Dolphin Treasures: A 20-Line Club Classic

Dolphin Treasures is a club-style pokie made by 918Laki's own team, and it plays 20 lines on every spin. The dolphin is wild and doubles a win it helps to make. Three pearls give 12 free games in which every win is paid at ×3.

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The game in short

Dolphin Treasures is an undersea pokie in the old club style: a painted sign at the top, a dark screen with three meters, and big lit keys underneath. You will find it under the Aus Club tab on the 918Laki home page, next to the other house games in the Australian Club range.

It is the plainest of the house pokies to learn. There are no lines to pick and no side bets. You choose one number, the total bet, and the machine does the rest.

Who it suits

It suits a player who wants a straight pokie: spin, see the result, spin again. If you would like more lines, Queen of the Niles is the same kind of machine with 25. If you would like no lines at all, look at Indian Dreamings.

What is on the reels

Sea pictures and card ranks

The picture symbols are the turtle, the seahorse, the angelfish and the starfish. The lower symbols are card ranks: ace, king, queen, jack, ten and nine. Pictures pay more than ranks.

The game does not make you remember any of this. Press the white PAYS key and the panel under the game lists each symbol with its prizes in Kina, worked out for the bet you have set right now.

The dolphin

The dolphin is the wild. A wild is a symbol that can stand in for another one so that a line is finished. The dolphin stands in for every symbol except the pearl.

It also brings a bonus: a win that the dolphin helps to make is doubled. The help text under the game gives the exact wording of this rule.

The pearl

The pearl is the scatter. Most symbols must line up on a payline to pay. A scatter does not. Pearls pay wherever they land on the screen, and the pearl prize is worked out on your whole bet. Pearls are also the key to the free games.

Playing a spin on the cabinet

A payline, or line, is a path that runs across the reels from the left side to the right. Dolphin Treasures has 20 of them and every spin plays all 20. The small print in the bet box says so: 20 LINES.

  1. Find the bet box in the top row of keys. It shows TOTAL BET in Kina.
  2. Press BET − to go down a step or BET + to go up a step. The red MAX BET key jumps to the highest bet, so mind your thumb.
  3. Press the wide SPIN key at the bottom.
  4. The reels stop one after another. If a symbol lines up from the left on any of the 20 lines, the winning symbols light and the message line under the reels names the win.
  5. The WIN meter counts up. Two keys now light: GAMBLE and TAKE WIN.
  6. Press TAKE WIN to move the win to your credit, or simply press SPIN again, which takes the win and starts the next spin.

The AUTO key plays spins for you: 10, 25, 50, 100, or until you stop it. Auto takes each win as it comes and never gambles. It stops by itself if your cash runs out.

The pearl free games

Land three pearls on one spin and a FREE GAMES banner comes up: 12 free games, all wins ×3. The games then play without taking anything from your balance.

While they run, the first meter stops showing your credit and counts the free games instead, and each win is paid at three times its normal amount. If three pearls land again during the free games, more free games are added to the count. A closing banner shows the total, and that total becomes the win for the whole game.

The gamble key

The gamble is a second bet using a win you have just made. It is not part of the spin and you never have to use it.

  1. With a win showing, press GAMBLE. A card lies face down.
  2. Press RED or BLACK. The card turns over. Right colour: your win is doubled. Wrong colour: the win is gone.
  3. Instead of a colour you can press one of the four suit keys. The right suit pays the win four times over. The wrong suit loses it.
  4. After a right guess, the bigger win is on the table. Guess again or press TAKE WIN. The heading counts your goes, and the game allows only a set number of them in a row.

A colour guess is right about half the time and a suit guess about one time in four. That is why the suit pays more. Small wins are the usual thing to gamble; a win you would be sorry to lose is one to take.

If your balance is small

Twenty lines means your bet is spread over twenty paths. A hit on one line is often smaller than the total bet, so the balance still drifts down between the better spins. Plan for that.

  1. Go down to a low bet before the first spin and stay there.
  2. Count spins, not wins. Decide how many spins your money should give you and pick the bet to match.
  3. Skip the gamble unless the win is small change to you.
  4. When the free games pay well, think about stopping there. The next spin does not know you just won.
  5. Take a break when the money you set aside is gone. Do not top up in the middle of a bad run.

The pokies tips for beginners go deeper on bet size and session length. This is real-money play for adults aged 18 and over, and it should only use money that is not needed at home.

Dolphin Treasures: your questions

Can I play fewer than 20 lines?

No. All 20 lines are played on every spin. To spend less per spin, lower the total bet.

How many free games do the pearls give?

Three pearls give 12 free games, and every win in them is paid at ×3. They can be won again while free games are playing.

Does the dolphin pay on its own?

Open PAYS to see every symbol's prizes at your bet. Its main job is to stand in for other symbols, and a win it helps to make is doubled.

I left a win open and closed the page. What now?

An open win is paid to your balance by itself after a short wait, or when you next spin. You do not have to press TAKE WIN for it to count.

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