Boulder Bucks
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Overall impression
| Game Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Boulder Bucks |
| Software: | Barcrest |
| Game Type: | Video slot |
| Paylines: | 10 |
| Progressive: | No |
| reels: | 5 |
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Theme of The Game
The theme in Boulder Bucks is related to the cave people, and to the kind of life they had. The game will probably remind you of another famous caveman family, the Flintstones.
You have two characters inside, a man and a woman, and they have a pet dinosaur, so the resemblance is there. Otherwise, the game doesn’t rely as much on the caveman theme as it could’ve, and the result is a pretty weak title, with graphics that don’t enchant the player.
Developer
The history of Barcrest has more to do with the land based casinos than it does with the online market, and unfortunately the graphics in their titles shows it. Established in 1968, in United Kingdom, it is well known for the games they released from the 70s to the 90s, a time when they dominated the local market.
They got bought in 1998, by IGT, and then again in 2011, by Scientific Games. They seem to have gotten an impulse with this latest buy, and lately they’ve been releasing new pokie machines on the market. Boulder Bucks is just the latest example.
How To Play It
The regular bets cover 10 lines all the time, and you are allowed to modify how much they are worth, the maximum being $50 per line. You can spend $500 for a single spin in Boulder Bucks. There is a BB logo on the right side of the screen, which will give you the option to trigger Big Bet spins. You can spend $20 or $30, for the two types of Big Bet Spins, each one with its own feature.
The graphics are far from impressive, so that’s one aspect of Boulder Bucks that I didn’t enjoy. It has a lot of stone in its construction, the material being visible in the background, being used to surround the various buttons and displays, and being part of the poker letters as well. There are too few themed symbols unfortunately.
Special Features
The pokie uses wild symbols, but it does this only on the reels from the middle, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones. A wild symbol will be able to substitute for a regular one, so if it lands on the payline where its presence is needed, it can help form a new combination. A wild can’t pay its own prizes since it doesn’t have five symbols on a line, and it can’t replace scatters.
Scatter symbols, marked with the Boulder Bucks logo, will trigger a free spins feature, when they appear a couple of times on the reels, anywhere on them. You pick one of the three types of free spins, and then the feature starts.
The first type of free spins is based on the Mammoth, and it has 20 rounds for you, with the main feature being an expanding wild. The wild is used on the reels 2, 3 and 4. The Pterodactyl is the major influence over the second type of free spins. 10 games are offered here, with expanding wilds which turn symbols from the left side into extra wilds.
The third one is based on the Sabre-Toothed Tiger. You receive 6 free games and expanding wilds which stick around until the feature is done. A Pick Me feature is the last one offered by the pokie, and it brings you free spins or an instant prize. You need the scatter on all three reels from the middle.
Maximum Payouts
The big payout of Boulder Bucks seems to vary, depending on the kind of bet you’re using. It can be at 250x, or it can go up to 500x. Either way, it’s a low prize, which can be worth up to $25,000, but only if you’re using $50 line bets.
Summary
The pokie’s features seem to be up to the task, especially the free spins. The game can pay very little though, the average RTP varying from one type of wager to the next, being as low as 77.91%, or as high as 98%.
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