Blueprint Gaming Slots: Where to Play Fishin’ Frenzy

By Jack Henshaw, Head Writer · Published 4 July 2026 · Last updated 9 July 2026

Blueprint Gaming is the most British studio on this site: born in Newark in 2001 building fruit machines for pubs and bookies, owned since 2008 by Germany’s Merkur/Gauselmann dynasty, and responsible for Fishin’ Frenzy — the nation’s comfort slot — plus the Jackpot King progressive network and the biggest Megaways catalogue outside the mechanic’s inventor. Our verdict: 8/10. This guide — and full Blueprint Gaming review — ranks the best Blueprint Gaming slots, follows the Jackpot King millions, lists the UK casinos that stock the catalogue, and opens a licence file that starts at account number 6516.

Where to Play Blueprint Gaming Slots

Blueprint Gaming at a glance

The essentials — including a UKGC account number low enough to be a collector’s item.

✓ Facts checked against the UKGC business licence register and Merkur Group’s published data — 4 July 2026

The best Blueprint Gaming slots: 10 games that actually matter

Four hundred games, ten places — chosen for cultural weight as much as maths, because Blueprint’s greatness is measured in staying power, not ceilings. RTPs quoted are headline defaults. The full ranked catalogue is near the end of the page.

1. Fishin’ Frenzy Megaways (2019)

Britain’s comfort slot, in its definitive form. The formula is almost insultingly simple — free spins where the fisherman scoops up cash-value fish — and it has outlasted a decade of flashier rivals to become the most-played slot in the country by most reckonings. The Megaways treatment added variable reels to the 2014 original without disturbing the ritual; the fisherman-collects-fish loop remains slots’ purest dopamine circuit. Published default around 96.1%, availability effectively universal. Every UK lobby leads with it because every UK player understands it in one spin.

2. Eye of Horus Megaways (2020)

The Merkur marriage at its best: Germany’s arcade-hall classic (an expanding-wild Egyptian free-spins game beloved on both countries’ high streets) rebuilt on the Megaways chassis. The Horus wild upgrades symbols as it lands, the spins retrigger generously, and the whole thing carries that unmistakable land-based cadence — heavy, deliberate, satisfying. A fixture of UK bookie sites and casino lobbies alike. Published default around 95.5%, and the definitive proof that the Gauselmann catalogue was an asset, not a curiosity.

3. The Goonies (2018)

The film-licence slot that actually works — and the template for Blueprint’s entire Hollywood strategy. A wheel-based feature system (One-Eyed Willy’s treasure map of modifiers and bonuses) turns the 1985 film into a proper adventure of picks, trails and jackpots, with clips and score used lovingly rather than lazily. It won awards, spawned a sequel (The Goonies Return), and remains the gold standard for how to buy a brand and respect it. Published default around 96%.

4. Rick and Morty Megaways (2020)

The licence nobody expected a Newark fruit-machine firm to land — and the proof Blueprint could speak to a generation that never stood at a pub machine. Portal-hopping features, show-accurate chaos and a Megaways engine underneath produced one of 2020’s most-streamed releases and introduced the studio to an entirely new audience. Published default around 96%, and the catalogue’s best evidence that the brand strategy has range.

5. Genie Jackpots (1996 heritage; online 2014, Megaways 2019)

The dynasty’s crown jewel — a genie who has been granting wishes since the fruit-machine era and now fronts the Jackpot King network’s most famous carriers. The Megaways edition and the Wishmaker sequel keep the mischievous lamp-rubbing features intact while wiring the game into the seven-figure progressive pot. No other British slot character has survived three decades of format changes with its fanbase intact. Published defaults around 96.5% (base game, before the jackpot contribution).

6. King Kong Cash (2016)

The napping ape who built a franchise: wake Kong and he hurls modifiers, banana bonuses and trail features across one of the most personality-rich slots of its generation. It carried the arcade sensibility online better than anything else in the catalogue — you can practically smell the seaside arcade — and its sequels (Even Bigger Bananas, Prize Lines, Full House) keep multiplying. Published default around 95.8%, charm ceiling unlimited.

