At sundown the long pier lights up bulb by bulb as a huge orange sun sinks behind it and pink clouds drift over. A pelican keeps watch from a post, and if a paid spin lands two pier bells but no win, the far right reel is given one extra turn for free.
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Bulbstring Pier is where Wenlo ends the day, board under one flipper, as the string of bulbs flickers on above the planks. This is the wildest water in the cove: long quiet spells broken by sudden big lines from the steel pan and the blow-up flamingo. The Half-Sunk Sun substitutes for everything except the Polished Post Bell. Should a paid spin pay nothing while precisely two bells are showing, reel 5 alone takes another free turn. Three bells strike up nine free spins under the blazing bulbs, and the pier pays each of their wins twice; four bells mean fourteen, five bells twenty-two, and further bells mid-round lengthen the evening.
Last Bulb Lit. A losing paid spin that shows two Polished Post Bells, no more and no fewer, earns one free respin of reel 5 by itself; in free spins every win counts double.
Free virtual coins are all that is ever used here. No real-money gambling takes place, a win never has real-world value and you will meet no in-app purchases. Every result is set by a random number generator, and the spin before never changes the spin after.
Measured by running this page's own engine for 10,000,000 spins: coin RTP 93.3%, hit frequency 30.6%, free spins about once in 97 spins, a win of 10x your stake or more about once in 86 spins. Coin figures only — no money is staked or returned.
Sign in, follow the planks out to the end of the pier and set a stake under the first lit bulb.
Spin. The Half-Sunk Sun fills in for anything but the Polished Post Bell, and a losing paid spin with two bells on show, no more, sends reel 5 round once more at no cost.
Three Polished Post Bells start nine free spins that double every win; four bells mean fourteen spins, five mean twenty-two.
Patient players who can watch the sun go down through a few flat spells while waiting for one blazing line.
The most changeable water in the cove. Long calm patches are normal here, and the bigger wins arrive in sharp bursts rather than a steady flow.
| Symbol on the cove reels | Five in a row along one line | That win as a slice of your stake |
|---|---|---|
 Half-Sunk Sun (wild) | 6,000× line bet | 400× your stake |
 Blow-Up Flamingo | 3,400× line bet | 226.7× your stake |
 Hammered Steel Pan | 1,600× line bet | 106.7× your stake |
 Post-Top Pelican | 1,000× line bet | 66.7× your stake |
 Lime-Wheel Smoothie | 550× line bet | 36.7× your stake |
 Spiral Hermit | 320× line bet | 21.3× your stake |
The five card ranks (10 to A) pay the least. Three Polished Post Bells anywhere open the free round. Full values for three and four of a kind are in the paytable.
Wenlo watches for a losing paid spin with a pair of Polished Post Bells showing, not one and not three. When both line up, reel 5 turns by itself once more, free.
Yes. Each bonus-round win is doubled on the pier, and any extra bells that show up mid-round add to the spin count.
It is built that way: Bulbstring Pier pays less often but in bigger lumps, while Patchsail Moorings hands out small catches far more regularly.
New missions roll in daily, count in every world and are purely optional.
A glassy turquoise wave rears up over the cove on a bright morning with a gold longboard riding high on its lip. Anyone can paddle in from this page, and once the buoys bob up the free-spin multiplier builds like a set, one wave taller than the last.
Along the old timber jetty little painted boats knock at their ropes, nets dry on the posts and a teal skiff with a patched orange sail slides home past the mango stall. Come back from a paid cast with an empty net and the anchor wilds stay tied up while every other square gets a second free throw.
Play for the fun of it, and paddle in when the fun runs out. Pick a time limit before you begin and take breaks. Should any kind of gambling cause you problems, the National Gambling Helpline is free and confidential on 0808 8020 133, day and night, and you can also turn to GamCare or BeGambleAware. See our responsible play policy too.
Only adults, 18 and older, are welcome at Swelltide Cove. The coins every game runs on have no monetary value; you cannot buy them, sell them, withdraw them or swap them for anything. The shack has no coin stall, the sea wall has no payment page, no prize worth anything in the real world is offered, and success here does not imply future success at real-money gambling.
Struggling with gambling? Talk to someone free and in confidence: National Gambling Helpline 0808 8020 133, any hour, any day · BeGambleAware · GamCare · The cove’s responsible play page
One coin pocket covers the breaker, the jetty and the pier. Your free slot on the board rack opens all three and keeps the coins, favourites, level and daily missions dry until you paddle back.
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