Scruffy Duck Slot

Imagine this: Light breeze blowing, birds chirping, sun in your face, and frogs to keep you company. You are laid back, enjoying the quiet pond and getting acquainted with some funny scruffy ducks. These playful, messy birds will put a smile on your face as you spin the reels.

The cartoonish Scruffy Duck novelty by NetEnt (released in 2017) has an RTP of 96.38% and a maximum payout of up to 300 000 CAD (1200x the total bet if you play with the max bet of 250 CAD), as well as Medium Volatility.

The game comes with 8(!) captivating features, so you can glimpse the metamorphosis of Scruffy Duck into an Expanding Wild Swan down at the pond and enjoy:

• Stacked Symbols
• Expanding Wild
• Free Spins
• Multipliers
• Symbol Removal Feature
• Colossal Wilds
• Random Wilds
• Double Feature

Personal testers’ opinion about the Scruffy Duck slot

• With the Scruffy Duck slot, it’s usually easy to establish the game mood from the very start. Play around 70-100 spins at the minimum bet and check the result. Then decide to put your normal strategy at play or not. When the slot is cold, you’ll see it doesn’t keep the balance well right from the beginning.
• Statistically, The Free Spins feature is launched every 145th spin (0.69%), which is an average number. 33% of the prize pool is reserved for payouts during the Free Spins and 67% for the regular spins. During our tests, the maximum win was 457x the bets during the Free Spins. We got the Double feature, which is the best of the 5 features, carrying the slot maximum potential.

Review and recommendations by the testing team

• Upon its initial release, this slot and many other NetEnt slots became very popular. It still has a group of loyal fans, but its glory days are over.
• During our tests, we noticed the gameplay is very similar to that of the Secret of the Stones slot. They’re often very close to big payouts but miss it by a ‘hair distance.’ Also, there are often great rewards given in both games, but just not enough to compensate for all the losing spins. All you can hope for is to land those Free Spins. We established that the Free Spins are often launched in a series of 2, with short intervals in between. They may be missing for some time and appear again in a series of 2. That’s why, if you have been waiting for the Free Spins for 100-150 spins and you finally land them, don’t rush to leave the slot after the first bonus round is received.
• Before the Free Spins commence, you get the opportunity to pick one of the following features:
• Multiplier Feature – 15 spins – all wins are tripled;
• Symbol Removal – 12 spins – only high-value symbols participate;
• Colossal Wild – 10 spins – Wild symbols galore, which occupy from 4 to 6 positions;
• Random Wild – 8 spins – with random Wilds in abundance;
• Double Feature – 6 spins – random Wilds and Colossal Wilds both feature at the same time.
• As a rule, many players hope to score the Double feature, but you have no influence on which feature the slot selects for you. Often it’s exactly the one you’re not hoping for; that’s what you get.
• Sadly, it’s also unpredictable if you’ll score a massive win with any of the features. We determined that with the Double feature, we got smaller payouts during our tests than with the other features. On average, payouts were around 20x-50x total bets, which is relatively good, considering the frequency of the Free Spins feature. Our absolute maximum win was 150x-250x after many long testing sessions.

Hidden parameters of Scruffy Duck slot (data from testing)

• The frequency of triggering the bonus is statistically every 145th spin (0,69%).
• The probability of a hit (any winning) is 22,62%.
• The distribution of the winnings is 67% in the main game and 33% in the bonus feature.
• The maximum payout during the tests was 457x.
• The average winning from the bonus was 49x.
• Volatility is 5,97 out of 20 (average).
• The cycle length is average.
• The rating of the slot machine for the wagering is 4,70 out of 10.
• RTP of 96.38% allows getting a positive mathematical expectation of winning at the casino.

Settings

• Provider – NetEnt
• Payment lines – 25 (fixed)
• Default range of bets – 0.25 to 250 CAD
• Volatility – Average
• Hit rate – 22.70%
• Playing field – 5х3
• The maximum winning is – 1200x the total bet
• Bonuses – Wilds, Expanding Wilds, Mega Wilds, Stacked Symbols, Double Symbols, Scatters,  Free Spins, Multipliers
• Free Spins – Yes (plus possible re-trigger)
• RTP – 96.38%

How to win at the Scruffy Duck slot machine? (Conclusion)

• Most of the players already know how we start this segment of our review: Always test the game in DEMO mode before playing with real money.
• It is important to play at a large casino, where the chance of an accumulated prize pool is real (the game is not super popular at the moment).
• The Scruffy Duck slot machine doesn’t require a big bet balance (around 150x is plentiful). Long distances are recommended with this slot, starting with minimum bets and slowly increasing them.
• Only occasionally, big payouts occur at the start of a session, but it’s usually clear in what mood the machine is from the first 70-100 spins.
• If you spend 100x-150x total bets before you score the Free Spins, don’t go and change the slot right after you got it. There’s a good chance it will be launched soon after that again. In fact, we would even suggest increasing the bet until you hit the next bonus round (almost all the time, they are in a series of 2).
• Overall, we don’t recommend this slot to the bonus hunters.