7. Ted (2018)

The foul-mouthed teddy bear became one of the UK’s most-played branded slots on the strength of its drunken sofa antics: Ted wakes mid-session to fling laser guns, beer pong and psychedelic modifiers at the reels, and the feature wheel’s “Thunder Buddies” bonus is a masterclass in licensed-feature design. Crude, funny and mathematically solid underneath — the Blueprint formula in a nutshell. Published default around 95.8%, plus a Megaways sequel.

8. Diamond Mine Megaways (2017)

Blueprint’s first Megaways release — and one of the first anywhere outside Big Time Gaming itself, arriving while the mechanic was still a curiosity. The mining theme, cascading gems and unlimited-multiplier free spins made it the licence’s proof of portability, and it remains a staple nearly a decade on. Published default around 96%, historical importance immense: this is the game that turned Megaways from BTG’s invention into an industry standard.

9. Buffalo Rising Megaways (2019)

The stampede pick: Blueprint’s take on the great American buffalo formula, run through six Megaways reels with cascades and unlimited win multipliers in the free spins. It became the studio’s volatility flagship — the game its own community reaches for when they want teeth rather than comfort — and its All Action variant doubles down further. Published default around 96%, temperament closer to the Scandinavian studios than anything else in the building.

10. Deal or No Deal Megaways (2019)

The banker’s call, the red boxes, the offer you shouldn’t take — Britain’s teatime negotiation rebuilt as a slot, complete with a box-picking bonus that recreates the show’s agonising arithmetic. It’s the purest expression of Blueprint’s home-market instincts: a licence chosen not for Hollywood glamour but because every British player already has an opinion about it. Published default around 95.9%, cultural fit perfect.

Blueprint Gaming vs the studios it competes with

Blueprint doesn’t fight the volatility studios on their turf — it owns a different one: mainstream Britain. Against our previously reviewed studios:

The honest read: BTG invented the engine Blueprint’s biggest hits run on, Pragmatic out-produces it globally, and the volatility studios out-thrill it — but none of them owns a British high-street lineage, a progressive network paying out millions, or a slot as culturally embedded as Fishin’ Frenzy. Blueprint wins where slots meet the mainstream, which happens to be where most actual British players live. It’s a similar pitch to the one Amatic makes from Austria — a studio that also still builds physical cabinets alongside its online catalogue — though Amatic’s home turf is Central and Eastern European casino floors rather than the UK high street Blueprint has spent two decades supplying.

The game families, in depth

Blueprint thinks in franchises more than any studio we’ve reviewed — a fruit-machine habit that never left. The full ranked list covers the rest.

The Fishin’ Frenzy empire

The 2014 original → Megaways (2019) → The Big Catch → Even Bigger Catch → Prize Lines and the Jackpot King editions → the 2025–26 refresh with its Golden Fisherman multipliers (up to 10x) and a 50,000x top prize. A dozen-strong dynasty built on one perfect loop, and the fishing genre it spawned industry-wide is now a genre in its own right — every studio has a fishing slot; Britain still fishes here.

The Merkur heritage line

Eye of Horus in all its forms (original, Megaways, Golden Tablet, Fortune Play) plus the wider Gauselmann arcade catalogue Blueprint adapted for online — games with decades of land-based equity in Germany and the UK. This is the quiet strategic advantage of the ownership: a vault of proven titles nobody else can touch.

The Hollywood shelf

The Goonies (Return, plus a fresh Quest for Treasure trilogy running May 2025 to May 2026), Ted (and Megaways), Rick and Morty, The Naked Gun, Austin Powers, Sausage Party, Mars Attacks, Top Cat, The Flintstones — the biggest licensed portfolio in British slots, executed with feature wheels and modifier systems that actually earn the brands. The 2026 Warner Bros. Discovery deal (Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon) escalates the strategy to prestige-TV scale.

The Jackpot King carriers

Genie Jackpots, Wish Upon a Jackpot, Cop the Lot, Mega Bars and dozens more feed the studio’s in-house progressive network — a pooled pot system whose Regal-to-Jackpot-King ladder has produced publicised wins past £2 million. It’s the closest thing UK online slots have to the National Lottery reflex, and it lives entirely inside Blueprint’s catalogue.

