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Discovery Themed Online Slots

Added: January 27, 2016

Most of the earth was charted in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by daring seafarers who braved grave dangers. There are a few online slots that pay tribute to explorers. This article reviews and recommends some of them.

Playtech has a simple online slot gamed titled The Discovery in its portfolio. The important symbols are the compass, the captain and the native girl. The compass is the wild symbol that appears stacked on reels resulting in more frequent paying combinations. The girl awards the top line payout. The captain triggers 10 free spins at tripled payouts. The other thematic symbols the island, the telescope and the exotic flower.

A more interesting discovery themed slot game is Age of Discovery from Microgaming. The symbols on the reels are the compass, the sextant, the gold coin, the ship and the dragon sketch. Dragons were believed to guard the edge of the world and attacked sailors who strayed far from the shores. The win animation for this symbol is based on this belief. Age of Discovery uses exotic fruits from newly discovered lands instead of playing card symbols. It also offers a thematic bonus game on the second screen. You have to keep selecting from thirty treasure sites on a map and winning bonus credits till you hit the skull and cross bones.

Lucky Eggsplorer, also from Microgaming, takes a humorous look at the theme of discovery by replacing some of the human characters by personified fowl in caricature form. The reels are shaped like a ship with oceans in the background. Some of the usual thematic symbols are the ship, the wheel and the map. The captain is a rooster named Chook, the reference to Captain Cook being unmistakable. It is the wild symbol. The other birds represent a native hula dancer and a witch doctor. The win animations add to the pleasure of playing the game. The map is the scatter symbol. Lucky Eggsplorer also includes a bonus game on the second screen that is based on the discovery theme. The game is triggered when three or more map symbols land anywhere on the reels in the same spin. You are taken to a world map that displays bird characters in native costumes of five lands. These lands were found by the seafarers in their explorations and discoveries. You have to select three of those lands and you will be rewarded with free spins and bonus credits.