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Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania is among the most dated slot machines by IGT, a top player in both the online and offline gambling business. The massive success of this slot game has been so impressive over its decades of existence that IGT saw it fit to release an online sequel Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2.

Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 slot carries the same storyline of the first slot release which follows Lucky Larry, a fisherman, as he casts host nets into a lobster riddled lake in the hope of some big catches. However, there’s a noticeable improvement in the quality of graphics and animations used, which makes the appearance of the game more alluring than the first set. The wooden planks on the five reels are maintained along with the forty play lines that run across the screen. The famous lake still sits in the backdrop, but the blue shades of its waters are more accentuated. Unlike the previous set where punters had to play in silence, Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 free slot incorporates some funky tunes that one can bop their head to as they enjoy an RTP rate of 94.68%.

Cast Your Nets

Even though considerable improvements are made in its appearance, nothing has been altered in the strategy of the playing Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 slot machine online. The only rule difference from the first set is that the forty paylines are now fixed and cannot be selected, and the credit value allowed in the game stands at a maximum of fifty credits. The spin button bears a simple yellow shade to stand out from the rest of the fields in the control panel.

Slot icons are an important part of any pokies machine, and IGT invests in the creation of beautiful symbols that stand out throughout the Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 game, and they include:

• Poker cards – K through 8
• Lakehouse
• Lighthouse
• Boat
• Buoy

Instead of using one wild like most other UK slots, Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 includes two, which are the logo in blue and orange shades.

Bonuses and Payouts

The wins collected when playing Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 for real money are lucrative and lie between 5 and 8000 credits for combinations of three or more items. However, it is the multitude of bonuses that sit as the biggest attraction for most players, and they are as follows:

• Jackpot pay – up to 50000 credits
• Multiplier feature – 3 times and 5 times multipliers
• Bonus picker - 40 to 95 times multipliers
• Free spins bonus – 5 free rounds
• Buoy bonus – 160 to 1000 times multipliers

With so much to offer, Lucky Larry’s Lobstermania 2 casino slot online has become a common feature in casinos online with access in both free and real money modes. Players can use the former version to collect tips on how the game runs.

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• Appendices
• Slots Analysis
• Miscellaneous

Introduction

In my continued effort to lift the veil of secrecy behind slot machines, I present the following analysis of the IGT game Lucky Larry's Lobstermania. The information regarding the design of this game is taken from the academic paper PAR Sheets, probabilities, and slot machine play: Implications for problem and non-problem gambling by Kevin A. Harrigan and Mike Dixon, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

The authors of the paper obtained par sheets for the game through the Canadian Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. I applaud the government of Canada for this release. The purpose of this page is to further the analysis of Lobstermania beyond what was presented in the Harrigan and Dixon paper.

It should be noted there are other versions of Lobstermania besides this one. As far as I can tell they differ by small changes to the pay table and details of the bonus round.

Reel Strips

Harrigan and Dixon give the symbol distribution for two Lobstermania par sheets, one for 85.0% and the other for 96.2%. Both are presented below. Notice how the 96.2% version has more high-paying symbols and that any given symbol is distributed more uniformly across the 5 reels. To illustrate that the distribution is more choppy in the 85.0% version, notice that the number of clams per reel on the 85.0% version is 10,8,3,4,7. On the 96.2%, the distribution is 6-6-5-6-6. However, the number of key symbols (wild, scatter and bonus) are the same in both games.

Lobstermania Symbol Distribution — 85.0%

Symbol	Reel 1	Reel 2	Reel 3	Reel 4	Reel 5
Wild	2	2	1	4	2
Logo	4	3	3	3	4
Buoy	3	4	3	8	5
Boat	4	3	4	3	4
Light House	3	4	6	3	7
Tuna	4	3	6	6	6
Clam	10	8	3	4	7
Sea Gull	3	9	4	10	5
Star Fish	10	3	10	7	8
Bonus	2	5	6	0	0
Scatter	2	2	2	2	2
Total	47	46	48	50	50

