Club Tropicana Slot (Pragmatic Play)

The Club Tropicana slot is played on 5 reels, 4 rows and 12 fixed paylines. Winning combinations are created when 3 or more identical symbols land from left to right (starting from the leftmost reel) and across any of the 12 paylines. Only the highest win per payline is awarded. With the highest value symbol, 2 or more are required.

Bets begin at 12p per spin with a maximum bet of £240 a spin. With the max bet limited at most casinos, use the plus and minus buttons to edit your bet amount. Non-UK players can choose from 2 extra game functions: Autoplay allows up to 1,000 auto spins whilst Quick Spin speeds up the play. For more information on why there are not permitted in the UK, check out OLBG’s guide to UK slot game regulations.

Returns-wise, the Club Tropicana RTP rate is 96.08%. Above the industry stand for an online slot game (around 96%), Pragmatic Play has also produced 95.07% and 94.07% RTP alternative settings. To check which version you’re playing, open the game’s Paytable. The Club Tropicana demo and most free slot games at OLBG use the highest setting whenever possible.

High volatility (5/5 according to Pragmatic Play), the hit frequency rate is 12.79%. This basically means you can expect a winning combination to land every 7.82 spins. When it comes to triggering the all-important Free Spins feature, it will take 121 spins, approximately. It’s important to note that these numbers are average figures found in testing.

The Club Tropicana slot comes with 4,000 times bet max wins. The max win probability is 1 in 978,569 spins (so just under 1 million spins) with the odds of winning 1,000 times your total bet or higher at 1 in 144,995 spins.

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With a party theme, the Club Tropicana slot game isn’t the official game for Wham’s 1983 hit song. It’s set on a tropical island somewhere where the iconic fisherman from the Big Bass slots series takes a much-need break to become a cocktail maker in a beach shack named Club Tropicana.

Set at night-time, you’ll see disco lights and a rather cheesy soundtrack playing as you spin the reels. It does get a little repetitive so I wouldn’t blame you if you hit the mute button! You’ll also notice bartender Alan (it’s Olaf in the Big Bass slots) sporting big Aviator-style sunglasses, a Hawaiian shirt and an extraordinary amount of chest hair.

On the reels, you’ll see a variety of fruit symbols including cherries, lemons, oranges, plums and watermelons. The higher-value symbols include unicorn floats, coconut cocktails, cocktail umbrellas and cocktail shakers. The later pays the most with 5 in combination awarded a 200 times bet payout.

Club Tropicana also comes with Money symbols which come into their own during the free spins. Other symbols include the Alan Wild which appears on all reels and substitutes for all paying symbols. During the free spins, it collects Money symbols. Finally, there is a Scatter symbol which triggers the Free Spins feature when 3 or more land. Below is a list of all symbol payouts and functions:

• Cherries/Lemon/Orange/Plum/Watermelon: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 2.5 or 10 x bet
• Unicorn Float/Coconut Cocktail: 3, 4 or 5 = 2, 10 or 50 x bet
• Cocktail Umbrellas: 3, 4 or 5 = 3, 15 or 100 x bet
• Cocktail Shaker: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 5, 20 or 200 x bet
• Money: 3 or 4 = 1 or 5 x bet with 5 collecting total money on display
• Alan Wild: Substitutes for all symbols above & collect Money symbols during free spins
• Scatter: 3+ triggers Free Spins feature

Club Tropicana Mobile

Club Tropicana can be played on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. With HTML5 technology used to produce all Pragmatic Play slot games, it adapts to whatever device you opt for. If playing on an iOS or Android smartphone, you’ll be served (excuse the pun) the Portait Mode which occupies more of your mobile screen vertically.

The Club Tropicana slot game benefits from 4 bonus features. The focus is on the Free Spins feature where Alan Wilds collect all Money symbols on the reels. Every 4^th Alan Wild retriggers the feature for more free spins and a Money symbol multiplier up to 10x.

