Advantage Slots

With Top Up Fortunes, you’re looking for increased reel sizes, especially in the first three columns. But make sure the columns are actively that size, as they will shrink back to the reset of three up if they are not active. For Top Up Fortunes Ocean, which is my video at the end, you can see a little green counter at the top of the reels to indicate how many spins you’ll have with each reel extended.

Something like this would be a great play:

What’s a minimum play? I’m still experimenting, but as I mentioned in the video, I had three up in reel one (the max height for a reel), two up in reel two, and two up in reel three. If that’s not a play on this machine, I don’t know what is. As a ballpark for now until I get more data, I’m going with at least four active extenders in the first three reels, ideally with something extended in reels four or five as well. It wouldn’t shock me if you need five extenders in the first three reels.

So in my example, I had seven extenders in the first three reels, with another active extender in reel four, but none in reel five, because no green squares are filled in.

As you spin, if you get a volcano (Flame) or trident (Ocean) symbol in a reel, you’ll increase the size of that reel for three spins. Compare that first board to one that’s fully reset:

Notice the night-and-day difference between the two. Photo one had actively high reels in the first four columns, with the first three extended for at least two spins (small green squares above them). The second photo is at the absolute worst “243 ways” (that number to the left of reel one). The first photo had a girthy 2,400 ways.

I mentioned earlier that expanded reels remind me of Hex-style games, and those are always advantageous for better line hits and more room in general to trigger bonuses and features (looks like two separate bonuses in this case).

I did come across a similar-looking game in Dublin, Ireland, of all places, and it was called Clash Link. I have no firm recommendations for it yet since I wasn’t able to play it, but the obvious starting point would be to have high reels, ideally close to a bonus, jackpot reel, or free games prize up top:

Here’s my video for Top Up Fortunes, where I wasn’t even able to play before security told me to stop filming. I’ve included another from VegasLowRoller Mom just to show how the game plays:

VegasLowRoller Mom non-tutorial video