Necker Island Slots

Necker-IslandNecker Island comes from Microgaming and it’s a slot machine with a theme that revolves a famous tropical island, owned by a billionaire called Richard Branson. Known for the Virgin companies that he founded, Branson bought Necker Island while he was still young and for a much smaller amount of money than most people could’ve guessed. It’s now a resort island which he uses together with his friends and which he also rents out.

In case you try out Necker Island, you’re going to find in it a total of 50 paylines, 5 reels and a mix of features that bring you wild symbols, scatters and free spins. Thanks to the high number of paylines, the most you can expect as prizes is $2,500.

Features of Necker Island

If you want to know more about the features that are offered in Necker Island, take a look at the paytable and you will find that there are wilds inside, along with scatter symbols and a free spin feature.

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Richard Branson’s image is shown in the wild symbol, the one that you rely on to get new combinations formed even when you don’t have enough matching symbols. If that’s the case, and the wild just happens to land in the exact position where you’re missing a regular symbol, it will take the role needed of it and you get our new win. Wild symbols don’t substitute for scatters and in this game they don’t create their own combos either.

Speaking of the scatters, these symbols show off the Necker Island Sign, and they offer their rewards whenever they’re in sufficient numbers on the reels of the slot. Getting between three and five such symbols on the reels, in any position, will bring you the cash prizes of up to 50x the bet, plus free spins.

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Free Games Feature

To get the free spins rolling, you will need the Necker Island scatter to appear in a minimum of three positions during the same spin. The reward will consist in 10 free spins. These spins will lock in place any wilds that make appearances, so you get to use them until the feature is over. These locked wilds come with a price though, so you can’t retrigger free spins.

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Betting options and jackpots

A total of 50 paylines are used by the game, each one accepting between 1 and 5 coins for the bet. The coins have their own denominations that you can modify as needed, the range going from $0.01 to $0.50. You can spend up to $2.50 on a payline, or $125 for all of them.

The game will give you rewards of up to 1,000x through the Necker Island symbol, which means $2,500. An alternative is the Necker Island Logo scatter, which at 50x the bet can give you $6,250.

Design and symbols

The tropical island look is a logical one for a game like Necker Island. You see the island’s vegetation close to you and the reels, with the clear blue waters of the ocean in the distance. The reels are part of a hut and made out of local materials, with symbols on them being either from Necker Island or poker cards with flowers next to them. It’s a design that you will probably enjoy, especially if the idea of a billionaire’s private island appeals to you.

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Symbols: Richard Branson (wild), Necker Island Sign (scatter, 50x total bet), Necker Island (1,000x), Personal Submarine (750x), Small Dingy (500x), Flamingos (500x), Ace (250x), King (150x), Queen (150x), Jack (100x), 10 (75x) and 9 (50x).

Is It Worth Playing?

Even if you discount the tropical island theme, which manages to make pretty much any slot machine cool, you still have the Richard Branson connection, and that guy is too cool to ignore. It’s an interesting game, but I’m not that happy about the top prizes it has to offer.

The Necker Island slot machine is offered through the Microgaming platform, so if you want to play it for real or just to practice, look out for casinos that use it.