Halloween Fortune: Cash Collect Slot by Playtech

Everything hangs on the fifth reel. The blue Cash Collect badge lands only there, never on the first four, and when it shows up it sweeps every coin sitting on the reels at that moment. Those coins are gold spider-web tokens stamped with cash values, from 5 up to 75 times the stake, so a screen dotted with coins and no collector on the right pays nothing until that badge finally drops in beside them.

Not every coin is straight cash, though. Blue tokens marked +3, +5 or +10 add free games when the collector grabs them, and a gold diamond coin is the jackpot key. Pull the diamond into a collection and it can hand over one of four fixed prizes, the Mini at 20x, the Minor at 50x, the Major at 200x, or the Grand at 500x the total bet sitting in the red meter across the top. The glowing green cat-eyes wild fills in for the paying symbols and drops in stacks, which is how the three witches, the raven, the candle skull and the corked potions get lined up in the first place.

The free games are where the mechanic turns nasty. The grid grows two rows taller for the round, and any Cash Collect symbol that lands there freezes on reel five for three spins, marked "Cash Collect 3," so it keeps raking in whatever coins appear over that stretch instead of collecting once and leaving. Any +N coins caught in the process stretch the round longer.

The art carries over straight from the original Halloween Fortune, same three glamorous witches in green, red and blue hats, set over a moonlit graveyard of leaning gravestones, a haunted cottage lit green from within, a black cat and a witch crossing the full moon. There's no buy button, so the collector and the diamond are the only routes to the jackpots and the free games alike.