Cafe Paris Slots
The city of Paris has long been a culinary hotbed, its pleasant pavement cafés and Michelin starred restaurants attracting gastronomes from around the globe. The Parisian penchant for sumptuous food and even finer wine is the basis for Cafe Paris, a five-reel video slot title from NeoGames Technologies. The colourful culinary-themed game certainly has the potential to whet your appetite and set your pulse racing. The title includes nine pay-lines, wilds, scatters and an autoplay option for quicker, easier gaming.
Though Cafe Paris is a non-progressive slot, its jackpot is handsome enough to impress most gamers. You won’t find many individuals who’ll sniff at a 10,000 coin win – we know we wouldn’t!
A Romantic Setting
The design of Cafe Paris nods to the city’s artistic past: the background of the reels is a pencil drawing of a typical Parisian scene, tables arrayed outside a street cafe, patrons enjoy coffee and croissants on the flagstones. In the near distance, the golden totem that is the Eiffel Tower sparkles in the moonlight. It’s a romantic image indeed, with light cast by the moon, the tower and a green lamppost in the lower left corner.
The reels themselves play host to multiple interesting icons. They include a golden croissant; a Gallic rooster, the like of which decorated French flags during the Revolution and has, since 1848, appeared on the seal of the Republic; a dashing Frenchman with a beret and goatee holding a glass of wine and an armful of baguettes; a magnum of champagne; an attractive Frenchwoman; a street sign for the Avenue des Champs-élysées; a mug of coffee; a wheel of cheese; an accordion; the Eiffel Tower; the Arc de Triomphe; and a lamppost bearing a sign for the Metro. Yes, there are many icons to keep up with, but we’re sure you’ll manage just fine.
Getting Started
Gamers playing Cafe Paris can stake bets as small as 0.10 all the way up to 10 coins per pay-line. Players are only permitted to stake one coin per line, though you needn’t play on all nine: you can play on however many pay-lines you please, even one.
Along the bottom of the screen, you’ll find a familiar control panel. Here, you can adjust your maximum bet, pay-line quota, current bet and also access the pay-table. If you so desire, you can toggle the autoplay button which sits in the lowermost right corner.
Breaking Bread
The name of the game, in case you haven’t yet figured it out, is to hit matching combinations to trigger pay-outs. Refreshingly, the low-variance game grants pay-outs for as little as two matching symbols on an active line. OK, the wins are modest, but they jump sharply when you land three, four or five icons.
The best-paying symbol on the grid is the Metro sign. Weird, huh? We were sure it would be the Eiffel Tower. Anyhow, players fortunate enough to land five Metro symbols in a row can expect a 10,000 coin bonanza. Four Metros pays 1,000, while three pays 100.
Next down the list is the Frenchwoman, who pays 9,000 for five and 900 for four. Keen readers won’t need to be told that the next highest-paying icon (the Frenchman) pays 8,000 for five and 800 for four; and so on down the pay-table. The worst-paying icon in the game is the mug of coffee, though it could be a lot worse worse: 1,000 awaits he who can find five.
Towers and Arcs
There are no bonus games or free spins to look forward to in Cafe Paris, but the presence of a wild multiplier is most welcome. The wild is the Arc de Triomphe; it can replace all other icons in the game (except the scatter) to assist you in forming combinations. Any win that involves the wild is also doubled.
The Cafe Paris scatter is, predictably enough, the Eiffel Tower. Gamers who find two or more towers on the reels are treated to multipliers, which stretch from x2 to x32, for two and five respectively. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that you can earn a bundle if you uncover a few of these golden tokens.
Midnight in Paris
If you’re an experienced slot player – or better still, one with a fondness for the City of Love – give Cafe Paris a go. There’s much to cherish here, not least the huge jackpot, fine gameplay and artistic design.
