Polar Explorer is a 25-payline video slot operating on the Real Time Gaming software platform. The Explorer symbol is the wild icon and the Ship icon is the game’s scatter. Players can the try the slot on this page free of charge or choose any of the Real Time Gaming casinos found in the listings to play the game for real money.
Before starting their polar expedition, players should settle on their bet first. To choose the number of paylines played, “Lines” should be pressed. “Bet” modifies the coin denomination, ranging from 0.05 to 1.25. In order the initiate the game, one should click “Spin” and “Auto Play” should be pushed in order to turn the reels for a number of times without interruption.
Royals, or symbols A through to 9, on reels 2, 3 and 4 may contain parts of a snowflake pattern during the regular games. When a full snowflake pattern emerges on reels 2, 3 and 4, either the Explorer, Discovery or Hidden Treasure Feature will be activated.
In The Discovery Feature, 8 Free Games are won, during which at least 1 reel always has at least 1 Explorer symbol. The Explorer symbol may appear grouped during the Free Games. Any 3 or more scattered Ships will trigger extra 8 Free Games. This feature can only be re-activated 2 times.
In the Hidden Treasure Feature, a snow cave with 5 Chests is revealed and players need to pick Chests in order to uncover Bonus symbols until a cave-in occurs. A maximum of 3 Bonus symbols can be won. 8 Free Games are then played, during which any Bonus icon will be replaced with the Explorer. 3 more scatters will trigger another 5 Free Games.
Random Progressive Jackpots can be won at the conclusion of any game. Progressive Jackpot wins will be added to all other wins.
Game Play
Lines: Select the number of activated paylines.
Bet: Choose the coin denomination.
Spin: Start spinning the reels.
Auto Play: Spin the reels for a number of times uninterrupted.
Polar Explorer is a real time gaming slot and lives on the cold snowy days. With 5 reels and 25 paylines you will get enough out of this slot. Not sure why this slot is in ''Restricted'' game list when playing with bonus funds as I have never seen decent hits, or could it be the feature guarantee? I mean there are a lot of other feature guarantee slots. Also remember the feature guarantee comes as an extra cost, so if you place $1.25 bet your actual bet is $1.
Anyways set somewhere in Iceland you get the explorer with normal card deck symbols on the reels including Polar bear, regular bear a dolphin and the explorer himself. The explorer act as wild as well and 5 of kind pays x5000 your total line bet. There is a scatter symbol which pays a value but does not trigger free spins.
The slot has a few features and is triggered by getting a full snow flake on the 3 centre reels. You can activate 1 of 3 features:
- Explorer Feature
- Discovery Treasure
- Hidden treasure
I think everyone wants the hidden feature as you can shoot certain treasure chest to reveal extra wild symbols. You can activate maximum of 3 extra wild symbols and those symbols are the higher paying symbols. This feature pays the best, the other feature is not so great. One of the other features are when reels 4 and 5 are fully covered with wild symbols and wild is active on reels 1,2 and 3 as well. This feature is decent but not as good.
The feature guarantee plays out you had 125 spins without triggering free spins in between and with the same bet value. Please note when playing with bonus funds you can build up the feature but if you lose your balance before wager is complete then the feature build is lost as well, however the feature will remain if you complete wager.
I like the slot but do not play it these days anymore, just to many empty base game wins etc.