NetEnt’s Jack and the Beanstalk 2: Jack Climbs the Corporate Ladder Instead of the Beanstalk
A rundown of NetEnt’s new release Jack and the Beanstalk 2. The highlights are a 5×5 grid with 3x Walking Wild respins, and the Bonus and Super Bonus with golden bean coins and Walking Rockets. RTP 96.32%, max win 20,000x.
Key takeaways
- On September 17, NetEnt released a sequel where Jack has become an office worker.
- On a 5×5 grid, a Walking Wild with a 3x multiplier triggers respins as it walks to the left.
- In the bonus, only special symbols like golden bean coins, Walking Rockets, and the HODL Collector drop.
- In the Super Bonus, the rocket is a 5-cell block from the start. RTP 96.32%, max win 20,000x.
Jack has put on a tie. The boy who once climbed the beanstalk to the giant’s castle now climbs the corporate ladder. In “Jack and the Beanstalk 2: GOAT Enterprise,” released by NetEnt on September 17, Jack works under a ruthless boss, Goaty McGoatface, turning magic beans into coins. Instead of fairy-tale fantasy, the stage is office performance pressure.
For anyone who remembers the original Jack and the Beanstalk, the most welcome return is the Walking Wild. The sequel brings this feature back intact. The grid is 5 reels by 5 rows, and the max win is 20,000x your bet.
A respin every time the Walking Wild walks
Walking Wilds land on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5. They can be a single cell or a stack of 2 to 5 cells. The stack size is set by the wild level. Every wild stack carries a 3x multiplier, and the moment it lands it triggers a respin and walks one reel to the left.
Respins continue until the wild exits the left edge of the grid. A wild that lands on reel 5 walks four times, joining the win each time with a 3x multiplier. It’s the original’s walking wild with a multiplier attached.
In the original Jack and the Beanstalk, the walking wild also triggered a respin and walked one space to the left. However, the original wild had no multiplier, and the core was treasure collection, gathering keys in the free spins to upgrade the wild. The sequel gives the walking wild a 3x multiplier from the start and lets you change even the stack size through levels.
At the start of a spin, a Mystery Wild may also activate at random. When it does, the wild level is set between 2 and 5, and stacked wilds of that level can land on the reels.
When the level is set to 5, a 5-cell wild can appear that covers an entire reel. Since a whole reel of 3x wilds walks to the left on the 5×5 grid, every row on that line joins the win on each respin.
Only special symbols drop in the bonus
Collecting 3 bonus symbols in the base game starts 5 bonus spins. If one of them is a Super Bonus symbol, it becomes the Super Bonus. When the bonus starts, 3 golden bean coins are laid down on the grid first.
Only special symbols appear in the bonus. Golden bean coins drop with values of 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, or 10x. The Walking Rocket triggers respins and moves one reel at a time to the left, tripling the value of coins it touches along the way. Collecting Battery Upgrades in the meter grows the rocket from 2 cells up to a 5-cell block.
The other three are tools that grow the coins. The HODL Collector gathers the values of all golden beans on the grid and leaves a single combined coin in its own spot. The Stock Sharer adds 1x to 10x to every coin on the grid. The Card Spreader lays 1 to 8 new coins on the empty cells around it. Borrowing stock market terms for the names is this sequel’s joke.
HODL is a term from the crypto community meaning “hold on and don’t sell.” The idea of turning beans into coins and pumping the stock price is baked into every symbol name. The 3x chart on the whiteboard beside the grid and the bull statue on the desk are part of the same joke.
The Super Bonus differs starting with the rocket
In the Super Bonus, every Walking Rocket drops as a 5-cell block from the start. One of the 3 golden bean coins laid down at the start is guaranteed to be worth 10x. The rocket you had to grow with batteries in the regular bonus is already at max size, so coin values get tripled many more times.
The big picture of this bonus is that each time the rocket passes, coins it touches become 3x, the HODL Collector gathers those values in one place, and the Stock Sharer adds more multipliers on top. The regular bonus is short at 5 spins, but the spin doesn’t end while the rocket keeps triggering respins.
The four Elevate options and the numbers
NetEnt’s bonus buy feature, Elevate, has four options. Bonus Hunt doubles your bonus chance, Bonus Hunt Extreme raises it 20x, and the other two open the Bonus and Super Bonus directly. On our game page, the RTP is 96.32%, volatility is high, and bets range from 0.2 to 20. NetEnt ended its press release this way: Jack has a new job, the bean market is growing, and Goaty McGoatface is watching the numbers. More new NetEnt releases are on the NetEnt free slots page.
Source: NetEnt official news