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rex the hunt slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

During the 1990s, there was a period that could reasonably be described as “dinosaur mania”, no doubt triggered by the hype surrounding the first Jurassic Park movie. This so-called dinosaur mania eventually died down around a year after the film was released and was never reignited despite numerous sequels doing their best to rekindle the public’s interest in all things dinosaur related. By the time online casino gaming became popular around a decade later, most of us had developed a take-it-or-leave-it attitude to the whole thing. Despite this, several dinosaur-themed games have been released over the years, including a licensed Jurassic Park slot by Microgaming, PG Soft’s Jurassic Kingdom, and Push Gaming’s Dinopolis.

The dinosaur hunter sits at the head of the paytable, but his top payout of only 10x your total stake for six of a kind is unlikely to turn many heads. Things head downhill quickly from there, too, with the T-Rex paying just 3x your bet for a full payway of six symbols. Smaller dinosaurs on the paytable include Triceratops with a return of 2.5x the bet, what looks to be a Raptor of sorts at 2.2x, and then a rather angry looking bird with a payout of 2x the current stake for a full payway. At the low end of the table, we have five standard royal symbols with six of a kind payouts ranging from 0.7x to 1.5x the total bet, along with a final surprise – the wild is positioned at the bottom of the table for some reason, despite it matching the top symbol payout of 10x your bet.

A decent range of wagers is available, starting at a minimum bet of €0.10 per round and maxing out at a plentiful €100.00 for each spin. It would be nice if Thunderkick had allowed players to select a few more intermediate bets at the lower end of the range, but that is becoming a common bugbear of mine with most developers just recently.

base game & modifiers

One of the first things you will notice after loading Rex the Hunt for the first time is sure to be the unusually shaped reel set. The playfield consists of six reels, the first and last of which feature three rows each, whilst the four in the centre are slightly taller at four rows each. This would usually result in a total of 2,304 payways; however, in this case, the developer has opted for what it calls “connecting pay ways”, which are analogous to the so-called “adjacent payways” you might have seen used in a handful of other slots.

With connecting payways, winning combinations require all symbols to be located on a row and column that is adjacent to the previous symbol – the term “connecting payways” is actually a pretty good one in this case, as all of the available payways do indeed connect directly on either side of each reel position. The unusual payout mechanic drops the number of winning payways down to 178, and whilst this does make it a little more challenging to hit a winning combination, it also has the side effect of increasing the amount that each of those wins is worth.

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