The Kong dynasty

King Kong Cash (2016) → Return of Kong Megaways → Gorilla Gold → Even Bigger Bananas and the Prize Lines variants — the arcade personality line, where modifier-flinging characters carry the seaside-machine spirit into the app era. The most British franchise in the building after the fisherman himself.

Signature mechanics & technology

Blueprint’s toolkit reads differently from the volatility studios’ — less maths theatre, more machine-hall craft:

Jackpot King

The in-house progressive system: qualifying games contribute to a shared pot ladder, a Deluxe wheel gates entry, and the top Jackpot King tier climbs into seven figures before someone takes it home. It’s the direct descendant of the linked-machine jackpots of the British arcade — and unlike prize-drop promotions, it’s a true pooled progressive, the only one owned by any studio in our tier-one queue.

Rapid Fire Jackpots

Launched in June 2024 as Jackpot King’s faster, smaller sibling: land five Rapid Fire symbols anywhere on the reels and a wheel pays either a straight stake multiplier (5x–1,000x) or one of five progressive pots running Mini to Mega King, published between £250 and £7,500. Where Jackpot King is the once-in-a-while seven-figure dream, Rapid Fire is built to drop often — King Kong Cash DJPrime8 carried the first release, and the product is still expanding: a July 2026 deal broadened the whole Rapid Fire library on NetBet’s UK site. Two progressive systems, two different itches, both exclusive to Blueprint.

The modifier wheel

The house signature since the fruit-machine days: features arrive via character-driven modifiers (Kong’s barrel throws, Ted’s drunken interventions, Willy’s treasure wheel) layered over the base game, with a bonus wheel dealing out picks, trails and jackpots. It makes every Blueprint brand slot feel like a machine with a personality standing behind it — which is exactly the lineage.

Megaways at scale

Diamond Mine (2017) was among the first external Megaways releases anywhere; today Blueprint runs the largest licensed Megaways stable outside BTG itself — Fishin’ Frenzy, Eye of Horus, Genie Jackpots, Ted, Deal or No Deal, Vikings Unleashed, Primal, Wolf Legend, Irish Riches and more. When the industry says “Megaways slot”, odds are decent it means a Blueprint one.

Fortune Spins & stake-to-upgrade

Another machine-hall inheritance: pay a multiple of stake for a guaranteed-feature spin set (Luck O’ The Irish’s Fortune Spins being the classic). It predates the bonus-buy era and — in its UK-compliant forms — survived it, giving British players a legal feature-acceleration path much like Push’s Bonus Boost.

The retail bridge

Uniquely in this tier, Blueprint’s group still designs physical machines (Blueprint Operations, licence 42951 — the non-remote entity on the register): the same brands run on B3 machines in bookies and arcades and as online slots, with the Newark studio feeding both. No other tier-one studio can walk a game from the pub carpet to the app store.

Blueprint Gaming slots RTP: the real numbers

The defaults: the honest headline is that Blueprint publishes the softest numbers in our tier-one queue — typically 95–96% (Fishin’ Frenzy Megaways ~96.1%, Eye of Horus ~95.5%, Ted ~95.8%), a legacy of land-based economics and jackpot contributions rather than the volatility studios’ 96.4%+ posture. Jackpot King titles fold the progressive contribution into their published figure, so the base experience runs leaner than the printed number suggests.

The builds: and the variance on top: reduced configurations circulate here exactly as we document for NetEnt, Pragmatic and everyone else — UK operators commonly run Blueprint titles a point or more below the best published build. The paytable check matters more at this end of the RTP spectrum, not less: at 94-and-change, the fisherman is charging serious rent. Ten seconds, every session.

Volatility and ceilings: mostly low-to-medium by design — these are comfort games built for long sessions, with ceilings in the 10,000–50,000x range on the Megaways lines and the 2025–26 Fishin’ Frenzy refresh advertising 50,000x. The exception is the Jackpot King layer, where the pot — not the multiplier — is the dream. Comfort maths still empties wallets at pace when stakes creep; our responsible gambling guide applies to cosy games too.

From the pub carpet to prestige TV

The arc that matters: twenty-five years, one town, one owner-family since 2008 — and a games catalogue that moved from sticky pub carpets to prestige television without ever losing the modifier wheel. Continuity is the whole brand.

