James Cook Slot

Captain James Cook was a British explorer, cartographer, navigator and captain in the Royal Navy during the 1700s. Cook joined the Navy as a teenager and explored many vast oceans and achieved contact with Australia, Hawaii and become known for the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

You can now head back to the 1700s and relive the legendary voyages of the most iconic explorer the world has ever known, in the James Cook slot machine from InBet Games. This 5-reel, 9-payline video slot welcomes you to play from 9 coins to a max of 900 coins where you can trigger a jackpot of 500,000 coins. Explore the vast oceans and landscapes and you will not only get your hands on varying rewards, but there are scatters and free spins on offer too.

Voyage of Discovery

James Cook slot machine takes you to the high seas where you are required to hop on a tall ship to become one of the crew in this exploration themed slot. Separating the reels of the game are ropes and the symbols floating around will draw you into the plot, these are; nautical themed card values of 10, J, Q, K and A as well as totem masks, skull necklace, James Cook the explorer, ancient tools and tall ships.

There are only a handful of symbols to this game, but they are in-keeping with the theme and trigger plenty of wins on the reels. The lower of the slot machine houses 3D buttons – these are to offer a life-like feel to the machine. Use those buttons to choose your lines from 1 to all 9, your bet per line, auto play, spin the reels and access game help.

Unearth a Jackpot

Unlike James Cook, you won’t have to start colonising lands and unearthing hidden treasures buried deep beneath the surface of the soil – you simply spin the reels and look out for the highest paying symbol of them all – the James Cook symbol. Bet maximum stakes of 900 coins a spin and land a payline full of James Cook symbols to get your hands on that 500,000-coin jackpot.

The totem mask is the second highest paying symbol with a 100,000-coin offering whilst the skull necklace award a generous 50,000 coins for 5 of a kind. The ancient tools offer up to 25,000 coins but the card values offer the lowest cash payouts of between 10,000 and 15,000 coins.

Finding Features

Scatters, free spins and a gamble feature are on offer – all of which are easy to understand. Scatter symbols offer no cash reward sadly and these are represented by the tall ship symbols – three or more on those paylines will trigger 10 free spins. Gamble will come into play with any base game win triggered. The cards will flash and produce a shuffle sound that’s extremely quick – we think it’s there to put you off. Look to the top right to see what you can win and the top left to show your current base game win. The red or black colours on the cards are shown via totem masks and when you make your predictions, the card will sit to the top of the flashing deck to help you make future guesses.

Splashing Good Summary?

The only thing we could think of whilst playing the James Cook slot was walking the plank. The graphics are animated and very basic – almost resembling a story from a children’s book. The ease of gameplay is great – nothing too complicated to get your head around, just select your stake and spin. James Cook is a medium variance slot with regular wins splashing onto the reels – but these are more so low value rather than high value wins. Whether you have a big bankroll or small budget – you can control your bets to reflect this, but the more lines you have in play and the higher your stake, the bigger the cash you can receive.

Like all InBet Games slots, the gamble feature can slightly get on your nerves – make sure you switch your volume down if you opt to gamble. James Cook is a decent enough slot full of retro sounds and graphics, but it doesn’t separate itself from the competition with its lack of features. Free spins are generous with their findings in terms of cash, but these don’t like to grace your reels often.