Cash Compass Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Hacksaw Gaming
A 26.3% return against a stated 96.42% is what 470 spins at 5.00 produced here, with the best hit a 65.00 win on spin 15. Five Compass symbols set off a needle whose pointing clones every Compass across the 6x6 grid, though no Scatter trio ever showed up to start the free spins.
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Thirty-six symbols and a needle
Cash Compass is an online slot by Hacksaw Gaming.
Under the hood, Cash Compass arrives with an RTP figure of 96.42% and a rather high volatility maths model, and the play happens on a gaming grid made up of 6 reels and 6 rows. There are no paylines, so every win is a cluster. Players win when 6 or more identical symbols join horizontally or vertically, and regular wagers span from 0.20 to 100 per spin. My session ran for 470 spins at a flat 5.00 stake.
The symbols are a strange blend. Every spin fills the grid with 36 of them. They are divided between low pay J-A card values and mid pay maps, shields, potion bottles, and parrots, and heading the paytable is the Compass. 30 or more of them pay 1,000 times the stake. The other paying symbols top out at between 10x and 130x the stake for a cluster of 15 or more.
A needle that clones the Compass
Strap in. I’ll race through them. Besides the Compass, a Scatter symbol triggers the free spins and a Chest symbol triggers the Bonus Wheel.
When 5 or more land anywhere, the Compass Feature is triggered, the needle in the logo compass spins, and every Compass duplicates and expands in the direction the needle points. It can trigger in the base game as well as in the free spins, and the clones build larger Compass clusters.
Scatters, Chests and a skull
Hitting 3 Scatter symbols grants 10 free spins, and during the bonus, additional Compass symbols are inserted. Any Compass landing activates the Compass Feature. The Bonus Wheel is a separate feature triggered by 3 Chest symbols: its multiplier sections start at 1x and upgrade each time they are hit, up to 250x the stake, and the wheel stops when it lands on the skull.
78 paying spins out of 470
On the whole, Cash Compass was another Hacksaw slot to play, with a pile of mechanics to absorb, and there’s a pleasant rhythm to the events and nothing sinister to mention. Over those 470 spins I wagered 2,350.00 and won back 617.00, a session return of 26.3%, and the balance never rose above the 5,000.00 it started with. However, it didn’t make quite as favourable an impression as they normally do. Only 78 of the 470 spins paid anything, 17% against a stated hit frequency of 26.02%, and 40 of those 78 paid less than the stake.
Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Cash Compass coughed up few kicks during my session. The biggest single win was 65.00, 13.0x the stake, on spin 15, and the longest run without a win lasted 21 spins. There were no free spins in 470 spins.