The people who built Blueprint

Darren Breese — founder

Breese set up Blueprint in 2001 to engineer gaming machines for the British high street — the same betting-shop trade that later gave rise to Inspired Entertainment’s retail-terminal business — and the arcades, betting shops and pubs whose commercial brutality teaches game design like nothing else: a machine that doesn’t earn its floor space gets unplugged. That discipline — personality up front, retention maths underneath — is still the house style three decades of format changes later.

The Gauselmann family — the owners

Paul Gauselmann’s Merkur empire — the German machine-trade dynasty with its grinning sun logo on arcades across Europe — took its stake in 2008 and completed ownership by 2012, then did the smartest thing an acquirer can do: left Newark alone and opened the vault. The Eye of Horus line alone justified the marriage; the group’s scale bankrolled the licensing war chest that bought Ted, the Goonies and now Westeros.

The Newark machine room

Blueprint’s teams still run both trades from Nottinghamshire — online slots and, through Blueprint Operations, real cabinets for the retail estate. That dual identity shows in the four-entity licence family on the UKGC register and, more importantly, on the games themselves: nobody else’s bonus wheels feel this much like something you once played standing up with a pint balanced on the glass.

Is Blueprint fair? Licensing, regulation & the record

Checked against the Gambling Commission’s business licence register on 4 July 2026.

The licences. Blueprint Gaming Ltd holds UKGC account 6516 — one of the lowest account numbers still active on the register, with remote gambling software and gaming-machine-technical licences whose current records run from February 2013 and game-host from 2017. Around it sits a whole licensed family: Blueprint Operations Ltd (42951) for physical machines — both remote and non-remote — plus Blueprint Technologies Ltd (46013) and Blueprint Technologies (Gibraltar) Ltd (50540), all active. Verify them on the UKGC public register. Parent group Merkur is itself one of Europe’s most heavily licensed gaming conglomerates.

The record. Clean at the studio level: no UKGC enforcement action, fine or licence review against any Blueprint entity that we can find. Worth noting for full honesty: the wider Merkur group operates UK arcades and venues through separate companies whose regulatory affairs are their own — the software studio’s file is the one that matters here, and it’s unblemished across a quarter-century of British operation.

So is it fair? Yes — certified RNG across the catalogue, independently audited Jackpot King pools with publicised winners, published RTPs for every title, and machine-technical standards honed by decades of Gambling Commission retail compliance. The caveats are commercial rather than ethical: published defaults run softer than the volatility studios’, reduced builds circulate on top, and jackpot contributions thin the base game — all visible in the paytable, all worth the ten-second check.

The biggest Blueprint wins

Blueprint’s records are jackpot events more than multiplier events — the Jackpot King pot is the dream the catalogue sells. Documented events and ceilings only:

On tape: the fisherman full-screen that every UK player dreams about, and the £2.3m Jackpot King strike:

Videos embedded for illustration — results shown are the players’ own, and the pot resets after every king is crowned.

Beyond the reels

The corners of the Blueprint story the ranking competitors never reach:

The machines never stopped

While every rival on this site is online-only, Blueprint’s group still ships physical gaming machines through Blueprint Operations — the register’s rare non-remote technical licence in a tier-one family. The same Newark brain feeds the bookie’s B3 cabinet and your phone; Fishin’ Frenzy exists in both worlds simultaneously. It’s the last living bridge between British slots’ two centuries.

The fishing genre is theirs

Every studio now has a fishing slot — Pragmatic’s Big Bass empire being the loudest — and all of them are descendants of a modest 2014 Blueprint release. Genre-founding is the rarest achievement in slots; the fisherman did it wearing a bucket hat.

Jackpot King vs the world

Among our tier-one studios only Relax’s Dream Drop compares as a studio-owned progressive — and the two express opposite national characters: Dream Drop drops by design (27 Mega winners in four years, engineered frequency), while Jackpot King broods like the linked machines of the old arcades, building slowly toward a single seven-figure crowning. Two progressive philosophies, one lesson: the pot is the oldest retention mechanic there is.

