Duck Hunters 2

I played 100 spins by hand at €0.20, the lowest bet. The €20 staked returned about €5.67, so the base game finished €14.33 down. That return is worked out from the session total rather than counted spin by spin. It was a run of steady small losses with nothing above €1.52.

I should be upfront about the logging. I only noted individual wins for spins 65 to 100; the notes for the first 64 spins were lost. In that last stretch, six spins paid: €0.04, €0.19, €0.18, €0.46, €1.34 on spin 91 and €0.05. Over 36 spins that's €2.26 back on €7.20 staked, which gives a fair picture of the rhythm. The best hit of the whole session was €1.52 on spin 41, just 7.6x the bet.

The feature never triggered on its own. One natural bonus in 203 spins is the studio's average, so 100 spins without one isn't unusual, but it means the base game alone returned under 30% of what went in.

The bonus menu is huge. At €0.20 it lists Duck Hunt Spins at €16, Hawk Eye Spins at €48, Big Game Spins at €140, a Lucky Draw, an xWays Juicer and a Bomb Juicer, plus boosters you can add to the base game. I bought the cheapest, Duck Hunt Spins, three times.

Buy 1 opened with the truck screen and 7 Duck Hunt Spins, went to 8 and ended on €3.24. Buy 2 was the best: 11 spins, multiplier spots building to x128 in places, and €10.23 at the end, 51x the bet but still under its €16 cost. Buy 3 had 8 spins and paid €4.90. At the end of rounds the game offered to sell an extra spin (€10.20, or €5.00 for the half version in buy 2). I declined each time.

Overall, three buys turned €48 into €18.37, a return of 0.38x. The spread was 16x to 51x the bet from the same 80x price. The upside in Duck Hunters 2 clearly needs a big cluster to land on stacked multiplier spots, and in three rounds it never did.