Hot Slot Slot Machine
If you love the 80’s/90’s British pub style slot games but want a modern take on them – this creative video slot release from slot machine legends Barcrest is something worth taking a spin at! Depending on the bet option you select, the game uses up to 5 separate sets of reels displayed as old school fruit machines which run side by side, your ultimate aim is to work out which of the slots is hot! The Hot Slot of the 5 available to choose from will payback over 100% on average to the player for the length of the countdown timer displayed on the game – the potential wins from this when you hit are not just hot but scorching!
The “live” set of reels you are playing forms a simple to use traditional 5-reel, 3-row slot display, what sets this game apart is the players ability to affect the pay-out of the slot by correctly guessing the “Hot Slot” and the resulting excitement of playing quickly against the countdown timer when that happens!
Theme
The visual theme is pretty straightforward overall given the games structure, we are talking bright and colourful fruit symbols such as Cherries, Oranges, Lemons and Watermelons. As is to be expected from Barcrest, being one of the largest machine suppliers of the last century you will also find other classic fruit machine symbols on the reels such as Bells, Bars and Sevens. The games single wild symbol will also help you to achieve wins on the five playing reels. The Music is the time honoured chimes and bells of the one armed bandit slots. The game can feel more complex than it is with all the 5 machines visible but a quick play with it in free play mode and you see how easy it actually is to use. I could sit here for hours with this one feeling like I’m playing one of the original and great physical slots in an old Vegas casino or the backroom of a country pub, and thanks to the modern features – newcomers to online slots games will discover that feeling too.
Features
You can play the fixed 10 pay-lines with one wager per spin or play 10.00 or 15.00 larger bets which play for 5 consecutive spins. When playing the standard one wager per spin all five machines are active. 10.00 big bets will play with 3 machines active (one slot in three is hot increasing the chances of finding the hot paying slot). With 15.00 bets it’s down to 2 machines and a 50/50 chance that you will be playing the hot slot for that 100% + return!
Wins pay out from any 3 symbols on a pay line and upwards but remember – only from the paylines on the active machine! The wild symbol swaps out for any of the others and the line wins are multiplied by the stake per payline, a paytable is included in the games instructions but the simple symbol display and familiar format makes it easy to remember.
Playing a different stake resets the hot slot and the countdown as does revealing the hot slot using the assigned button – so be careful not to get overexcited and hit those when you reach the correct slot! Each of the machines you can choose from will be ranked, the lower the number, the more this slot has paid out for the duration of the countdown timer shown directly above the game. You can change the active machine choice after any given spin with a simple click.
