Take the Bank Slot

First of all, players have to look at the design of the slot machine which is remarkable: with 5 reels and 4 rows it has as many as 75 paylines attended by 12 regular and 2 feature symbols. This combination makes the game pay more often and pay bigger wins. The plot behind the gameplay is electrifying: it is a story of a successful bank heist. Whenever police cars arrive, they are too late; there is nothing they can do about lucky robbers so they just grant them free spins.

To start the adventure, players are asked to place a bet. Lines are fixed and deliver a win unfailingly whenever there is a combination on them. A bet is adjusted within the range from $0.20 to $20 per spin (or in bitcoin, if applicable); this range is probably not of much interest to high rollers. Regular symbols are 6 playing cards from 9 to A, Limmy, Bomb, Vault, Dollar Bills, Golden Bars and Diamond, all resembling the aesthetics of Take Da Bank slot by Microgaming. They pay from left to right starting from the leftmost reel when at least 3 (in case of Diamonds, two) icons of a kind hit any of 75 lines. Regular symbols pay between x0.05 and x3 the bet ($1 to $60 at max).

The online casino slot machine offers a very modest paytable but it works better than it looks due to a high number of fixed lines (75) and an exclusive feature symbol, explosive wild. In fact, it is a full-fledged bonus feature triggered every 10 spins; the counter of spins remaining till the feature unlocks looks like a big bomb on the right side of the reels (Master Bomb Counter). The feature works as follows: when a Robber appears on the reels in the base game, he plants Time Bombs, which then sticks to the reels. Every Robber plants one bomb. When the Master Bomb Counter shows “0”, all sticky bombs detonate at once and turn into wild symbols. They substitute for any regular symbols in all possible line combinations. When 5 wilds land on any line in the base game, they pay as the best-awarding regular icons, Diamond, (up to $60). Wilds cannot substitute for any feature symbol. Given that Robbers tend to come stacked and transform into time bombs, there is a chance to collect up to 20 time bombs before the feature starts. This occurrence will produce the total win of 3×75=x225 the stake ($4,500 at the max bet if the game is played for real money). Here is an important tip: it is not recommended to change bet settings when the Master Bomb Counter has already started the countdown. A change in the bet resets it to 10 and removes all planted Bombs from the reels. It is advisable to change a bet size immediately after the Master Bomb Counter has restored “10” on the display. Police cards are scatters. They land on reels 2, 3 and 4 during the base play and unlock free spins. Alternatively, the feature may be activated using the Buy Feature add-on. Scatters award no cash prize.

When 3 Police Cars rush onto reels 2, 3 and 4, the base game stops and awards free spins. It is a set of 15 FS with 5, 7 or even 10 wilds hitting the reels in every spin. The number of wilds is randomly selected by the slot machine in the normal course of the feature. The feature plays as follows: 5, 7 or 10 Robbers hit the reels on the first spin and turn into Bombs. They explode on the next free spin and turn into 5, 7 or 10 wilds that take random positions in every subsequent spin until the feature is over. The bonus feature allegedly has two downsides. First, it cannot retrigger and secondly, there can be no extra wilds, so the feature always plays with 5, 7 or 10 wild symbols awarded by the slot when the feature unlocks. But these two downsides are fully made up for by the winning capacity of the slot during the feature which is remarkably higher than in the base play. When free spins are active, the Master Bomb Counter is blocked and it will not start until after the base play resumes. The feature plays at bet settings selected in the course of the main play; when the feature triggers, bet controls are disabled.

There is an alternative way to unlock free spins and take the bank. The Buy Feature add-on takes some extra charge and the feature starts immediately. The cost depends on the current bet and it is always on display on the Buy Feature button under the reels. It equals to the total bet times x27 and this is the lowest price taken for 15 free spins with 5 Bombs. To receive the same number of free spins with 7 or 10 wild bombs, the online casino player has to pay x50 or x95 the total bet. Given the design and winning capacity of the Free Spins bonus feature, it is a valuable add-on certainly worth using.

A win in any base spin unlocks a Double Up feature designed as a classic coin tossing game. A lucky guess doubles the win while an incorrect guess ends the feature and the main games restores. The feature is also over when a player clicks the Collect button. The feature is available only in the main game.

Take the Bank is a 5-reel 75-line video slot by Betsoft developing a bank heist theme while taking bets between $0.20 and $20. A varying flock of wilds hit the reels every 10 spins, guaranteed. Scatters unlock 15 free spins with 5, 7 or 10 wilds playing in every spin. The online casino slot is equipped with Buy Feature and Double Up bonus add-ons.