Lobstermania Symbol Distribution — 96.2%

Symbol	Reel 1	Reel 2	Reel 3	Reel 4	Reel 5
Wild	2	2	1	4	2
Logo	4	4	3	4	4
Buoy	4	4	5	4	5
Boat	6	4	4	4	4
Light House	5	4	6	6	7
Tuna	6	4	5	6	7
Clam	6	6	5	6	6
Sea Gull	5	6	5	6	6
Star Fish	5	5	6	8	7
Bonus	2	5	6	0	0
Scatter	2	2	2	2	2
Total	47	46	48	50	50

Harrigan and Dixon do not indicate the exact reel stripping. However, as long as the scatter symbols are not so close on the same reel that they can appear at the same time, the symbol order does not matter for this game, as well as for most video slots. The following reel stripping is hypothetical, based on the 85.0% version.

Lobstermania Symbol Distribution — 85.0% Reel Strips

Symbol	Reel 1	Reel 2	Reel 3	Reel 4	Reel 5
1	Tuna	Clam	Boat	Sea Gull	Clam
2	Star Fish	Buoy	Star Fish	Tuna	Wild
3	Clam	Light House	Clam	Buoy	Boat
4	Light House	Clam	Bonus	Sea Gull	Logo
5	Scatter	Buoy	Light House	Scatter	Buoy
6	Clam	Light House	Boat	Buoy	Star Fish
7	Star Fish	Bonus	Logo	Star Fish	Light House
8	Bonus	Sea Gull	Star Fish	Sea Gull	Tuna
9	Logo	Clam	Bonus	Tuna	Star Fish
10	Scatter	Boat	Light House	Wild	Light House
11	Buoy	Sea Gull	Star Fish	Buoy	Sea Gull
12	Clam	Tuna	Bonus	Tuna	Wild
13	Star Fish	Boat	Tuna	Star Fish	Tuna
14	Buoy	Bonus	Star Fish	Logo	Buoy
15	Clam	Star Fish	Clam	Sea Gull	Boat
16	Star Fish	Sea Gull	Sea Gull	Tuna	Clam
17	Logo	Wild	Star Fish	Wild	Tuna
18	Light House	Bonus	Wild	Logo	Buoy
19	Clam	Sea Gull	Bonus	Light House	Star Fish
20	Wild	Light House	Light House	Buoy	Clam
21	Sea Gull	Logo	Sea Gull	Sea Gull	Scatter
22	Star Fish	Wild	Star Fish	Boat	Buoy
23	Wild	Buoy	Tuna	Clam	Star Fish
24	Bonus	Clam	Clam	Star Fish	Tuna
25	Clam	Bonus	Boat	Light House	Clam
26	Boat	Sea Gull	Tuna	Sea Gull	Buoy
27	Star Fish	Clam	Star Fish	Boat	Boat
28	Tuna	Scatter	Bonus	Clam	Light House
29	Clam	Logo	Tuna	Buoy	Tuna
30	Star Fish	Tuna	Light House	Sea Gull	Logo
31	Tuna	Sea Gull	Star Fish	Boat	Light House
32	Logo	Scatter	Scatter	Light House	Sea Gull
33	Clam	Star Fish	Light House	Star Fish	Clam
34	Star Fish	Clam	Logo	Tuna	Logo
35	Boat	Boat	Sea Gull	Sea Gull	Star Fish
36	Light House	Logo	Star Fish	Buoy	Boat
37	Clam	Sea Gull	Scatter	Star Fish	Light House
38	Star Fish	Clam	Buoy	Clam	Tuna
39	Boat	Bonus	Tuna	Buoy	Sea Gull
40	Tuna	Star Fish	Logo	Sea Gull	Star Fish
41	Buoy	Sea Gull	Bonus	Star Fish	Light House
42	Sea Gull	Buoy	Star Fish	Clam	Clam
43	Logo	Light House	Light House	Logo	Logo
44	Clam	Clam	Sea Gull	Wild	Sea Gull
45	Star Fish	Tuna	Buoy	Buoy	Star Fish
46	Boat	Sea Gull	Boat	Sea Gull	Clam
47	Sea Gull	Tuna	Star Fish	Sea Gull
48	Buoy	Scatter	Light House
49	Tuna	Scatter
50	Wild	Star Fish

The way the game would work would be to choose 5 random numbers, one for each reel, and map each random number to a position on the corresponding reel. For example, for reel 1 the game would draw a number from 1 to 47. For example, suppose this number were mapped to the symbol in the top row. If the random number for reel 1 were 37, then the symbols shown on reel 1 would be a Clam on top row, a Star Fish in the middle row, and a Boat on bottom row.

