Swindle All the Way Slot Machine
The main characters in Realtime Gaming’s Swindle All the Way video slot are definitely on Santa’s naughty list, as this online casino game is themed around a dastardly duo out to steal Christmas presents from all the good boys and girls. Thankfully it’s all done with a sense of humour and while there’s not much of a storyline, we’re sure these cartoon-style guys spend the holiday season behind bars.
It’s a classic 5-reel slot machine, with 25 paylines and along with standard wins created by landing 3 or more of the same symbol across a line, on connected reels from the left side, we also have some bonus features, such as wild substitutions, scatter pays and a unique free games feature with the potential for some huge multipliers.
The Realtime Gaming casino games range is one of the most popular in the world, in part due to the fact that US residents can play them, but also because this is a company with years of experience in developing slots to a high standard, and Swindle All the Way should help to further their good reputation. It plays fair, has a good return to player percentage and like many RTG games, it comes with a couple of progressive jackpots to add even more to the appeal.
Crooks at Christmas
Some nice animations of snow falling on trees sits behind the main part of this slot machine, and there’s colourful flashing lights along with decorations around the reels to complete the festive picture. All 25 lines are in play, so the low limit bet is set at 0.25, although players have the option to test things out via the free Swindle All the Way video slots found at RTG-powered casino sites.
Winnings are multiples of the amount staked per line, and while the usual 9, 10, J, Q, K and A icons make an appearance, they are all made to look like wrapped presents, perhaps the target of our villainous thieves. A review of the paytable tells us that the top prizes for these range from 75x the line bet, to 150x, but the picture symbols are all worth progressively more, starting with a newspaper that’s got a headline about the crooks escaping, and a glass of milk and cookie left out for Santa. These pay 10x the line stake when either is on 3 reels, while 4 are worth 30x and 5 returns wins of 250x.
The top-paying symbols will only need to be seen on reels 1 and 2, with punters claiming prizes of between 2x and 500x the line bet when the red stocking appears, while depending on how much of a payline it fills, the bag of loot pays out anything from 5x to 1,000x, and the guard dog is worth between 5x and a high limit of 2,000x.
Claiming More Loot with Wild Robber Symbol
The robbers have a couple of important jobs to do here, as they add to the cartoon style, laughing to themselves whenever they land on the reels, while also helping players to collect some loot from the casinos by winning them between 10x and 2,500x the line bet when landing across the reels.
On top of this, these guys are also a wild symbol, which acts as any other, apart from the game logo, completing winning lines if possible, or extending a win further across the reels for a bigger reward.
Scatter Prizes and Special Free Spins Feature
The game logo also does double duties in the Swindle All the Way video slot, paying out 2x, 3x, or 250x the total triggering bet amount when it stops in any 3, 4, or 5+ places at once, after which it launches a fantastic free spins bonus round.
We say it’s fantastic because before the free games begin, players get to click on 3, 4, or 5 reels to see if any robbers are hiding behind the windows shown on a second screen. The number of picks is related to the number of triggering scatter symbols that appeared, and the more robbers that they find, the more free games are awarded, and the higher any win multipliers will be during them.
At one end of the potential bonus feature, you could get just 3 spins and a 1x multiplier, while the opposite possibility is for a huge 60 spins, during which any wins will be multiplied by 33x. It’s going to be a very lucky player who gets this perfect combination, but this can still be a rewarding bonus round, and any 3 or more scatters landing during a free game will add another 10 spins to the end.
The Verdict on this Festive Slot Machine
This is a real money online slot that has lots to offer, not just at Christmas, but if you can find it, throughout they year, as it’s packed with features, and we didn’t even mention the 2 progressive jackpots that can be won at the end of any random spin.
It’s mobile-optimised, fully tested for fairness by independent companies, and has the potential to pay out some massive rewards. So, anyone playing the Swindle All the Way video slot is certainly not going to feel swindled at all.
