Cash Elevator

Theme and Design

An Exciting Steampunk Production With Clever Gameplay

Cash Elevator certainly looks the part. It is a top-class production that utilises an innovative combination of theme and gameplay from a provider who are generally more middle of the road in my experience.  The central theme is Steampunk, but it mixes in an almost vampiric element in its Dead Lovers Bonus round which is explained below. The design is intricate and packed with detail that Steampunk fans will enjoy. The backdrop is a hotel lobby and an old-fashioned elevator with concertina metal doors houses the reel set in the foreground.

There is Steampunk iconography everywhere – crows, old-fashioned vintage cars, suitcases, dial telephones and pocket watches. There is also a really cool animation when the Dead Lovers Bonus triggers and the lift doors open to reveal a long corridor which you zoom down before an explosion reveals the new reel set. Above all this is a stylish, fun and eye-catching slot.

RTP and Variance

Cash Elevator has 3 available RTP settings – 96.64%, 95.61% or 94.63%. Which you play at will be at the discretion of your casino. You can find the RTP by hitting the game info button once you load up the game. I checked the RTP at 3 UK slot sites we use to test slots and this is what I found.

• Barz Casino (White Hat Gaming) – 96.64% RTP
• Casumo (Independent) – 94.63% RTP
• Duelz Casino (SuprPlay) – 94.63% RTP

From our sample, I would recommend playing at Barz Casino or any other White Hat Gaming casino to play this slot at its optimum RTP level available.

Cash Elevator is also a very high variance slot so it can be unpredictable and much of the RTP will be saved back for those Hold and Spin and Free Spins bonus rounds.

Maximum Win

The top payout is excellent at 20,000x which is good for Pragmatic Play. We have listed more of their highest paying slots here, including the awesome Peking Luck (180,000x max win!).

Symbols and Paytable

Intricately-Drawn Steampunk Symbols With Great Value In The Paytable

There is nothing unusual about the set-up of Cash Elevator. It has 5 reels, 3 rows, and 20 paylines on each spin. Wins are formed by landing 3 or or more identical symbols across the reels from left to right on a payline.

The paytable shows good value from low to high, maxing out at 30x for 5 of the top paying premiums.

Low payers are the cards, 10 through to Ace, valued at between 0.2x for three 9s up to 3x for five Aces. The premiums are all Steampunk icons: old suitcases, vintage cards, keys, telephones, pocket watches, black cats and the games logo. They are valued at between 0.4x for three suitcases to 50x for five logos.

Look out as well for the Bell Boy and receptionist in Steampunk garb, these are Wilds that substitute for all other symbols to complete wins but ONLY appear in the free spins round.

Features and Gameplay

Keep Climbing The Floors For Better Payouts

Pragmatic Play have cleverly woven the theme and features together in Cash Elevator. It took a few spins to understand what was happening but it boils down to some 3 basic phases of play.

First of all … keep ascending in the lift

Your goal is always to reach the top, or 13^th floor. With the first spin you start at a random floor, shown by the marker above the reel set, and with every win you land you will move up one floor whilst the lowest paying symbol is removed from the reels. This continues until you’re left with only the highest-paying symbol appearing on the reels when you hit floor 13.

There is no re-set here between spins. Wins don’t have to be consecutive. The more wins you get in your session, the higher you climb. However … there is an added element thrown into the mix that can help OR hinder. It is possible to speed up your ascent by landing Up Arrows on reel that cause the elevator to rises by 1, 2, 3 or 12 floors. But beware, you can also land Down Arrows which will cause the lift to descend by 1, 2 or 3 floors!

That’s the base game. Whilst it’s going on, you should also be looking to unlock one of the following two features.

Expanded Wilds Help You Reach the Dead Lovers Free Spins Round

Keep watching out for reels 2 and 4 where expanded wilds – the bell boy and receptionist - may land. When they do, it will trigger a free spins round called Dead Lovers. One expanded wild will get you 6 to 12 spins but if one lands on each of reels 2 AND 4 then you’ll get 12 to 24 spins. The number of spins is chosen at random.

At the start of the round, the two expanded wilds appear on the outer reels 1 and 5 – bell boy to the left, receptionist to the right. Any time a spin includes the lowest value symbol from the paytable, these wilds move one step inwards. If they meet for a romantic tryst on reel 3, 5 more spins are awarded. Then, if the lowest value symbol lands again, they move apart and back to reels 2 and 4, then eventually 1 and 5.

This process continues with the wilds moving in and out until the round ends. At the same time, the lift is moving up and down as it does in the base game.

Reach Floor 13 For Hold and Spin Feature With Multipliers and Money Symbols

If you are lucky enough to reach Floor 13 then you will trigger the Hold and Spin feature which is the main event.

First you are moved back to one floor from 1 to 12. Then, the reels re-set and now only blank tiles or THREE money symbols are available. The money symbols have either randomly assigned values, the value of the floor you are on, or 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x values.

You start with 4 spins. During the round, all money symbols stick, and each time another money symbol lands it re-sets the counter with love hearts at the bottom of the reels to 4. The round only ends if you run out of spins OR the entire reel set is filled with money symbols.

Payouts are calculated at the end by adding fixed value moneys together then applying the multiplier value.