Beach Life Introduction
Can you smell the salty, refreshing sea air, feel the warm sun on your back, and the sand between your toes? You must be playing Beach Life, a ibe of many free video pokies from developers Playtech with quite a following. With vibrant graphics, fun sounds and a stunning progressive jackpot, Beach Life offers a vacation that could leave you rich!
Mobile Gaming
Tablet and mobile players can relax - Beach Life has been optimised for play on all mobile devices, giving you the same high-quality experience that you would get on a computer. No downloads are required, and the game even has special mobile features, such as swiping to spin the reels and tapping them to stop spinning whenever you like.
Look and feel
Beach Life captures everything that is so great about a holiday by the sea. Think ice creams and cocktails, surfers and sandcastles, all set over a backdrop of an azure seashore dotted with palm trees and sailing boats. The retro 80s-style graphics really pop, making this an ideal pokie to play if the skies outside are grey and dull!
How to play
Playtech’s Beach Life has 5 reels with 3 rows and 20 paylines. The number of lines played per spin can be changed from 1 to 20, and the amount staked per line is set at $0.50. This gives you a maximum bet of $10.00. Winning spins are made by landing matching symbols from left to right across an active payline. Wins across multiple paylines are possible, which makes winning big even easier.
Symbols
The symbols are all objects you’d enjoy on a day by the sea, rendered here in bold retro graphics. Lower-value symbols include ice creams, lollies and cocktail drinks. The real money lies with the high-value symbols, including a surfer and a sunbather, with the highest-valued symbol being a snorkeler. Five snorkelers earn you a massive $250! To win really big, players need to aim to get special symbols on the reels.
An advantage of Beach Life is that you can choose to stop the reels spinning earlier if you like and they spin consecutively from left to right, so if you like the look of your first two reels, you can take a chance and stop the other three where they are.
Wild bonuses
The Scatter symbol is represented by a sandcastle. Get at least two sandcastles anywhere on the reels, and your winnings are multiplied all the way up to 500x your original stake if you manage to get all five sandcastles! The sun symbol in Beach Life is the Wild and substitutes for all other regular symbols, making it even easier to hit winning combinations.
Beach Life contains a rather unique feature. If you manage to land five suns on the same line, you can win up to $50,000! That’s still not all; play the game with all 20 paylines active and get a line of five suns and you could win perhaps the largest prize in the world of pokies: the progressive jackpot of several million dollars!
Bonus mini-game
Get three or more Bonus treasure chest symbols on the same line to unlock the bonus mini-game, Sunken Treasure, with generous prizes. Pick the treasure chest you want to open and see how much you’ve won!
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