Jackpot Blaze

Jackpot Blaze: Slot Overview

One of the masters of scatter pays, Pragmatic Play, has shifted its attention away from sweets and gates for a moment to design the retro-minded online slot Jackpot Blaze. That first sentence has given most of the game away, as what we're in for here is a scatter pays slots with a strong focus on winning one, or more, of its five jackpot prizes. The blaze part is a bit of a misnomer, though, because instead of going all retro flames, Jackpot Blaze is all retro Vegasy instead, meaning fruit, classic slot symbols, and an upbeat, funky attitude.

Jazzy, shiny, and sparkly are three words that could be used to describe Jackpot Blaze's scene. It's like a cheesy disco party met a cheesy TV game show and decided to join forces to make a slot. A bold, covered in classic symbols, 6x5 gaming area takes centre stage, while a flashing light show illuminates the background. It's yeah, all funky, a bit clichéd, a bit old-fashioned, but there's a definite energy here to enliven players who are looking to tap their toes through a retro, scatter paying jackpot slot.

Jackpot Blaze is a scatter pays slot where landing 8 or more matching pay symbols anywhere on the reels creates a winning combination. Gamblers are able to stake 10c to $/€250 per spin, or to double the chance of winning free spins, activating the ante bet increases the stake by 50%. The math model in this instance is a highly volatile one, and it produces a 96.56% RTP on the highest available configuration.

Pay symbols in Jackpot Blaze are made up of kiwifruit, plums, lemons, watermelons, oranges, bells, bars, crowns, and the number seven at the top of the hierarchy. Scatter combinations of 8 OAK in size are worth 0.2x to 10x the bet, rising to 2x to 50x the bet when hitting a 12+ OAK win. Wilds are not present in any part of the game. Jackpot Blaze features a tumble mechanic, where winning symbols disappear and are replaced by new ones falling from above, allowing for consecutive wins. Tumbles continue as long as new wins occur. Special award symbols and scatters stay on screen until all tumbles are finished.

Jackpot Blaze: Slot Features

Jackpot Blaze lands special award symbols, which are collected to award special award prizes. This feature is in the base game and bonus round, which can be bought, and where the collection is persistent.

Special Awards

There are 5 special awards/jackpots in the game, all displayed next to the gaming grid. Their names and values are the 5x Mini, 20x Minor, 100x Major, 500x Grand, and the 1,000x Super Grand. In the base game, when special award symbols land and there are winning combinations on the spin or tumble, they are collected by a special award meter. Collecting 2 Minis, 4 Minors, 6 Majors, 8 Grands, or 10 Super Grands awards the corresponding prize. If more special award symbols hit than are needed to win a prize, the meter resets and the additional instances are also collected.

Free Spins

Hitting 4, 5, or 6 scatters on the reels triggers 15, 20, or 25 free spins, respectively. During free spins, special award symbols are collected, and the special award meters remains in place between spins and tumbles for the whole round. Players win an additional 15, 20, 25, or 30 free spins when 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters land.

Feature Buy

For 100x the bet, players can buy free spins triggered by 4 to 6 scatters. At 500x the bet, 4-6 scatters land to trigger super free spins, where collecting 1 Mini, 2 Minors, 3 Majors, 4 Grands, or 5 Super Grands awards the corresponding prize.

Jackpot Blaze: Slot Verdict

Scatter pays, jackpots, disco, Jackpot Blaze is a game that is going hard to collect that low-hanging fruit. And you can see how it might succeed, too. All the ingredients are here to capture the attention of jackpot-focused, retro-appreciating punters. Pragmatic Play certainly knows what it takes to create a successful scatter pays slot, having dropped some of the biggest in the business, aka Sweet Bonanza 1000 and Gates of Olympus 1000. Jackpot Blaze is different, however, in that it's not trying to take the 6x5 scatter pay combo into uncharted waters, preferring instead to be about as commercial as it can possibly be.

Therefore, a love of common, mainstream gameplay, wrapped in retro, is practically a must before giving Jackpot Blaze a try. If that sentence gets the blood flowing, then Jackpot Blaze is probably a solid choice. It's about as slickly presented as a slot gets (for this style), and the particular jackpot system, collecting special award symbols to trigger a reward, complements the tumbling scatter pays in a fun and potentially suspenseful way. It was during free spins when the jackpot chase really kicked into higher gear, since the persistent quality of the collection meters is a total game-changer. Until then, Mini awards were about as good as it got. Super free spins were, unsurprisingly, the most exciting part of reviewing Jackpot Blaze, but 500x to buy a bonus in a game with a 5,000x win cap isn't likely to sit well with some gamblers.

Then again, Jackpot Blaze isn't trying to attract all gamblers either. The generic, if well-presented, appearance and jackpot features have a certain player in their sights, and those targeted by Jackpot Blaze are as likely to be seduced as haters are to be nauseated.