Dead Canary

Delve deeper still into the explosive mining series of cascading video slots on Dead Canary by Nolimit City. Dig for wins on an expanding grid with cascading symbols, win multipliers, xBomb Wild Multipliers, and the Wild Mining feature. Tunnel into a free spins bonus with coin collects up to 100x stake, perpetual collect and perpetual payer symbols, added multipliers and extra spins to unearth wins of up to 65,000x your bet.

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Dead Canary is a video slot with six reels starting with a 3-3-2-2-1-1 format and potentially increasing to a 3-4-3-4-3-4 size with up to 1728 ways to win. Pays are awarded for three or more symbols landing on adjacent reels from left to right. You can join the wacky miner on desktop, tablet or mobile from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin (max. 140 with xBet on). The game has extreme volatility (10/10) with a default RTP of 96.02%. Other versions are available at 94.12%, 92.11% or 87.25%.

Those familiar with Misery Mining xBomb and the title that launched the series, Fire In The Hole, will recognise our miner and the dark and moody mining theme backed by foreboding brass tones. The game is a fine example of a Nolimit City production at its best, exceptionally detailed, beautifully rich in colour and expertly crafted by the team.

The pay symbols start at the low end with 10, J, Q, K and A, awarding 1x to 1.5x your bet for six-of-a-kind. They are followed by grappling hook, flask, compass, rat and miner symbols, and matching six across the reels awards from 2x to 7.5x your bet. A dynamite bundle represents the wild symbol that substitutes all others except the canary in a gold or silver cage, which acts as the bonus scatter.

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Dead Canary Slot Features

Dead Canary completes a trio of cascading slots with expanding grids from Nolimit City behind the highly popular Misery Mining xBomb, and the game that started it all, Fire In The Hole. Let’s dig around this highly-anticipated follow-up and see what gameplay treasures we can find on the latest mining expedition from the famous studio.

Dead Canary is a cascading video slot with 6 reels in a 3x4x3x4x3x4 format as standard. Each spin starts in a 3x3x2x2x1x1 layout of active positions, with the remaining blocked by three rows of barriers. Before taking your first spin, you can choose to enable the xBet feature for a 40% increase in stake size. Using xBet guarantees a canary scatter will land on each spin and unlocks the first barrier row to provide a 3x4x3x3x2x2 starting layout.

Symbols slide diagonally downwards from top right to bottom left, which gives the illusion of a slanted reel set. However, wins are formed in the usual way, starting from the leftmost reel by matching three or more symbols in succession to the right. Winning symbols explode from the grid, allowing new and existing symbols to slide and fill the gaps, which can lead to further wins. The cycle of exploding wins and cascading symbols continues providing more wins occur before paying the sum of all wins at the end of a spin sequence.

Each row of barriers comes with a locked multiplier, and each cascading win cycle will unlock each barrier in turn, increasing the number of active positions and releasing the locked multiplier value to the total win multiplier. The currently active value of the total win multiplier is applied to any following wins.

Aiding the unlocking of barrier rows to expand the play area is the xBomb and Wild Mining features. Wild Mining is triggered when 3, 4, or 5 matching symbols align diagonally but do not form part of a winning combination. The symbols are removed, and one or more wild bombs are created in the middle position/s as follows:

• 3 Symbols award 1 Wild Bomb
• 4 Symbols award 2 Wild Bombs
• 5 Symbols award 3 Wild Bombs

Wild Bombs explode in turn, removing all other symbols from play except for any xBomb symbols, triggering a new symbol drop. Any scatter symbol destroyed by a Wild Bomb will reappear in a new position. A Wild Bomb exploding next to a barrier will also unlock the row via the explosion.

The xBomb Wild symbol makes a return on Dead Canary, which acts as wild and substitutes all other symbols except the canary scatter. After calculating wins, xBomb Wilds explode and destroy all symbols except for scatters and other xBombs in a cross pattern. Each xBomb Wild explosion increases the total win multiplier in x1 increments and also removes any adjacent barrier row, expanding the play area upon exploding.

