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Pirate Ship is a 5-reel, 4-symbol position video slot game manufactured by WMS. The game features 100 paylines, a stacking treasure-chest wild, a free spin bonus, and Minor and Major progressive jackpots.
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Pirate Ship is a five-reel video slot from WMS (now part of Light & Wonder), first appearing on casino floors around 2016. It runs on a four-row reel layout with 100 fixed paylines and leans into a swashbuckling pirate theme. The game is built around a stacking treasure-chest wild that can pile up across a reel, a free-spins round, and a two-tier Minor/Major progressive jackpot ladder that keeps a running total visible on the cabinet's top box.
Pirate Ship was manufactured by WMS Gaming, the Chicago-based slot maker that Scientific Games acquired in 2013 and that now operates under the Light & Wonder brand. It debuted on casino floors around 2016 on WMS's standard video-reel cabinet hardware of that era, with a single main display housing five reels of four symbol positions each. The pirate theme runs throughout: ships, cannons, treasure maps, and skull-and-crossbones iconography fill out the symbol set, aimed at players who enjoy classic adventure and treasure-hunt slot themes rather than licensed media tie-ins.
The game uses a fixed 100-payline structure across five reels, so the pay window is dense and every spin evaluates a large number of fixed line combinations rather than a "ways to win" format. The signature symbol is a treasure-chest wild that stacks -- meaning multiple wild positions can line up on top of each other on a single reel -- a common mechanic manufacturers use to boost the visual frequency and apparent size of wins during a regular spin.
Landing three or more ship symbols anywhere on the reels opens the free-spins round, which starts with an initial award of free spins that can grow depending on the trigger. Pirate Ship also carries a Minor and Major progressive jackpot pair, displayed as running meters on the cabinet, that pool small contributions from every wager across linked machines until one is won. This two-tier structure is a standard design pattern across WMS's progressive slot lineup from this era, not something unique to Pirate Ship.
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