In order to understand the name, you need to jump into the game. The story goes that Mr Lake, who happens to be a moose, is putting together a gang for a heist. So this slot is not about poetic lakesides, but about saving a poor little monkey. There’s plenty of paying lines, which form up to 216 000 coin max win - which in turn means that this is a heist worth doing. Enter the game and enjoy the spectacular products of ELK Studios.
Theme
Rumour has it that Mr Romano has kidnapped a monkey, and has it hidden somewhere in his complex. Mr Lake is hell-bent on freeing the monkey, and thus the setting for a collection of other animals is laid. A parrot, a fish, an alligator, an elephant, and one more monkey are the symbols that are to carry out the mission. Roll the reels to help them move about the vast sprawling city. All of this comes with some urban jazz music, so the game is equally about action and relaxation.
Betting Options and Functions
Five times four reels open up, with 178 ways to win running through them. As long as the symbols are adjacent, and come with a minimum of three symbols you are guaranteed a hefty win. The betting is done via the total bet selector.
There are only seven different symbols, so you can rest assured that the variance is not astronomical. Payouts reach up to a thousand times the bet, drop to 500 for the second most valuable symbol, and from there go all the way to 100 times the bet with the least valuable symbol. These are the five symbol pay outs though, with three symbols paying between 40 and 150 times the bet.
Features
Mr lake himself shows up on the reels from time to time, triggering respins. Two scatters are needed at a minimum, and for the respins they will turn into wilds. The reels that have the wilds move one step at a time, paving the ground for chained wins.
Three scatters trigger the free spins, though they first transform into keys. Ten spins are given to start with, with every new key on the reels triggering an additional free spin. The keys have another function as well, which is to unlock extra features for the free spins. The walking wild moves one step right for every spin, the sticky wild stays on the reels, whilst the climbing wild moves up the reels one space at a time. When two of these wilds collide they create multipliers for that spin.
Our Take
The theme and story you can ditch right away, it just works as a theme and a background setting for the action on the reels. The game offers pretty high volatility, with sometimes a dozen or so spins going by without wins. On the other hand, even the lowest wins are quite sizeable. Free spins with their multiplying wilds are the core feature that you definitely want to trigger!
Slot data and features
- 5Reels
- 178Pay lines
- $5,000.00Max cash jackpot
- 96.3Payout Percent
- YesWild Symbol
- NoMultiplier
- $0.2 - $100Betting Range
- 0.01 - 5.0Coin bet range
- 1Coins per line
- NoProgressive
- 1000Max coins jackpot
- 178Max coins
- YesScatter Symbol
- YesFree spins available
- NoBonus Game
- NoBuy feature
- Animals , Cartoon Game theme
- High Volatility