HOW TO PLAY POP AND LOCK
As mentioned above, this game keeps things on the straight and narrow. If you’ve ever played an online slot before, you won’t find a lot of surprises in the base game.
Lock and Pop is played on a standard slot setup with 5 reels and 3 rows. It has 20 fixed paylines, which means you have to hit matching symbols along pre-determined lines if you want to get a prize. You’ll need 3 symbols for a winning line, and all lines are calculated from left to right, starting with the leftmost reel. As we said, pretty standard stuff.
You’ll notice that the base game also contains two empty rows at the top and bottom of the reels. These are inactive during the base game and only become relevant once you trigger the bonus round.
Beyond that, the game also uses standard Wild Symbols. They can appear on any reel and can substitute any other symbol, except for the and Prize symbols.
Another type of special symbol in Lock and Pop slots is the Prize symbol. These gold squares act like normal symbols, for the most part, requiring three along a payline to collect. However, the value of each individual Prize symbol is randomized every time one appears on the reels. A single symbol can pay between 0.5x and 1,000x your stake.
Lock and Pop Free Spins
Hitting 6 or more Prize symbols anywhere in a single spin instantly triggers Free Spins in Lock and Pop slot. You start off with 7 free spins.
During this special bonus round, all regular symbols are removed from the reels, and only Prize symbols remain. All Prize symbols also become sticky, and remain in their position until the end of the round or a Lock and Pop feature is triggered.
Every reel position becomes sort of like its own reel, like in Hold and Win features in other games. However, compared to Hold & Win, Prize symbols are a lot more common and you get more spins.
You can activate Free Spins at any moment through the Feature Buy button at the bottom left. It costs 60x the stake.
Lock and Pop Bonus Feature
Once all three rows on a single reel are filled with Prize symbols, the Pop and Lock bonus feature triggers. The position below the filled-out reel activates with a special bonus. Once this special feature ends, all the Prizes on that reel are summed up and collected above said reel.
Several features can be activated this way:
- Retrigger awards 3 additional Free Spins.
- Adder adds +1x or +2x to all of the Prize symbols above it.
- Magnet copies the value of any Prize symbols present next to the winning Reel, and adds them to the Prize symbols on the winning reel.
- Super Magnet works the same way as the Magnet, except that it copies all values from all of the reels.
- Topper copies the value of the highest Prize symbol on its reel and applies it to all Prize symbols on its reel.
- Blaster adds +1x or +2x to all symbols on its reel. It also adds the sum of all of these prizes to the top and changes 3 random positions on the board with their value.
- Duplicator reproduces all of the symbols on its reel to a random position on the board. If the positions its duplicating to are filled, the values of existing symbols and duplicated symbols are added together.
- Big Bang doubles the value of all symbols on its reel. The symbols are then collected to the top row, doubled again, and then collected again.
- Super Collector collects the prizes on its reel as normal. It then adds the total values of all top positions to the top position on its own reel.
- Hammer collects prizes on its reel, adds them to the top, and then adds this sum value to all positions on its reel.
