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Slot Review: Take the Helm

If the sailor’s life is the life for you, you will want to Take the Helm of this incredible, nautical-themed online slot machine title! For those who have never had the experience, there is nothing that can compare to the feeling to riding a ship across the waves, its sails full and billowing in the wind, while you smell the salt in the air and feel the breeze on your face. This beautiful slot game from Vegas Technology is a neat and visually pleasing diversion for those of us who understand that it’s not how fast you get somewhere that matters, but the journey itself.

Take the Helm is a five-reel, five-payline online slot machine. Coin values range from one cent to ten dollars, with max coins of five. There is a jackpot if ten thousand coins, or fifty thousand dollars for those placing the top bet! That’s enough to buy yourself your own (admittedly small) sailboat, and start taking some sailing lessons! There is a free practice mode for those wishing to sample the game before they commit to spending money on it. You must play the max coins to unlock all the paylines, and all the possibilities of this game.

We LOVE the look of this game. The reels are arranged on a field of plain navy blue, which calls to mind the ocean in a clean, simple way. The icons are also simple, clean pictures on plain, bold colored backgrounds. Too often, we play slot games that suffer from acute feature overload. When game designers go too crazy with graphics, it clutters the screen and distracts the eye. Not so with this punter! Images of compasses, lifeboats, binoculars, captain’s hats, and tropical fish go very well with the theme.

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