From Newark to Westeros

The 2026 Warner Bros. Discovery partnership — Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon as exclusive multi-year slot series — is the licensing strategy’s final form: a fruit-machine firm from Nottinghamshire holding the crown jewels of prestige television. The Goonies wheel walked so the Iron Throne could sit.

New Blueprint slots: what’s launched for 2025–26

The state of Blueprint right now: the franchise engine at full steam, with the biggest licensing deal in its history landing on top. This section refreshes with every significant launch.

The newest release proper is The Goonies Quest for Treasure 3 (28 May 2026), the third instalment in a trilogy that started in May 2025 and is distinct from 2021’s standalone Goonies Return — a 6-reel, 4,096-ways game built around a revised Collect trail that now ends in a four-keyhole Chest of Riches feature, with the first two instalments already ranking among Blueprint’s top performers across the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Alongside it, the Rapid Fire Jackpots product line — Blueprint’s newer, faster-paying progressive system — keeps expanding into new operators, most recently a broadened rollout across NetBet’s UK site in July 2026.

All ship with published figures — and with builds selected casino-side, often on the softer end. Paytable first, always.

What players actually say

From the forums, pub tables and streamer chats of the most mainstream fanbase in slots — our words, cons intact.

The love: comfort and trust, in that order. Fishin’ Frenzy is spoken of the way people talk about a local café — not glamorous, absolutely non-negotiable (its only real rival for that affection being Light & Wonder’s Rainbow Riches, the other half of the great pub derby) — and the licensed slots earn genuine affection for treating beloved brands with care (the Goonies wheel and Ted’s sofa are quoted like sitcom scenes). The Jackpot King dream runs deep in the same players who buy lottery tickets, and the land-based familiarity — these games feel like the machines of memory — is precisely the point.

The gripes, plainly: the RTPs. The maths-literate corner of the community regards Blueprint’s soft defaults — and the softer builds operators choose — as the catalogue’s standing tax, and says so loudly. Volatility players find most of the shelf toothless outside Buffalo Rising, the sequels-of-sequels strategy draws “same game, new hat” jibes, and the jackpot contribution on King titles thins base play noticeably. All true; and the fisherman’s queue doesn’t shorten, because comfort was never about the numbers.

Which Blueprint slot should you play?

The thirty-second version of everything above:

Our verdict on Blueprint Gaming

Slot Providers score: 8/10 — the mainstream master: Britain’s comfort catalogue, its only seven-figure studio progressive, and brand licensing nobody does better — taxed by the softest maths in the tier.

Blueprint suits mainstream British players, jackpot dreamers, brand-slot fans and anyone whose slot education happened standing up in a pub. Look elsewhere if you hunt maths — Push and Relax publish friendlier numbers — or extremity, where Nolimit and Hacksaw run the asylum. And whatever you cast for: the paytable states your build, and at this end of the RTP spectrum that check pays better than anywhere else on this site.

Every Blueprint Gaming slot that matters, ranked

From a 400-plus catalogue, the 52 that matter, ranked by all-time greatness — craft, influence, cultural weight and staying power blended. (NEW) marks 2025–26 releases. Re-ranked as the franchises roll on.

Ranked 4 July 2026 from a catalogue of 400+ titles. *Genie Jackpots and Eye of Horus carry land-based heritage predating their online debuts. Availability and RTP build vary by casino.

Blueprint Gaming Casinos: Who Stocks the Catalogue

Blueprint is arguably the most universally stocked studio in Britain — Fishin’ Frenzy alone is close to mandatory. A cross-section of well-known UKGC-licensed operators carrying the studio (listed for information only — no commercial relationship, no endorsements; verify any operator on the Gambling Commission register before depositing):

Checked 4 July 2026. Game availability and RTP builds change — always confirm in the casino’s own lobby and the in-game paytable. 18+, please gamble responsibly.

Sources & Verification

Primary sources checked 4 July 2026, re-verified and expanded 9 July 2026: the Gambling Commission’s business licence register (all four Blueprint entities, account 6516 and family); Blueprint Gaming’s official site for licensing jurisdictions, catalogue and news, plus individual game information screens for RTP, volatility and feature data. Ownership and history draw on the Gauselmann/Merkur Group’s published materials; Jackpot King, Rapid Fire Jackpots and release facts come from Blueprint’s own announcements and documented wins. Imagery from official promotional assets and documented gameplay. Spotted an error? Tell us — corrections are actioned as a priority.