Pay Table

The next table shows the Lobstermania pay table. All wins must be left aligned. The wild symbol can substitute for any line-pay symbol.

Lobstermania Pay Table

Symbol	5 in a row	4 in a row	3 in a row	2 in a row
Wild	10000	500	100	5
Logo	1000	200	40	2
Buoy	500	100	25
Boat	500	100	25
Light House	500	50	10
Tuna	250	50	10
Clam	200	30	5
Sea Gull	200	30	5
Star Fish	150	30	5

Line Pay Math

There are 47 × 46 × 48 × 50 × 50 = 259,440,000 possible outcomes in Lobstermania. The following table shows how many of these combinations result in each possible win. These figures are the result of a program with five nested loops that tallied the total for each win for each possible combination.

Lobstermania Line Pay Combinations

Symbol	5 in a row	4 in a row	3 in a row	2 in a row	Total
Wild	32	704	7,300	212,000	220,036
Logo	5,008	36,256	249,400	2,860,000	3,150,664
Buoy	9,968	59,856	220,400	290,224
Boat	6,204	44,968	313,900	365,072
Light House	13,086	59,122	442,900	515,108
Tuna	16,672	86,520	412,000	515,192
Clam	34,416	156,128	974,400	1,164,944
Sea Gull	26,838	163,142	459,000	648,980
Star Fish	72,440	288,640	1,201,200	1,562,280
Total	184,664	895,336	4,280,500	3,072,000	8,432,500

The next table shows the probability of each possible win. This is the number of winning combinations for that win, shown in the table above, divided by the total number of combinations of 259,440,000. The total in the lower right cell reflects a hit frequency per line (probability of winning anything) of 3.25%.

Lobstermania Line Pay Probabilities

Symbol	5 in a row	4 in a row	3 in a row	2 in a row	Total
Wild	0.00000012	0.00000271	0.00002814	0.00081714	0.00084812
Logo	0.00001930	0.00013975	0.00096130	0.01102374	0.01214409
Buoy	0.00003842	0.00023071	0.00084952	0.00111866
Boat	0.00002391	0.00017333	0.00120991	0.00140715
Light House	0.00005044	0.00022788	0.00170714	0.00198546
Tuna	0.00006426	0.00033349	0.00158804	0.00198578
Clam	0.00013265	0.00060179	0.00375578	0.00449023
Sea Gull	0.00010345	0.00062882	0.00176920	0.00250146
Star Fish	0.00027922	0.00111255	0.00462997	0.00602174
Total	0.00071178	0.00345103	0.01649900	0.01184089	0.03250270

The next table shows the contribution to the return for each possible win. Each cell is the product of the probability, from the table above, and the pay table. The right cell shows a total return from line pays of 55.28%.

Lobstermania Line Pay Probabilities

Symbol	5 in a row	4 in a row	3 in a row	2 in a row	Total
Wild	0.00123343	0.00135677	0.00281375	0.00408572	0.00948967
Logo	0.01930311	0.02794943	0.03845205	0.02204749	0.10775208
Buoy	0.01921061	0.02307123	0.02123805	0.06351989
Boat	0.01195652	0.01733272	0.03024784	0.05953708
Light House	0.02521970	0.01139416	0.01707138	0.05368525
Tuna	0.01606537	0.01667438	0.01588036	0.04862010
Clam	0.02653099	0.01805365	0.01877891	0.06336355
Sea Gull	0.02068918	0.01886471	0.00884598	0.04839986
Star Fish	0.04188252	0.03337650	0.02314986	0.09840888
Total	0.18209143	0.16807354	0.17647818	0.02613321	0.55277636

Scatter Pay

The player gets credit for a 'scatter pay' symbol if it appears anywhere on the screen. Scatter pay wins are based on the total amount bet. The following table shows the number of scatters per reel, total symbols per reel, and the probability of a scatter on that reel, which is 3×(column 2)/(column 3). The reason for multiplying by 3 is there are three visible positions on each reel.

