Whack-A-Jackpot
It never ceases to amaze us how inventive online scratchcard games can be, and Whack-A-Jackpot at Ladbrokes Casino is a case in point. This game isn’t based on a board game, casino game or even on a traditional scratchcard game, but on the kind of game that a child might play in an amusement park or arcade. Yes, you guessed it, Whack-A-Jackpot is an online scratchcard version of Whack-A-Mole, and it is so well done that you are likely to forget that it’s a scratchcard until you win one of the cash prizes!
The Whack-A-Jackpot game looks like a standard Whack-A-Mole game, with a colourful logo backboard and a main gaming area that consists of sixteen holes on a green lawn surface. Select your stake and press the New Card button to start the game, but make sure you have your mouse button finger at the ready because the action starts straight away.
What action? Moles, of course! As soon as you launch the game moles will start popping their cheeky heads through the holes, and your job is to strike them with a mallet by pointing and clicking your mouse cursor. Don’t worry, the moles are wearing miner’s hats and the mallet is virtual, so there is no long-lasting damage being done here.
If you miss a mole (some are fiendishly quick) then you get a Strike. Get three Strikes and the game ends. However, if you whack a mole then you will reveal a multiplier figure. Get three matching multiplier figures and you win that figure multiplied by your stake.
All of this really does give you the feeling that Whack-A-Jackpot is a game of skill, but in fact it is a genuinely random scratchcard experience, and if you don’t fancy trying to whack the moles manually then you can click a simple Reveal All button to find out whether or not you have won a prize.
The graphics and sound in this game are fantastic, and do a great job of recreating the addictive experience of the familiar arcade game. You can win up to 10,000 times your stake playing Whack-A-Jackpot, but once you have started whacking you will want to keep going almost irrespective of the prize money.
Innovation like this is what makes online scratchcards so much more entertaining than their offline cousins, and if anyone ever asks you what makes online scratchcards so special, showing them the Whack-A-Jackpot game would be the best answer you could possibly give them.
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24/09/2009 16:30:45
