Snow Slingers

Theme and Design

Hacksaw Gaming can veer wildly from dark to light and having taken us down a darker path in their recent release, Wings of Horus, we are back into light, cutesy territory with Snow Slingers, a cheery Xmas slot with cute penguins with scarves and hats, bobbing up and down next to the reel set with a snowy cartoon landscape behind. All to the tune of a winter wonderland soundtrack. It’s fun and light-hearted, the way festive slots should be.

RTP and Variance

Snow Slingers may be set to any one of 4 RTP rates by your casino operator.  They are 96.29%, 94.32%, 92.32% or 88.27%.  The top rate of 96.29% is good value but you should avoid the lower rates if possible. UK slot sites are less generous with RTP than they used to be and we regularly see Hacksaw slots running at 92% or less. You can check the RTP where you play by hitting the hamburger button on the game screen then scrolling through until you see Return to Player.

For the best RTP we recommend MrQ Casino which always runs slots up at the optimum rates.

Snow Slingers is a medium variance slot. Whilst that means a more even win distribution than you find in their more volatile games, this is still a Hacksaw slot and in my experience even the mid variance ones can be tight at times. So tread carefully and set a sensible stake level.

Maximum Win

Despite a mid-variance rating Snow Slingers still has a sizable max win at 10,000x – that’s £1,000 with a 10p stake. Other Xmas slots with the same max win this year include Money Sleigh from Relax Gaming and Big Bass Xmas Xtreme from Pragmatic Play.

Symbols and Paytable

This is a simple 5 reel, 4 row slot with 14 paylines to win on. You need 3 or more identical symbols to land on a line from left to right, starting at the left most reel, to trigger a win.

There are 9 pay symbols and a wild in the table. The low value ones are the cards, Jack To Ace, valued at from 0.4x for 3 Jacks up to 5x for 5 Aces. The premiums are the candy, teddy, stocking, tree and bell, valued at from 1x for 3 canes up to 20x for 5 bells.

The wild is a snowball with a ‘W’ on it. This will substitute for pay symbols to complete paylines AND pays out 40x for 5 on a line

Features and Gameplay

Snow-volvers and Multiplier Wilds

Look out for Snow-volver symbols which display between 1 and 6 snowballs. They are either Normal or Epic.

The number of snowballs they display are thrown at the reels in a cool animation.

When Normal snowballs hit the reels they turn the position they land on into a wild snow symbol. If a Normal snowball hits a position that already displays a wild snow symbol then that symbol acquires a multiplier of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x or 200x.

But if the snowballs are Epic then they skip the first part and simply turn the position they land on into a wild snow multiplier immediately.

Multipliers are applied to all wins that pass through the snow symbol, and where more than one is involved, they are ADDED together before being applied to the payout.

Two Bonus Rounds

There are also two bonus rounds in Snow Slingers. One is more like a Hold and Win, the other a traditional free spins feature. Both are triggered by landing FS symbols.

This is how they work.

Thow Snow! Bonus Feature 

First you need THREE FS symbols on one spin to unlock Throw Snow! The reel set changes so ONLY Snow-volvers, Re-Loads of Blanks land. You start with 3 spins, and provided a Snow-volver or Re-Load lands, the counter re-sets to 3. If neither land, it drops by 1 spin. Once the counter hits zero, the round ends.

Once again, Hacksaw use multipliers to BIG affect in this feature. Above each reel is a gift box containing ADDING multipliers of 2x to 500x or MULTIPLYING multipliers of 2x to 20x.

The overall objective is to build the multiplier values of Snow-volvers and Re-Load symbols. This is how it’s done …

When Snow-volvers land, the snowballs are thrown at the gift boxes rather than the reels. And the multiplier values from boxes that are hit are added to the the Snow-volvers.

Normal Snow-volvers will simply stay on the reels for the rest of the game. But Epic ones gift their value to any Normal Snow-volvers or Re-Load symbols that are on the grid at the same time, before disappearing for the next spin.

Re-Load symbols look to be very powerful. When they land, they collect up the total value of ALL the Normal Snow-volvers on their reels AND re-load the Snow-volvers with up to 6 new snowballs to be thrown at the Gift Boxes. Multipliers are added to the new Snow-volvers, and the round continues.

When the round ends, the multiplier value of all visible Snow-volver and Re-load symbols is added together and applied to your bet for the final payout.

You Reap What You Snow Free Spins

The second bonus feature is the free spins one. You need FOUR FS symbols to land to trigger this. You get 10 spins where Snow Multipliers are sticky between spins so you can build some really big values.

And … if you land 2 or 3 more FS symbols you get 2 or 4 more spins.