Money Beach Slots
You’ve heard of Muscle Beach – that stretch of impossibly golden sand populated by statuesque bodybuilding icons Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Platz, Ken Waller and Franco Columbu – but how about Money Beach? No, it’s not an inlet lapped by banknotes rather than saltwater – what a concept that would be! Instead, it’s the name of a 50-line, 5-reel Probability Games mobile slot. The gaudy, non-progressive slot features decent graphics, strong gameplay, a high pay-out percentage (95.66%), a wild icon and a free spins bonus.
Money Beach features a top prize of 100x your stake and is an ideal game for beginners or experts. However, due to its age, the instant-play slot is really aimed at owners of old-style mobile phones – you know, the ones with number pads rather than touch screens. As a consequence, this isn’t the most advanced mobile slot you’re likely to come across – but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad one. Who knows, it might even make you nostalgic for a less advanced technological age, when Nokia mobiles were all the rage? It should be said that the HTML5 game can also be played on Apple and Android devices, as well as on Windows or BlackBerry mobiles.
Betting Particulars
Money Beach is as simple as it gets in terms of gameplay and getting involved. Players are free to play on between one and 50 paylines. There are five reels. And you can wager between 0.01 and 50 per spin. At max bet, the jackpot is a cool 15,000 credits. The game also features an Auto Spin option, allowing you to multi-task while the reels are in motion.
The rules themselves are easy to grasp: you’re looking to land combinations of three, four or five matching symbols on active lines. Pay-outs accord to the pay-table, line wins are multiplied by the coin value staked per line and only the highest win is paid on the selected lines. All symbols pay left to right except in the case of the scatter symbol, which pays wherever it lies.
Beach Bums
The reel grid appears upon a white sandy beach, with aquamarine water lapping at the shore. A stripy deckchair lounges in the corner, in front of a small table sporting a lurid blue cocktail. Nearby, a beachball rolls across the surf. Virtual sun, sea and sand? Sounds like Money Beach! To the right of the reels, you’ll be able to regulate the number of lines you wish to play, and also your stake-per-line. At the top of the screen, there are tabs recording your bank balance and total bet.
The grid features all kinds of beach-related symbols, including a parasol, a pair of ice-cream cones, a beachball, a pair of sandals, a suitcase, a beautiful sunbather, a fat guy licking a cone, a coconut cocktail, a pair of sunglasses and a container of sunblock. The icons are well drawn without being mind-blowing, though the pleasant backdrop certainly puts you in a sunny mood. The least valuable icon is the purple and blue parasol, which pays 5x for three, 20x for four and 50x for five in a line.
The most lucrative symbol is that of the ice cream. Two, three or four of these icons will supply 20x, 100x and 750x multipliers. If you’re lucky enough to land five, you’re looking at a bumper 3,000x payday!
Of course, not all symbols are born equal. The sunbathing girl is the game’s scatter and is thus linked to free spins (you can win six, eight or ten), during which you’ll be given a 2x multiplier on all recorded wins. That’s right, all wins are doubled. Sadly though, the free spins bonus round cannot be re-triggered.
The fat beach guy, meanwhile, is wild, able to substitute for everything but the scatter to help you form wins. The wild only appears on the central reel.
Balling on the Beach
Money Beach is an enjoyable mobile slot for a number of reasons. It has a vivid tropical theme, wide betting parameters, a number of well-paying symbols and a solid return-to-player percentage. It also includes such features as auto spin, free spins, multipliers and a wild. If mobile slots are your bag, Money Beach is certainly worthy of consideration.
