Cash Crew

Cash Crew: Slot Overview

The world might be moving onto contactless payments, smartphone payments, tap-to-pay, crypto, etc., but there's still something to be said for having a wad of notes crowding your wallet. The celebration of physical dough, more specifically, illegally grabbing physical dough, is the subject of Hacksaw Gaming's crime slot Cash Crew. In this game, players are joined by a gang of masked toughs as they make use of a cash symbol collect mechanism, boosted by multiplier symbols, to attempt a smash and grab of their own in the game's virtual bank.

Crime slots often have a humorous angle where a slapstick rogue, maybe wearing a black and white striped top and Zorro mask, bumbles their way through a burglary. Not so, Cash Crew, which is an oppressive, mostly monochrome noir crime affair, where two heavy villains flank the grid matrix during the base game. They do look menacing in those full-face masks, but at the same time, they are about as conspicuous as it gets, to the point where the police would probably pick them up even if they were totally innocent. But, they add atmosphere to an already moody game world, of the sort that Hacksaw Gaming is well adept at weaving.

To join the heisting, players may pick a stake of 10 c to £/€100 per spin and opt to activate any one of four feature buys. Participants should be aware they are entering a medium-high volatile arena, where the default RTP is 96.26% when regular betting, while the return values change depending on the feature buy. A total of 19 paylines cross the 5-reel, 4-row gaming grid, turning out a win when 3 or more matching symbols land along one on adjacent reels from the leftmost side.

The pay symbols in question are J, Q, K, and A card royals, then 4 masked criminal high pays. Lines of 5 royals award 2 times the bet, whereas 5 of the same character symbol pay 5 to 10 times the bet. Cash symbols can also make line wins, worth up to 4x the bet, while a line of 5 wilds, which substitute any regular pay symbols, award 25 times the stake.

Cash Crew: Slot Features

Cash Crew is a Cash symbol collector game bolstered by Multiplier symbols in both the base game and in two bonus rounds where Multiplier symbols always appear when positions are activated.

Multipliers Gone Wild

Multiplier symbols are wild, so they substitute for all symbols in the paytable. They also multiply the value of Cash symbols in a 3x3 area around them if you land a Grab'em symbol. Multiplier values are applied to any winning payline they are part of. If more than one Multiplier is part of the same win, their values are multiplied by each other before being applied. The possible multipliers are x2 to x25. Multiplier symbols with a value of x5 or higher land with a question mark and reveal their value when Cash is collected.

Cash Money

Cash symbols may land carrying values of 1x to 500x. Cash symbols are collected if a Grab'em scatter symbol appears at the same time as at least one Cash symbol. Multiplier symbols affect all collected Cash symbols in a 3x3 area around them. If more than one Multiplier lands adjacent to a Cash symbol, the Cash symbol is multiplied by each adjacent multiplier.

The Vault

Landing 3 FS scatters symbols in the base game awards 6 The Vault free spins. This bonus offers better odds of landing a greater number of Cash and Multiplier symbols with higher values. Also, all landed multiplier symbols positions are activated for the duration of the round. This means that a random multiplier will land on every remaining spin on all activated positions. Landing the Stopwatch symbol awards 1 to 6 extra free spins, as indicated by the number it displays.

The High-Security Vault

Landing 4 FS symbols in the base game activates this feature with 9 free spins. This round functions in the same way as The Vault round, except all Cash symbols have a minimum value of 5x.

Feature Buy

Cash Crew provides the following feature buy options. All are highly volatile, except BonusHunt FeatureSpins, which are extremely volatile:

• BonusHunt FeatureSpins – each spin is 10 times more likely to trigger a bonus game for 5x the bet. RTP 96.3%.
• Cash is King FeatureSpins – each spin guarantees at least 5 Cash, 1 Multiplier, and 1 Grab'em symbol land for 75x the bet. RTP 96.34%.
• The Vault – 100x the bet. RTP 96.3%.
• The High-Security Vault – 300x the bet. RTP 96.27%.

Cash Crew: Slot Verdict

After a preliminary look over Cash Crew's info revealed the word 'multiplier' several times, suspicion grew that this was another one of Hacksaw Gaming's expanding multiplier slots, aka Cursed Seas or Stormforged, et al. But actually, a closer examination made it clear Cash Crew is rather a Cash symbol collection game, closer in some ways to the Fishin Frenzy/Big Bass Bonanza phenomenon, but without the tang of salt in the air, a fisherman on the reels, or the faintest whiff it was trying desperately to cling to any sort of thematic fad.

Those Multiplier symbols sure could come in handy during a collection sequence. As you might imagine, magic may occur when Cash symbols are affected by more than one multiplier since the values multiply rather than add, so some nice snowballing action is possible when the right symbols land in the right places. It also means Cash Crew's 10,000x the bet max win is achievable in all game modes. So, while The High-Security Vault round might provide the best chances of doing so, let's say, a potential psychological uptick is brought about when the game's maker has put in writing that the max win could happen at any time.

Cash Crew didn't turn out the way it was initially suspected it would, but in a good way, and players in the mood for collecting Cash symbols without the aid of a grizzled angler would do well to give the game a try. Heck, even if you're still enamoured with fish games, the way Cash Crew mingles Cash symbols and multipliers is worth a look anyway to get a taste of an alternative collection method, the likes of which Hacksaw Gaming excel at delivering.