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Slot Review: King Cashalot

Come, ye lords and ladies, to the sumptuous banquet hall of the bluff King Cashalot! If you are a history buff that loves reading about the long-gone days of gallant lords and dancing ladies, then this slot should surely light a spark in you! The mood of this slot is a very happy one, since it centers around a feast. In days of yore, just like today, feasts were a lot of fun. We think that you’ll have plenty of good times playing this slot, which is rich, colorful, and lucrative all at the same time!

King Cashalot is a five-reel, nine-payline online slot game by Microgaming. The coin value is set at a mixed amount of five cents. Max coins is forty-five cents, or five coins per payline. That makes the highest per-spin wager one of two dollars and twenty-five cents. You could do a LOT worse with a handful of nickels, especially when you consider that this exceptional online slot boasts one of the progressive jackpots so beloved by players! At the time we played, this pot was quite a bit higher than its starting amount of one hundred thousand dollars. You simply can’t beat the value of chancing a six-figure jackpot for less than three dollars! Sure, the odds aren’t the greatest. But this game is so fun and so filled with win opportunities that we imagine you won’t really care.

The graphics are one of this game’s strongest suits, no doubt about it. The icons on the reels are very lively and colorful, conveying both the festive air of the royal festival and the fun of a game. You’ll see a towering gelatin mold, a prepared fish in a bowl overflowing with prawns, a studded ham, a chicken, and a platter of exotic fruit. You’ll also see the main characters of the story: the jolly king himself, a dapper knight, and the grinning princess. There is festive music in the background, the likes of which we would expect to hear at a medieval feast like the one depicted.

The king is the jackpot symbol. You will have to line up five of his face on the ninth payline to win the huge progressive jackpot! This prize tends to payout about once a month or so worldwide. Those are long odds, as we already mentioned, but you’ll never have a shot of being the lucky one if you don’t play! The king is also the wild symbol, and can stand in for any other icon on the reels in a winning combination. It will also multiply the payout of all completed combos. The only exceptions to that are the jester symbol, which is the scatter, and the dragon, which is the bonus symbol for thus online slot.

Getting two or more jesters on the reels during any one spin will win you a scatter prize. The dragon is the bonus symbol, and will take to the second-screen bonus game. You need to have three of the special symbols scattered across reels two, three, and four to be taken to the bonus round. You will see a room full of treasure chests guarded by a fierce dragon. Click on a chest to open it, and the treasure inside belongs to you! The amount in the chest is multiplied by the number of coins you bet per payline and the number of paylines you had enabled, so the resulting figure is the bonus you win. Betting on max paylines is definitely advantageous in this game.

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