1429 Uncharted Seas

This slot is set in 1429 (hence the title), the year that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas and began to fill in the blanks in his giant map book. And a very busy explorer he was too, as he discovered the Azores, The Bahamas, Cuba and Dominica, all before he landed back in Europe on 4 March 1493. Right, history lesson over.

1429 Uncharted Seas slot embraces this era of exploration and includes all manner of scary sea monsters that the sailors of the time truly believed lurked beneath the waves. It also comes with slightly less scary Free Spins and Expanding Wilds – so if you’re lucky great fortune and treasure could be yours!

But do mind the pirates chaps, as they really are a rum lot. Hahaha, sorry I couldn’t help myself.

 The Graphics

This slot has been extremely well-designed and certainly looks every bit like an old fashioned sailor’s chart. The reels are set on a map with intricate hand drawings and are framed by what appears to be a wooden desk in a captain’s cabin! They are very smart indeed.

In fact the quality of the graphics on this game leaves many more traditional titles like our Bookie of Odds slot game in the shade.

Lighter patches of colour shimmer slowly across the reels making it feel like you are bobbing up and down on a frigate navigating the New World – meanwhile your background sounds are top notch and immersive with clanging bells and firing cannons.

1429 Uncharted Seas Game Play

1429 Uncharted Seas is a 5-reel, 3-row and 25 pay-line slot and you can set sail from between 10p/c and £/€ 100 per spin. Pretty standard stuff then, alongside games like the Sugar Train slot and others, but just wait and see what else is in the hold in this game.

Your symbols are made up of giant squid, sea monsters, oversized turtles with teeth, mutant lobsters and enchanting mermaids as your high value symbols. You will also see hand-drawn coins with the sun, moon and stars on them which make up the lower paying icons.

As you’d expect it’s the elusive mermaids are your biggest paying symbol in this slot, and can award you 50x your total bet if you land 5 of them on a spin.

Expanding Wilds

The Wild in 1429 Uncharted Seas slot is the ship’s symbol, and it will land on reels 2, 3 and 4 only. When it does, it expands and takes over a whole reel of Wilds (not unlike a giant squid) – which means more player payouts. This is a useful little extra and one that comes in handy during the bonus.

The Bonuses

And speaking of which, you’ll be pleased to discover that the Free Spins Bonus in 1492 Uncharted Seas might be one of the easiest to trigger among all the slots I have played.

But why? Well my highly developed spin sense tells me it’s because the slot doesn’t come with any other extra bonuses or special features at all.

Trigger off the free spins by landing 3x of Scatter symbols on the reels. These are represented by the ship’s Compass icon. The number of spins you’ll get depends on how many Scatters you triggered the bonus with:

3x of them gives you 10 Free Spins, 4 of them awards you 20 spins, while 5x of the Compass Scatters will see you win a very substantial 50 free spins!

The Monkey Verdict 

With its stylised look and feel, the naval theme in 1429 Uncharted Seas slot appealed to me from the off. I also like the frequent free spins.

5 out of 5 bananas

This game is no longer available at Monkey Casino. Sorry about that chaps!