Slingo Deadliest Catch slot
Slingo Deadliest Catch is a Gaming Realms Slingo game themed on the Deadliest Catch crab-fishing television series, played on a 5x5 grid of numbers with a reel of five underneath. Six or more Slingos open one of three crab-fishing bonus games, and your final Slingo count decides both which game you get and whether it runs in its richer Night version. Golden Crabs caught along the way add picks or spins to that bonus.
Editorial note: this guide explains how Slingo Deadliest Catch works. Rules, features and payout figures are set by the studio and can differ between operators and game versions, so check the game’s information panel before you play. Slots are games of chance, and nothing here predicts results. Availability at Fortune Games can change.
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Slingo Deadliest Catch: key facts
| Studio | Gaming Realms |
|---|---|
| Grid and reel | 5x5 grid of numbers above a reel of five |
| Volatility | Medium |
| Wild | Ship’s wheel: marks any number in the column above it |
| Super Wild | Life ring: marks any number on the grid |
| Free Spin symbol | Adds one spin to the game |
| Golden Crabs | Land at random on the reel; each adds one pick or spin in the bonus games |
| Prize ladder | 3 to 5 Slingos pay a cash prize; 6 or more unlock a bonus game, played when the game ends |
| Crab Grab | 6 Slingos (Day) or 9 (Night); 4 picks plus 1 per Golden Crab; each buoy picked reveals a multiplier prize |
| Crab Fishing | 7 Slingos (Day) or 10 (Night); 5 spins plus 1 per Golden Crab; each step worth up to 2.5x stake by day and 30x stake by night |
| Crab Hunt | 8 Slingos (Day) or 12 (Night); 7 picks plus 1 per Golden Crab; up to 20x stake a square by day and 500x stake by night |
| Autoplay and turbo | Not available at sites licensed in Great Britain; UK rules require at least 2.5 seconds between the start of one game cycle and the next |
| Stakes | From 20p a game in the studio’s range. UK rules cap online slot stakes at £5 per game cycle, or £2 if you are 18 to 24 |
| RTP | Shown in the game’s information panel |
| Series | Gaming Realms’ Slingo range (compared below) |
All values (Bet Levels, Maximum Wins etc.) mentioned in relation to this slot game are subject to change at any time.
How Slingo Deadliest Catch plays
Each spin turns the reel beneath the card, and any number it shows that also sits on the grid is marked off. Five marked numbers in a line make a Slingo, and every Slingo takes you one rung up the ladder beside the grid, towards the cash prizes and, from six Slingos, the bonus games.
Four special symbols share the reel with the numbers. The ship’s wheel is the wild, letting you mark any number in the column directly above it, and the life ring, the Super Wild, opens the whole grid to your choice. A Free Spin symbol adds a spin to the game, while Golden Crabs are banked for later. Gaming Realms rates the game medium volatility.
Slingo Deadliest Catch: 5x5 grid of numbers above a reel of five. Each spin marks matching numbers on the card.
Golden Crabs and the Day and Night bonuses
Golden Crabs can appear at random on the reel, and each one you land goes into a Bonus Crabs pot. The pot comes into play once a bonus begins, where every crab is worth one extra pick or one extra spin. Each of the three bonus games then comes in two versions. A lower Slingo count sends you out by day, while the higher counts switch the same game to Night, where the multipliers on offer rise sharply.
Crab Grab and Crab Hunt
Crab Grab, the first bonus on the ladder, needs six Slingos for Day or nine for Night. Buoys float across the screen and each one you pick reveals a multiplier prize. You start with four picks plus one per Golden Crab, so a game that banked three crabs goes into Crab Grab with seven picks.
Crab Hunt sits higher up, at eight Slingos by day or twelve by night. This time you pick squares on a grid map, hoping to uncover crabs, and the count starts at seven picks, again with one more for each Golden Crab in the pot.
Crab Fishing
Crab Fishing is the middle game, reached with seven Slingos for Day or ten for Night. Your boat heads out to sea with five spins, plus one for every Golden Crab you collected, and each step it takes along its route is worth a prize. Crab and Storm symbols on the route can add to that total. A Night trip pays far more per step than a daytime one, with the top step values listed in the table.
Slingo Deadliest Catch compared with Slingo Rainbow Riches
Slingo Rainbow Riches, another Gaming Realms Slingo game, also turns its ladder into a menu of bonus rounds but spreads them more widely. Its first bonus arrives at five Slingos rather than six, and there are seven rounds to reach, among them Wishing Well, Magic Toadstool, Road to Riches and Pots of Gold. Slingo Deadliest Catch has three bonus games instead, gives each a Day and a Night version, and lets Golden Crabs from the main game add picks or spins to whichever one you reach.
| Game | First bonus | Bonus games on the ladder |
|---|---|---|
| Slingo Deadliest Catch | 6 Slingos | Three (Crab Grab, Crab Fishing, Crab Hunt), each with a Day and a Night version |
| Slingo Rainbow Riches | 5 Slingos | Seven, including Wishing Well, Magic Toadstool, Road to Riches and Pots of Gold |
All values (Bet Levels, Maximum Wins etc.) mentioned in relation to this slot game are subject to change at any time.
Slingo Deadliest Catch at Fortune Games
You will find Slingo Deadliest Catch with the rest of our slots (18+), and the tiles above pair it with Slingo Shark Week, Slingo Fishing Bob and other sea-themed Slingo titles. The UK caps in the table apply to every player. There is no autoplay or turbo mode, as at every site licensed in Great Britain. Fortune Games has an app on the App Store and Google Play.
Frequently asked questions
Is Slingo Deadliest Catch a slot or a bingo game?
It borrows from both. Marking numbers off a card is the bingo half, while the reel that supplies those numbers, and the wilds and bonus symbols on it, come from slots. Gaming Realms released it under its Slingo Originals label, and every one of its bonus games is built around catching crabs, in keeping with the television series behind it.
What happens if a game ends with fewer than six Slingos?
Three, four or five Slingos still pay a cash prize when the game finishes, set by the rung you reached on the ladder. Six is the first total that brings a bonus game instead, and that game is played once your spins have run out. Golden Crabs are there for the bonus games, where each one adds a pick or a spin.
Which Slingo totals switch a bonus to its Night version?
Nine Slingos give the Night version of Crab Grab, ten give Night Crab Fishing, and twelve give Night Crab Hunt. The Day versions sit three or four Slingos lower, at six, seven and eight. Your count when the spins end decides which one you play.
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Checked on 9 November 2026 against Gaming Realms’ game page and consumer game page for Slingo Deadliest Catch, the SlotCatalog record of the game, Gaming Realms’ game pages and the SlotCatalog record for Slingo Rainbow Riches, and the Gambling Commission’s stake-limit guidance and remote technical standards. How we research and check our guides: our editorial policy.