Count Spectacular pokie: free games or respins, your call

What is the Count Spectacular pokie?

Count Spectacular takes its name from a certain caped count of horror-story fame, and it's one of the pokies Fair Go describes on its own game pages. The published sheet is short: 25 variable paylines, a 50,000-coin top award, expanding wilds, and a bonus that offers 12 free games with triple prizes or 4 respins.

That's everything. Fair Go names Spin Logic as its game provider across the site, but it doesn't credit a studio on this listing, and it gives no RTP or volatility rating for the game. Those gaps stay marked Not published here. We don't borrow numbers from other websites, because a figure from elsewhere may describe a different version of the game.

How to play the Count Spectacular pokie

1. Find it in the lobby. Log in at Fair Go, or join if you're new (18+ only), and search the lobby for Count Spectacular.
2. Choose your lines. The 25 paylines are variable, so you can usually play fewer of them. Fewer lines make each spin cheaper, but a winning combination on a line you switched off pays nothing.
3. Check the coin size. The top award is stated in coins, not dollars, so the coin value decides what a win is worth. The bet panel shows it.
4. Spin, and watch the wilds. Expanding wilds stretch to cover their reel, which can complete several lines at once.
5. Make the bonus choice. When the feature lands, pick free games or respins. More on that below.
6. Stop where you planned. Set a dollar limit before the first spin and stick to it, whatever the reels do.

Count Spectacular features, as Fair Go lists them

25 variable paylines

Variable means the number of active lines is yours to set. As an illustration of the arithmetic only: if a game charges one coin per line, all 25 lines at 1c a coin cost 25c a spin, and 10 lines cost 10c. Fair Go doesn't publish Count Spectacular's coin sizes, so check the real figures on screen. Think twice before dropping lines: a cheaper spin isn't much use if it leaves half the winning patterns switched off.

Expanding wilds

A wild stands in for other symbols. An expanding wild then grows to fill its whole reel, so one symbol can help complete wins on every line that crosses that reel. Fair Go doesn't say whether the wilds expand in the base game, in the bonus, or in both, and the paytable is where you'll find out.

50,000-coin top award

A coin-based top award only becomes dollars once you know the coin value. 50,000 coins is $500 at 1c a coin, $5,000 at 10c and $50,000 at $1. Fair Go publishes none of the coin sizes, and the top award is a ceiling, not a likely outcome. Large balances also run into Fair Go's withdrawal cap of $7,500 a week.

Free games or respins: choosing the Count Spectacular bonus

The feature gives you a decision: 12 free games with triple prizes, or 4 respins. Fair Go's description stops there. It doesn't say what triggers the feature, whether the free games can retrigger, or what makes the respins special.

Here's what the words tell you. "Triple prizes" means every win during those 12 free games pays three times its normal value. With 12 spins, the result is spread across more outcomes, so the round tends to land somewhere in the middle. With only 4 respins, each spin has to carry more of the result, which usually means a wider range of outcomes, from tiny to large.

In many pokies with a bonus choice, the options are built to return a broadly similar average and differ mainly in how much they swing. Fair Go doesn't say whether that holds for Count Spectacular, so treat it as a matter of taste unless the paytable shows otherwise. Neither option changes the odds of the next spin after the bonus ends.

What Fair Go doesn't publish about Count Spectacular

• RTP. Fair Go's figure of around 97% Operator claim is an average across its pokies, not this game's number.
• Volatility. No rating. For a pokie where Fair Go does publish one, see Dr. Winmore (low) or Devil's Jackpot (high).
• Coin sizes and bet range. You need these to turn 50,000 coins into dollars.
• The respin rules. What happens during the 4 respins isn't described anywhere outside the game.
• The bonus trigger. Which symbols set off the choice, and how many you need.

New to the vocabulary? Our pokies glossary covers expanding wilds, variable lines and respins, and how pokies work explains RTP and volatility.

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