Donut Division

Theme and Design

Donut Division has a strong 70s US cop show feel about it. The 4 detectives, including Burt and Harry (aka Chief) are crook catchers with a taste for gooey donuts. The cartoon action takes place in a dodgy backstreet and our 4 pot-bellied, aviator glasses-wearing, handlebar moustachioed heroes are hanging out by their car. The game looks great, comes complete with twangy guitar soundtrack and showcases Hacksaw’s creative talents nicely. Top stuff!

RTP and Variance

Donut Division has 4 available RTP setting for operators to choose from. They are 96.3%, 94.29%, 92.26% and 88.24%. It’s important to check the RTP wherever you play because UK slot sites will choose lower rates sometimes which gives you less value for your money. You can check the RTP where you play by hitting the hamburger button under the reels and scrolling through until you see Return to Player. My advice would be, if it’s less than 94%, play elsewhere.

NOTE: In our research we have found that MrQ from Lindar Media consistently runs Hacksaw slots at the optimum rates, making it a good choice for this game.

This is a medium variance slot so the win distribution should be relatively even during your session. However, even mid volatility Hacksaw slots can still be a tough play, so be careful and your stake to a sensible level to avoid burn out.

Maximum Win

The max payout in Donut Division is 12,500x. That is good for a medium variance game, and typical of Hacksaw slots. If you want to play for higher wins then we recommend our article on slots with the highest max wins.

Symbols and Paytable

Donut Division is a 6-reel slot with 5 rows per reel and 19 paylines. Wins are triggered by landing 3 or more identical symbols on a line from left to right, starting at the left most reel.

There are 9 symbols in the pay table. Low value ones are the coffee cup, cone, police light, walkie talkie and donut, valued at from 0.1x for 3 on a line up to 1x for 6 on a line. The premium symbols are the 4 characters, valued at from 0.2x for 3 on a line up to 5x for 6 on a line.

Not great value then. However, as any Hacksaw fan knows, those wins can be super-charged by multipliers at certain times in the game, so don’t be put off.

There is also a Wild, represented by the letter W, that will substitute for all other pay symbols to complete paylines. They also have a pay value of 5x when 6 land on a line and additional powers that are explained in the next section.

Features and Gameplay

Donut Division is stacked with features including FOUR bonus rounds and special Gooey Wilds. Here is how it all works.

Gooey Guns and Gooey Wilds With Multipliers

Hacksaw have found another ingenious way to add wilds to the reels. This time they use the Gooey Gun symbol that fires out Gooey Wilds to its left across the same row it sits on each time it lands.

Now, Gooey Guns may have multipliers of between 1x and 100x. If they do, the Gooey Wilds they fire out will take on those values. And before any paylines are highlighted, the value of ALL the multipliers on a row of Gooey Wilds is added together and that total becomes the wild multiplier value for each Gooey Wild.

When a Gooey Wild is part of a win, its multiplier value is applied to the win value before the payout is made. And if more than one Gooey Wild is part of a win, the multiplier values are added together before being applied to the win value.

FOUR Free Spins Rounds To Play

One of the highlights of Donut Division are the free spins features. These are triggered by landing 3 or 4 FS scatters on any spin. The interesting part about this particular bonus is you get to choose between 2 configurations at each level.

Three FS Scatters – Choose Between Warehouse and Stakeout Free Spins

So, if you land 3 FS scatters you will be given a choice between these 2 configurations.

Warehouse Bonus With Flaslights and 100x Multipliers

In the warehouse game, your objective is to build up the multiplier value displayed at the top of the grid. You do this by revealing special symbols on the grid - Adding Multipliers (1x to 100x) or Multiplying Multipliers (2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x) during the round.

How these symbols are revealed is very clever. So, the round starts with 3 lives. Each spin reduces your lives by 1, but if a special symbol is revealed on that spin, then the counter goes back up to 3.

Special symbols do not drop onto the grid in the normal way you expect in a bonus round. Instead, they are ‘revealed’ by 2 flashlights that shine on random positions with each spin. One flashlight covers reels 1 to 3, the other reels 4 to 6. Where a special symbol is revealed, it is activated and the light moves to a new position without consuming any lives.

Now, as well as revealing those adding and multiplying multipliers, the flashlight can also reveal other special symbols as follows:

Batteries that appear on reels 2 and 5 and rows 2, 3 and 4 will cause the flashlight’s beam area to expand to a 3x3 space, giving you more chances to activated special symbols.

Light Switches are VERY powerful as they cause the entire grid to be illuminated, and all special symbols to be activated. Don’t expect to see those too often.

Dead Symbols are to be avoided. If you hit one of these, it consumes a flashlight charge. Each light has TWO charges, and consuming both causes a spin to be used up.

Once all lives are used up, the total multiplier at the top of the grid is applied to your bet value and the final payout is made.

Stakeout With Better Odds of Hitting Wilds 

The Stakeout feature can also be chosen if you land 3 FS symbols. This is the same as the base game, but with better odds of landing Gooey Guns and better odds of landing higher multiplier values.

During Stakeout, if you land 2 more FS symbols you’ll get 2 more spins, and if you land 3 more FS symbols you’ll get 4 more spins.

Four FS Scatters – Choose Between Super Warehouse and Super Stakeout Free Spins

Landing 4 scatters gives you the choice of enhanced versions of either of the bonus rounds.

Super Warehouse

This is the same as the Warehouse round but with a minimum of 5x on the Adding Multipliers.

Super Stakeout 

In this version, once a Gooey Gun has dropped onto a row on a spin, on EVERY subsequent spin another Gooey Gun is GUARANTEED to land somewhere on that row. This gives you the opportunity to build big, big multipliers across the grid.

And once again, landing 2 or 3 more FS symbols will get you 3 or 4 more spins.