Crabbin’ Crazy 2 Crabbin’ Bonanza!

Out on open water rather than a beach, iSoftBet's sequel Crabbin' Crazy 2 Crabbin' Bonanza! swaps the original's cartoon seaside for a glossier, more rounded art style, complete with a fishing boat rocking on one side of the screen and a lighthouse standing guard on the other. An upbeat score keeps pace with the visuals throughout.

The reels hold five columns and three rows, resolved across 20 fixed paylines that pay for three-of-a-kind or better. Stakes range from 0.20 to 20 per spin, and an optional Crabbin' License side bet adds 25% to that stake in exchange for four respins instead of three whenever the game's hold-and-win round triggers. Return to player runs at 95.93% with the side bet switched off, rising to 96.01% when it's active, and volatility stays toward the lower-medium end of the scale either way.

Ten-to-ace symbols make up the low-value end of the paytable, worth 2.5 to 5 times the stake for a five-of-a-kind line. Worms, fishing reels, crab pincers and a fishing boat form the premium set, paying 7.5 to 20 times the bet for the same five-symbol combination. A wild appears across all five reels, substituting for any of the above and worth up to 25 times the stake when it fills a full line by itself.

Four bonus mechanics sit outside the base paytable. Mystery Crates can land on the reels and convert every crate into a single matching symbol. A Taxi Crab — a taxi driven by a crab — can turn up on an otherwise losing spin and flip it into either a win or a feature trigger. Pick A Bucket brings the fisherman character into play: he offers a choice of three buckets, each hiding one of five outcomes — two or more reels syncing to the same symbols, a fisherman collector on reel one that gathers up the value of any crabs already showing (excluding the Super Crab and Uni Crab types), a 3x3 colossal symbol standing in for anything but a crab, a held-and-respun combination that keeps respinning while it keeps improving, or a straightforward Mystery Crate conversion to a single symbol.

The main event, Crabbin' Crazy 2 Crabbin' Bonanza!'s signature round, is Crabbin' Bonanza Respins, needing five or more crab symbols in view to start. Three respins follow as standard, four if the side bet is active, and every fresh crab that lands resets the countdown. Once the respins run out, every symbol still on the grid pays its value; if the fisherman himself has landed in the meantime, he gathers every crab value first and clears space for more to drop. Landing a Super Crab doubles the value of everything currently in view — the fisherman included — before revealing its own prize of 10x, 25x or 50x the stake. Between the 32% hit frequency and the 2,000x ceiling, wins tend to arrive often and in smaller measures, with the bonanza round doing the heavy lifting on the bigger ones.