Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania Online Slot Review. Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania is a 5-reel and promising great fun and providing chances to win some big cash prizes. Developed by IGT, the online slot includes bonus games along with a prize worth of 50,000 credits. Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania slot is a game which first made its mark in land-based casinos. One of the factors which drew land-based players to the game was its bright and bold colours. Realizing that the slot was a darling of many in brick and mortar casinos, IGT, the developers of the game decided to come up with an online version of the game.

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That’s right, the original version of Lobstermania was so on the money that IGT has developed a sequel featuring our favourite crustacean Larry. Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 is less volatile than the original, with more paying lines and a different gaming experience. Built on a 5 x 4 reel format, this maritime-themed game intends to capture your imagination with catchy tunes and bright colours.

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Who is this Larry and why is he so damn lucky? Is he a self-obsessed lobster catcher with an over exaggerated belief in his own abilities or is he actually an artist of the deep blue, hauling in huge catches on a daily basis? The answers to these questions and more can be found in this free play version of the game. Lobstermania 2 slot offers many similar gaming experiences to the previous version, but there are certainly a few new nuances well worth experiencing before depositing and playing for real.

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Lobstermania 2 by slot developer IGT is better known as Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 and is an online derivative of the original Lobstermania slot which begn life in land-based casinos. The quirky theme remains which is centred around Larry the lobster pot man and as with the first edition we have the very catchy B52’s classic chart hit ‘Rock Lobster’ from 1979 playing when we spin the reels of this bright and zany slot.

Lobstermania was originally a 5 reel slot of 25 paylines with symbols including lobsters, boats, lighthouses, buoys and brightly-coloured card values which form the lower pays. Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 is pretty much the same as before but we have an extra row to the reels because there are now 40 paying lines so lower volatility maybe but some extra features too?

There is still Wild symbol that substitutes for all other icons except for the bonus symbol scatter and this will pay you the best full line of five award at 133x your 60-coin bet and it appears fully stacked too. You pay 60-coins here, the 40 lines plus 20 for the extra features so huge wins can be had if you got near a full screen of Wilds!

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We even have a 3-tier fixed jackpot that can be won by getting 3, 4 or 5 jackpot icons randomly overlaid on the reel symbols, you need reels 1,2,3 for the Light Trap at 2500 coins, 4 reels for the Full Trap at 10,000 coins and all 5 reels for the Mother Lode at 50,000 coins. If that wasn’t enough, some icons can be overlaid on reel 3 with either a 3x or 5x multiplier which will apply to any pays involving that symbol!

If you hit 3 Lobstermania bonus symbols on a pay line then you will trigger a choice of bonus feature. As with the original Lobstermania slot you can get Larry’s pick-me bonus where he raises lobster pots for cash, but you can opt to take free spins instead which can retrigger for 5 extra spins. If you choose the picks you can then choose either Maine, Brazil or Australia for different prize ranges, similar to the Assassin Bonus on Microgaming’s Hitman slot.

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Your RTP here on Lobstermania 2 is 92.84 to 96.82% which is slightly better than the original but despite the extra pay lines there is some serious potential with those stacked Wilds to pay a few thousand times your total bet! This feature-packed slot I am surprised to say is far better than the first edition!

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IGT has ramped the fun and winning opportunities available in Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 video slot. This game is available online or mobile for free or for real money. The games bonus rounds will allow you to pick your catch and hopefully bag some decent prizes. Lobstermania 2 features lots of the key symbols from the first game, along with plenty of new ones to enhance the gaming enjoyment.

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Hours of fun await you with this slot, but if you want to get your head round it before depositing and playing for real then check out our Lobstermania 2 video. Here you will uncover the primary symbols of this game and you will also get a full understanding of how the bonus feature is triggered and then played out. This slot is far less volatile than the original version, but it does offer some exciting opportunities. Find out more before you play for real.

• Appendices
• Slots Analysis
• Miscellaneous

Introduction

In my continued effort to lift the veil of secrecy behind slot machines, I present the following analysis of the IGT game Lucky Larry's Lobstermania. The information regarding the design of this game is taken from the academic paper PAR Sheets, probabilities, and slot machine play: Implications for problem and non-problem gambling by Kevin A. Harrigan and Mike Dixon, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

The authors of the paper obtained par sheets for the game through the Canadian Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. I applaud the government of Canada for this release. The purpose of this page is to further the analysis of Lobstermania beyond what was presented in the Harrigan and Dixon paper.

It should be noted there are other versions of Lobstermania besides this one. As far as I can tell they differ by small changes to the pay table and details of the bonus round.

