Deal or No Deal The Perfect Play Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Blueprint Gaming
Do not accept any offers during the feature — the help screens print that as an instruction and then say almost nothing else about the board of squares sitting above the reels. Six of my 300 spins reached it, worth 120.00 of the 427.50 won, and the five fixed lines underneath carry everything else.
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Five fixed lines under a board of squares
Software provider Blueprint Gaming may have been around for quite a lengthy while. Lately, though, I've observed them rouse from sleep and begun trekking down a fresh road, and it's possible that there used to be an era when a provider could crank out anything with 5 reels and 3 rows and still manage it just fine. Here the reels themselves stay conventional, and the feature apparatus sits on a panel above them. But days are harsher now. Across my 300 spins the balance never fell below 995.10, and the peak came on spin 252 at 1,157.70. The competition is getting increasingly fierce, and there's also been a change in market appetite, as players have become more informed and conscious of what they're actually playing. The longest stretch without a win ran to 10 spins and ended on spin 247. Blueprint has grasped that it is volatility and big potential that makes folks chatter about their slots, albeit somewhat tardily.
The slot I'm going to review today is a version of the licensed Deal or No Deal slot. It has been duplicated in absurdum, and being near identical in configuration and mechanics, players have to determine which version attracts them based on appearance and feel, RTP as well as hit frequency and bonus frequency. In my own run 110 of the 300 spins paid something, and 69 of those paid back less than the 1.00 stake. That data is not always accessible to the player, however.
Slots like this don't really require any closer prefaces, but in order to adhere to protocol and for the sake of consistency, here it goes. Deal or No Deal The Perfect Play launched on September 7, 2018, and it is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with 5 fixed pay lines, all wins paying on adjacent reels, and the bet size range is between 0.10 and 5.00. The ladder in between has ten steps: 0.10, 0.20, 0.50, 1.00, 1.50, 2.00, 2.50, 3.00, 4.00 and 5.00. The 96.57% RTP sits above the industry average. It is quoted as a long-term payback figure based on best strategy. The max win is capped at 250,000 or 50,000 times the total bet, and there is no bonus buy on offer.
What the Deal or No Deal logo pays
The symbol of all symbols is the Deal or No Deal logo, and should you land 5 of a kind logos on a line, a 50 times the stake prize will be yours to collect. Below it the seven pays 25 times the stake for five, the bell and the watermelon 20 each, grapes or plum 10, and the low group of orange, lemon and cherry 5.
Playing to Cash Out on the Hi-Lo board
The Deal or No Deal feature is played out on a board of squares. The board and its Hi-Lo number reel sit above the reels, with the cash ladder running down one side and a strip of sixteen named features, Big Money, Powerplay, Box Magic and the rest, down the other. It is advanced along by a Hi-Lo reel, and the squares contain Free Spin, Bonus, Cash Out, +Cash, +Feature, Multi Add and multipliers from x1 to x10. Direction arrows and question marks sit among them as well. Alongside the board runs the Big Money cash ladder, which ascends from 1.00 to 100.00, and above the regular feature sit the Super Deal or No Deal and Mega Deal or No Deal tiers. In 300 spins the feature landed six times, on spins 7, 38, 213, 225, 236 and 283.
The one directive the game insists on is that you play to Cash Out during the feature game. Cash Out is one of the squares on the board itself. And that you do not take offers while the Deal or No Deal feature is running.
The Minty Breakdown: Six visits to the board across 300 spins returned 120.00 of the 427.50 I won, so a little over a quarter of the session came off the panel and the rest came off five fixed lines of fruit.
Six rounds in 300 spins
Blueprint Gaming slots can be a bit of a b**** to trigger bonuses on. Two of my six rounds came inside the first 38 spins, and then nothing until spin 213. Knowing that certainly makes me a bit hesitant to pick it as my go-to branded slot, although over 300 spins at a stake of 1.00 the feature came round six times, which is more frequently than I anticipated. The gaps between them ran 31 spins, then 175, 12, 11 and 47. What speaks favourably for Deal or No Deal The Perfect Play, on the other hand, is the RTP compared to the rest of the pack, and as the games are more or less indistinguishable in terms of mechanics and pay lines, it all comes down to personal taste. Three of the six rounds paid under 5 times the stake, at 2.60, 3.80 and 4.60. Which one do you think has the smoothes gameplay, which slot performs best for you, and so on. The best of them paid 63.00 on spin 236, more than the other five rounds put together.
As a clone of one of the most successful licences ever placed on reels, Blueprint has built an alternative, and my 300 spins finished 127.50 up on a 1,000.00 balance, with 110 paying spins, a best single spin of 100 times the stake, and 120.00 of the 427.50 won coming out of the feature. That best spin came on 170 and took the balance to 1,117.30. Will it topple the rest of the Deal or No Deal family from the throne? Blueprint has other builds of the same licence, among them Deal or No Deal Double Action and Deal or No Deal Megaways Jackpot King. Not probable, and not necessarily because it's poorer, but because I can't see any real solid reason for players that have settled on a favourite to desert it for a new one. Two other spins paid well, 58.00 on spin 86 and 25.00 on spin 114. But who knows. Neither of those two involved the feature. Maybe in time I'll discover a reason to amend my review.