Great Blue is a marine-themed video slot that you can play at Egroup88. You will see 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines on the game screen. This slot by Playtech features a gambling round, Wilds and Scatters, which activate the bonus round with free spins and multipliers.

*Pay table attach at the end of the article*

The Shells bonus round

When this round starts, you automatically get 8 free spins that can double your prize. Next, you’re asked to choose two out of five shells. Depending on your choice, you can increase the number of free spins to 33 and the multiplier to 15. The free spins round starts right after this game ends.

Bonus mode with free spins

Free spins are launched automatically, without your involvement. Your winnings for combinations are multiplied by the multiplier you had in the bonus game. If you land three or more Scatters during the round again, you get 15 more spins but with no prize multiplier. When the round ends, you get the winnings transferred to your balance.

The Great Blue Slot Symbols

The Great Blue slot themed to ocean has 13 thematic symbols. To make things easy to understand and convenient to see, consider the bet per line to be 1 credit when thinking of payouts for symbol combinations. The regular symbols of the slot game are cards and inhabitants of the deep sea. All the symbols except for the nines, sea turtles and sharks, can form combos of 3, 4 and 5 symbols. You can get the following payouts in credits for certain regular symbols:

• Nines pay 2, 5, 25 and 100
• 10, J, Q – 5, 25 and 100
• K and A – 10, 50 and 150
• Seahorse and starfish – 15, 75 and 250
• Yellow fish – 20, 100 and 400
• Turtle and shark – 2, 25, 125 and 750

Scatter is a pearl in a shell. By landing 2, 3, 4 or 5 Scatters on the reels in a random order, you get 2, 5, 20 or 500 times the total bet. Furthermore, three or more Scatters trigger the bonus round with free spins and multipliers.   

The Wild symbol is a killer whale. It substitutes for any symbol except for the Scatter. Combinations with the Wild symbol double your prize. Its own combos pay you 10, 50, 2,500 and 10,000 credits for 2, 3 4 and 5 symbols lining up on the screen.

Gambling Round

You can play the doubling game by clicking Gamble whenever you have a winning combo. You are asked to guess the colour of a face-down card. You can pick the colour using the Red and Black buttons. If you guess it right, your winnings are doubled and you can proceed with the gambling round. Otherwise, you lose your winnings.

How to Play the Great Blue Slot

The Great Blue online slot was developed by Playtech with a free demo available to play for fun at Egroup88. Before you spin the reels for the first time, you should adjust the bet per spin using parameters such as bet per line and the number of lines. The total bet is the price of a single spin, namely the number of credits you can adjust and will be deducted from your account every time gameplay starts.

You will face the virtual currency denomination while configuring the bet. The two types of currency in the game are credits and coins. Coins are used to set the bet per line and are automatically converted into credits with a special value multiplier, which is set by the player. To set the value of one coin, click the Click to change button in the bottom left corner and choose one of these options – 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.1 or 0.25. In the future, we will use the coin worth 0.1 credits to describe bet settings and payouts for certain symbol combinations.

The bet per line is an essential setting which you can adjust by clicking the Bet per line button. It varies between 0.1–1 credits. The higher this factor is, the more you pay for a spin and win for a winning combination. The Lines button lets you choose from 1 to 25 pay lines. This feature is pretty simple – more lines means higher chances to win. So having the spin cost set to the minimum and having all the pay lines active, the total bet is 2.5 credits.

Before you spin the reels, read through the game rules, including the guide on the bonus round and gambling round. You can do so by clicking the Info button in the bottom left corner to open the reference menu. The pay table doesn’t recalculate the payouts automatically and displays them as bet per line multipliers.

Starting the Game

The Spin button launches a single reel spin in the game window with the chosen settings of the total bet. One more click stops the spinning process. The Bet Max button sets the maximum betting settings and launches a single spin with them. To activate the autoplay mode, you should set up the number of automatic spins using the + and – buttons, choose from 1 to 99 spins and click the Auto start button. If you need to interrupt the autoplay, click the Stop button.

The Great Blue video slot features common payouts, a bonus round with free spins and a prize multiplier, ordinary graphics and background music.

Gameplay Help Manual

5-Reel 25-line Slots

The objective of Great Blue™ is to obtain winning symbol combinations by spinning the reels.

TO PLAY THE GAME

• Only active paylines can register line wins.
• Total bet per game round = line bet × active paylines.
• Paylines and the line bet can be selected on the BET OPTIONS panel.
  • Click ‘−’ or ‘+’ under the LINE BET to choose the line bet.
  • Choose your paylines on the panel by clicking ‘−’ or ‘+’.
  • Click the TURBO MODE button to switch Turbo Mode on or off. When turned on, some win animations and sounds are skipped and the reels spin faster.
• Clicking SPIN spins the reels with the currently selected lines and line bet. During the reel spin the SPIN button changes into STOP. Clicking STOP ends the spin animation and immediately displays the spin result.
  • Select the number of spins to be played automatically or choose UNTIL FEATURE to spin until the Sea Shell Bonus is triggered.
  • The number of auto spins left is displayed above the smaller STOP button, unless you’ve chosen the UNTIL FEATURE option.
• To enter the triggered feature, click the CLICK TO START button. After the end of the feature, click CONTINUE on the winnings summary screen to return to the main game or resume the Auto play mode (if there are any auto spins left to play).
• The paytable can be accessed via the INFO page.

