Crabbin’ for Cash: Extra Big Splash

Blueprint Gaming sent its fishing formula underwater for crustaceans with Crabbin' For Cash Extra Big Splash, released in September 2023 and built on ideas carried over from its own Fishin' Frenzy series. Water, drifting weeds, tropical fish and a bobbing boat set the scene, backed by a Caribbean-flavoured soundtrack rather than the retro amusement-arcade feel of its Fishin' Frenzy relatives.

Five reels and three rows hold 10 fixed paylines, with stakes running from 0.10 up to 100 per spin. The game carries a high volatility rating and returns 94.5% to players over time, with a maximum win of €/$250,000 available.

Ten-through-ace royals form the bottom of the paytable, paying 5 to 10 times the stake for five in a row. Higher up sit crustacean-adjacent icons drawn from anchors, crab traps, life rings and a fisherman's hat, together paying 20 to 200 times the bet for a five-symbol line. Regular and Golden Fishermen act as wild, standing in for any paying symbol at the anchor's payout value, though neither appears anywhere except during free spins.

Landing three scatters opens 10 free spins, four scatters lifts that to 15, and five scatters delivers the full 20. Before the round starts, Pick a Crustacean lets the player tap a set of crustaceans to reveal upgrades, continuing until either five upgrades are active or a Start Free Spins result appears. Those upgrades can push progress along a separate fisherman trail, trigger a respin of every non-cash, non-Fisherman symbol until the result stops improving, add extra Fishermen to the reels, tag a symbol with a cash value for the Fisherman to later collect, raise the odds of Golden Fishermen appearing, or award extra free spins outright.

Once free spins are underway, both Fisherman types gather the cash value of any crustacean symbols they land beside and advance the trail with every hit. A Golden Fisherman additionally offers a choice of three crab pots, each hiding a multiplier of 2x to 10x applied to whatever is collected that spin. Collecting four, eight or twelve Fishermen across the round each grants five additional free spins and upgrades the lowest-paying crustacean to the next value tier.

Two bonus-buy options sit alongside the natural trigger: one for 100 times the stake, guaranteeing at least three scatters land to start free spins, and a second for 200 times the stake that guarantees Pick a Crustacean opens with all five upgrade picks already in play.