00 per spin is €50.00 per spin. This isn’t likely to bother many players, however – only those with money to burn can afford to be betting those kinds of numbers on a single spin. 

base game & modifiers

Out of the Ice video slot is yet another slot with three to five rows and five reels… wait, three to five rows? Yes, don’t be misled here – this isn’t your typical 5x3 playfield online slot. The nearest match to its design that I can think of would be NetEnt’s Motorhead slot, which also used a design where the reels would get taller towards the right-hand side of the screen. 

In Out of the Ice, the initial set up is two reels of three symbols, two reels of four symbols, and a final single reel made up of five symbols. This gives a total of 76 pay ways, but the configuration expands and contracts whenever the game awards re-spins. If you make it to a fourth re-spin all five reels are expanded to a height of five, for a total of 259 pay ways. This same configuration is also used during the free spin bonus round.

Note that Out of the Ice uses an adjacent payways mechanic that I have only seen previously on one other game. The name of the other game escapes me, but the way this works is that only pay ways where symbols are adjacent to each other from left to right are valid. A useful diagram of how this works is included in the games paytable, if you have difficulty imagining how this works.

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