Dead Canary Slot Review

Dead Canary: Slot Overview

Dead Canary drops you into a dank mineshaft with the grumpy dwarf and his unfortunate canaries for company. The backdrop is a grotto-style chamber with rocks, pipes and that suspicious yellow puddle at the bottom. It is a weighty experience in terms of atmosphere, backed by gloomy audio that fits the underground setting. After a few sessions, I felt properly buried beneath the rock face, chasing loot and watching birds keel over.

The Dead Canary slot uses 6 reels with a starting 3-3-2-2-1-1 layout that can expand into a tilted 3-4-3-4-3-4 grid with up to 1,728 ways to win. Symbols slide diagonally, wins explode and new ones tumble down and then left, so the whole thing feels slightly crooked at first. Once I got a grip on the collapsing mechanic and barriers, the base game turned into a very busy mine run.

Dead Canary Slot Information

Dead Canary is a very high volatility video slot with a default RTP of 96.02%, though lower settings like 94.12% and 92.11% also exist. Bets range from 0.20 to 100 per spin, or effectively up to 140 with xBet on. Hit frequency sits around 26.2%, with Canary Free Spins showing up on average once every 197 spins. The official max win is a hefty 65,000x your bet.

Dead Canary Slot Features

The reel area in Dead Canary starts with three rows blocked by barriers. Winning combinations explode, symbols slide downwards and towards the left, and one blocked row opens after each win, xBomb blast adjacent to a barrier, or a Wild Mining trigger. Bottom positions carry multipliers that are activated when their barrier is removed and the symbol is destroyed, or when a hidden scatter appears there during the collapses.

Wild Mining triggers when 3, 4 or 5 of the same pay symbol line up diagonally without forming a win. Those symbols are removed and replaced by 1, 2 or 3 wild bombs in the middle positions. When wild bombs explode, they wipe other symbols, raise the win multiplier for the next collapse and can help clear more barriers. On top of that, xBomb Wilds act as wilds, explode in a cross pattern, skip scatters, and raise the global win multiplier before the next slide.

Canary Free Spins in Dead Canary

Three scatters of any type start Canary Free Spins in Dead Canary. The grid then grows into a 4-3-4-3-4-3-4 layout with four corner vaults that begin closed. Vaults collect coins and multipliers from three neighbouring positions and can be opened by an xBomb blast next to them. When the feature ends, values stored in opened vaults are added to whatever the canaries have already paid and the lot is awarded.

Silver and gold cage scatters carry over into the bonus and stick in place. They start at x1 with three hit points each. Silver cage scatters collect in an x-shape one step away, while gold cage scatters collect across full rows in that x pattern. The nasty twist is that you do not get the collected value until a canary loses all its hit points. Gas and xBombs remove hearts, the bird dies, pays out, then respawns in its cage with fresh lives.

During Canary Free Spins you see special symbols raining in. Coins add straight to the nearest collecting scatter, multipliers double or triple the values on scatters or vaults, and bomb symbols blow in an x-shape, chip away hit points, open vaults and reset the spin counter back to three. Dwarf turns a bird into a persistent collector, rat turns one into a persistent payer sharing its value, and upgrade turns silver cages into gold while topping up a life. When everything lines up, the canary graveyard can pay silly money.

Dead Canary Symbols and Paytable

Dead Canary uses 10 regular pay symbols. At the low end you have 10, J, Q, K and A, paying around 1x to 1.5x your bet for six-of-a-kind. Premiums are grappling hook, flask, compass, rat and the miner, with full lines worth from 2x up to roughly 7.5x the stake. Dynamite serves as the wild symbol, covering everything except the silver and gold canary scatters, which are central to triggering and driving the feature.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	6	x7.5
	5	x4
	4	x2
	3	x1
	6	x3.75
	5	x2
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.5
	6	x2.5
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.5
	6	x2
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.4
	6	x2
	5	x1
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.4
	6	x1.5
	5	x0.8
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.3
	6	x1.25
	5	x0.7
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.3
	6	x1.25
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.25
	6	x1
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.25
	6	x1
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.25
	Scatter
	Scatter
	Wild

Dead Canary Slot Verdict

From a player’s point of view, Dead Canary is as punishing as it is creative. The base game feels active, with plenty of collapses, Wild Mining hits and xBomb flashes, yet single-round returns can still be quite small, especially at standard stakes. When I switched on xBet, free spins came around far more often, though the balance also swung harder, so you really feel that extra 40% working both ways.

Canary Free Spins can be a teasing affair. You might build a huge value on a gold cage only to see the bird cling on to its last heart until the feature expires. On the other hand, a couple of right-timed bombs, a dwarf or rat and an opened vault or two can send the win meter flying. For me, Dead Canary is a brilliant choice when I fancy an intense, high-risk mining session with serious 65,000x potential.

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