Cash Chips Slot Review
Cash Chips is a classically styled video slot with a driving soundtrack and perfect graphic and animation performance, as it should be for a product of such a famous company as Pragmatic Play.
But there's much more engaging about it besides the outstanding slot's visual & sound characteristics. For example, there are a lot of bonus features in this slot — instantly paying fixed jackpots up to x5,000 to the stake and FS rounds with extra Wilds or Chips. The max win also is a decent x10,000 by the bet.
Among other stuff you need to be aware of are Extremely high volatility, twenty fixed pay lines, and a 5x3 play grid.
Cash Chips by Pragmatic Play Video Review
Cash Chips General Characteristics
- 20 pay lines
- 5 reels and 3 rows
- Extreme Volatility
- RTP: 96.03%, 95.01%, 94.02%
- Hit Frequency: 16.67% (1 in 6 spins)
- Bonus / Free Spins Frequency: 0.59% (1 in 170 spins)
- Odds for > x1000 Hit Frequency 1 in 24,903 spins
- Bet amount: 0.2 EUR - 240 EUR
- Maximum win multiplier: x10,000 (1 in 454,545,454 spins)
- Maximum win value: 2,400,000 EUR
- 7 main symbols
- Additional symbols: Wild, Scatter, Chip
Cash Chips Bonus Features
It's a classic gambling game with a standard duo of special symbols and an FS round. Additionally, there are several fixed instant cash jackpots up to x5,000 to the stake, paying for corresponding Chip symbols amount in view on the playfield, starting with 4.
Chip symbols
The paying range for these symbols is x5 - x5,000. The minimum amount of those for getting a prize is 4, the maximum - 9. Luckily, they may be anywhere on the reels without needing to make up some winning combination or something like that.
Wild
It is a special symbol that can substitute any paying pics, except for the Scatter. Wild is also a payable one picture, granting up to x50 to the stake per 5-symbol combination. This picture can appear anywhere on the screen without any restriction.
Scatter
This special symbol also pays x1 by the bet for 3 of them. It lands, unlike Wild, only on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th reels. Three such pictures on your screen guarantee you the FS round triggering.
Free Spins
All you need to get the FS round triggering is 3 Scatters landed on the reels. There are two bonus game types available in this slot. The first one proposes extra Wilds, while the second — an additional number of Chips, landing during the free spins. Before playing, you will choose which variant you want to try by picking the corresponding Lucky Wheel.
Free Spins with extra Wilds
If you will choose extra Wilds, pick an appropriate Wheel with multiple segments that allow you to get up to 30, 50, or 75 Wilds and a multiplier of x3 or x5. The last one applied to all wins due to the pay lines. Be aware that claimed Wilds' number does not mean the guaranteed but just their maximally possible quantity. The initial number of provided FS is 10. Get 3 Scatters during the bonus game duration, and you will be awarded ten others.
Free Spins with extra Chips
When you choose the extra Chips, a similar Lucky Wheel allows you to get up to 100 (50 or 100) supplementary Chips and a maximum of 15 FS (10, 12, 15). Here, the same logic as with Wilds — the claimed amount of Chips is only possible but not necessarily granted at full, whereas the number of free spins is observed strictly. In this case, 3 Scatters, landing within the FS round, will award the same number of extra FS as in its start — 10, 12, or 15.
Buy Free Spins
This convenient option allows you any moment you desire to buy the FS round activation. It will cost you x100 to the currently chosen stake. Unfortunately, this option is not available in every jurisdiction.
Our Experience Playing Cash Chips
After the theoretical part, it's time to check all that information out due to the slot's playing. We did it thanks to the 300-spin session, having as many as €200 on the balance. Providing that, we used the stake for every single spin as just €1.
During the first hundred spins, there were two FS round triggering. Thanks to that, we try out both bonus game options — with extra Wilds & Chips. The first one provided 30 Wilds & an x5 multiplier, while the second — 100 Chips & 10 FS. The First FS round with Wilds made us €28, whereas the second with Chips — €61.9. The Chip feature triggered once, earning €5. Besides those, there were also 18 regular wins (€0.2 - €7.5), including 7 under our bet amount. The most elongated non-wins period this time was 11 spins. The final balance result totaled €229.6.
The second hundred spins turned out not that lucky because we didn't get any other bonus feature but the Chip one. Yet, the latter gave us income twice, earning this time €10. Talking about base game wins, those were 14. Luckily, just 3 of them were less than our stake. Overall, their sums varied from €0.2 to €5.8. This time, the most elongated period without wins did consist of 16 spins. As a result, the final balance upon the 200th spin was over amounted to just €175.1.
The last hundred spins turned the same luck as the first ones since we got another two bonus games with FS. This time, we didn't break the already established tradition, also choosing both FS round options — with Wilds & Chips. The first earned us €64, while the other — €31.7. Also, after that, there was the Chip function activation, which brought €20. Due to the long non-winnings gaps, the lengthiest of which consisted of 26 spins, during the third hundred spins, we got just 12 wins, including four under the bet amount. Their amounts ranged from €0.2 to €5. So, considering 4 FS game activations, the final balance was not that satisfactory, totaling €206.8.
The main conclusion of this playing session is that despite a sufficiently frequent FS round triggering, we did not see our balance rocket to sky-level due to the relatively low wins' amounts. Also, while less than the bet base game wins weren't that often, way too long non-winning periods did not allow taking advantage of this highly positive aspect.
So, here are all the statistics for these 300 spins:
Cash Chips Verdict
In conclusion, we may claim that this is a perfectly well-designed gambling game that will please a wide range of fans of those classic-themed video slots. Also, it makes a decent impression by being feature-infested, including instantly paying jackpots up to 5,000 to reference the stake. What is worthwhile is the FS round frequency, which has an outstanding rate of 1 in 170 spins, but even that's not the limit, as we've seen due to our little experiment since we got twice as much as we could have expected. The last optimistic moment is not that frequent wins, which are less than the stake, even though almost half of the payments are lower than the current bet.
Now, let's go to the drawbacks shortlist. First, make sure that the slot's version you're playing has the highest RTP value (96.03%) since it may vary. Also, be aware of the possibility of too long non-wins periods and not that tremendous bonus rewards. For instance, to get a game-changing Chip jackpot, you need to land at least 7 Chip symbols, which does not seem like a frequent event. The same is true for the bonus games since even four of those didn't make us feel even a little richer.
Nevertheless, we undoubtedly had a lot of fun playing the slot, being pleasantly surprised due to the bonus features variability, including choosing different FS mods and applying Lucky Wheels. All of those add a bit of unpredictability to the playing process and make gameplay much more exciting. So, if you prefer classic games with a twist, this one deserves to give it a shot.