Money Symbols

As alluded to in the section above, Club Tropicana comes with Money symbols. 3 or 4 across any payline will reward you with 1 or 5 times your total bet respectively. If you land 5 Money symbols across a payline, you’ll win the total amount displayed on the Money symbols. The values are random and range between 2 and 4,000 times your total bet.

Free Spins

The Free Spins feature is triggered by landing 3 or more Scatter symbols anywhere during a base game spin,. 3, 4 or 5 scatters will lead to 10, 15 or 20 free spins respectively. As mentioned above in the Slot Details section, it will take approximately 121 spins to activate the feature.

Once in the free spins, each Alan Wild symbol collects the value of all Money symbols on the reels, irrespective of where they land on the reels (remember these are worth up to 4,000 times your total bet).

Each Alan Wild symbol also fills the cocktail glasses to the side of the reels. Once you collect 4 Alan Wilds, you will retrigger the feature. Each retrigger awards 10 more free spins with the multiplier applying to Money symbols collected increasing up to 10x. Below is a table showing all the details:

The retriggered free spins are played after the previous level has taken place with the multiplier applying to the retriggered free spins. After reaching level 4, you cannot win additional free spins.

To help you win more, there are 2 random extras that can trigger at any time:

• Random Money Symbols: When 1 or 2 Alan Wilds appear on the screen, Money Symbols can appear in random positions (which are then collected and awarded).
• Beer(s): 1 or 2 beers can appear at the end of a free spin and push the reels up to reveal Alan Wild and Money symbols.

If you want to increase your chances of triggering the Free Spins feature, there is an optional Ante Bet feature. Costing 50% more per spin, there will be an extra chance of landing Scatter symbols. The RTP rate remains the same.

Finally, there is a Buy Free Spins feature for non-UK players. With an RTP of 96.07%, you can buy your way directly into the free spins for 100 times your total bet.

The Club Tropicana slot was the 8^th game in the Big Bass slots series. Pragmatic Play recognised early on that the internet’s most popular fisherman needed a break so took up the role of bartender in this party/tropical-themed release.

Graphically, I like how the fisherman wears a Hawaiian shirt and mixes cocktails to the side of the reels instead of being constantly wet and handling fish all day. In terms of the gameplay, its identical to that found in Bigger Bass Blizzard and Bigger Bass Bonanza. The latter does offer a much higher RTP rate though (96.71% vs 96.08%). For context, below is a table comparing the 3 games:

Anyway, the focus is on the Free Spins feature where the Alan Wild symbol collects Money symbols on the reels. Like with the other games in the iconic series, every 4^th Alan Wild collected will see you win additional free spins and increase the Money symbols multiplier up to 10x. This can lead to 4,000 times bet max wins.

Whilst Big Bass slots fans may not see the appeal right away, the Club Tropicana slot is welcome detour for Pragmatic Play’s favourite fisherman. The icing on the cake would have been if Pragmatic managed to get the rights to use Wham’s song of the same name as the soundtrack!

If you like Big Bass slots but want something a little different, Big Bass Day at the Races would be my pick. With a horse racing theme, it comes with 10,000 times bet max wins. With no signs of the Big Bass slots series slowing down, more detours for our favourite fisherman is surely the way to go in future.

Want a different type of party? Nolimit City’s Kenneth Must Die is based on sordid, BDSM-inspired parties in suburbia, a host of superb bonus features and 69,000 times bet max wins.

The Club Tropicana slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades. It was then verified/checked by Jenny Mason, our slot reviewer who has 17+ years working in online gambling, for top UK brands. 

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Jenny Mason has more than 17 years of experience in the online gambling industry and has worked for some of the UK’s top betting brands. She started at OLBG in 2014 and her role involves creating great content and looking after the marketing activity. Jenny is knowledgeable in all areas of online sports betting and has an interest in slots and bingo.