Pelican Payday

Pelican Payday is a Pragmatic Play slot that came out on October 6, 2026. It’s a small, narrow game: 3 reels, 5 rows, 10 fixed paylines paying left to right, with a pelican in a fishing hat rowing around a sunny bay. Pragmatic lists the RTP at 96.59% and labels the volatility low. The cap is 5,000x the bet, and third-party reviews put bets at $0.10 to $250, a figure Pragmatic’s own page doesn’t confirm.

There are no wilds. Everything hangs on two symbol types, money symbols and Collect symbols.

Money symbols and the Collect

Money symbols carry a cash value of 0.5x to 10x the bet, or a jackpot label instead, and Pragmatic says they can reach 1,000x. A Collect symbol pays out the sum of every money symbol that landed on the same spin. In the base game Collect only appears on reel 3, so a spin with money symbols scattered across the grid pays nothing extra unless the middle reel delivers it.

The four jackpots are fixed multiples of the total bet: Mini 20x, Minor 50x, Major 100x, and Grand 1,000x. At a 2.00 stake the demo shows 40, 100, 200, and 2,000. A jackpot pays when a money symbol carrying its label gets collected, which is where the 1,000x figure on Pragmatic’s page comes from.

The regular symbols are fish and treasure chests, and line wins on the 3×5 grid are modest. In the base game the money symbols do most of the work, so reading a spin means checking whether the middle reel has a Collect before looking at anything else.

Free spins

Three scatters, drawn as lighthouses, start 8 free spins, and landing them again during the round retriggers it. The rules change in the bonus: Collect symbols can land on any reel instead of just the third, and money symbols drop into a persistent prize pot. Each Collect adds all visible money to that pot before paying out its current value, so the pot grows across the round instead of resetting every spin.

No buy feature or ante bet has turned up in Pragmatic’s materials or in the reviews I could check, though that’s an absence rather than a confirmed “none.”

What to make of it

Low volatility on a 3×5 grid with a 5,000x ceiling is an odd pairing, and the persistent pot explains it. The base game is the quiet part, small Collect payouts from reel 3, while nearly all of the top-end potential sits in the 8-spin round, where Collect can fire from any reel and keeps adding to the same pot. With a single trigger route, scatters, and no purchase option, getting to the bonus is a matter of waiting.

The theme is lightweight and the rules fit in a paragraph, which makes it easy to read at a glance. The tradeoff is variety: there are no wilds and no multiplier layers, so every win comes from a symbol that either is a money symbol or isn’t. Hit frequency and the lower RTP tiers that one review mentions aren’t confirmed on Pragmatic’s page, so this entry uses only the 96.59% figure.