ABOUT PAYOUTS

• Wins are calculated according to the Paytable which can be accessed via the Menu.
  • Line win = line bet × corresponding multiplier according to the paytable.
  • SCATTER win = total bet × corresponding multiplier according to the paytable.
• If more than 1 active payline has a winning combination, the winnings are added up. If 2 winning combinations occur on the same line, you will be paid the value of the higher winning combination. Winning combinations must start from the leftmost reel, and the symbols have to be consecutive along a payline. The SCATTER symbol is an exception to these rules. More information about the SCATTER symbol can be found below.
• The accumulating winnings and all payline wins are shown for each winning spin. In the case of large wins, a Win popup opens displaying the total spin revenue.

WILD SYMBOL

The WILD symbol can stand for any other symbol (except the SCATTER and the BONUS symbol) to make the best possible winning combination. Winnings received from a winning combination that has a WILD symbol are doubled. There is also a separate payout for 2 or more WILD symbols on an active payline. This is paid out instead of the regular symbol win if the win amount from WILD symbols is larger than the win from the regular symbols (by WILD standing in).

SCATTER SYMBOL

The SCATTER symbols do not have to occur on any particular payline. If there are 2 or more SCATTER symbols in any position in the spin results, the payout earned is multiplied by the total bet and added to any payline winnings. When 3 or more SCATTER symbols occur anywhere on the reels, the Sea Shells Bonus is triggered.

SEA SHELLS BONUS

When the bonus game is triggered, you automatically win 8 Free Spins with a win multiplier of x2. The reels will transition to show 5 sea shells, which can be tapped to win prizes. Click 2 sea shells to win additional Free Spins and/or increase the win multiplier.

During the free spins, the reels are spun automatically using the same number of lines and bet per line as on the spin that won the free games. If 3 or more SCATTER symbols appear anywhere on the reels during a free spin, 15 additional free spins are added to the existing ones. The win multiplier does not change.

Casino toolbar

The lower and upper edges of the game window hold the casino toolbars. These toolbars contain a number of menus and button that allow you to change client settings or take advantage of the various features available in the casino client. To open one of the buttons, click on it.

The bottom toolbar contains the following:

• Balance – Your game window balance. This is the total money which you can use to play the current casino game, consisting of your Real Money balance as well as all the bonuses available for this game.
• Deposit / Cashier – Clicking this button opens the Deposit / Cashier window, where you can make deposits and withdrawals, see your transaction history, etc.
• Play for Real Money – This button appears only in Fun and Anonymous modes. Clicking it will take you to the Real Money account creation page. If you already have a Real Money account, it will take you to the Play for Real Money login screen.
• Free Spin Bonus – This icon is displayed only in games in which you have bonus Free Spins available. Clicking this icon opens the Free Spins Bonus Panel.

The top toolbar contains the following:

• Games – Next to this icon is the quick launch menu. Mouse over any category to see the available games in that category. Click on any game to launch that game.
• Featured – Is a feature that enables you to find your next game adventure! It contains various game categories from which you can choose games to play.
• Slots – When you have found your desired game, click on the appropriate game icon to start the game.
• Table Games – When you have found your desired game, click on the appropriate game icon to start the game.
• Sound on/off – Clicking this button will disable/enable sound effects. Mouse over the sound icon to slide open the sound volume slider, where you can adjust the volume.
• Menu – Mouse over this icon to open the Tools menu. The menu contains the following:
  • History – Opens the game history window, where you can see the details of recent game rounds. Note that the history is unavailable in Fun and Anonymous modes.
  • Options – Opens the options dialog, where you can change various gameplay settings.
  • Help – Opens the help article that you are reading right now.
  • Paytable – Opens the Paytable of the game.

Info page:

• Clicking Info opens the reference screen describing different game components. Clicking the arrow buttons at the lower right-hand corner of the screen enables navigating between the different info screens.
  • The Paytable screen shows all winning combinations.
  • The Feature screen explains witch feature rounds can be triggered and played in the game.
  • The Paylines screen illustrates all possible payline combinations and explains the payout rules in the game.
• Clicking X exits the Info screen and returns to the game.

Paylines:

• Active paylines are represented by lines that appear over the reels as illustrated in the Paylines screen of the Info page.
• Only active paylines can register wins.
• There is a difference between the line bet and the total bet. The line bet shows how much is being bet on a single payline. The total bet shows how much is being bet in total on the game round. Payouts shown in the paytable are multiplied by the line bet.

Buttons:

• Info – Open the reference screen that describes the different game components.
• Lines + and − buttons – Increase or decrease the number of active paylines.
• Line Bet + and − buttons – Increase or decrease the bet per line.
• Autoplay / Stop Autoplay – Spin the reels a number of times in succession. / End the active Auto Play reelspin mode.
• Spin – Spin the reels.
• Stop – Stop the reelspin animation and immediately display the spin result.
• Turbo Mode – Turn on/off Turbo Mode, available during the main game only. Switching to Turbo Mode speeds up the game play by switching off some win animations and sounds while making the reels spin faster.

Note on disconnections: if you are disconnected from the Internet in the middle of the game, log in again into the casino. You will be automatically directed back to the game and you can continue the game from the point where it was broken. If you re-open the game without re-logging into the casino, the game will start from the very beginning. In both cases, your previous wins will be paid.

To check the results of your old games or find additional details about recent games, click the History button, available in the Menu. Use your regular username and password to log in and check the outcome of previous rounds of both desktop and mobile version of the game.

Note on malfunctions: a malfunction voids all pays and plays.

The procedure for dealing with unresolved bets may be subject to the casino operator’s terms and conditions. For more information, please visit the casino operator’s website.

The theoretical percentage return to player (RTP) is 96.03%.