Cash Machine Slot Machine
Cash Machine is a fruit-themed 5-reel video slot. Developed by the OpenBet platform, which boasts over 20 customers in the online gaming industry, this is a game which does not utilise regular paylines. Rather, the slot furnishes players with pay-outs whenever they can land three or more matching symbols – on any position – beginning from the leftmost reel. As a consequence, Cash Machine grants gamers plenty of opportunities to make withdrawals: this hole-in-the-wall has 243 ‘ways to win’.
Cash Machine is a progressive slot which eschews many of the familiar bonuses and incentives associated with fruit machines. There is no wild symbol to watch out for, nor is there a mini-game with a massively inflated jackpot. However, there are some nice features, including an Auto Play function, scatter icons and multipliers.
Reels in the Stars
If you expected the Cash Machine reels to be superimposed on an ATM, with a card slot and PIN pad, you’re gonna be disappointed. The reels, of which there are five, instead appear against a star-pocked night sky. There are three rows of symbols, meaning there are 15 icons on display at any one time. Each individual icon appears inside a different coloured ring, which itself sits inside a gunmetal-grey box. It’s all a bit unusual, but the controls are easier to figure out.
At the bottom of the screen, there are configurable tabs for Stake and Auto Play. Use the + and - buttons to determine your bet, and decide whether you wish to activate automatic spins. You can view the pay-table by clicking the button marked Pays in the lower right-hand corner, and spin the reels by pressing the huge Play button.
While reels in video slots usually ‘spin’, the ones in Cash Machine revolve slowly instead, like a dice turned by a meditative gambler. Each individual, square-shaped symbol turns rather than a whole reel spinning at once. The graphics aren’t wondrous, but they don’t really need to be. Symbols include watermelons, bells, grapes, blueberries, cherries, BARs, a red 7, blue 7 and a gold 7 with the word JACKPOT beneath. The gold 7s crop up pretty rarely, but if you find three or more anywhere on the reels, you’ll qualify for one of three pay-outs. While three scatters pays 10x your total stake, four pays the ‘Mini Jackpot’. Five, meanwhile, pays the ‘Maxi Jackpot’, or the progressive jackpot.
At maximum bet, the pay-outs are genuinely gargantuan. Five red 7s, for instance, pays 121,500, while four pays 8,100. Three pays 1,350. Remember, though, max bet is a whopping 1,000 credits. It’s unlikely many players will be gaming with such ridiculous stakes. The minimum coin size, though, is 0.2, so you can certainly play within your limits. At minimum bet, the same combinations of five red 7s pay 500, 100 and 50. The maximum bet will also pay 7,290 for five blue 7s, 1,215 for four and 135 for three.
Least valuable among the symbols are the cherries and blueberries. Again, the pay-outs vary massively depending on how much you bet.
Reaction Multiplier
When the player lands five or more matching coloured icon rings, connected horizontally and/or vertically, a ‘reaction’ will be triggered. All symbols involved in the reaction will then vanish, to be replaced from the right by brand-new icons. It’s a pretty neat, Tetris-like effect. The multiplier will increase by one any further wins, thereby creating a lucrative chain reaction. The multipliers will be recorded in a box on the right-hand side, recording ‘Blue Reactions’, ‘Red Reactions’ etc.
Worth a withdrawal?
Let’s face it, there’s nothing innovative or ingenious about a fruit-themed video slot. They’ve been around since the president was wearing short pants. That being said, OpenBet have tried to at least spice things up a bit. The ‘disappearing icons’ feature is cool, and we like the ascending multipliers in that particular round. The presence of a ‘jackpot’ scatter is also welcome, although in our experience the blighters don’t show up on the reels all that often. Landing three of them is tricky; we imagine landing five is damn near impossible.
Vast improvements could be made to Cash Machine, but on the whole, this isn’t a bad game. It’s got a progressive jackpot, scatters and a nifty multiplier. Give this free casino slots game a try and then make an educated judgement on whether you wish to stake real cash.
