Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It

Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It Slot Review

A moustachioed lobster in chef’s whites stands on the sand outside his seafood shack, claws raised, while a second one grins out from the reel frame. Blue light shafts down through the water onto coral and a drowned castle ruin behind him.

Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It, from Pragmatic Play, is a high-volatility slot that refuses to treat your losing spins as losers: nearly every miss on the way to a bonus still feeds something, and that habit of paying in scraps is the most interesting thing about how it’s built.

It’s a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, an RTP of 96.04%, high volatility, and stakes from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin. Fans of the studio’s seafood side will find company in Lobster House and Hot Tuna. Bob’s kitchen serves its own recipe.

Base Game & Features

The reels sit in a bamboo frame under the shack’s straw roof, five by four with 20 paylines. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, and only the highest combination per line counts. Bob himself in his chef’s hat is the top payer, with the dishes filling out the middle of the board.

The paytable, in multiples of your total bet:

• Lobster Bob (Chef) – 20x for three, 50x for four, 100x for five
• Burger/Crab Dish – 10x for three, 20x for four, 50x for five
• Fish Dish – 5x for three, 10x for four, 20x for five
• Shrimp Dish / Octopus Dish – 2x for three, 5x for four, 10x for five
• A, K, Q – 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 2x for five
• J, 10, 9 – 0.25x for three, 0.5x for four, 1x for five

Five Bobs on a payline returns 100x the total bet, which is the board’s biggest fixed prize. The card royals pay fractions of the total bet, so the dishes and Bob himself carry nearly all of the headline value.

Crab Symbol Awards

Crabs pay wherever they land. Hit three or more anywhere on the reels and the award scales with the count, paid as a multiple of your total bet:

• 3 Crabs – 1x total bet
• 4 Crabs – 2x total bet
• 5 Crabs – 5x total bet
• 6 Crabs – 10x total bet
• 7 Crabs – 20x total bet
• 8 Crabs – 50x total bet
• 9 Crabs – 100x total bet
• 10 Crabs – 500x total bet

Crab Respins

When two FREE SPINS symbols land without a third, the near-miss isn’t wasted. If those symbols can move down one position without leaving the reel area, a respin triggers: the reels carrying FREE SPINS symbols nudge down, and the reels without them spin again.

Every crab that lands during these respins is collected rather than paid on the spot. The total count across all respins is paid from the ladder above once they finish, so a short run can turn a two-crab nothing into a payable count. That’s what keeps the base game moving on spins that would otherwise be dead.

Crab Boost

At random, a win of three or more crabs can pay more than the ladder price for that count. There’s no telling when it will happen, only that a bigger award than the standard one can arrive.

Hold & Spinner

Any symbol can land with a pearl tucked under it, and the pearls collect on oysters beneath each reel. At random times the oysters stay open and the Hold & Spinner round begins. The normal reels fade away to blanks, and between two and five MONEY symbols drop into random positions with random values, holding there for the rest of the round.

MONEY symbols draw their values from a fixed set:

• 1x, 1.5x, 2.5x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 25x, 30x, 35x, 40x, 45x or 50x total bet

The round starts with three respins, and every fresh MONEY symbol that lands resets the count to three and adds its value to the total. Special reels are in play for the duration, so only blanks and MONEY symbols appear. It ends when the respins run out with nothing new landing.

Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It Free Spins and Bonus Buys

Hit three FREE SPINS symbols on reels two, three and four and the round begins with a two-part draw. First 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 free spins are awarded at random, then a multiplier of 2x, 3x or 5x is picked from one of three buckets.

The multiplier applies to everything the round pays, crab awards included.

Retriggers come cheap inside the round. One FREE SPINS symbol adds a single spin, two add two, and three award a fresh batch equal to the one you started with. Hold & Spinner can also trigger during free spins, which is where the round’s real ceiling sits: a held collection of money values inside a multiplied round.

Ante Bet and Extra Chance

Two options adjust the odds from the base game. The ante bet raises the multiplier to 30x in exchange for more FREE SPINS symbols on the reels and a higher chance of triggering features naturally. Both buy options are disabled while it’s on, and standard play runs at the 20x multiplier.

Separately, an Extra Chance of Scatters toggle in the side panel boosts scatter frequency for an added cost on top of your stake. It’s a second route to the same end as the ante bet, paid per spin rather than through a changed multiplier.

Bonus Buys

Both features can be bought outright, each at the same price:

• BUY FREE SPINS – 50x total bet, instantly triggers the free spins round
• BUY HOLD & SPINNER – 50x total bet, instantly triggers the hold round; at random, the triggering spin can instead award a free spins round that guarantees a Hold & Spinner inside it

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.6/10

Time in Bob’s shack is mostly spent counting crabs and waiting for oysters to open, and it says something that this rarely feels like dead time. The respin collection and the scatter-pay ladder mean the base game is doing something on spins other high-volatility slots write off, and that’s the one reason to pick this over the studio’s other seafood plates.

The strength is that crab ladder: it climbs steeply to 500x the bet, and the random Boost can top whatever count you hit, so even mid-sized screens stay interesting. The weakness is that neither bonus carries a big number on its own – the free spins multiplier stops at 5x and the money symbols at 50x, so the rounds that stick in the memory are the ones where the two features stack, and those need luck twice over.

This is one for players who enjoy the grind between bonuses and don’t measure a slot by its bonus alone. Anyone after a single spectacular round should order elsewhere from the menu.

Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It FAQs

• How do you trigger free spins in Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It?

  Hit three FREE SPINS symbols on reels two, three and four. Before the round starts you’re awarded 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 free spins at random, plus a multiplier of 2x, 3x or 5x picked from one of three buckets. During the round, one symbol adds a spin, two add two, and three award a fresh batch equal to the original.
• What do the crab symbols pay in Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It?

  Crabs pay anywhere on the reels, scaling with the count: 1x your total bet for three, up to 500x your total bet for ten. Two FREE SPINS symbols without a third can also trigger a respin sequence where every crab that lands is collected and paid from that ladder at the end.
• What does the Crab Boost do in Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It?

  Crab Boost can trigger at random when you land a win with three or more crabs, paying a bigger award than the standard ladder price for that number of crabs.
• How does the Hold & Spinner feature work in Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It?

  Pearls land beneath the symbols and gather on oysters under each reel. At random times the oysters stay open and the round begins: two to five MONEY symbols land with values of up to 50x total bet and stick. You get three respins, reset to three by every new MONEY symbol, and the round ends when the respins run dry.
• Can you buy the bonus on Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It?

  Yes. BUY FREE SPINS and BUY HOLD & SPINNER both cost 50x your total bet and trigger their feature instantly. Buying the Hold & Spinner can also, at random, award a free spins round with a guaranteed Hold & Spinner inside it instead.
• What is the RTP of Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It?

  Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It runs at an RTP of 96.04%.
• Is Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It high volatility?

  Yes, it’s a high volatility slot, so wins tend to be larger but less frequent. Stakes run from 0.20 up to 240.00 per spin across a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines.
• Who makes Lobster Bob’s Sea Food and Win It?

  Pragmatic Play. Its release date is 22 April 2024.