Pray for Six

Pray for Six: Slot Overview

While Keyser Söze might have said that 'The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist,' in Hacksaw Gaming's online slot Pray for Six, his existence is more clearly apparent. To be precise, this is a game which introduces players to the devil's spawn and Pyropup, 'two hellraisers who leave a trail of tears behind them as they run wild across the infernal realm.' It's also a game that builds on previous Hacksaw Gaming releases such as Pray for Three and SixSixSix, blending mechanical concepts and visuals into a new abominable brew.

Like others on its family tree, Pray for Six is a largely black, white, and grey game with splashes of colour dotted around the screen. From green licks of eeriness to wheels and special symbols, various injections of brighter hues appear here and there. Presentation-wise, even though we're dealing with the devil's spawn and Pyropup, Pray for Six's cartoon demeanour lightens the mood. The studio has really taken to this graphical style, with several slots in its portfolio using this diabolical, cartoon, monochrome, 1940s-animated, slightly creepy look and feel.

Pray for Six is a cascading game played on a 6x5 matrix. It uses a scatter pays win system, so when at least 8 matching symbols land anywhere on the grid, a win is formed. The winning symbols vanish, and the grid is filled by dropping symbols downwards. Cascades repeat as long as new wins hit. In this medium-high volatile slot, the minimum stake is $/€0.10, going up to $/€50, and the maximum of four RTP variants comes in at 96.35%.

Nine pay symbols land on the reels. They are nooses, hammers, morning stars, and swords as the low pays, then goat, doll, and pup heads, skulls, and finger symbols as the high pays. Low pays award 0.1x to 50x when landing 8-19+ OAK, while high pays are worth 0.2x to 666x the bet for 8-19+ OAK. No matter how hard you pray for them, wilds do land on the reels.

Pray for Six: Slot Features

The features are made up of a Total Win Bar, Wailing Wheels awarding Max Win, Cash Prizes and Additive or Multiplicative Multipliers, three bonus rounds, as well as feature buys.

Total Win Bar

All wins during a spin are collected in the Total Win Bar. This bar sits outside the grid, and the collected win is awarded when cascades end.

Wailing Wheels

When a '6' symbol lands, it activates if there is at least one win on the grid after cascades end. When '6' symbols drop during cascades, they land activated. When a '6' activates, it triggers a Wailing Wheel on its position. The Wailing Wheel spins to land a Cash Prize, Additive Multiplier, Multiplicative Multiplier, or a Max Win that is instantly awarded. Cash prizes are worth 1x to 4x when Bronze, 5x to 20x when Silver, or 25x to 666x when Gold. Cash Prizes and Multipliers are added to the Total Win Bar. When more than one Multiplier is collected, they combine into a single value, adding or multiplying the existing total multiplier value. Additive values range from x2 to x333, while Multiplicative values range from x2 to x33.

Free Spins

• Unholy Offspring Bonus Game - This bonus round's 10 free spins are triggered by landing 3 FS scatters in the base game. It keeps the base game's mechanics while increasing the chance of landing '6' symbols. In all bonus rounds, landing 2 or 3 FS scatters awards an extra +2 or +4 free spins, respectively.
• Cradle of Chaos Bonus Game - Landing 4 FS scatters in the main game triggers Cradle of Chaos' 10 free spins. On top of the mechanics from Unholy Offspring, the Total Win Bar is progressive, accumulating wins and multipliers until the end of the round.
• Playtime in Purgatory Hidden Epic Bonus - Hitting 5 FS scatters in the main game activates this feature with 10 free spins. It keeps the mechanics of Unholy Offspring but lands at least one '6' symbol on every spin.

Feature Buys

Pray for Six's buys include BonusHunt Feature Spins, making each spin 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus for 3x the bet, the 666 FeatureSpins at 50x guaranteeing at least one '6' lands, the Unholy Offspring for 100x and Cradle of Chaos costing 300x the stake.

Pray for Six: Slot Verdict

Just as the title is a conglomeration of Pray for Three and SixSixSix, so is the gameplay, with Pray for Six grabbing the bits it liked then pasting them together like a devilish Rube Goldberg machine. For the most part, the stitching together of parts works well, and Pray for Six is a neatly streamlined revamp that prefers to dial the complexity down, or at least keep it constant, instead of turning it up. This has resulted in action that is pacey and easy to follow along with. The '6' symbol is a key element, revealing Cash Prizes and two types of multipliers, as per SixSixSix, then storing them in a Total Win Bar, Pray for Three style. It's a good mix, amplified further by the use of scatter pays instead of the other two slots' ways and paylines.

Another possible sweetener is dilated winning potential of 20,000x the bet. Revealing the Max Win from a Wailing Wheel would be one quick way of achieving that amount, but free spins may help, especially the two higher ones when the Total Win Bar is progressive or where at least one '6' is hitting on every spin. Cash Prizes are well and good, as well as quite valuable at the higher end of the scale, yet multipliers were all, at least during the review, and could transform an average win into something much chunkier. They did, as such, seem to be less frequently awarded.

All in all, Pray for Six doesn't reinvent the wheel so to speak, but its bringing together of Wheel and Total Win Bar features, powered by scatter pays, works like a charm. The game possesses that nowhere to one hundred effect Hacksaw Gaming slots are good at producing, so anyone tickled by previous entries in the series might want to put Pray for Six on their try-out list.