Crabbin Crazy Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Crabbin' Crazy Review

The game slogan ‘Let’s Catch Crabs’ seems innocent enough, at least until you see other splash screen slogans like ‘Itching to play’ and ‘Show me your tackle’. This somewhat subtle and humorous play on words sets the tone perfectly for the crab fishing expedition you’re in for in Crabbin' Crazy. iSoftBet has managed to capture the cozy atmosphere that keeps people flocking to the original Fishin' Frenzy, while expanding and experimenting a bit in the features department.

You’re kept warm in the base game by the randomly triggered Pick a Crab feature, which dishes out 1 of 4 unique extras like a Let's Catch Crabs game and stacked wilds. The bonus round tips the hat to NetEnt’s Twin Spin, while the main attraction - the Let’s Go Crabbin’ Hold & Win game - comes with 7 charming crab types and a fisherman modifier that makes the feature stick out from the run-of-the-mill efforts we see all the time.

Crabbin' Crazy Slot - Reels Screen

Crabbin' Crazy Slot Features

You win between 6 and 16 x your stake when you land 5 matching premium symbols on a payline, and they consist of worms on a hook, fishing rods, rowboats and crab claws. The bearded fisherman holding a golden crab trophy is the Wild symbol, and it steps in for all pay symbols to help complete winning combinations. The Wild also pays 20x your stake for 5 of a kind wins.

The Pick A Crab feature triggers at random times, and you’ll then pick 1 of 3 crabs that appear on the screen. This awards one of the following features:

• Let's Catch Crabs - the fisherman wild lands to collect the cash prize from 3 to 4 guaranteed crab symbols.
• Bonus Add - adds extra bonus scatters to reels 1, 3 and 5, and this may help trigger the bonus round.
• Stacked Wilds - adds super stacked wilds to the reels, and this guarantees at least 2 fully stacked wild reels.
• Win Spin - adds mystery boxes randomly to the reels, and they all turn into the same randomly chosen matching pay symbol for a guaranteed win.

Crabbin' Crazy Slot - Pick A Crab Feature

You need the fishing boat bonus scatter on reels 1, 3 and 5 at the same time to trigger the Free Spins Frenzy bonus round (hit rate: 1 in 362 spins), and this awards 8 free spins.

You get random synced reels per spin during the feature, and up to all 5 reels can be synced with maximum luck. Synced reels display the same symbols, and the bonus round cannot be retriggered.

The Let’s Go Crabbin’ Hold & Win feature (hit rate: 1 in 191 spins) triggers when you land 5+ crab symbols anywhere in view. The triggering crabs become sticky on an otherwise cleared grid, and you start with 3 respins. The respins tally resets for every new sticky crab you land. There are 7 different crab types, and they each come with a minimum value that’s on display on the ‘Today’s Catch’ board to the left.

The top-tier crab is worth 1,000x your stake, while the 6 other crabs range from a minimum of 1x to a minimum of 50x your stake.

If you land the fisherman modifier symbol, all present crab values are collected and the sticky crabs are then removed. This opens up the grid to allow for even more crabs to land. The feature ends when you run out of respins, and your total payout is then summed up.

The 200 Spins Crabbin' Crazy Slot Experience

The Pick A Crab feature triggered on a regular basis for us, and this is also how the 4:23-minute highlights video starts. Nothing came from it the first time though, but you can see the Let's Catch Crabs feature at the 1:15-mark. We skip to the Let’s Go Crabbin’ Hold & Win feature right after, and the bonus round starts around the 3-minute mark. Check it all out by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

While the humorous references to a less desirable form of ‘crabs’ is not lost on us, we first and foremost fell for the cozy charm contained in iSoftBet’s Crabbin' Crazy. You get just enough fisherman action commentary at the right junctures to feel charmed, but not annoyed, and the Pick a Crab feature livens up the base game on a regular basis. Of course, the Fishin’ Frenzy influence more than shines through, but we don’t see this as a copycat effort.

Making it about crabs, instead of fish, is clever in that regard as well, and we only wish this medium to high volatility release came with a more impressive potential than 1,268x your stake.

The Let’s Go Crabbin’ Hold & Win feature is fun because of all the different crabs, like taxi crab, crabrador and shish crabob, to name a few, and the collector fisherman clearing the grid is a somewhat original touch. Overall, Crabbin' Crazy is well-worth trying, not least for fans of the Fishin’ Frenzy saga.

Pros

• Random Pick a Crab awards 1 of 4 features
• Free spins w/ up to 5 synced reels per spin
• Hold & Win crab catching w/ fisherman collect/clear

Cons

• The 1,268x max win is a bit low for medium/high volatility

If you enjoy Crabbin' Crazy Slot you should also try:

Fishin' Frenzy - is the highly popular 2014 original release from Reel Time Gaming, and it’s going strong as ever due to the cozy, charming atmosphere. The reel ‘em bonus round is all about cash fish catching, and you get a more forgiving low/medium volatility combined with a decent 2,000x potential.

Big Fin Bay - is Thunderkick’s take on the popular fishin’ genre, and it plays out on 6 reels with 5,040 pay ways in the base game. Wilds expand to cover the full reel when part of a win, and this can expand the grid with up to 117,649 win ways in the bonus round. In addition, bonus round wilds trigger respins, and you can win up to 15,040x your stake.

Fishin’ Bonanza - is an Ash Gaming (Playtech) Fishin’ Frenzy inspired installment, and it comes with 5x3 reels and 10 betlines. It’s all about the bonus round, where collected scatters upgrade cash fish prizes and award extra spins.

You can win gold fish jackpots up to 500x, and the overall max win is 2,000x your stake.

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