Bar-X Safecracker Megaways Slot – Free Demo

The wild never touches the reels

The wild symbol substitutes for all other symbols except the scatter, as anticipated. It cannot stand in for the gold safe, so it never helps a trigger along. It surfaces only in the positions above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5.

In the base-game frame I captured at a 5.00 stake the counter read 21,000 ways, with a single wild sitting in the top position above reel 2 and a K combination paying 20.00 across 20 ways. Two gold safes were in view on reels 4 and 5 in that same frame and nothing came of them, because the trigger condition is four.

Only the Diamond pays for two

Bar-X Safecracker Megaways is a 6-reel online slot with up to 117,649 ways to win. Each reel reveals up to seven symbols in view, so the ways count changes on every drop. It pays left to right, features a free spins game and revolves around cascading symbols.

Examining the paytable, I find six low-value symbols depicted by the ordinary card letters and numbers, and the four premium symbols are depicted by the X, the Bar, the Red 7 and the Diamond. The latter is the most profitable and the only one paying a two-symbol combination. All winning combinations on a spin are added together, and only the highest win is paid per combination.

Cascades and the refill from the right

As with many Blueprint Gaming slots, this slot also arrives with cascading symbols, and when a win lands, the winning symbols are cleared and replaced by fresh symbols dropping from above. The cascades persist until no more winning symbols are produced. Blueprint runs the same engine in Luck O' the Irish Megaways and Diamond Mine Megaways.

The positions above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 help create wins. They are replenished from the right, and the Mystery symbol can land anywhere. All Mystery symbols in view disclose the same random symbol, though never a scatter.

Picking a safe, then counting the cascades

Four gold safe scatters trigger a random number of free spins. The safe can land on any reel but never in the top positions above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. The more scatter symbols land, the more free spins are granted. Eight gold safes appear, and the player picks one to reveal the free spins prize. The pick is made before the first free spin.

The Unlimited Win Multiplier is at the centre of attention here, is carried between spins and rises by 1 after every cascade, and should the top positions above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 uncover Free Spins Scatters, additional free spins will be awarded. Three of them grant 5 extra spins and four grant 10. The stake that triggered the round is applied for its entire duration. None of the four rounds I triggered picked up a retrigger.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Four bonus rounds accounted for 71% of everything this session won, and the base game spent the rest of its time handing back less than the stake it took. The multiplier that makes the rounds worth anything only runs inside them, so the whole build points at the four safes.

Four bonus rounds in 410 spins

My four rounds landed on spins 82, 138, 172 and 352. The payouts are relatively modest: across 410 spins at 5.00 I bet 2,050.00 and received 1,931.50 back, a return of 94.2%. Only 81 spins paid anything at all, and half of those paid less than the stake. The longest stretch without a win was 19 spins, ending on spin 283.

Four bonus rounds landed, the best of them 111x the stake on spin 82. The other three paid 79.0x, 63.0x and 20.0x, with gaps of 56, 34 and 180 spins between triggers. Together they constituted 71% of everything won.