✓ Updated 9 July 2026: re-verified the UKGC licence family and Blueprint’s own site, no material changes since 4 July; added the Rapid Fire Jackpots progressive system (launched June 2024, expanded on NetBet UK July 2026) as a new mechanics entry and ranked-list addition, added The Goonies Quest for Treasure 3 (28 May 2026) to the new-releases table, families section and ranked list, added a pros/cons verdict block with matching Review schema, added two FAQs, and moved the on-page navigation up under the ads module.

Blueprint Gaming FAQs

Who owns Blueprint Gaming?

The Gauselmann family’s Merkur Group — the German gaming giant — which took a stake in 2008 and completed its takeover by 2012. Blueprint was founded in Newark in 2001 by Darren Breese and still operates from Nottinghamshire.

Is Blueprint Gaming fair, or are its games rigged?

Blueprint holds one of the oldest active UKGC accounts on the register (6516) with a clean enforcement record, certified RNG across the catalogue, and independently audited Jackpot King pools with publicised seven-figure winners. Its published RTPs run softer than the volatility studios’, and reduced builds circulate — the paytable states yours.

What is the best Blueprint slot?

Fishin’ Frenzy Megaways is the definitive answer — Britain’s comfort slot. The Goonies is the best licensed game, Buffalo Rising Megaways the volatility pick, and Genie Jackpots the Jackpot King dream. Our full ranked ten, with reasoning, is above.

What RTP is Fishin’ Frenzy?

The Megaways edition publishes around 96.1% at its headline build, but UK operators commonly run reduced configurations a point or more below. The in-game paytable shows the figure you’re actually playing — check it every session.

What is Jackpot King?

Blueprint’s in-house progressive network: qualifying slots feed a shared pot ladder whose top tier climbs into seven figures, with publicised wins including a £2.3 million strike on Mega Bars. It’s the only studio-owned pooled progressive of its kind in the UK mainstream.

Why does Blueprint have so many Megaways slots?

It was among the first studios to license the mechanic from Big Time Gaming — Diamond Mine arrived in 2017 — and now runs the largest external Megaways stable, from Fishin’ Frenzy to Eye of Horus to Deal or No Deal.

Does Blueprint still make real fruit machines?

Yes — uniquely among top-tier online studios. Blueprint Operations Ltd holds both remote and non-remote machine-technical licences, and the group’s cabinets still run in British bookies, arcades and pubs alongside the online catalogue.

What are the Game of Thrones slots?

The product of Blueprint’s 2026 exclusive multi-year deal with Warner Bros. Discovery: slot series for both Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, the studio’s biggest licensing play ever — a licence previously held by Microgaming, now Games Global, whose 2016 original defined the first Westeros era.

What is Eye of Horus, and why is it everywhere?

A land-based classic from parent group Merkur’s German arcade catalogue — an expanding-wild Egyptian free-spins game — that Blueprint adapted online and then rebuilt on Megaways. Decades of high-street equity explain the ubiquity.

What are the newest Blueprint slots?

The Goonies Quest for Treasure 3 (28 May 2026) is the newest release proper, alongside the 2026 Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon series and the Fishin’ Frenzy refresh with its Golden Fisherman multipliers and 50,000x top win. Full slate in our new releases section.

What is Rapid Fire Jackpots?

Blueprint’s newer, faster-paying progressive system, launched June 2024 as a companion to Jackpot King: landing five Rapid Fire symbols triggers a wheel paying a stake multiplier or one of five pots between £250 and £7,500. It rewards more often and smaller, where Jackpot King builds slowly toward a seven-figure crowning.

Where can I play Blueprint Gaming slots in the UK?

Widely — Blueprint is one of the most universally stocked studios in Britain, with Fishin’ Frenzy close to mandatory across UK lobbies. Sky Vegas, bet365, William Hill, Ladbrokes, Coral, Paddy Power and Grosvenor Casinos all carry the catalogue; see our casinos section above for the full list and the usual verify-on-the-register caveats.