Pets Payday gives the player a slot machine with a pet related theme, as you’ve probably guessed as soon as you saw it. The game is offered by IGT and inside you will discover a household occupied mostly by small dogs and cats, looking like a real pet lover lives there. The various dogs and cats that appear inside are mostly of the cute variety, in many cases looking small enough to be puppies and kittens.
This game offers you 5 reels and on them you will get up to 25 win lines. Two scatters, a wild, free spins and a bonus game make-up the list of features. The big prize awards you $5,000.
Features of Pets Payday
Plenty of features are part of the game’s offer, including expanding wilds, regular wilds, scatters, bonus games and even free spins.
It’s easy to recognize the wild symbol in this game. It has the logo with the word WILD on it, written in green. You will discover that this symbol appears on three of the five reels, in this case being the middle three ones (2 to 4). As usual, you can’t use a wild to replace a scatter symbol.
Two types of scatter symbols are used here. One of them is for all the reels, and it has the image of a Bone on it. It will be the one to also pay prizes when you get enough of them scattered around on the reels, going as high as 50x the bet value.
Free Games Feature
As for the second scatter symbol, it will be used to trigger free spins. The White Kitten symbol is needed on two reels during the same round, and those would be the 1st and 5th reels. With both symbols present, you can expect to get as a reward 10 free spins.
One thing that sets these spins apart is the fact that the wild symbol can expand when it appears on the 3rd reel, so you get three wilds at the same time if this helps you out with the combinations.
The power to retrigger the free spins is with the same White Kitten scatter symbol, which once again would be needed on the reels 1 and 5 to get another 10 rounds triggered.
Dig-Up Hidden Treasure
The only bonus game of this slot, Dig-Up Hidden Treasure gets activated if a minimum of three scatter symbols with the Bone on them appear. You have 5 picks to make in this feature, and the results can be free spins, multipliers for them, bonus prizes or a mole (which doesn’t get you anything).
The prizes you get in this feature are worth twice as much if four Bone scatters were responsible for the feature, while with five scatters you get 5x the usual prizes.
Betting options and jackpots
You can use the usual 25 coins in your bets, an often used number for slot machines with 25 lines. You only have to use one coin for each line, so it makes things easier. The coins have the value that you pick for them, and the range is fairly high here, anywhere between $0.01 and $10. Given the 25 coins which are part of a bet, you can spend up to $250.
Rewards of up to 500 coins are offered in the game, and this would mean up to $5,000 cash.
Design and symbols
The action of Pets Payday takes place inside someone’s home, a lover of all kinds of pets. The stars of the game are kittens and puppies, one of each being placed on the sides of the reels. All around the game area you have the house and its furniture, with the couch’s pillows being used for the betting section. The cute pet angle works well enough, but I’ve seen the design done even better in other games with the same theme.
Symbols: Wild Logo (wild), White Kitten (scatter), Bone (scatter, 50x bet), Max (500 coins), Fudge (100 coins), Chichi (100 coins), Fluffy (100 coins), Ball (50 coins), Food (50 coins), Collar (15 coins), Toy Mouse (15 coins) and Yarn (10 coins).
Is It Worth Playing?
I’m personally not a fan of games with these many pets in them, or of the design style chosen for it, but the feature list does look good, so for a huge pet lover it will be a good game.
You will find Pets Payday at any online casino which chooses to use software from IGT, playable either for free or for real money.
