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If you’re unfamiliar with the rules of American football, never fear. It’s a complex, convoluted game, one that you mercifully don’t have to grasp a jot of to master Touch Down. Learning the plays and tactics that dictate American football can take years; learning the symbols in Touch Down takes minutes. After that, you’re kicking with the wind.

Five reels and 25 paylines comprise the playing field where you’ll triumph valiantly or fail gloriously. To achieve the former, you’ll want to identify and pinpoint the game’s premium symbols. The icons are as all-American as the sport itself; even if your experience of American football is limited to watching the Super Bowl with a keg and a mountain of nachos, you’ll recognise these symbols.

We have a football player prostrate on the pitch (presumably after copping a tasty tackle), a boot, a ball, a cheerleader, referee and a spectator’s finger clad in an oversized comedy glove. The reels are overlaid against an American football pitch and flanked by a pair of towering players. A football in flight zooms across the top of the screen.

In terms of design, WorldMatch have deployed a retro comic book style. It’s a look that some will love and others will hate. It would be stretching the truth to call any of the game’s protagonists – from the cheerleader to the players – attractive, put it that way. Still, they’re a flamboyant looking bunch, there’s no getting away from that. Credit to WorldMatch for at least trying to come up with something that looks different from the glut of sporting video slots out there.

The game commences amid a squeal of electric guitar music; you might want to lower your speaker volume to an acceptable level before loading it to prevent assailing your ears. Touch Down certainly ain’t subtle, that’s for sure. Mute the music and you’re free to focus on the action.

As the reels fall into line, the football player to the right of the screen will lean in menacingly, as if he’s willing you to dare to run past him. Ignore his glower and focus on the reels, cos that’s where the money lies. Three, four or five symbols in a line will score a win, but there’s also a wild symbol that will serve as a substitute.

In the case of Touch Down, the wild symbol comes in the form of a football ready to be kicked towards the goal positioned in the background.

Another symbol you’ll be hoping to see a lot of is the lawn mower. It’s an odd looking mower – brown and squishy – but then very little about the graphics in this slot make sense. In any case, you should have no trouble identifying the mower as it’s overlaid with the hallowed words Free Spins. Three or more in view will see you awarded a dozen free spins accompanied by a multiplier of two. In other words everything you win during your 12 free spins will be doubled.

Finally, the bonus symbol, comprising a handful of pills, will take you through to the bonus round, where you’re obliged to select six out of a possible nine players in return for extra coins. In execution, Touch Down is a quirky game but it’s one whose eccentricity and unusual design make it strangely endearing. Give it a spin and see for yourself what this American football malarkey is all about.