Get The Cheese

Get the Cheese: Slot Overview

It's been said by some that if you want to catch a mouse, the best thing to put on a trap is peanut butter. Perhaps we have cartoons to thank for the classic baiting of traps with cheese trick? Makes you wonder how much of our subconscious knowledge is based on cartoon shows, kids' books, and naive guesswork from our childhood. Anyhoo, fromage it is when it comes to Hacksaw Gaming's online slot Get the Cheese, where cartoon animals stare at snacks, and players chase sizable winning potential via super cascades, Jumping Wild Multipliers, three bonus rounds, and more.

Get the Cheese is another Hacksaw Gaming buddy slot, where two adorable creatures accompany players as they attempt to get a bit of cheese. One is a distraught mouse on the righthand side; the other is a blue bird, which looks like Larry the Bird, Twitter's old mascot, on the left. That blue bird was arguably more personable than the current big black X, but Elon Musk does have a fondness for the letter, even naming a son he had with Grimes in 2020, X Æ A-12 Musk. Back to the action, and Get the Cheese is a cluster pays slot, set amidst the great outdoors and a food shelf for the most part, alternating between French cafe and Italian pizza place tunes.

Thirty symbols fall into Get the Cheese's 6x5 gaming grid, making wins when at least 5 identical pay symbols are connected up, down, left, or right, forming a cluster. Overall, this is a medium 3/5 volatile slot, though volatility may differ when buying bonus features. The RTP alters as well, and the highest possible value when betting 10 c to $/€100 on individual base game spins is 96.13%.

Get the Cheese is able to make winning clusters out of 10 different pay symbols. They are buttons, pegs, bells, marbles, hearts, crackers, pretzels, apple slices, chopped salami, and cheese symbols. Clusters made up of 5 identical symbols pay 0.2x to 1.2x, rising to a maximum of 20x to 500x for a 16+ cluster. Jumping Wild Multipliers will appear soon; one thing they're able to do is substitute all the regular pay symbols.

The Super Cascade mechanic is seeing more and more light of day recently. It functions like a regular cascade system, removing and replacing winning pay symbols, but it also removes all instances of the winning pay symbol type from the reels before dropping symbols to replace them. Super cascades repeat as long as new wins appear.

Get the Cheese: Slot Features

To help players get some cheese, there are super cascades, cheese symbols, Jumping Wild Multipliers, 3 bonus rounds, and bonus buys.

Cheese Symbol

When a cheese symbol is part of a winning cluster, all symbols except FS scatters and wild multipliers are removed from the reels, dropping new symbols to fill the gaps.

Jumping Wild Multipliers

Jumping Wild Multipliers jump to a new position after a cascade, creating a new chance to win. Two types of Jumping Wild Multipliers exist. The regular Jumping Wild Multiplier starts with a multiplier of x1, which increases by +1 each time they jump. The Epic Jumping Wild Multiplier starts with a multiplier of x10, which increases by+ 10 each time it jumps. It is possible to have up to 4 Jumping Wild Multipliers on screen at the same time.

Free Spins

• Fromage Frenzy Bonus - Landing 3 FS scatters in the base game triggers 8 free spins. The Fromage Frenzy Bonus starts with 2 persistent Jumping Wild Multipliers of either type. Multiplier values reset for each new spin. This bonus has a Cheese Meter at the top of the grid, collecting cheese symbols when they are removed from the reels. When the meter is full, players move to the Take It Cheesy feature and get +5 free spins. During the bonus, landing 3+ scatter symbols awards 5 extra free spins.
• Take It Cheesy Bonus - Hitting 4 scatters in the base game awards 10 free spins. The rules are the same as the Fromage Frenzy Bonus (including upgrading the bonus via cheese symbol collection), except it starts with 3 persistent Jumping Wild Multipliers.
• Life's So Gouda - Landing 5 or 6 scatters in the base game awards 25x or 100x, respectively, as well as 12 free spins. This feature starts with 4 Jumping Wild Multipliers, and at least 1 is guaranteed to be the Epic Jumping Wild Multiplier. Wild multiplier values do not reset between free spins in this bonus. Landing 3+ scatter symbols awards +5 extra free spins.

Bonus Buys

Get the Cheese has these bonus buy options:

• BonusHunt FeatureSpins - each spin is 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game. The cost is 3x the bet.
• Wild Mouse FeatureSpins - each spin guarantees a win and that at least 2 Jumping Wild Multiplier symbols land. The cost is 50x the bet.
• Fromage Frenzy Bonus - 50x the bet.
• Take It Cheesy -100x the bet.

Get the Cheese: Slot Verdict

One impression formed of Get the Cheese was as a distant relative of Eye of the Panda and an even further distant relation of Xpander - two Hacksaw Gaming slots which also have jumping feature symbols. Naturally, it's hard to deny a possible influence Jammin' Jars may also have had on Get the Cheese's birthing. Get the Cheese is a game that theoretically gets exponentially better the further up the bonus food chain you can move. What's good is bonus rounds can be upgraded from one level to a higher level from within the round if the cheese symbol collection is humming along. However, for the review, at least, collecting winning cheese symbols was a tough task. Not easy.

But it's a technical possibility, and the light at the end of the tunnel is Life's so Gouda, where persistent multiplier values might be a game changer. So much so that it is not possible to buy the top bonus round, as was the case in Le Bandit, so hopefully, either the game drops a stack of scatters in the base game or is generous with the cheese symbol wins. Even if you can't manage to squeak your way into the top feature, rest somewhat easy knowing the 10,000x max win can be hit in any game mode, not just the Gouda one.

The peculiar, not sure if it's good or not, theme treatment used here prevented Get the Cheese from being a top-line Hacksaw Gaming slot, but its mechanical elements at the least warrant a look. There's a tasty interplay of cluster pays and Jumping Wild Multipliers happening, sweetened with an alluring upgradable bonus system that should have Hacksaw Gaming zealots salivating, or shedding tears depending on the outcome. Get the Cheese is able to get bodily fluids flowing either way.