How To Play Astronaut
Game Progress
Any progress features in the game, including symbols locked onto the reels which affect subsequent spins, are saved for your game at the stake level you are playing at.
You can have different progress levels at different stakes in the same game and move between them by changing the stake.
If you are awarded free spins from a promotional campaign, any progress in the main game, including any locked symbols, will be saved and be available to continue playing at the same stake once the free spins have been completed.
Please note that this stateful game saves its state forever.
Total Stake
The Total Stake is the total of stakes per line. You can adjust it at any time, using the + or – buttons.
Spin the Reels
If you are playing on a desktop, click the Spin button or press the spacebar to spin.
Special Symbols And Features
Prize Ladder And Symbols
This game features only one reel on which it’s possible for 3 types of symbol to land – the Green Crystal, Red Crystal and Golden Shield. The game also features a 20-step, ladder-style paytable. The aim of the game is to climb as high as possible up the paytable by collecting Green Crystals.
Green Crystal
Each Green Crystal that lands will allow you to climb one step up the paytable ladder. You can choose to Continue, Take Half or Collect after a Green Crystal has landed.
Continue – stay in the game and continue to play with 100% of your potential winnings.
Take Half – cash out 50% of your potential winnings and continue to play the game round with the remaining 50%. Halving is only available if your currently accumulated win amount is equal to or above 1.0 of the currency in which you are playing.
Collect – cash out all of your winnings and end the current game round.
The more Green Crystals that land, the greater your chances of landing a Red Crystal.
The chances of landing either a Green Crystal or a Red Crystal are shown as percentages above the reel. The displayed chance for a Green Crystal also applies for a Golden Shield. The percentages are rounded to 1 decimal place.
Red Crystal
If you don’t have an active Golden Shield when a Red Crystal lands, the current game round ends, you lose all your stacked win amount that has not been cashed out, and you start from the bottom of the prize ladder.
If you have a Golden Shield active, landing a Red Crystal will break the shield and increase the next prizes on the ladder. You can then again choose to Continue, Take Half or Collect from the level reached.
Golden Shield
Landing the Golden Shield will activate a shield to protect you from a Red Crystal. The Golden Shield will start automatic spins, where no decisions will be made after Green Crystals land, as you have protection and cannot lose the prize. After the Golden Shield is broken by landing a Red Crystal, the automatic spins stop, and you can again choose how to proceed.
Prize Ladder Levels And Prizes
The prizes on the ladder represent stake multipliers. Landing a Red Crystal the first time after an activation of a Golden Shield during a game round upgrades you to Advanced multipliers, and these increases are applied to all yet-to-be-achieved levels on the ladder.
Some values on the prize ladder might be shown rounded down to the second decimal place in case a result based on the current stake would yield a value with 3 or more decimal places.
When halving, if the result yields a value of 3 or more decimal places, the game will follow the round half-up strategy.
For example: The number 0.676 will result in 0.68. The number 0.674 will result in 0.67.
If the value is exactly half way, it will be rounded up.
For example, 0.675 will result in 0.68
Best Gamble Strategy
In order to define the Best Gamble Strategy for this game, we need to break a game round into 3 possible scenarios:
1. You have not landed a Golden Shield:
If you have not landed a Golden Shield, the best strategy is to cash out after landing 9 Green Crystals.
If you decide not to adhere to the Best Gamble Strategy and choose to Continue after the 9th Green Crystal, then it’s best to continue and then Collect after the 12th Green Crystal has landed. If after the 12th Green Crystal, you again decide to “Continue’, then the Best Gamble strategy after each next Green Crystal up until the end is to “Collect”.
2. You have already landed a Golden Shield, and it has just been broken:
3. You have landed the Golden Shield, and after it was broken, you have chosen to Continue and have landed a Green Crystal:
The best strategy requires to Collect after a maximum of one Continue choice that has resulted in a Green Crystal after breaking the Golden Shield.
The RTP stated below is only achievable by playing with the best Gamble Strategy.
Bonus Auto-Complete
If the player loses connection to the game, closes the game or restarts the game before making a choice, the current game round will auto-complete by following the Best Gamble Strategy as described above.
General types of games
Check the pays menu in the game paytable if you are not sure of the game type.
The values related to each symbol, shown either on the slot scene or on the dedicated Symbol Wins pages of the Pays menu, represent stake multipliers and not credits.
The prize value from one payline is equal to the total stake divided by the number of paylines multiplied by the symbol multiplier advertised in the paytable. Where multiple wins occur on multiple win lines, the total win values are summed. If more than one win occurs on the same payline, the largest win is paid. Each individual payline can pay only once per spin.
Example: Total stake is 2. Total paylines are 20. The symbol multiplier for the length of 5 is 300. The win for 1 payline with this symbol and length would be calculated as such: 2 / 20 * 300 = 30.
The prize value from one payline in a Multiline game is equal to the stake multiplied by the symbol multiplier advertised in the paytable. Where multiple wins occur on multiple win lines, the total win values are summed. If more than one win occurs on the same payline, the largest win is paid.
Example: Stake is 2. The symbol multiplier for the length of 5 is 20. The win for 1 payline with this symbol and length would be calculated as such: 2 * 20 = 40.
The prize value from one way or cluster in a Ways or Winning Clusters game is equal to the stake multiplied by the symbol multiplier advertised in the paytable. Where multiple wins occur in multiple ways or clusters, the total win values are summed.
Example: Total stake = 2. Symbol win multiplier = 2. Win = 2×2 = 4.
If there is a Scatter Symbol in the game, all wins will be paid in addition to any other symbol wins occurring on the same spin.
If you are playing a Scatter Pays game, only the highest winning combination is paid per symbol.
Please be aware that each account allows only a single game to be played at any one time. Therefore, a game should not be played on more than one device, or multiple games on the same device simultaneously. Doing so may lead to various errors.
In case of an incomplete game round due to connection loss where the result has not yet occurred, the game will generate an outcome for the round, which will be shown upon restoring the connection, and the result will be visible in the Game History after refreshing the game.
In case of an incomplete game round due to connection loss where the result has occurred, but the player could not be informed of this fact, the game will inform the player of the outcome upon refreshing of the game and the result will be visible in the Game History.
Gaming Session Information
“Gaming session” is considered the time since the current game has been opened, until the time it is closed. Opening the game again from the lobby, or reloading the game in the browser is considered a new gaming session.
“Session timer” is being measured for the current gaming session only.
“Net position” is based on the current gaming session only, calculating “all real money wins minus all real money bets.”
For the best gaming experience, the latest version of the software is recommended.
Malfunction voids all pays and plays.
RTP ≈ 90.68%
The calculated max multiplier of the game is 48000.
Minimum stake: £0.10
Maximum stake: £4
