Cash Patrol: Slot Overview
If it ain't broke, don't fix it seems to be the thinking
behind Cash Patrol, an online 🧬 slot from developer Pragmatic Play. What prompted this
assessment is that the engine humming away behind the crime-busting scene has 🧬 appeared
in a stack of previous Pragmatic Play slots. This time the team has used a cops 'n
robbers theme 🧬 to spice up the front end, while the features used are prize pot
collecting free spins and a Money Collect 🧬 feature consisting of several special Collect
symbols.
We mentioned crime-busting, but if you like, Cash Patrol could be about
corrupt cops 🧬 cruising the streets collecting kickbacks instead of busting bad guys.
Text on the game invites players to pretend they are 🧬 on the side of law enforcement or
act as double agents being led to the loot - with a warning 🧬 that 'crime doesn't pay.'
Whatever your preference, the action happens on a game board set in the middle of a
🧬 windy street scene in a city like Chicago or New York. As is often the case in these
cops 'n 🧬 crime games, Pragmatic Play has presented everything in a humorous way to
brighten the mood, accentuated by a bouncy, jazzy, 🧬 ska track. Like Empty the Bank, Cash
Patrol provides a lighter-hearted journey through crime and its prevention.
Cash Patrol
is playable 🧬 on mobile, tablet, or desktop devices and provides players with bet levels
of 25 p/c toR$/€125 per spin. Like features, 🧬 the stats should be just as recognisable
to anyone who's played these kinds of games. Default RTP is steady at 🧬 96.5%, while
volatility sits around the middle of the meter, rated by Pragmatic Play as 3 out of 5.
It 🧬 all takes place on a big, bold 5x3 game grid, where users get 25 paylines for
hitting wins across.
Wins occur 🧬 when three or more of a kind hit, and all eight pay
symbols are neatly theme-based. This includes doughnut designed 🧬 J-A royals as the
game's low pays, and premium handcuffs, police hats, stacks of cash, and vintage car
premiums. As 🧬 for values, low pays are worth 4x the bet for five on a payline,
increasing to 5-32x the bet for 🧬 five high pays on a line. In addition, landing on all
but the first reel, wild symbols assist in creating 🧬 winning lines by substituting for
any normal pay symbol.
Cash Patrol: Slot Features
Pretty much everything covered in
this section has appeared 🧬 before on more than one occasion in Pragmatic Play's
impressive slot portfolio. The two biggies here are the Money Collect 🧬 feature and a
free spins bonus round.
Money Collect Feature
In Cash Patrol, baddie adorned Money
symbols land on reels 1 to 🧬 4, displaying a cash value, while Collect symbols appear on
reel 5 with police officers on them. When at least 🧬 one Money symbol lands on the same
spin as a Collect symbol, one of these scenarios plays out, depending on 🧬 the Collect
symbol type:
Collect – the values of all Money symbols are collected together and
awarded.
– the values of all 🧬 Money symbols are collected together and awarded. Extra
Collect – has an Extra Credit Collect value which is added to 🧬 the total of all Money
symbols before being collected.
– has an Extra Credit Collect value which is added to
the 🧬 total of all Money symbols before being collected. Multiplier Collect – applies a
multiplier to the sum of all Money 🧬 symbols in view.
– applies a multiplier to the sum
of all Money symbols in view. Expanding Collect – reels holding 🧬 a Money symbol expand,
filling all positions with Money symbols.
– reels holding a Money symbol expand,
filling all positions with 🧬 Money symbols. Respins Collect – Money symbols in view are
held while all other cells respin. After the respin, any 🧬 Money symbol values in view
are collected.
Free Spins
This bonus round is triggered when 3 scatters hit, awarding 8
free spins. 🧬 During free spins, Money symbols and Collect symbols are active as they are
in the base game. However, when Money 🧬 symbols land, their values are also stored in a
special bonus pot. At the end of free spins, a giant 🧬 Money symbol hits on the first
four reels, while the fifth reel respins. If a Money Symbol lands on the 🧬 fifth reel,
the value of the bonus pot is added to the free spins total win.
Cash Patrol: Slot
Verdict
No doubt 🧬 a lot of players will be familiar with the sort of entertainment on
offer in Cash Patrol. Its features, in 🧬 one form or another, have been used in slots as
thematically diverse as John Hunter and the Tomb of the 🧬 Scarab Queen, Heart of Rio, El
Dorado The City of Gold, and others. This mix of gameplay has been something 🧬 of a
success story for Pragmatic Play and is still going strong, capable of entertaining
players captivated by Cash Patrol's 🧬 specific style of gameplay.
It helps that the bonus
rounds aren't just a standard batch of free spins or a regular 🧬 money symbol collection
system. Sure, it would be hard to classify either as innovative after the umpteenth
repeat performance, but 🧬 the duo is as fun in Cash Patrol as anywhere else. The variety
of Collect symbols adds an extra dynamic 🧬 that games like Fishin' Frenzy lack and, at
times, pop out an okay payout. The concept of police officer Collect 🧬 symbols chasing
Money symbols baddies ties to the slot's cops chasing crooks motif in a playful way,
too.
Arguably, the most 🧬 exciting thing in Cash Patrol is the infamous respin at the end
of free spins. It won't come around every 🧬 day, but having the giant Money symbol in
view while the fifth reel respin can be a nail-biting experience if 🧬 a significant prize
pot has been gathered. Naturally, not all pots are going to be massive, but like other
slots 🧬 packing these features, Cash Patrol comes with an eye-opening max win figure of
10,500x the bet. From what we saw, 🧬 getting to 10k would be a tall order, but hey, the
stats are there for players motivated by big numbers.
It's 🧬 hard to avoid the impression
Cash Patrol was a connect the dots exercise for Pragmatic Play. It can't have been 🧬 a
huge strain ripping out the innards of an older slot and jamming them into a new outer
casing like 🧬 a re-stuffed sausage. Still, while there's no ground-breaking tech, Cash
Patrol provides an attractive option for players into Money Collect 🧬 style games.
