AP McCoy: Sporting Legends Slot by Playtech

Land three Bonus Wheel symbols and you spin a wheel before the free games even start, and what it stops on shapes everything that follows. That wheel can hand you extra free games, a boost to the wild multipliers, a lift to the win multipliers, or a straight cash prize worth up to 1,000x your bet. Whatever it gives, the free games then play out under those terms. And during that round the wilds carry multipliers running from x1 up to x7, so a wheel result that upgrades them rewrites the math of every spin after.

In the base game the wild covers everything except that Bonus Wheel symbol, so it can't manufacture a trigger on its own. Wins land 243 ways, matching from the leftmost reel across adjacent reels with no fixed paylines. The look is all brushed metal and warm amber light, built around British jump racing: Tony McCoy's portrait in a dark suit tops the paytable, above a painted shot of him riding a racehorse, then a green jockey helmet, a gold trophy and a red Race Club badge, with metallic A-K-Q-J-10 royals down at the low end.

Don't want to wait for three symbols? Playtech's Power Play buys you five free spins for either 10x or 20x your stake, and buying in switches on a Prize Pot accumulator that only runs in that mode. Sitting above all of it are three Sporting Legends progressive jackpots, Mega, Weekly and Daily, which can drop at random on any spin. They're pooled across the whole suite, so they read as Not available in the free demo and can only be won in real-money play.

This is a 2019 title and it plays like one, with a return that sits a touch under what a newer release tends to give. It's one of Playtech's celebrity-fronted games, sharing those jackpots and the same Power Play wheel with the boxing entry Frank Bruno.