Swindle All The Way

Swindle All The Way: Picks Allocated Reel by Reel

The bonus structure in this festive burglary slot distributes its picks in an unusual way. Two robbers hide behind windows on each reel, and the number of scatters that triggered the round decides how many picks are given per reel: one for three scatters, two for four or five.

Per-reel allocation rather than a single pool changes the shape of the round considerably. With one pick per reel across five reels, you get five attempts spread evenly rather than five attempts anywhere. With two per reel you get ten, but still constrained to two per column. A player cannot concentrate their picks where they think the robbers are, because the distribution is fixed by the structure.

The trigger also sets the multiplier's starting point, which begins at either one or three depending on how many scatters landed, and climbs with every discovery. So a four-scatter trigger delivers both twice the picks and a multiplier starting three times higher than a three-scatter one. Those two effects compound, which makes the gap between a minimum and a stronger trigger far larger than the scatter count alone suggests.

Finding a robber adds free games as well as advancing the multiplier, so each discovery contributes on two axes at once.

Further scatters during the round add ten more free games.

Base play runs across five reels and twenty-five paylines with a wild Robbers symbol substituting for everything except the scatter. The game logo acts as scatter, paying in any position rather than only left to right, with scatter wins added to line wins and multiplied by the total bet.

Two separate progressive jackpots, a Major from $1,000 and a Minor from $250, can land at random after any spin.

The listed top award is 82,500 times your bet per line, which is among the more generous figures in this catalogue.

Swindle All The Way suits players who will note that a four-scatter trigger is worth considerably more than three, since it doubles the picks and triples the opening multiplier simultaneously. Anyone treating the two triggers as broadly similar has missed the most consequential distinction in the game.