Break Bones

Theme and Design

Break Bones is a very unusual slot. It makes you wonder where the idea comes from. It seems to have a musical inspiration behind it. Perhaps minimalist breakbeat or techno. Certainly, the soundtrack with its relentless but sparse beat which kicks on at winning moments, suggests so. When you load up the game you appear to be looking at a kind of TV screen housing the 3x3 reels that sit against a backdrop of a brick wall scrawled with graffiti describing the logo, Break Bones.

It’s not dark, or moody, just different. And whether you like the theme and design will very much depend on your tastes. Its certainly a long, long way from a traditional slot. But that is why we loved it.

RTP and Variance

Break Bones has four RTP possible RTP settings: 96.22%, 94.12%, 92.31% or 88.39%. Which you play at is at the discretion of your casino. We checked the RTP at four popular sites and this is what we found:

• BacanaPlay (Skill on Net): 92.31%
• Casumo (independent): 94.14%
• SlotNite (White Hat Gaming): 94.14%
• Spin Rio (Aspire Global): 92.31%

None of these sites are offering Break Bones at the optimum RTP. However, of the four, Casumo and Slot Nite offer the game at the best RTP. We recommend you choose to play there if RTP is an important metric for you

Break Bones is a medium variance slot. It does not have the same high volatility as other games in the Hacksaw list like Hand of Anubis or Itero for example.

Maximum Win

The maximum win on Break Bones is 3,333x. This is relatively low, even for a medium variance slot. Though it is not uncommon for Hacksaw Gaming slots to cap their wins at this level. The table below shows more games that run on a similar maths model.

Symbols and Paytable

On the face of it, Break Bones is a very basic slot. Just 3 reels and 3 rows and 17 paylines. The only way to score wins is to match 3 symbols across a payline. There is no room for 4 or 5!

You’ll notice as well that the symbol values are low.

The cards, Jack through to Ace, are valued at just 0.1x or 0.2x. The four skulls are valued at 0.5x, 1x, 2x or 4x. And the wilds, which are the letter W, are also worth 4x when three drop on a line. They also sub in to complete paylines when required.

Only TWO symbols (and the wild) from 8 return more than your bet.

More importantly, Wilds MAY have a multiplier of between 2x and 100x attached to them which activated if they form part of a win. If more than one is active, then the two are added together to form a global multiplier applied to your win.

Features and Gameplay

Playing Break Bones is challenging.

The game challenges you to stick with it whilst you wait for that next Echo Spins or Bonus Round even to trigger. Most of the time it won’t happen but what you do get is a pretty regular hit of very small wins, almost always lower than your stake, but wins nonetheless.

Whilst this is going on, keep your eyes out for the high values skulls which can at least trigger something better than a 0.1x. Or, wait for a Wild with a big multiplier to break the tension.

The main event though, is the Echo Spins, unlocked by the Skeleton Hand. Now, in our sessions we have rarely seen this, but on occasion it has landed so we know it does exist!

So, what are Echo Spins? These are re-runs of the triggering spin. And you can get anywhere between 1 and 5. They don’t sound like much but think about how that might work when you have a couple of high value wild multipliers in the triggering spin. In Echo Spins, the global multiplier does NOT re-set between each spin. So, if it was 50x at the start of a run of 5 Echo Spins, then it would increase to 250x by the end of that feature.

Now we’re starting to warm to the game!!

And it gets better because you can also land 10 free spins when 3 bonus symbols land. During these free spins your odds of getting Echo Spins increase, and your odds of hitting 5 Echo Spins is better too.

And that is Break Bones in a nutshell!