Cash Heist Slot by Genii

The setting tells you everything before the first spin: a comic-book city skyline of orange-brick buildings against a flat blue sky, with the reels mounted inside a stone cornice like a billboard nailed to the side of a building. The "CASH HEIST" logo sits up top in chunky green-and-yellow lettering with white outlines, and the symbols are pure cartoon - but they've made a strange call. This is a heist game where the imagery leans into the cops, not the crooks. A blue-and-white squad car with the siren mid-flash, a sprinkled donut with a bite taken out, gold star police badge, handcuffs, a "ROBBERY" walkie-talkie, plus the loot itself: stacks of cash with gold coins and a folded newspaper headlined "STANDARD: CASH HEIST AT BIG BANK". It reads more like a Saturday-morning cartoon about the precinct chasing the robbers than a noir crime piece.

Mechanically, the standout is the paytable. The Wild substitutes for everything except the Feature scatter, but it also pays on its own as the game's top symbol - 2500 coins for five, 500 for four, 100 for three, and 10 for just two. The two heist characters that follow it also pay from 2-of-a-kind. So the top of the paytable is unusually generous for a 25-line game, and short stacks of Wilds register on their own without needing to complete a line through other symbols.

The franchise hallmark is the Vault Break pick round, triggered by 3 or more Feature scatters. Three scatters give you 5 picks, four gives 6, five gives 7. You're guessing the vault code, and every correct pick does double duty - it adds Free Spins on top of the 5-spin baseline AND raises the multiplier carried into Free Spins. Get them all right and the spin count and the multiplier scale together. Whiff most of them and you're heading into Free Spins with the floor: 5 spins, no multiplier boost. Two things to know about the structure: scatters never appear during Free Spins, so no retriggers, and Vault Break itself can't be rolled again from inside the bonus. The pick round is the only door in.

Top end sits at 132,250 coins, roughly 1058x at the default $1.25 stake. No buy-bonus shortcut, no ante, no jackpot meter - the only way to the multiplier is through the picks. This is the original entry that set the template for the rest of the Cash Heist line that came after.