Leading online casino game developer Relax Gaming has unveiled its new Shark Wash slot machine based on the original Countdown Wild mechanic. An unusual theme in the form of an underwater shark car wash with a huge amount of gold immediately caught players' attention.
You can win up to 5000 times your stake here thanks to lucrative bonus features. In the free spins round, players receive the highest payouts when the countdown wild is activated with an increasing multiplier.
New design
Shark Wash is a fun online slot with friendly sharks. The playing field is a cartoon drawn on the seabed. Four sharks start their own business and open an underwater car wash that players can visit to win big.
Card suits in the form of sponges for washing will bring you the minimum payout, while 4 shark characters (judging by their appearance, three workers and a boss) are high-paying symbols. When you collect a winning combination, the symbols involved in it disappear and new ones fall into the vacant positions. This can go on indefinitely and lead to many payouts.
In-game bonuses
Relax Gaming notes that Shark Wash is a slot aimed at players who prefer gameplay with regular free spins triggers and additional base game features. The main mechanism, Countdown Wild , is an original take on Sticky Wilds .
Every time a wild symbol lands, it will land on the reels and provide a certain number of wins in a round. You will see a countdown timer. When the counter reaches 0, the wild symbol is no longer sticky. Instead, it increases the multiplier that is applied to all further wins in that round.
The maximum winning potential of the Countdown Wild feature is in the Free Spins Bonus Game. The appearance of 3, 4 or 5 Bonus symbols triggers 7, 10 or 15 Free Spins respectively. While Free Spins are active, landing a Bonus symbol awards 1 additional Free Spin. The special thing about Free Spins is that the Countdown Wild multiplier remains throughout the entire round.
For those players who don't want to wait for an activating combination to fall out, there is the option to buy free spins. This will cost you 80x your stake but is guaranteed to trigger the bonus round.
Technical characteristics:
- Playing field format: 5×4.
- Ways to win: 1024.
- Payout rate: 96.06%.
- Volatility: high.
- Minimum bet: 0.1 €.
- Maximum bet: €200.
- Maximum multiplier: 5000x.
- Release date: June 28, 2023