Fast Money Pokies
Private jets, sports cars and yachts fill the reels of the Fast Money video pokie with riches, and while anyone scooping the big prizes that this game offers may not be able to afford their own aircraft, there’s still plenty of decent winnings to be had, and bonuses to claim.
These include the chance to scoop a progressive jackpot, get wins doubled by a wild symbol, trigger a free spins game where all wins are tripled in value, or try to double payouts over and over in a gamble round.
It comes with a classic 5-reel 10-payline layout with symbols lined up in 3 rows, and where in normal play, punters are looking to get the same symbol type to stop across a line, on connected reels from the left side to get a win.
Playing Fast Money
Before spinning the reels, a bet needs to be made, although free Fast Money video pokies can be tried out at many casinos if people want to get some practice in before they use their own cash. The minimum stake is 0.10, which equals 0.01 on each of the 10 lines, and the high limit is set at 100.00 per spin.
Because there’s several bonus features to contend with, it’s probably worth players having a review of the pay table, so they can work out what symbols are worth and what’s in the extra rounds. The playing card symbols 9 through to A will create most of the winning combinations, although the 9 only needs to stop on reels 1 and 2 on a payline to be worth a prize of 2 coins, rising to 5, 25 or 100 when 3, 4 and 5 appear.
The top value playing cards are the K and A, each of which pays 10, 50 or 125 coins and then we move up to the picture symbols. These are all very nicely designed and quite realistic, but also quite valuable as befitting the theme of the game. A Ferrari and the yacht are both worth 20, 100 or 400 coins for 3, 4 or 5 on a line, and the jet pays out 15, 75 or 250. A rich guy and his glamourous girl are both worth 2 coins on just reels 1 and 2, all the way up to the top award of 750.
Fast Money
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Bonus Features
Step inside the spectacular mansion to get the best payouts, as this is the wild symbol. It’s valued at 10 coins when landing on reels 1 and 2, while a full line of 5 is worth 10,000, but it can also act as any other symbol, with the exception of the scatter, and help to complete winlines. As an extra treat, any time the wild can substitute for something else, the resulting win is doubled in value, so 5 yachts for example will now pay 500 coins, not 250, or a line of 3 yachts, with a wild on reel 4 will now pay 150 coins.
A briefcase stuffed with cash is another richly-rewarding image, and it doesn’t even need to land in any particular places, as it’s the scatter symbol. Just 2 of these pays out 20 coins, but 3, 4 or 5 of them are worth 50, 200 or 5000 coins, followed by entry to a free spins bonus round.
15 spins will be awarded, but any wins during them will be tripled in value, so landing a high value symbol, where the wild helps to complete the line in the free games can add up to some impressive payouts. The free spins can be retriggered, and another 15 games will be added on to the end of the current round.
Other Features
There’s a couple of features common to all EGT casino pokie machines with players able to gamble wins and double them by correctly guessing if a playing card will be red or black, but losing for a wrong pick, plus there’s the Jackpot Card progressive round.
This is triggered at random and players win any of the 4 progressive values displayed above the reels. 12 cards are shown and the suits are revealed when they are clicked on. Once 3 of the same suit have been found, the jackpot that corresponds to it is paid out, ranging from the modest Club award to the substantial Spade prize.
The Verdict
Fast Money is a good-looking pokie that has lots of well-designed images of wealth and success. The bonus features may not be unique, but they are potentially quite valuable ones to trigger, particularly because of the multipliers in play.
If there’s any real criticism of the game, it’s that many players will be a little disappointed that the usual playing card symbols have been used once again.