Lucky Dice by Pragmatic Play fits on nine squares: three reels, three rows and five fixed lines. This dice slot swaps the fruit of old-style machines for white dice, keeps its wild on the middle reel and adds a respin feature in which each sequence can open another. The top win is capped at 5,000 times the stake.
As displayed at Casino King, the help screen gives an RTP of 96.53%, low volatility and stakes between €0.10 and €5 per spin. The title extends the range of Pragmatic Play games in Belgium at Casino King. Here is how it works, rule by rule, before you launch it in demo mode or for real money.
The name invites confusion. Casino King's catalogue also lists Lucky Dice 1, Lucky Dice 2 and Lucky Dice 3, three numbered Endorphina games that stand on their own, as well as Spinomenal's Irish Lucky Dice. They share nothing with this one but part of the name: the studio, the rules and the payouts are entirely different.
To open the right one, check the provider shown on the tile, Pragmatic Play, and look for a name with no number after it. Everything below applies only to this version, one of the three-reel dice slot games in the catalogue.
Before setting the reels in motion, you choose a total stake between €0.10 and €5. A handy detail: the paytable in the help screen shows amounts in euros for the stake you have picked, not multiples. Change the stake and every figure is recalculated. So that they hold at any level, the figures on this page are given in multiples of the total stake.
A win needs three identical symbols on one of the five lines, read from left to right starting on the first reel. With only three reels there is no such thing as a partial combination: a line is either complete or pays nothing. When several lines win at once, their amounts are added together, but each line pays only its highest combination.
All eight symbols are dice. The four faces marked with a card suit sit at the top of the table, from the red heart, worth 50 times the stake, down to the blue diamond, worth 3. The four dice with pips bring up the rear, between 2 times and 0.5 times the stake. At €1 a spin, three clubs therefore return €10, against €0.50 for three four-pip dice.
The wild takes the form of a red gem and can only land on the second reel. It replaces every symbol except the scatter and may arrive with a random multiplier of ×2, ×3, ×5, ×8 or ×10. That multiplier applies to every winning combination it belongs to.
Because the middle reel is part of every line, the wild can complete any one of them. A ×5 wild sitting between two clubs makes the line pay 50 times the stake instead of 10, which is €50 on a €1 stake. And when the same wild serves several winning lines, each of them gets the multiplier.
The base game keeps a second source of power in reserve. If one symbol covers all nine squares, every line pays and the sum goes through a random multiplier from ×5 to ×25. On a grid of pip dice the effect stays modest; on a grid of hearts, a high factor is enough to hit the ceiling.
That ceiling is spelt out in the help screen: a win is limited to 5,000 times the stake. As soon as a sequence's total hits that threshold, the sequence stops on the spot, you receive the capped amount and any features still pending are dropped. At €5 a spin that means €25,000; at €0.10, €500.
A sum of that size is above Casino King's withdrawal cap of €1,000 per day. You can still cash out within seconds to your verified bank account: a large amount is simply withdrawn over several days.
Three scatters, red and yellow chips stamped with the word SCATTER, trigger the respins. From then on the grid follows different rules: the centre square stays put and only the eight squares around it spin, showing nothing but CHIP symbols or blanks. Every chip that lands stays in place until the sequence is over.
The sequence starts with a single respin and each new chip awards another. In other words, one spin without a chip is enough to end it all. In Betsoft's Gold Nugget Rush 2, every symbol that lands resets the counter to three respins instead, which leaves more room. Here, the run moves forward one spin at a time.
The comparison with Coins of Christmas – Hold & Win is telling, because Betsoft uses the same 3×3 grid with five lines there. That game adds free spins and a bonus buy, and its page rates the volatility as high. Lucky Dice relies on a single feature and low volatility: shorter sequences, but an ending that can start everything again.
That restart happens on the centre square. Once the sequence is over, it spins on its own and reveals either a blank or a retrigger symbol. In the second case, a new sequence is awarded and played straight after the current one. Nothing stops this from happening again, within the 5,000× limit.
At the end of each sequence, the prize depends on the number of chips on screen, in multiples of the total stake:
1 chip: 2 times the stake
2 chips: 4 times the stake
3 chips: 6 times the stake
4 chips: 10 times the stake
5 chips: 20 times the stake
6 chips: 40 times the stake
7 chips: 100 times the stake
8 chips: 500 times the stake
The scale is anything but even. Up to six chips the climb stays gentle, from 2 to 40 times the stake; the seventh lifts the prize to 100 times and the eighth to 500. Filling all eight squares around the centre is therefore worth five times as much as filling seven. On top of that, a ×2 multiplier can switch on at random for every win in the sequence, which takes a perfect sequence to 1,000 times the stake.
Respin winnings are only paid once the sequence has finished, and the game history shows them as a single amount for the whole cycle, retriggers included. If you want to keep track of a session, that total is the figure to watch.
The theoretical return given in the help screen is 96.53%. That average is worked out over a very large number of spins: it does not predict how a session of a few dozen rounds will go, but it does let you compare the game with others on the same basis.
Volatility is rated low. The help screen describes it this way: smaller wins that come more often, while the chance of a big win remains. Expect small lines to land more often than big ones, and the swings to come from the wild, the full grid and the respins.
Stakes run from €0.10 to €5 per spin, which suits a long session on a small budget as well as a handful of bolder spins. Lastly, the help screen states that a malfunction voids all wins and plays, and autoplay lets you skip the feature introduction screens.
Next to the tumbling grids of the Gates of Olympus series, Lucky Dice keeps things simple: nine squares, five lines and a single bonus. To stay with the same studio under a completely different theme, Joker's Jewels Dice is in the catalogue too.
Nine squares, a wild that never leaves the centre and respins that can set off again: Lucky Dice is ready in demo mode or for real money at Casino King, the best online casino Belgium has for instant withdrawals, licensed by the Belgian Gaming Commission.