Lobstermania Scatters per Reel

Reel	Scatters	Total Symbols on Reel	Scatter Probability
1	2	47	0.127660
2	2	46	0.130435
3	2	48	0.125000
4	2	50	0.120000
5	2	50	0.120000

The next table shows the probability and contribution to the return for 0 to 5 total scatter symbols. The lower right cell shows that the scatter pay feature returns 10.65% to the return of the game.

Lobstermania Scatter Pay Probabilities and Returns

Scatters	Pays	Probability	Return
5	200	0.000030	0.005994
4	25	0.001054	0.026351
3	5	0.014821	0.074106
2	0	0.104168	0.000000
1	0	0.365929	0.000000
0	0	0.513998	0.000000
Total	1.000000	0.106451

Bonus

The player earns the bonus if he gets the bonus symbol on reels 1, 2 and 3 on any active pay line. The following table shows the probability of getting the bonus symbol on each of the first three reels. The lower right cell shows the probability of activating the bonus on any active pay line is 0.06%, or 1 in 1,730. If the player plays the maximum 15 pay lines, then the bonus probability per spin is 0.87%, or 1 in 115.

Lobstermania Bonus Symbols per Reel

Reel	Bonus Symbols	Total Symbols on Reel	Bonus Probability
1	2	47	0.042553
2	5	46	0.108696
3	6	48	0.125000
Product	0.000578

There are three parts to the bonus game, as follows:

• Number of lobster traps.
• Number of lobsters per trap.
• Size/win of each lobster.

There are three possibilities for the number of lobster traps, 2, 3 and 4, each with equal probability. Thus, the expected number of traps is 3.

There are two possibilities for the number of lobsters per trap, 2 or 3, each with equal probability. Thus, the expected number of lobsters per trap is 2.5.

The prize per lobster can be anywhere from 5 to 250. Each prize has an associated weighting, as shown in the table below. The way the game might work is it would pick an integer from 1 to 322 and map it to a weight according to this table. The bottom right cell shows an average win of 44.02 per lobster.

Lobstermania Bonus — Lobster Wins

Pays	Weight	Probability	Return
5	5	0.015528	0.077640
6	5	0.015528	0.093168
7	5	0.015528	0.108696
8	5	0.015528	0.124224
10	20	0.062112	0.621118
12	10	0.031056	0.372671
15	10	0.031056	0.465839
20	20	0.062112	1.242236
22	20	0.062112	1.366460
25	20	0.062112	1.552795
27	20	0.062112	1.677019
30	19	0.059006	1.770186
35	22	0.068323	2.391304
45	24	0.074534	3.354037
50	19	0.059006	2.950311
55	15	0.046584	2.562112
60	15	0.046584	2.795031
65	15	0.046584	3.027950
70	15	0.046584	3.260870
75	15	0.046584	3.493789
100	10	0.031056	3.105590
150	8	0.024845	3.726708
250	5	0.015528	3.881988
Total	322	1.000000	44.021739

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The average win per bonus is (average traps)×(average lobsters per trap)×(average win per lobster) = 3 × 2.5 × 44.021739 = 330.163043.

The expected return for the bonus feature is (bonus probability) × (average win per bonus) = 0.000578168 × 44.021739 = 0.190890.

Summary

The following table summarizes the three ways to win in the game. The bottom right cell shows an expected return of 85.012%. In other words, for every dollar the player bets he can expect to get back 85¢.

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Lobstermania Summary

Item	Return
Line Pays	55.278%
Scatter	10.645%
Bonus	19.089%
Total	85.012%

The Harrigan and Dixon paper mentioned they were given par sheets for seven versions of Lobstermania. The available returns were 85.0%, 87.5%, 90.0%, 92.5%, 94.0%, 95.0%, and 96.2%.

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