Hit Bar Slot by Playtech

Glossy fruit and a flaming red 7 spin against a blazing red-and-orange starburst sky flecked with gold stars, standard stuff for a fruit machine until you notice the red HIT BAR disc. That one never pays on a line. Catch a couple in an ordinary spin and they do nothing at all. Their only job is to trigger. Land five or more at once and they lock where they sit, and the respins begin.

Locked discs stay put while the reels turn around them. Every new HIT BAR that drops locks too and keeps the respins alive, and each one advances a prize ladder running down the left of the board. Eleven rungs, all paying a multiple of your total bet. The bottom rung starts around 5x and climbs step by step. The top four are fixed prizes: Mini at 50x, Minor at 100x, Major at 250x, and a Grand at 1,000x for filling every position. Collect the full set and the Grand is the ceiling. The starburst wild fills in for the paying symbols and doubles as the top line pay, but it skips the disc, so real Hit Bars have to do the collecting.

There isn't much more to it. No free spins, no bonus wheels, no progressive ticking away in the background, no buy button to skip ahead. Base fruit spins and the one hold-and-win, nothing else. If you want the loaded version, Hit Bar: Gold PowerPlay Jackpot takes the same collect idea and piles on wheels, free games and a shared network progressive. This one just wants you chasing discs.