Cash Strike Power Up Slot by Blueprint Gaming

The signature wrinkle on this version of Cash Strike sits on reel 3, where a special Power Up Cash Collect symbol replaces the standard collector and physically spins on landing to reveal what it does that round. Two possible outcomes: a cash multiplier up to x10 that gets applied to every Cash Prize coin currently in view, or an instant cash prize of its own worth between 1x and 1,000x your stake added straight onto the collector before the sweep. Either way, once the reveal animation finishes, every Cash Prize scatter on reels 1, 2, 4 and 5 pours into reel 3, gets multiplied or topped up depending on what the spin landed on, and pays out immediately. The plain Cash Collect symbol still lives on reel 3 too, with no spin, no multiplier, just a clean accumulation and instant payout when it lands beside any coin values.

Above the grid sit four cashpots labelled MINI, MINOR, MAJOR and GRAND, reading 25, 50, 150 and 1,000 times your stake at the £1.00 level shown in the demo. They are tier values, not progressives. The Cash Strike Bonus is a hold-and-spin round triggered when Cash Prize and Cash Collect scatters land across three consecutive reels, and Cash Prize values keep collecting onto the collector until the respin counter runs out. Random Gold Strike events can interrupt the base game at any moment: every Cash Prize and Cash Collect that lands feeds a logo accumulator above the reels, and if Gold Strike fires it manually adds or upgrades enough symbols on the next spin to force a Cash Strike Bonus trigger, which is the cleanest way the game can manufacture a bonus from a cold session.

The fruit-machine symbol set is pure Blueprint heritage, with 9, 10, J and Q royals at the bottom of the paytable and cherries, lemons, bells and red 7s carrying the high pays. Wins resolve as five-ways adjacent rather than across rows of fixed paylines, so any matching fruit touching from reel 1 onward counts toward the combo. The cabinet itself glows red and orange around a dark grid, with the gold-and-blue Power Up nameplate dropped on top of the original Cash Strike logo.

The Power Play button on the left rail runs as an ante bet at 5x your base stake, and turning it on strips the reels down to nothing but Power Up Cash Collects and Cash Prize coins. The fruit and royals disappear entirely, so every paying combo in that mode goes through the collector, not through line wins. It is much more expensive per spin and feature-dense by design, which is the trade. This is the 5-reel evolution of the original 3-reel Hotstepper cabinet rather than a Megaways-format spin-off, and the 50,000x ceiling against a £250,000 absolute cap is by some distance the highest top end Blueprint has put on a Cash Strike machine yet.