When it comes to gameplay, Duck Hunters: Happy Hour doesn't stray away from the original game. However, the slot includes multiple mechanics that can appear in both the base game and free spins.
Free Spins
Bonus spins are activated by landing 3 or more bonus symbols. Three bonus symbols activate 7 Duck Hunt Spins, four bonus symbols activate 8 Hawk Eye Spins, and five bonus symbols activate 10 Big Game Spins.
The basic rules of all the free spin modes are the same. Multiplier positions will carry from drop to drop, allowing for large multipliers that can greatly increase your total payout potential. Additionally, an Extra +1 Shot symbol can be displayed and award you an additional free spin.
Each of these bonus spin modes has its own upgrade feature. During the Duck Hunt Spins, you'll randomly get one of three upgrades:
- Upgraded Ways, which replaces regular Ways symbols with Infectious Ways symbols
- Upgraded Bomb, which will act like a normal Bomb symbol except that it will never reveal a mid-paying symbol.
- Extra +2 Shots replaces the +1 shot symbol and awards 2 additional spins.
Hawk Eye Spins work the same way as Duck Hunt Spins in terms of upgrades, but give you two upgrades instead of one. Finally, during Big Game Spins, you'll get all three upgrades and play the game with them for your entire session.
Nolimit Booster
The game allows players to make use of an assortment of booster and Bonus Buy options so that they don’t have to wait for the bonuses to drop:
- The Bonus Booster has a cost of 2x the base wager and increases the chances of getting free spins by 5, as well as guarantees a Bonus symbol on the second reel.
- Day 8 Spins, which cost 10x the stake, are set to start at an 8x multiplier.
- Day 64 spins, which are 90x the base bet, start with all positions at 64x.
- Happy Hour Spins for 3,000x the wager will start at 8x multipliers and will place Bombs in the middle two reels at the initial drop, giving you large combos early on.
Extra Spins
You may also buy an Extra Spin after each round has ended. The spin will retain the multipliers from the previous round's positions. Those multipliers determine the price. If the cost to trigger the additional spin is less than or equal to the amount of the prior round's win, it will be an available option. Bonus symbols do not appear on the reels during an extra spin.
Wilds, Bonus Symbols and Payouts
Wild symbols in this slot look like road signs with “Nolimit City Wild” written on them and substitute for any other character except for Bonus.
xWays symbol replaces itself as a regular paying symbol and increases the number of ways to win on that position by 2x, 4x or 8x. The Infectious xWays builds upon this by allowing the revealed symbol to infect other matching symbols already on the grid by expanding to the same size.
When a Bomb lands, it explodes and clears all regular-paying symbols within a 3x3 area. Any multipliers that were attached to the cleared spaces will double. Once the explosion has occurred, each space that was previously a Bomb will reveal a random symbol, which could be a mid-paying, a Wild symbol, an Infectious xWays, or another Bomb.
Wins in Duck Hunters Happy Hour pay out through a scatter-style mechanism. Eight or more matching symbols anywhere on the reels will trigger a payout. Then, winning symbols will be removed and will cause a cascade where new symbols drop down from above into the now empty spaces. With every space cleared, the potential for a larger payout will increase because each space will be multiplied by 2x. A multiplier on an existing position will double if it was included in a new win on the next drop and can go as high as 8,192x.
