Lucky Streak Slot – Free Demo

A 2014 cabinet still labelled Mk2

Lucky Streak is not a recent slot, and it dates all the way back to April 2014. The panel and status bar still label it Lucky Streak Mk2. Ever since, it has been silently resting in the Big Time Gaming back catalogue. Two other Big Time Gaming games sit on this site as well, Opal Fruits and Temple Quest Spinfinity.

My first reaction was a bit mixed when I launched the slot. Over 220 spins at a 4.00 stake I wagered 880.00 credits and received 874.00 back, a 99.3% session return that never truly went anywhere. The longest I went without a win was seven spins, a run that ended on spin 109. The balance shifted from 986.80 to 980.80, it topped at 1,182.80 on spin 150, and it bottomed out at 941.20. That peak came out of my biggest win of the session, 224.00 credits on spin 150, or 56.0x my stake.

Lucky Streak is an old-style fruit slot with bars, melons and a horseshoe, and the action occurs on an unadorned reel set with the Number Trail ladder positioned to the right of the reels and the scatter strip running along the top. It has a configuration of 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 fixed pay lines. With the lines fixed, my 4.00 stake showed as a Bet per line of 0.20, and that is the figure the paytable numbers multiply. 81 of my 220 spins paid something. Wins on separate lines are added together, and each line pays only its highest combination. 49 of those, though, paid less than the stake. My second and third biggest wins came early, 116.00 on spin 32 and 76.00 on spin 43.

What a horseshoe is worth per line

I see the customary fruit slot furniture of varying quality and in different states, examining the paytable. Melon, grapes and pear share a level above them at 250 per line for five. It ranges from a lemon or a tomato worth 100 times the stake per line for 5 of a kind, up to BAR BAR BAR and BAR BAR, which will pay 750 per line should you land 5 of them. A single BAR pays 500 per line for five, and the bell sits at 100. Every figure on the pays pages is in multiples of stake per line rather than of the total stake. At my 0.20 per line, that 750 would have come to 150.00 credits.

The wild symbol appears as a horseshoe. Three of them on a line pay 100 per line and four pay 1,000. It substitutes for everything except the scatter and pays as an ordinary symbol in its own right, 10,000 per line for five and 10 per line for just two. Scatter wins are added on top of whatever the lines pay. The Lucky Streak scatter pays from any position, 2,000 per line for five down to 40 for two. Three of them pay 100 per line and also send you to the Lucky Streak Trail.

How the Number Trail hands you to Cash Stoppa

There's a conventional bonus to be discovered in this slot. That bonus is the free spins, and scatters are what start it. But the feature attached to the base game is the Number Trail, and symbols can bear a small number badge. The badges on a spin are summed together, and the total lights up a position on the ladder running down the right of the reels - unlabelled segments low down, then x10, x15, x20, x25, x30, with the Cash Stoppa panel at the top. What you are paid comes from the highest position the total lights. A total of 11 or above sends you to the Cash Stoppa Trail.

I watched one land: badges of 3, 3, 3, 3 and 1 added to 13, the ladder lit all the way up to the Cash Stoppa panel, and the button turned red over a message strip reading "Hit it!". There you press to advance until Collect lights and take whatever position is highlighted at that instant. Mine stopped first on x60 with the Cashpot field reading 8.00, then on x1,000 with the Cashpot reading 40.00, that field sitting on the panel and moving as the trail runs. Number badges do not surface during free spins, and the result is predetermined rather than a matter of timing. Collect lit on x200 and the round paid 40.00 credits with the status bar reading "Bonus complete", x200 at 0.20 a line.

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It's on this trail that the largest prizes rest. Advance, Repeat Chance and Collect share the trail with the cash positions, and if Repeat Chance lights the trail is restarted. They run from x40 all the way up to x10,000 in multiples of stake per line. At 0.20 a line, the x40 foot of that trail is 8.00 credits.

The Minty Summary: Of the 874.00 credits that came back over 220 spins, 93.60 arrived inside the four free spin rounds and 40.00 arrived from a single Cash Stoppa round that collected on x200. Everything else was the base game paying in ones and twos, and 49 of my 81 paying spins handed back less than the 4.00 I had put in.

Four scatter rounds in 220 spins

Three or more scatters anywhere award the Lucky Streak Trail. If a spin sets off both features, the Lucky Streak Trail plays after the Number Trail. A press of Stop there wins up to 15 free spins, played automatically at the triggering stake with a guaranteed win on every one of them, and I saw four of them in 220 spins, paying 48.00, 8.80, 32.80 and 4.00. Three of those arrived inside my first 51 spins, on 14, 26 and 51, and the fourth not until spin 132. That is 93.60 in total, or 11% of everything I won, and not one of them retriggered. The best of the four was 12.0x my stake and the weakest handed back the 4.00 I had staked on the triggering spin.

Where the 220 spins left the balance

Lucky Streak has been out for some time. What my 220 spins produced was four free spin rounds and one Cash Stoppa round that collected on x200, and the question a second session would answer is how far up that trail the lamp gets before Collect lights.