A red-haired pirate captain with an eye patch stands at the wheel above the reels of Queen of Bounty, and four cannon barrels next to her show the multiplier: x1, x2, x3 and x5. PG Soft released the game in November 2020. It is a 20-line slot with cascades, and when free spins start it asks you to pick one of three ladders, from 20 spins at the base values up to 5 spins that climb to x40. My 100 demo spins at 12.00 paid only 20 times, but two rounds of free spins and one big base-game spin still put the session ahead.
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Queen of Bounty available at Cafe Casino
Same game, real money
Cafe Casino runs the same Queen of Bounty with the same math and adds a welcome bonus for players from the United States:
300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays freeTwenty lines and four cannons
Five reels of three rows carry 20 fixed lines; a line pays from reel one rightwards, and when it holds two combinations only the larger is paid. Winning symbols explode, the rest fall, and the next round is paid one cannon further along: x1 for the first round, x2 for the second, x3 for the third and x5 for the fourth and anything after it.
The wild is a treasure chest and lands only on reels two, three and four. The scatter is a firing cannon. Everything else is pirate kit, the captain herself, a flintlock pistol, a compass and a treasure map, plus A, K and Q.
A paytable with a long top end
The values here are spread unusually wide. Five of the captain on a line pay 2,500 points, ten times as much as four of her. Divided by the 20 points a spin costs, that single line is worth 125 stakes.
| Symbol | 3 / 4 / 5 on a line | Five on a line vs stake |
|---|---|---|
| Pirate captain | 50 / 250 / 2,500 | 125x |
| Flintlock pistol | 20 / 100 / 1,000 | 50x |
| Compass | 15 / 50 / 500 | 25x |
| Treasure map | 10 / 25 / 200 | 10x |
| A | 5 / 20 / 100 | 5x |
| K | 4 / 15 / 75 | 3.75x |
| Q | 3 / 10 / 50 | 2.5x |
Even an ace line of five returns five stakes, so a five-of-a-kind of anything is a good result here. Three of a kind, on the other hand, pays little, and most of the game's swings sit in the gap between three and five.
180.00 from aces in one round
My best base-game spin needed no cascade at all. On spin 52 the chests landed on reels two and four, aces filled the top of the board around them, and the first round, still at x1, paid 180.00. Nothing new connected after that, so the 15 stakes all came from that single drop.
Spin 68 brought 156.00 and spin 16 brought 84.00; apart from those three, base-game wins were rare and small. Twenty winning spins out of a hundred is a low rate even for a 20-line game, and most of the time the reels stopped with nothing.
Pick a ladder for the free spins
Three or more cannon scatters open a Bonus Selection screen with three offers:
- 20 free spins on the base ladder, x1, x2, x3 and x5;
- 10 free spins on x3, x6, x9 and x20;
- 5 free spins on x6, x12, x18 and x40.
Each scatter beyond three adds 4, 2 or 1 spins to the matching offer, and the feature can be retriggered. The screen counts down from 30 seconds; I left it alone both times, and it picked the middle offer, 10 free spins on the x3 to x20 ladder.
Two rounds on the middle ladder
The first came on spin 64. With five free spins left, one spin ran three rounds up the ladder: 5.40 at x3, 18.00 at x6, and then a round of treasure maps and aces through a chest that was worth 24.00 before the multiplier and 216.00 at x9. The spin paid 239.40, about 20 stakes, and the round finished at 507.60.
The second arrived on spin 98 and paid 252.00. The middle offer sits close to the free spins ladder of Butterfly Blossom, x3, x6, x9 and x15, a game with the same x1, x2, x3, x5 base pattern on 20 lines; the last step here is x20 and needs a fourth winning round in one free spin.
Session in numbers
I played the default 12.00 for every spin, bet size 0.30 at level 2, so a paytable point was 0.60. From a starting 100,000.00 I finished on 100,352.80: 1,200.00 went in and 1,552.80 came back. The two free spins rounds supplied 759.60 of that.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | November 2020 |
| Reels / rows | 5 x 3, cascades |
| Lines | 20 fixed |
| Wild | Treasure chest, reels 2 to 4 |
| Base multiplier | x1, x2, x3, then x5 per cascade round |
| Free spins | Choice of 20 (x1 to x5), 10 (x3 to x20) or 5 (x6 to x40) |
| RTP | 96.74% |
| Max win | 50,000x |
| Bet in the demo | 0.60 to 180.00 per spin |
The RTP and maximum win come from PG Soft's game page. The demo is free and needs no sign-up, like every PG Soft slot reviewed here.
Queen of Bounty FAQ
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Long waits, sharp peaks
For long stretches Queen of Bounty pays nothing, then it pays a lot at once. Eighty of my spins paid nothing, yet a single round of aces and two free spins rounds left the session 352.80 up. The paytable explains it: the captain and the pistol pay heavily for five on a line and very little for three, so results depend on rare long lines and on cascades reaching the later cannons.