Time Spinners

Theme and Design

It is hard to figure out just what is going on in Time Spinners. The game takes place in a dark dungeon, into which you are beckoned by a ghoulish skeletal presence in cloak and hood. The reel set is held up by iron chains but appears to be hanging over a pit of some kind, and if you are lucky enough to hit the bonus round then the chains are broken and you appear to be playing in the deepest, darkest corners of space and time. Lord knows what it all means, but the overall vibe is an unsettling one and makes for a challenging play.

That said, for fans of Hacksaw there is come continuity between Time Spinners and other in their catalogue. You will recognise fonts, some sounds and the general granite grey vs bright neon contrasts from slots like Hand of Anubis or Itero. Perhaps that will keep you grounded as you try to figure out the narrative!

RTP and Variance

Like most Hacksaw Gaming slots, Time Spinners has multiple RTP settings. It is at your casinos discretion which one they use.  The available settings are 96.19%, 94.19%, 92.41% or 88.4%. Whilst the optimium setting is above average for a UK slot, clearly you don’t want to be playing at the lower end of the scale.

We verified the RTP at 5 top UK slot sites and this is what we found:

• Casumo (independent) – 94.19% RTP
• BacanaPlay (Skill on Net) – 92.41% RTP
• Barz Casino (White Hat Gaming) – 94.19% RTP
• All British Casino (L and L Europe) – 94.19% RTP
• MrQ (independent) – 96.19% RTP

Not for the first time MrQ, from Lindar Media, was the only slot site in our test list to run the game at the optimal RTP setting. Therefore, for the best return on your wagering we recommend that you play here. Other sites running at 94.19% aren’t bad – you wouldn’t notice the difference between that and 96.19% in one session, but I recommend you avoid sites running at anything less.

This is a high variance slot, one of Hacksaw’s more volatile games and in a group with others like Hand of Anubis, Itero and Rotten. If you like these kind of games, check out our best high variance slots list too.

Maximum Win

The top payout in Time Spinners is 10,000x. The game won’t exceed that number. This is in line with many other Hacksaw slots. There are a couple with higher potential. You could try RIP City or Cursed Seas, both of which have a max win of 12,500x.

Or, for even bigger wins, try our list of highest max win slots of all time.

Symbols and Paytable

This is a 5 reel and 4 row game with just 10 active paylines. Wins are scored by landing 3 or more identical symbols across a payline from left to right.

The paytable has some reasonable value in it, but as we have become accustomed to with Hacksaw Gaming slots, big wins are really only possible using the multipliers that come into play when features are triggered in both base game and bonus round.

The low value symbols are represented by the card suits – Clubs, Spades, Diamonds and Hearts - with a max payout of just 2x for five on a payline. Premiums are represented by the arcane time pieces and paraphanalia – the book, a scroll, an egg timer, and the glass globe. The highest paying of these gets you a 20x for five on a payline.

In Time Spinners Wilds help you because they substitute for other symbols to form wins AND they are valued at 20x if you can land 5 on a payline. And finally, look out as well for the creepy-looking GHOUL, THREE of whom will herald the Dusk Til Dawn bonus round. He adds a slightly horror-movie feel to proceedings, with skeletal hands reaching out from the reel set.

Features and Gameplay

So, how do you score wins at Time Spinners?

There are two basics features – a Wild Multiplier and a Bonus Round.

Here is how they work:

Two Types of Win Multiplier Up To 12x

Look out for the watch symbols that represent Wild Multipliers. There are two types – red rimmed and gold rimmed.

The red-rimmed ones will reveal a multiplier of between 2x and 12x which is applied to any win line they form a part of.

Better still … Gold-rimmed watches provide a ‘SYNC’ function whereby ALL wild multipliers in view take on the value of the highest multiplier when one forms part of a winning line. 

Two Dusk Til Dawn Bonus Rounds With High Value Multipliers! 

What I love most about this game is the ingenious bonus round.

It requires you to land THREE GHOUL symbols to trigger. There are no traditional free spins but rather two parts – a multiplier collection where you try to add as many multipliers together as you can, then a payout part where you return to the main reel set with your multipliers for a final spin-off!

Let’s take each in turn.

Part 1: DUSK – Watch Multiplier Collection

Here you get THREE spins to collect as many watches as possible.

There are no standard symbols on the reels for this part, just Special Symbols and blank non-winning ones. When Specials land, you get a re-set on your spins for the chance to collect more.  Check the meter to the right of the reels for a simple display of how many spins remain.

The special symbols are watches and Echoes. The latter are crazy symbols that react to what is around them to enhance existing multipliers!

Firstly, Red-Rimmed and Gold-Rimmed Watches work like they do in the base game, with multipliers of 2x and 12x available. The gold ones are better though because they stick for the round.

There is also a Special Echo which adds a 1x to 50x multiplier to ANY other multiplier within 3 spaces, and a Special Epic Echo which shows a value of 2x to 10x to be MULTIPLIED by the value of any multiplier within 3 spaces.

Part 2: DAWN – Payouts 

Now the fun stuff starts – ALL sticky watch multipliers remain on the reels and normal symbols are added back in. You get THREE payout spins to benefit from.

And … there is the possibility of triggering the Dusk Til Dawn Bonus AGAIN from within the Payout phase. If this happens, you get AN EXTRA spin in the Payout part too (so FOUR in total).