| Anticipation |
A longer spin of a reel, with a glow, when a feature is possible on that reel. It does not change the result. |
| Asset set (art set) |
One full set of pictures for the game. The player can change the set. |
| AUS1 to AUS5 |
The low pay symbols |
| Base game |
The usual game. The player pays the bet for each spin. |
| Bet |
The price of one base spin: 10 credits |
| Blocker symbol |
A symbol that stops a way. WILD does not substitute for it. |
| Bonus |
The free spins |
| Collect |
The win when a KEY symbol pays the values of the FISH symbols |
| COR symbol |
Cash-on-reels symbol. A symbol that shows a credit value. |
| Credit |
The unit of all values in this document |
| Demo suite |
The tools in the playable game: forced results, art sets, statistics, simulation and settings |
| EV |
Expected value. The mean win in credits. |
| FISH1 to FISH4 |
The COR symbols of the game |
| Free spins |
Spins that do not cost a bet. They use the bonus reel strips and have levels. |
| FS |
The free spins symbol (scatter symbol) |
| Hit frequency |
The part of the spins that have a win |
| HOOK |
The name of the KEY symbol in the game texts |
| Kraken |
The FISH4 symbol. The golden kraken is the FISH4 symbol with its largest value. |
| KEY |
The symbol that collects the FISH values. The art is a fishing hook. The game texts use the name HOOK. |
| Level |
A stage of the free spins with its own multiplier and weight tables |
| Mode |
The base game or one level. Each mode has its own weight tables. |
| Multiplier |
The factor of a level. It multiplies the win of each spin of that level. |
| OAK |
"Of a kind". 3 OAK is a combination on 3 adjacent reels from reel 1. |
| Pay symbol |
A PIC symbol or an AUS symbol. It pays for ways. |
| PIC1 to PIC5 |
The high pay symbols |
| Reel strip |
The loop of 100 symbols of one reel |
| Round |
One base spin and the free spins that it starts |
| RTP |
Return to player. The EV divided by the bet. |
| Scatter symbol |
A symbol that the game counts in the full window. The positions are not important. |
| Special symbol |
FISH1 to FISH4, KEY, WILD or FS |
| Standard deviation |
A measure of the difference between the round wins and the mean round win |
| Standard error |
The standard deviation of a simulation result. It decreases when the number of rounds increases. |
| Stop |
The strip position of the top row of the window |
| Trigger |
The event that starts the free spins |
| Volatility |
The size of the changes in the results of the game. A high volatility game has few large wins and many small results. |
| Way |
One selection of one symbol position on each reel of a combination |
| Weight |
A whole number. The probability of a value is its weight divided by the sum of the weights. |
| WILD |
The symbol that substitutes for PIC and AUS symbols |
| Window |
The symbols that the player sees: 4 rows on each of the 5 reels. The window of one reel is the 4 symbols of that reel. |