Smooth Sailing

Gold Coin Studios puts players aboard a cruise ship bound for warmer waters in Smooth Sailing, captained by a ticket-wielding host who hands out the keys to the game's free spins. The 5-reel, 20-payline grid runs on the studio's Connectify Pays system, and wins are formed the usual way — matching symbols landing on adjacent reels from left to right along an active line.

Nine-to-Ace royals sit at the bottom of the paytable, worth 5-7.5x the stake in the base game and roughly double that during free spins. Above them sit a bell, a ship's wheel, an anchor and the captain's hat, paying 25 to 50x for five of a kind and outvaluing the royals once free spins are running. A wild lands anywhere on the reels during the base game only, substitutes for any regular symbol, and pays up to 1,000x for a full line of five.

Free spins can be triggered two ways: three ship scatters award 10 free spins regardless of bet type, or, if the optional Gold Coin Bet is switched on for a 1.5x stake increase, ticket scatters are added to the reels and three of them trigger the same 10-spin round. Inside the feature, the Connectify Pays boats on the side of the screen build toward their listed prizes as matching symbols land across a payline from left to right, and a x2 icon on the final reel doubles any five-symbol Connectify win; the round can also retrigger.

Smooth Sailing runs a high-volatility math model behind its cheerful presentation, paying up to 6,000x the stake (€240,000 on a full bet) with a hit frequency of 38.04%. Its default RTP is 96.22%, though a lower 94.19% configuration also exists, and stakes run from 0.20 to 40 per spin.