Tropicool 5 Slot Review

About the Game

Tropicool 5 is a 6 column, 5 row slot from ELK Studios featuring drop symbols, a Cool Reel feature on 2 rows and 15,625 winning combinations.

The game has two modes: regular and Bonus mode with bonus features. Wild symbols substitute for any winning symbols. A winning combination consisting solely of Wild symbols pays the highest payout.

Bonus Buy

Using the X-iter feature, you can buy entry into various game modes.

• SUPER BONUS: Buy a game round that activates the Super Bonus game and 3 Fix Wilds in each bonus hit. The cost is x500 of the selected bet.
• BUY BONUS: Buy a game round that activates the Bonus game and bonus hits. The cost is x100 of the selected bet.
• FIXED WILD: Purchase a game round with 3 guaranteed Fixed Wild symbols. The cost is x25 of the selected bet.
• MEGA HUNT: Purchase a game round with a 15x+ chance of activating bonus symbols. The cost is x10 of the selected bet.
• BONUS HUNT: Purchase a game round with a chance of triggering bonus payouts greater than 4x. The cost is 3x the selected bet.
• The X-iter feature can be purchased by clicking the X-iter button, selecting the X-iter mode with the cost displayed in the player’s currency, and pressing the spin button. X-iter features can only be activated in the main game.

The theoretical payout (RTP) for all X-iter game modes is 94.0%.

Max Win

The maximum total win per game round in Tropicool 5 is x25,000 of the bet placed.

Game Features

Cool Reel

The Cool Reel, located above the main field, consists of two rows of functional symbols, empty ice cubes, and empty spaces. Functional symbols are activated when they land on the main field.
Ice cubes act as spacers.

The game round starts in Normal Mode, where new symbols land on the main field and new feature symbols appear on the right side of the Cool Reel.

Each winning combination on the main field is paid, and symbols (except for the Egg Wild and Fix Wild symbols with remaining charges) are removed from the field, while the remaining symbols fall out.

Function symbols in Cool Reel, located above empty cells, fall onto the main field, followed by new symbols filling the field.

New symbols in Cool Reel appear from the right, pushing all symbols to the left.

Any new winning combinations award payouts, and this avalanche repeats until all winnings are gone. Mystery symbols are activated first, followed by Row Swap symbols, the Elmo feature, and the Bonus feature.

Any prize and feature symbol, except for Elmo, the Wild Egg, birds, the multiplier, the pearl, extra drop symbols, and bonus symbols, can appear on the reel as large 2×2 symbols.

Big Symbols

The 2×2 Big Symbol pays out as 4 regular symbols of the same type.

If a large symbol fails to fall completely from the Cool Reel to the main field, it will split into regular 1×1 symbols, and some of these will be added to the game.

Feature Symbols

The empty spaces below the large symbol on the field are filled with 1×1 symbols of the same type as the large symbol.

Locked Wild

The Fix Wild symbol is a Wild symbol that remains on the field for the number of wins indicated on its meter. After the last charge is expended, it disappears.

Fix Wild symbols remain on the main field and persist between bonus wins in the Bonus Game.

Mystery

Mystery Symbols are revealed when there are no more winnings after the symbols have appeared. All Mystery Symbols will reveal the same winning symbol.

Golden Symbol

The winning symbol can become a Golden Symbol with a win multiplier. The multiplier is x2 when the symbol is in the top row of the reel, and increases by 1 for each row below. The maximum multiplier is x6. Multiple win multipliers in the same column are summed up, and multipliers in different columns are multiplied.

Row Swap

The Row Swap symbol replaces all symbols in a row with identical winning symbols. Select one winning symbol in a row, and the remaining symbols in that row are replaced with identical ones. If the Flamingo, Toucan, Wild Egg, or Wild symbol is selected, it replaces all other symbols with Wild symbols. The feature is activated at the end of an avalanche after any win. Mystery symbols are revealed, and Wild Egg symbols are activated.

Any additional Row Swap symbols in the same row extend the feature to the corresponding columns.

If any symbol is replaced by two Row Swap symbols, it becomes a Wild symbol.

A large winning symbol in a row with a Row Swap symbol will be completely replaced. If it is part of two or more separate rows with Row Swap symbols that will replace themselves with different symbols, it becomes a Wild symbol.

A large Row Swap symbol replaces all symbols in the affected rows with identical winning symbols.

Pearl

Bonus and Pearl symbols in a row with a Row Swap symbol will temporarily substitute to form a possible winning combination and then return to their original position.

Wild symbols are not substituted during a Row Swap.

Wild Egg

The Wild Egg symbol acts as a sticky Wild symbol. If there’s at least one empty space in its column, it activates and transforms into a Toucan or Flamingo. Birds act as Wild symbols, which are removed when they form part of a winning combination. The size of the birds created by the Wild Egg is determined by the number of empty symbol positions in the column. Birds can be 1×2, 1×3, 1×4, or 1×5.

Elmo Drop

Elmo the Sloth can be activated during any spin or bonus feature when there are no winning combinations remaining and Elmo collects Pearl symbols. When Elmo activates, he removes all winning symbols from the top 3, 4, or 5 rows of a single reel, along with any remaining empty shell symbols. All Cool Reel symbols will then fall onto the reel. Each time Elmo is collected, there’s an equal chance of activating. The number of Pearls collected is saved for each bet level and remains between game rounds.

Mystery Crocodile

The Mystery Crocodile appears on the Cool Reel as a 6×2 symbol. Empty spaces on the main reel below the Mystery Crocodile symbol are filled with Mystery Symbols. The Crocodile moves to the left when no more empty spaces can be filled with Mystery Symbols.

Bonus Game

Three or more Bonus symbols appearing anywhere on the main reel activate the Bonus game when there are no more wins and all other features have been triggered.

• 3 Bonus symbols: 6 bonus occurrences
• 4 Bonus symbols: 9 bonus occurrences
• 5 Bonus symbols: 12 bonus occurrences
• 6 Bonus symbols: 15 bonus occurrences

Extra Drops

In the bonus game, the Cool Reel also features additional symbols and multipliers. The Extra Spins symbol adds the displayed number of additional bonus symbols. The Multiplier symbol adds its value to the win multiplier. These symbols are activated when they land on the Cool Reel.

Multiplier

Extra Scatters: Adds 1, 2, or 3 bonus symbols. Multiplier Symbols: Adds x1, x2, or x3 to the win multiplier. Extra Scatters and Multiplier symbols cannot be Big Symbols.

The Bonus Game begins with a new set of symbols on the reels and new functional symbols on the Cool Reel. The Bonus Game win multiplier starts at x1. With each free spin, the Cool Reel is replenished with new functional symbols. Fix Wild symbols on the main reels remain between bonus spins until they are fully used.

Wins are paid out at the end of the game round.

Paylines

Wins in Tropicool 5 start from the first leftmost column and are paid exclusively from left to right, from column to column. No gaps are allowed between columns. Only the longest payline on each active payline is paid. An active payline is the longest winning combination of symbols.

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