Cash of Kingdoms Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Slingshot Studios
A stack of Cash of Kingdoms logos on reel 2 turns the reel beside it wild, and a stack on reels 2 and 4 together takes reel 3. Inside the free spins that double invasion doubles the whole spin. My 500 spins produced two of those rounds, 244 apart, and between them they were a tenth of everything…
Play Cash of Kingdoms demo
Both ways across fifteen fixed lines
If there is a theme that creator Slingshot Studios appears to prefer, it is those constructed around a kingdom and its riches, and certainly it doesn't get much more royal than a literal chest of plunder on a 5x3 grid? For a bit of gaming interest, the small number of paylines in view is more than equalled by wilds. Those wilds can extend across the centre of the reels at any moment. Let's see precisely how hard this Cash of Kingdoms rocks, with a launch date of October 10, 2018 behind it.
Players land winners when matching symbols align along one of the 15 fixed paylines. Those lines pay both directions, left-to-right and right-to-left, and the paylines are not alterable, as you would anticipate with this theme. Every one of them is active on every spin.
Odd how many of these apparently grand and noble slots mask a brutal math model, and unexpectedly, Cash of Kingdoms dials down the volatility to a markedly low level. The RTP has been rated at 96.28%.
The logo, the chest and where they land
No second guesses what the bulk of symbols fuelling the paytable are - kingdom regalia, and heaps of them. Matching regular symbols have to sit on adjacent reels along a line to count. There are a couple of other special symbols along with them. The wild is the Cash of Kingdoms logo and it appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only. It does not form a winning combination on its own account. It stacks on reels 2 and 4, and it will not substitute for the scatter. The scatter is the treasure chest, it too keeps to reels 2, 3 and 4, and notably, three of them pay their own combination at double value, though they don't need to be adjacent to do it.
What a wild stack does to the reel next to it
The Invading Wilds feature is the main draw around here. In the frames below, a stack of Cash of Kingdoms wilds lands on reel 2, reel 3 turns wild alongside it, and the lines are then settled across the pair of wild reels. It appears during the base and bonus game, and a wild stack landing on reel 2 or reel 4 makes the reel next to it wild as well. Reel 3 goes wild too, if this occurs on reels 2 and 4 at the same time. During free spins, that same double invasion doubles the entire spin's win.
Ten spins from three treasure chests
The other feature to be conscious of, along with Invading Wilds, is a round of Free Spins, and these are triggered when 3 treasure chest scatters show in view. Winnings are collected automatically while the round runs. They grant 10 free spins. Both of the rounds I hit paid 69.30. The distinction between free and regular spins is that here, the double invasion doubles what the spin pays, and free spins run at the last bet placed.
Scatters continue to show. Landing one of them during the feature will grant an extra free spin, and another point to note is that there is no retrigger.
The Minty Take: Five hundred spins at 3.15 gave back 89.7%, and the two Free Spins rounds accounted for a tenth of it. Fifteen lines is a narrow board next to the nine of Zombie Hoard and the forty of Jade Shuriken, and what widens it is the wild stack invading its neighbour. It was the base game that produced the session's largest hit, at 119.0x the stake.
Two Free Spins rounds in five hundred spins
Cash of Kingdoms proved to be a fairly subdued game, and over 500 spins at 3.15 a spin it returned 89.7%. That was 1,413.31 back off 1,575.00 wagered. There were 205 spins paying something and 141 of those paying less than the stake. The longest I went without a win at all was 11 spins, ending on spin 259. In play, it's consistent and fairly understated, and it's far from being a groundbreaking payline slot, or a rival to the big boys in the category. But it covers the basics, and it's tough to think of anything hugely wrong with it.
Cash of Kingdoms might not attract the hardcores who want a high potential rough ride. The free spins didn't do much to alter that - two triggers in 500 spins, 244 spins apart, paying 22.0x the stake each and 10% of everything won between them. The first of them took the balance to its session peak of 100,053.60. Instead, the largest hit of the session came out of the base game. It was 374.85 on spin 432, or 119.0x the stake.
Overall Cash of Kingdoms is a sturdy enough slot and there are no significant misgivings. It just doesn't have vast amounts of x-factor, or provide anything super thrilling to check out.