Money Back Special Slot Machine
Money Back Special is a non-progressive video slot powered by the Playtech gaming network. The multi-line, sport-themed slot features 5 reels, wilds, scatters, multipliers, free spins and an intriguing bonus feature round. Most of the world’s most popular sports are represented on the 5x3 reel grid, and what’s more, there’s a refreshing lack of playing cards: all symbols pertain strictly to the theme, with individual icons animating during wins.
Money Back Special has 15 unfixed paylines, handing control to the player before the reels have kicked into motion. These days, sport and gambling go hand in baseball glove – so what better slot to play than this one, on which it’s possible to find 33 winning combinations? Let’s take a closer look at the game in all its glory.
World Cup of Sports
The Money Back Special slot has a pretty simple look and feel. The 5x3 grid dominates the screen, with little in the way of background; all there is to see, beyond the reels, is the title of the game, which appears at the top of the screen, amid a small cluster of sporting artefacts: tennis balls, rugby balls, cricket balls, a checkered flag; there’s also a wad of banknotes. You’ll find the control panel along the bottom of the screen, most of the tabs appearing on a green rectangle bordered in yellow. Only the Spin button is different, appearing on a purple block.
Line bets in the slot start at 0.01, rising to 75, for a maximum bet-per-spin of 1,125. As such, high rollers will certainly find this title appealing. There’s also an Auto Spin function, whereby gamers can play up to 99 automatic spins. Considering most slots only allow you to play 50 automatic spins, some players will find the functionality encouraging.
Now that you know how to get the ball (or the reels) rolling, let’s look at the game’s graphics and discuss the pay-outs entailed by the symbols.
Balls, Bowling Pins and Gold Medals
The graphics in Money Back Special are not outstanding, but nor are they so basic as to affect your enjoyment. The symbols are colourful and well-designed, looming prominently on the reels. There are 11 icons in total, including golf balls, cricket balls, rugby balls, footballs, tennis balls, trophies, boxing gloves, dartboards, stopwatches, gold medals and bowling pins.
In order to win cash, you’ll need to find the aforementioned symbols in combinations of three, four or five, starting from the leftmost reel. Payline wins are multiplied by the line bet, and only the highest win per line is paid.
In addition to regular symbols, there is a wild which can replace all other symbols except the scatter. The wild is the gold medal. As well as helping you form combinations, the wild is linked with the best pay-outs in the game, including 25 for three, 100 for four and 7,500 for five.
The scatter, in case you’re wondering, is the bowling pin and bowling ball. This one pays 5 for three, 10 for four and 100 for five, but it also grants 12 free games – and a 2x multiplier on all subsequent free game wins – when you find three or more in any position across the grid.
As if that wasn’t enough, during free spins, freezing wilds appear randomly across the board. The freezing wilds will remain in their position for a random number of one to four spins, and behave very much like normal wilds, in other words being able to replace regular symbols to help you make wins. Helpfully, a fresh freezing wild will only appear on a space which has not already been occupied by a wild. One negative to consider: free spins cannot be re-triggered.
Money Back Feature
There’s a nice little feature to look forward to should you find that one particular payline is proving impossible to win on. If a single active line doesn’t win 50 times in a row, you’ll win back your line bet times 50. The money back status of a line is saved when a line isn’t active, and restored when the line is reengaged. The money back status is also saved when exiting the game, and restored upon re-entering.
Championship Calibre
Money Back Special is, on the whole, an excellent slot. The symbols are well-illustrated, the animations subtle; the music won’t have you banging your head against a wall; and the pay-outs are very respectable indeed. Throw in the wilds and scatters, plus the free spins, multipliers and unique Money Back feature and you have a hell of a game on your hands.
