Viva Dollars Xtra Choice Slot
Welcome to fabulous Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps and where fortunes can be won in a single pull of the lever of a slot machine. It’s also the subject of the famous Presley tune ‘Viva, Las Vegas’ and now casino games developer Novomatic has released their Viva Dollars Xtra Choice video slot, which features the city as the backdrop to an exciting game, where spinners can land win multipliers of up to 77x. Alongside classic high-card symbols, you will find casino chips, a pink stretch limo, red dice and cocktails landing on the 5 reels. Each reel has 3 symbol positions and there’s 25 lines, across which matching icons will need to land from the left side for a win.
Just like Las Vegas itself, this slot game is packed with winning potential at every turn, with bonus features such as wild substitutions, scatter payouts and the special Xtra Choice feature where you can choose the format of a free spins bonus game. The choice is between more spins with lower win multipliers, or fewer spins, but where wins can be massive, while there’s also the chance to double wins by correctly deciding if a playing card is going to be from a red or black suit.
Novomatic is an Austrian-based operation that’s had decades of experience in the business of creating quality slots and more. Their range has been seen in land-based casinos and newer games can be had in desktop and mobile optimised formats as well, bringing a huge collection of traditional fruit machines and themed slots to players across the world.
It’s Vegas, Baby!
Despite the up to the minute features, and a distinct theme, this is a game that uses a fairly basic design for the symbols, and the high-card 9, 10, J, Q, K and A are colourful, but in a plain font. These will create the smaller win-lines when landing across the game, while unique gambling-themed symbols pay out the higher prizes.
The dice, cocktails, casino chips, limo, and a ‘Welcome to Dollars’ sign return the bigger wins, but the best results come from the ‘777 Shot’ symbol that’s worth some massive rewards when it lands across a payline, and it’s also a wild symbol. So, if you land matching symbols across a line and there’s a break in the run, it would usually mean there’s no win, however, should the wild symbol be in place to bridge the gap, it will substitute, and you still get paid out.
The $ symbol also has special qualities, as this can be scattered in any places, returning wins any time it’s seen in 2 or more places at once, and if you see 3 or more, then the unique free spins bonus feature is triggered.
Choose your free Spins
There’s a choice of low volatility bonus spins, where a higher number of free games will play out, and any wins made with the help of the wild symbol will be multiplied by a small amount, or high volatility games, where the number of spins is reduced, but should the wild symbol create a win-line, the multiplier will be far higher.
The available options are for 20 games and randomly awarded 7x, or 37x multipliers, 12 bonus games with 17x, or 37x multipliers, then you can get wins increased by 27x, or 57x, but have only 8 free games to land them in, while the final choice is for just 6 bonus spins and any wild wins multiplied by 37x, or 77x.
If can’t decide, then just go for the Mystery Choice and let the software make up your mind for you, and with this option, it’s possible to be awarded the maximum 20 free spins with the maximum 37x, or 77x multipliers, but also possible to get just 6 spins with the minimum multipliers in effect.. The overall return to player percentage of each round is the same, so in reality, it’s just deciding if you want lots of spins and a few smaller wins, or fewer bonus games and the chance to land a massive multiplier.
Taking a Gamble with Winnings
When in Vegas, or even a Vegas-themed slot game, gambling comes with the territory, and the Viva Dollars Xtra Choice video slot gives punters the option to gamble each win, doubling the value by correctly guessing if a playing card will be red or black. If it’s a successful pick, they can either collect the win, or go again, to double it over.
With luck, the gamble high limit of 500x the total stake, although a wrong pick along the way loses the initial prize as well as any gains made so far in the gamble feature.
Betting Options
Although this slot machine has 25 paylines, you’ll need at least 30 coins to play for real cash, which can be raised to suit your bankroll. Wins rise to match the stakes, and high rollers can claim some serious cash when symbols line up favourably, especially with those huge multipliers in the bonus games. It’s possible to practice play on the free Viva Dollars Xtra Choice video slots available at Novomatic-powered online casinos.
Clicking the Autoplay button starts the reels spinning on their own, speeding things up for the potential of collecting wins at a faster rate, although they keep going until you click again to stop them, so it’s worth keeping an eye on the bankroll throughout.
A jingly soundtrack can be enjoyed, although the clicks of spinning reels somewhat drowns it out at times and we can’t help wishing that Viva Las Vegas had been chosen.
Other Vegas Vacation Slots
The Vegas Hits video slot from Bally Technologies is a good example of the many games themed around Sin City. It’s got Roulette wheels, gambling chips and even slot machines as symbols within a slot. Those Poker chips each have a prize denomination on them and pay out multiplier awards of up 25x the total stake, while a special bonus wheel takes you to free spins rounds with even more multipliers attached to any wins.
Vegas Party is a NetEnt slot that has a rich variety of weird and wonderful characters on the 5 reels. It comes with linked reels that show the same symbols across the screen, and there’s 243 different ways to line them up for a winning spin.
Plenty of Dollars?
Viva Dollars Xtra Choice is a slightly unusual game, which looks a little old-fashioned, but certainly delivers a modern twist with it’s innovative bonus rounds. While several games give spinners the option to decide their free spins and accompanying multipliers, few of them award potential wins of 77x the base value.
Even at the lower bet levels, these can add up to some huge rewards, and high rollers could by rolling in Dollars if they get the ideal combinations of symbols landing across the reels.
