Maritime Maidens, despite the very unusual name, is a slot machine which is inspired by mermaids. All the maidens that the title mentions are represented as beautiful mermaids in the game, young girls with the lower body of a fish. The game comes from Microgaming and it has a very delicate design style, attractive and using lots of light shades of blue and green in it.
25 paylines are used in Maritime Maidens, and they can bring you payouts of up to $4,000, wild symbols, scatters, free spins and bonus games.
Features of Maritime Maidens
Maritime Maidens gives its players features which include wilds, scatter symbols, free spins and bonus games.
The wild’s image shows off a portion of the beach where there are various things brought by the sea, including starfish, shells and stones. A wild is more than capable of forming combinations directly, which means that it also has its own prizes to give away, as high as 1,000x. In most cases, wilds are substitutes for regular symbols though.
The Maritime Maidens Logo is the scatter symbol, so it’s the one responsible for starting up the features and also gives you some prizes based on the total number of symbols present on the reels. Get a minimum of three Logos to appear, and the rewards will go as high as 50 times the bet.
Should you get at least three symbols with the Logo scatter, you will be given a choice, whether to play 5 spins for free with randomly placed wilds on the reels, or a bonus game.
The bonus game is called Oyster Pick, and it involves a new screen, where oysters are placed and where you have to choose random ones to find out what the prizes are. You can continue to pick oysters up to the point where you collect a total of four pearls. When this happens, the feature ends.
Betting options and jackpots
Bets in Maritime Maidens go up to $100, with 500 coins used in them. Each line gets up to 20 coins, where denominations start at $0.01 and can go up to $0.20. The line bet you can use goes up to $4, so when all 25 lines are used you can bet $100.
The wild is the one that gives you the big prizes here, 1,000x the line bet, which would mean up to $4,000 cash. One of the mermaids can offer the same amount, so there are two ways to take home the jackpot.
Design and symbols
The slot’s design is a favorite of mine, mostly because of the intricate work done on the reels and the various objects which appear there. If you look at the decorations that surround the reels, you will notice how beautiful they are. A very light blue is used as a background for the reels, while behind the game area you see the beach of a tropical island. The symbols with the beautiful mermaids help as well with the game’s appeal.
Symbols: Beach (wild, 1,000x), Game Logo (scatter, 50x total wager), Green Mermaid (1,000x), Blue Mermaid (750x), Red Mermaid (750x), Purple Mermaid (500x), Yellow Mermaid (250x), Ace (150x), King (150x), Queen (150x), Jack (100x) and 10 (100x).
Is It Worth Playing?
The design is the one you will probably enjoy most, especially with those attractive mermaids taking over so many symbols. The prizes are very low though, and at 1,000x they make the game much less attractive.
Maritime Maidens can be found at any Microgaming casino, where you get a chance to play it for real money or in free mode.
