Robin Hood Slot – Free Demo

What 20 coins buy in Sherwood

Robin Hood is a 5-reel video slot game. I played 270 spins of it at a stake of 2.00, which the game builds from 20 coins at bet level 1 and a coin value of 0.10. It is played on 20 bet lines, positioned in an autumn Sherwood-themed bandit encampment, and the Robin Hood logo symbol is Wild. Wins pay from the leftmost reel rightwards, and only the highest win on a line is paid. It substitutes for any other reel symbol (except the money bag and the Free Spins symbol) to help form winning combinations. The money bag turns Wild itself once the reels shift, which is the only route it has into a winning combination.

The slot is supplied to the casinos with a default RTP of 96.75%. My 270 spins closed at a session return of 103.6%, with 540.00 wagered and 559.60 won.

The ladder above the leftmost reel

The Shifting Reels feature is part of the base game, and after a bet line win the reels shift, with a rising multiplier. The ladder is printed above the leftmost reel as x1, x2, x3 and x5, and it sits on x1 whenever the reels are at rest. It is x2 on the first shift, x3 on the second, and x5 from the third shift on. A win re-runs the reels in place, the same handling NetEnt uses in Gonzo's Quest and Jack Hammer 2, where a win also keeps the reels moving.

Filling a chest with money bags

The money bag symbol is collected in a chest. Six chests stand along the foot of the screen, and all six were empty when I started. 4 money bags in the chest activate the Free Spins feature, and money bags become Wilds after the reels shift, and are retained for a year. The first round arrived on spin 44 and paid 32.00, 16.0x the stake, alongside the 1.20 the base game paid on the same spin. During Free Spins, landing 2 or more Free Spins symbols will award extra free spins. The second round came six spins later, on spin 50, and that one did award extra free spins; it paid 56.00, or 28.0x the stake. 2 grant 5 extra and 3 grant 10 extra, and Free Spins symbols land solely on reels 3, 4 and 5. Between them the two rounds paid 88.00, which was 16% of everything I won.

Before the Free Spins feature commences, one symbol is selected at random. It is drawn from the five picture symbols: Robin Hood, the friar, Marian, the knight and Little John. It serves as an Extra Wild for the entire round. As an Extra Wild it substitutes for everything except the Free Spins symbol.

Robin Hood was launched on September 14, 2011. My balance went from 1,000.00 to 1,019.60 over the session, having peaked at 1,145.80 on spin 125 and bottomed out at 957.60.

Minty Slots Verdict: Two chests filled in 270 spins and the pair of rounds they opened accounted for 88.00 of the 559.60 I won, so five sixths of the session came off the base game and its shift ladder. That is the part of Robin Hood worth watching, and x5 is as far as the ladder goes.

The ordinary end of the NetEnt catalogue

Robin Hood is a very ordinary NetEnt slot that doesn't truly have anything fresh or inventive to offer. 91 of my 270 spins paid, and 52 of those returned less than the 2.00 stake. It feels more like a copy of other NetEnt slots. The largest single result was spin 124, which paid 112.00, or 56.0x the stake. The max win potential is not that impressive either to be honest. Spin 110 paid 94.00, 47.0x the stake, and spin 159 paid 36.00, 18.0x.

This doesn't mean it is a poor game however. The longest I went without a win was 12 spins, a run that ended on spin 185. A 1300x potential isn't awful, but I don't see this slot producing any hype or major interest. It will run the risk of finishing up in the shadow of the better slots launched by NetEnt.