Reel Strips

Harrigan and Dixon give the symbol distribution for two Lobstermania par sheets, one for 85.0% and the other for 96.2%. Both are presented below. Notice how the 96.2% version has more high-paying symbols and that any given symbol is distributed more uniformly across the 5 reels. To illustrate that the distribution is more choppy in the 85.0% version, notice that the number of clams per reel on the 85.0% version is 10,8,3,4,7. On the 96.2%, the distribution is 6-6-5-6-6. However, the number of key symbols (wild, scatter and bonus) are the same in both games.

Lobstermania Symbol Distribution — 85.0%

Lobstermania Symbol Distribution — 96.2%

Harrigan and Dixon do not indicate the exact reel stripping. However, as long as the scatter symbols are not so close on the same reel that they can appear at the same time, the symbol order does not matter for this game, as well as for most video slots. The following reel stripping is hypothetical, based on the 85.0% version.

Lobstermania Symbol Distribution — 85.0% Reel Strips

The way the game would work would be to choose 5 random numbers, one for each reel, and map each random number to a position on the corresponding reel. For example, for reel 1 the game would draw a number from 1 to 47. For example, suppose this number were mapped to the symbol in the top row. If the random number for reel 1 were 37, then the symbols shown on reel 1 would be a Clam on top row, a Star Fish in the middle row, and a Boat on bottom row.

Pay Table

The next table shows the Lobstermania pay table. All wins must be left aligned. The wild symbol can substitute for any line-pay symbol.

Lobstermania Pay Table

Line Pay Math

There are 47 × 46 × 48 × 50 × 50 = 259,440,000 possible outcomes in Lobstermania. The following table shows how many of these combinations result in each possible win. These figures are the result of a program with five nested loops that tallied the total for each win for each possible combination.

Lobstermania Line Pay Combinations

The next table shows the probability of each possible win. This is the number of winning combinations for that win, shown in the table above, divided by the total number of combinations of 259,440,000. The total in the lower right cell reflects a hit frequency per line (probability of winning anything) of 3.25%.

Lobstermania Line Pay Probabilities

The next table shows the contribution to the return for each possible win. Each cell is the product of the probability, from the table above, and the pay table. The right cell shows a total return from line pays of 55.28%.

Lobstermania Line Pay Probabilities

Scatter Pay

The player gets credit for a 'scatter pay' symbol if it appears anywhere on the screen. Scatter pay wins are based on the total amount bet. The following table shows the number of scatters per reel, total symbols per reel, and the probability of a scatter on that reel, which is 3×(column 2)/(column 3). The reason for multiplying by 3 is there are three visible positions on each reel.

Lobstermania Scatters per Reel

The next table shows the probability and contribution to the return for 0 to 5 total scatter symbols. The lower right cell shows that the scatter pay feature returns 10.65% to the return of the game.

Lobstermania Scatter Pay Probabilities and Returns

Bonus

The player earns the bonus if he gets the bonus symbol on reels 1, 2 and 3 on any active pay line. The following table shows the probability of getting the bonus symbol on each of the first three reels. The lower right cell shows the probability of activating the bonus on any active pay line is 0.06%, or 1 in 1,730. If the player plays the maximum 15 pay lines, then the bonus probability per spin is 0.87%, or 1 in 115.

Lobstermania Bonus Symbols per Reel

There are three parts to the bonus game, as follows:

• Number of lobster traps.
• Number of lobsters per trap.
• Size/win of each lobster.

There are three possibilities for the number of lobster traps, 2, 3 and 4, each with equal probability. Thus, the expected number of traps is 3.

There are two possibilities for the number of lobsters per trap, 2 or 3, each with equal probability. Thus, the expected number of lobsters per trap is 2.5.

The prize per lobster can be anywhere from 5 to 250. Each prize has an associated weighting, as shown in the table below. The way the game might work is it would pick an integer from 1 to 322 and map it to a weight according to this table. The bottom right cell shows an average win of 44.02 per lobster.

Lobstermania Bonus — Lobster Wins

The average win per bonus is (average traps)×(average lobsters per trap)×(average win per lobster) = 3 × 2.5 × 44.021739 = 330.163043.

The expected return for the bonus feature is (bonus probability) × (average win per bonus) = 0.000578168 × 44.021739 = 0.190890.

Summary

The following table summarizes the three ways to win in the game. The bottom right cell shows an expected return of 85.012%. In other words, for every dollar the player bets he can expect to get back 85¢.

Lobstermania Summary

The Harrigan and Dixon paper mentioned they were given par sheets for seven versions of Lobstermania. The available returns were 85.0%, 87.5%, 90.0%, 92.5%, 94.0%, 95.0%, and 96.2%.

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