Land three or more canary scatters in a spin sequence to trigger Canary Free Spins. The grid expands to a 4x3x4x3x4x3 layout for the bonus with locked vault symbols in each of the four corners. Each vault collects coins and multipliers during the round that appear in directly adjacent positions. Vaults can only be unlocked by an adjacent xBomb explosion, which queues the contents to be awarded at the end of the bonus.

The triggering scatters are locked in position throughout free spins. Additional scatters that may land will also lock unless landing in a vault collecting position, in which case the scatter is pushed to the nearest available central position. All locked scatters begin as canary scatters but can be transformed into rat or miner scatters (more to that shortly).

Scatters start at x1 and with three lives represented by hearts beneath each symbol. Scatters will collect coins, multipliers, upgrades, the rat symbol and the dwarf enhancer that land in a collectable position. Lives are destroyed by gas and xBomb symbols, as detailed below. When a scatter loses its lives, the total sum is transferred to the win total for the round before a new x1 canary emerges with three lives in its place. Silver canary scatters collect any directly adjacent symbols in an x-shape. Gold canary scatters collect in an x-shape that spans all rows across the grid.

The round begins with three free spins, which are replenished each time an xBomb explodes. Failing to collect an xBomb on a spin will reduce the spin count by one, and the bonus ends when spins expire. Each symbol collected by vaults or canaries will add to the winning pot or modify the round as follows:

• Coins: Appear with values of 1x, 10x, 15x, 25x, 50x or 100x your bet.
• xBomb: Explode and affect adjacent scatters in an x-shape, removing one life (heart) or unlocking vaults. Resets the spin count to three.
• Multipliers: Will double or triple the value of scatters or vaults when collected.
• Gas: Takes one life away from a scatter when collected.
• Dwarf: When a dwarf symbol is collected, it replaces one canary scatter as a persistent collector symbol, collecting all other scatter totals until its three lives have been taken. After the dwarf dies, the scatter changes back to an x1 canary with a new set of lives.
• Rat: Collect the rat to transform a scatter into a persistent payer scatter that shares its collected value with all other scatters on each turn until its three lives are removed. After the rat dies, an x1 canary returns to take its place with three lives.
• Beer Upgrade: Collect a beer symbol to transform a silver canary scatter into a gold canary scatter for the remainder of the bonus.

Next to the game window, a win total collects the sum of all scatters that have lost their lives. At the end of the round, the win total is further increased by the sum of any unlocked vaults before being paid.

Where available, Dead Canary comes with a Bonus Buy feature for direct access to the bonus games. For 68x your bet, you can buy a bonus triggering spin into the Canary Free Spins with a designed RTP of 96.30%. For 5000x your bet, you can buy access to the Canary Free Spins with a guaranteed minimum of one gold canary scatter with a 96.37% RTP. Lastly, 284x your bet buys a lucky draw between options 1 and 2. The theoretical RTP of the lucky draw is 96.39%.

Final Verdict

Dead Canary is an exciting addition to the series with similar gameplay features to other titles in the range but more than enough individuality to stand on its own. Fans of cascading gameplay and the graphics and sounds that come with high-end video slots should enjoy Dead Canary. Fortunate spins can result in lengthy and mesmerising sequences of explosions from xBomb and Wild Mining features, which can be a feast for the eyes and wallet.

The slanted reel set creates a unique and defining experience in the base game, which is matched in the equally engaging Canary Free Spins by a cleverly themed bonus round of coin wins with expendable canaries entwined in a mining feature performance of dangerous gases, rats, and the miner himself with the occasional beer.

And in true Nolimit City macabre style, animated win sequences pit the miner in a dream state with a mermaid, delirious presumably from carbon monoxide poisoning; that is unless the max win of 65,000x bet is achieved, where you’ll see the miner and his wife, picture-perfect, living happily ever after.

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