Cash or Nothing

Cash or Nothing: Slot Overview

There are various reasons why someone might choose to play online slots, but one thing uniting most if not all players is the hunt for cold, hard cash. Getting out more than was fed in while enjoying the ups and downs along the way. Celebrating this commonality is Cash or Nothing from Red Tiger, an uncomplicated game focused on cash money, offering decent winning potential from a rather basic hold & win bonus round while rewinding the clock to an earlier era in regards to aesthetics.

If you are used to being bedazzled when a Red Tiger slot loads, an attitude adjustment might be in order to avoid disappointment. There was a slight shock when Cash or Nothing first hit the screen at how un-Red Tiger everything felt. With the graphics team Red Tiger has, it's clear Cash or Nothing was made to look this way on purpose. Perhaps it was to focus everything on dollar bills, perhaps as a trip back to a simpler time when graphics weren't as evolved as they are now. Maybe both. Anyway, Cash or Nothing is played on what looks like a velvet gaming table at a casino, suiting the cash theme, which feels purposefully dated to pull in punters keen on some whimsical yesteryear slot ambiance.

Front and centre is Cash or Nothing's 5-reel, 3-row game panel, where 20 fixed paylines have been provided to land winning combinations across. This occurs when three to five matching symbols land from the left-hand side of the grid, contributing to an overall return to player value of 95.69%. Any device is suitable for playing the game on, where stakes of 10 p/c to $/€20 per spin may be set.

Symbols in Cash or Nothing are also about as basic as they get and help reinforce the traditional slot machine vibe. On the low side of the paytable are 10-A card rank icons done in a banknote font, worth 0.8 to 3 times the stake for five of a kind. High pays are three forms of Bars, such as single Bars, double Bars, and triple bars worth 4 to 10x the bet for a five of a kind hit. In sticking to the spirit of simplicity, or rudimentary, Cash or Nothing does not have wild symbols, so Cash Scatters are the only other symbol appearing in the base game - covered below.

Cash or Nothing: Slot Features

Other than the basic base game, Cash or Nothing has a triggerable bonus round called Cash Spins, where Cash Symbols are sticky, and Frenzy or Double Diamonds help increase the payouts.

Appearing on all reels are Cash Scatter symbols, and landing at least 5 of them activates 3 Cash Spins. During Cash Spins, only Cash Scatters or two special symbols may land. When any symbol hits, it remains locked on the grid until the feature comes to a close. At the end, the sum of all Cash Scatters in view is awarded.

As well as Cash Symbols are Frenzy Scatters and Double Diamond Scatters:

• Frenzy Scatters are also sticky and increase the value of each Cash Scatter on every following spin by the amount of the current stake when they land.
• When Double Diamond Scatters land, they lock to the reels as well and randomly activate twice on a single spin to double the values of two different Cash Scatters. If Frenzy and Double Diamond Symbols land at the same time, Frenzy's apply their modifier first, followed by the Double Diamond.

Cash or Nothing: Slot Verdict

Cash or Nothing isn't the visual eyeball massage Red Tiger slots tend to be, but in this case, the deviation appears to be on purpose. The game looks like the slot equivalent of one of those hats bank tellers or poker players wear with the green visor on them. Both of those roles would be appropriate in Cash or Nothing, fixated as it is on piling up banknotes on sort of green velvet looking tabletop. If you consider wealth to be a personality trait, Cash or Nothing has bags of character, though it does come across as largely hollow as well. In addition, it wouldn't be a surprise if the basic looks and gameplay have the same polarising effect on players as the naked money-focused theme.

On a positive note, after the last few Red Tiger games we've reviewed, Cash or Nothing packs a higher max win figure than expected. Compared to contemporaries, its 5,000x the bet is nothing particularly special, but compared to other Red Tiger slots we'd reviewed around the same time, it is surprisingly high and makes low potential yet lush looking games like 1942 Sky Warrior even more confusing. Why did Red Tiger pad out the payout possibilities or Cash or Nothing and not the WW2 slot? It's one of those questions that doesn't immediately conjure up answers.

Cash or Nothing is like a rewind to an earlier time when wealth-focused slots poured forth with seemingly reckless abandon. The simple graphics, features and classic symbols are another result of the apparently retro thinking that went into Cash or Nothing. As such, it's a game that is unlikely to suit players keen on progressive graphics, theme, or gameplay. Maybe if you're after something retro, cash-centric, a bit basic, Cash or Nothing might be a match. It didn't particularly float our boat much, feeling more like a quant sideshow or peeking at an old photo of a stranger.