Calico Jack - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction

Slots fans tend to be drawn toward pirate themed slots thanks to their excellent winning potential. Buried treasure, desert islands and lashings of rum always make for good entertainment.

Graphics & Soundtrack

Calico Jack was a real pirate and was responsible for creating the skull and crossbones flag. He also welcomed female pirates aboard, making him a feminist long before the world had even heard of such an idea. The game’s reels are created in subdued colours, with lots of greys, blues and browns. A rather sombre soundtrack plays out as you spin the reels. It’s immersive, but it’s definitely not jolly!

Calico Jack RTP & Volatility

Calico Jack has an RTP of 96.04%, which is fairly average for an online slot. It’s a medium-volatility game, so you’ll need a fairly robust bankroll to make the most of your winning opportunities. But Calico Jack is just one of our Spinmatic demo slots, so you can play it free of charge right here on our site. It’s the perfect way of finding out whether you like a game enough to wager your own money on it.

How to Play Calico Jack

Spinmatic games are never particularly complex, so it won’t take you more than a few moments to get up to speed with the controls for Calico Jack.

1. Starting from the lower left corner of your screen, adjust your bet to come up with your preferred cost per spin. Your stake is divided equally between all nine paylines to calculate any winnings.

2. Hit the Max Bet button to play at maximum stakes.

3. Press Spin to play out one game at your chosen stake.

4. For multiple automatic spins, tap on the Autoplay button. You can select up to 100 automatic spins, or you can even set the game to keep spinning the reels indefinitely. When you’re ready to stop, just tap on the button for a second time.

5. The menu button in the game’s top right corner gives you access to the game’s rules, paytable, paylines and sound settings. You can also review your game statistics from here.

Bet Sizes & Paytable Wins

Payline costs in Calico Jack start from just 0.01 each. All nine paylines in the game are fixed, so you have a betting range from just 0.09 up to 36.00 per spin. That might not be high enough to pull in the high rollers, but everyone else will be able to find their own betting sweet spot.

As you might expect in this type of game, the objective is to match up three, four or five symbols across one of the paylines. Your task becomes even easier when it comes to the high-value symbols as you only need to match two from left to right to win a cash prize. Payments are made as multiples of your payline stake as follows:

10 = 5x, 20x, 100x

J = 5x, 20x, 100x

Q = 10x, 40x, 150x

K = 10x, 40x, 150x

A = 10x, 40x, 150x

Anchor = 5x, 15x, 75x, 250x

Anne Bonny = 2x, 25x, 100x, 500x

Mary Read = 5x, 50x, 250x, 1000x

Calico Jack = 10x, 100x, 1000x, 5000x

Max-win 180,000x

Volatility Medium

Top RTP 96.04%

Calico Jack Bonus Features & Free Spins

Every time Calico Jack appears, there’s a good chance he could help to create one or more winning combinations for you. But he also comes with his own financial rewards - in fact, he’s the highest-paying symbol on the paytable, paying up to 5,000x your stake for landing five of a kind across a payline.

Treasure chest Scatters only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5. You’ll need to land three to trigger the Free Spins bonus round, with 10 Free Spins. The feature can be retriggered by spinning up another three Scatters during the bonus round. Best of all, the Scatter also operates as a Wild during the bonus round, which greatly increases your chances of spinning up cash prizes.

There’s an optional Gamble feature that follows any winning spin. You can simply Collect your winnings if you prefer, but many players enjoy the thrill of an extra wager. If you decide to Gamble your win, you’ll be taken to a new screen, with a rolled up Wanted poster. Decide whether you think the poster will be searching for Anne Bonny or Mary Read. Guess correctly and the value of your win is doubled, and you’ll be given up to four more Gamble options to increase the value of your prize. But if you get it wrong, you’ll forfeit your latest win.

Overall Review

Regular visitors to our site will know that we rate Spinmatic games very highly. However, we found Calico Jack to be more sombre in tone than most of this developer’s output. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but if you’re looking for an upbeat game, this isn’t going to be the one for you. Instead, we can highly recommend the hugely engaging Pirate Kingdom Megaways game, with Multipliers that increase the value of your wins.

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