Cash Strike Fire Lock Slot by Blueprint Gaming

The whole grid changes shape when the bonus hits. In the base game you're looking at a compact 3x3 board of traditional fruit machine icons, but trigger the Fire Lock Bonus and three extra rows drop in beneath, turning it into a taller 6-row hold-and-win. The Cash Strike collector that started the round sticks to reel 2 for the duration, harvesting any fireball Cash Prize values that land. Each of those three added rows sits locked behind an incrementing symbol requirement, and every Cash Prize or collector that appears chips that requirement down, with the reduction carrying over spin to spin. Land a fresh collector and it locks in place, sweeps the fireballs in view, and resets your spins back to three. Only when the spins run dry does the accumulated total pay.

Fireball Cash Prizes carry values from 1x to 15x and appear only on reels 1 and 3, glowing molten discs with the amount printed across them. The Cash Strike collector lives on reel 2, and a base-game hit works simply: fireball on reel 1 or 3, collector on reel 2, and it banks the sum. Two extras keep the base game moving. Hotstepper triggers when a collector lands on the middle reel, stepping it down a position on the next spin for another sweep (two steps from the top row, one from the middle, out of view from the bottom). And Gold Strike feeds the flaming ball above the reels every time a Cash Prize or collector shows, then fires at random to boost values or seed the symbols needed to launch the bonus proper.

A Mystery symbol also drops onto reels 1 and 3, and it pays a big cash value from 25x up to 1000x, but only when a collector is on the board to bank it. Four fixed pots ride across the top around the flaming logo: Mini 25x, Minor 50x, Major 150x, and the Mega worth 1000x. There's no straight bonus buy here. Instead Power Play is a three-tier side bet that raises your trigger odds: Standard at 5x stake, Super at 10x with the collector double-stacked on the middle reel, and Ultra at 20x with it triple-stacked, so the harder tiers manufacture collectors far more often. Features still resolve at your base stake once they fire.

Roaring orange flames border a dark, ember-flecked red backdrop, and the reels are packed with lemons, purple plums, grapes, oranges, cherries, watermelons, gold bells and red 7s. It looks the part. But underneath the blazing fruit-machine dressing, this is the same Blueprint Gaming cash-collect engine that powers Cash Strike Triple Fire and the rest of the series, and regulars will recognise the rhythm of it within a handful of spins. The Fire Lock expansion is the one genuinely new wrinkle, giving the bonus a stacked hold-and-win board the earlier Cash Strike titles never had.