Pokies (Poker Machines)
Pokies are buildable machine towers — feed them scrap and spin for a chance at scrap, beers, XP, free games or a jackpot. There's also a pub VIP room where pokie machines pay persistent Coins instead. Below you can play all five pokie machines, each ported straight from the game's reel weights and win logic — pick one from the dropdown.
How a spin works
- 5 reels × 3 rows. Each reel position is rolled from a weighted symbol table — rarer symbols (Dollar, Croc) are deliberately scarce, and Croc is especially rare on reels 4–5.
- Leftmost multiway. A symbol pays when it lands on consecutive reels starting from the left, on any row. Every reel that has the symbol multiplies the “ways”, so stacked symbols pay much more. Minimum match is 3 reels.
- Two multipliers from the pokie machine level. Upgrading the machine (L1→L5) raises the scrap multiplier on a steep curve (×1/2/4/7/12) and the beer/XP/coin multiplier linearly (×1→×5).
- Bet scales side rewards. Beer and XP payouts scale by √(bet/1000) — a 1000 bet pays 100% of base, a 10 bet still pays ~10%.
The five pokie machines
- 🐊 Big Croc — the baseline 5×3 leftmost-multiway machine. 3+ Croc scatters anywhere trigger free games; 5 Dollars is the jackpot.
- 🤪 Mad Mick's Murder Brew — high volatility. Same multiway, ~30% bigger scrap, a Mad Mick payout boost (×1.5–5) — but beers have an 18% chance to come out negative.
- 🤠 Outback Bandit — pays both ways (left-to-right AND right-to-left), so wins fire about twice as often. Wanted poster is a scatter — 3+ anywhere triggers free games.
- 🐨 Drongo's Dropbear — a snappy 3×3 with 5 lines (3 rows + 2 diagonals). Dropbear is a wild; easy small wins, easier jackpot, smaller payouts.
- 🪙 Eureka! — 25 fixed paylines with low base pays; its identity is the Hold & Spin — land 6+ Gold Nuggets to lock them and respin for more. Fill all 15 cells for the GRAND.
Scrap pays = bet × symbol multiplier × pokie machine scrap multiplier (×1–12 by level) × ways/lines. Beer & XP = base × ways × reward multiplier (×1–5) × √(bet/1000). Each pokie machine has its own per-spin caps; an absolute 10-beer ceiling applies to all. In the pub VIP room every pokie machine collapses rewards into Coins, tuned by simulation to ~88% RTP.
Have a spin
BIG CROC paytable
Match on consecutive reels from the left (any row) — scrap × ways.
| Symbol | Pays | x3 | x4 | x5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🪃 Boomerang | Scrap | ×0.04 | ×0.22 | ×1.9 |
| 🦘 Kangaroo | Scrap | ×0.08 | ×0.38 | ×3.8 |
| 🟫 Vegemite | Scrap | ×0.15 | ×0.75 | ×9.0 |
| 💵 Dollar | Scrap · 5=Jackpot | ×1.5 | ×24 | ×400 |
| 🍺 Stubby | Beers | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 💎 Opal | XP | 5 | 30 | 125 |
| 🐊 Croc | Scatter → free games | 5 | 10 | 25 |
Stubby = beer · Opal = XP
5 Dollars = JACKPOT (bet ×500)
Croc = scatter (3+ anywhere = free games)
Last spin
Hit Spin to play.
Try your luck at scale
Run 10,000 spins on BIG CROC at the current bet & level.
“Scrap returned / wagered” is scrap only — beers, XP, coins and free games have value too, so it isn't the full return. In the pub VIP room every pokie machine is tuned to ~88% Coin RTP.