40 Lucky Wilds Hot Coin Boost Slot Review
You'd figure a jockey 🏇 has to be alive to win a horse race. Frank Hayes would like a word with you about that assumption.
On June 4, 1923, Hayes rode a 20-1 long shot called Sweet Kiss in a steeplechase. Somewhere mid-race, he had a heart attack and died, but he stayed in the saddle and his horse crossed the finish line 🏁 first. It was the first win of his career.
I don’t know if he was more lucky 🤞 to have won, or to have stayed upright in the saddle when he passed or… I have so many thoughts. No jockeys were harmed in the making of 40 Lucky Wilds Hot Coin Boost slot from Amusnet Games.
Gameplay
You can always tell a game from this studio by the progressive Jackpots at the top of the screen. The design is crisp and bright, but not particularly inventive.
The 5x4 grid has 40 paylines, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. is 96.03%, volatility is medium, and the max multiplier is 4,523x. The max win is $135,690, with bets running from $0.40 to $30. You'll need fiat moolah to play the slot (not the Japanese yen though).
At the bottom of the paytable, the Plum symbol, Lemon, Orange and Cherry each pay 2.5x for 5 of a kind. The Bell nudges that up to 3.75x.
Watermelon and Grapes pay 10x apiece. The Seven sits on top at 25x for 5, and it's the only symbol that pays for 2, a princely 0.25x.
The Wild symbol lands on reels 2, 3 and 4 only and replaces every symbol except the 2 Scatters.
Both Scatters pay, and neither of them triggers anything. The Dollar Scatter symbol lands on any reel and pays 5x, 20x and 100x for 3, 4 and 5 anywhere on the grid.
The Star Scatter symbol is pickier. It only lands on reels 1, 3 and 5, and 3 of them pay 20x.
There are 2 sets of jackpots. The Jackpot Cards are 4 progressive levels, lowest to highest: Club, Diamond, Heart and Spade. They grow from a percentage of every bet (nothing comes out of your bet), and the live values sit in those counters along the top.
The Static Jackpots are fixed and only in play during Coin Boost: Mini 10x, Minor 30x, Major 100x and the Grand Jackpot at 1,000x.
Features
FREE SPINS:
The feature is called Coin Boost this time, and it can trigger whenever at least 1 Coin symbol lands in the base game. Jackpot Coins can turn up in the base game as well.
Then there's the Pot, which is a tube and coin meter on the left. On any spin it can shake and throw at least 1 coin onto the reels, and when this Mystery Trigger fires, Coin Boost always follows.
You get 5 Free Spins, and the Coins that triggered the round stay held in place.
Only Coin, Jackpot and special symbols land from here on. Cash Coins come in 4 levels: Bronze pays 0.5x to 3x, Silver 3x to 7x, Gold 10x to 25x, and Platinum 30x to 50x.
Jackpot Coins carry the Mini 10x, Minor 30x, Major 100x and Grand 1,000x. They can land on every position, and you can win the same jackpot more than once.
A Special Spins Coin adds 2, 3 or 5 extra Free Spins, then turns into a Bronze Coin. It's how you get more spins, so that coin is the difference between a short round and a real one.
The Upgrade lands on a coin and bumps it up 1 level, Bronze to Silver to Gold to Platinum, or Mini to Minor to Major, though the Grand can't be upgraded.
If the Upgrade hits a coin that's already maxed, it upgrades a neighbor instead. If everything's maxed and there's still space, it drops a new Bronze Coin.
Fill all 20 positions and the whole win is doubled. Nothing pays along the way. The round ends when the screen is full or the Free Spins run out, and only then does every coin value get paid.
JACKPOT CARDS:
The round triggers randomly, and it can kick in after any base-game spin finishes and its wins are collected. It plays out on top of the base game, so your spin isn't interrupted.
You get 12 face-down cards and keep picking until 3 matching suits show. Getting into the round guarantees 1 of the 4 levels, so nobody leaves this round with nothing. A Jackpot Cards win can't be gambled, though.
GAMBLE:
Any win up to 35x can be gambled. Guess red or black on a face-down card. Get it right and the win doubles, get it wrong and it's gone and the gamble ends, but you can collect at any time.
BUY BONUS:
High Coins costs 100x and guarantees at least 1 Silver, Gold, Platinum, Minor, Major or Grand coin. Only Silver, Gold, Platinum and the jackpot coins above the Mini are in play.
Premiums Only also costs 100x and guarantees at least 1 coin better than Silver. Only Gold, Platinum, Mini, Minor, Major and Grand coins are in play, which trims the cheap stuff right out.
Jackpots Only costs 250x and guarantees at least 1 Jackpot Coin. Upgrades that land on an empty spot spawn a random Jackpot Coin too.
Performance
Fruit slots can be pretty boring, but this one offered enough excitement to keep me entertained. We're not supposed to be talking about entertainment in this section, though; but performance-wise, things went great.
Maximum Win
Take the $30 top bet, run it through the max multiplier of 4,523x, and the max win comes out at $135,690. The minimum bet is $0.40.
Conclusion
Coin Boost is where the money’s at. Fill all 20 positions with Platinum Coins at the top 50x value and you've got 1,000x. The full-screen double takes that to 2,000x, which is less than half of the 4,523x max multiplier.
So hitting the max means getting Jackpot Coins on the board, the Grand in particular (remember, the same jackpot can pay more than once), and then the 2x for a full screen.
If I were considering a buy bonus, I'd take Premiums Only, coz it clears the Bronze and Silver filler for the same money.
Jackpots Only costs 2.5 times that. Yes, it's the buy pointed at the max multiplier, but that's a lot of moolah for a guaranteed Mini-or-better coin, and a Mini pays back a 25th of the price.
The Gamble only takes smaller wins, and red or black is a 50/50 shot at 2x. I'd use it to round up a small win and leave it alone after that.
Slot Details
Game Provider: Amusnet Games
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 40
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 96.03%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).
The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: Medium
Bonus Round: Yes
Progressive: Yes
Free Rounds: Free Spins
Max Multiplier: 4,523x
Max Win: $135,690
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