Hit Bar: PowerPlay Jackpot Slot by Playtech

Everything here runs off the Hit Bar disc, the red-and-gold scatter. Land five or more of them and they lock where they sit, then a respin fires. Every extra Hit Bar that drops locks too and keeps the respins coming, and you collect up to 15 in total. The count is what pays. A ladder runs up the left of the reels: five Hit Bars returns 5x total bet, and each one past that climbs the rungs, 10x, 15x, 20x and on up. The top four rungs are fixed jackpots, Mini at 50x, Minor at 100x, Major at 250x, and the Grand at 1,000x for a full board of 15. That Grand is the ceiling of the whole game.

Sitting above the fixed ladder are three PowerPlay progressives, Mega, Peak and Mini PowerPlay, listed on the purple sidebar. They're the reason the PowerPlay Jackpot name is on this one. These are shared network pools rather than set prizes, so they keep climbing across every casino running the series, and they only pay in real-money play. In the free version all three read UNAVAILABLE, which means the fun-money game caps out at that 1,000x Grand.

The base game is a straight Vegas fruit machine. Ten fixed lines pay left to right across sevens, diamonds and fruit, and a gold-star Wild sits at the top of the paytable, covering everything but the Hit Bar scatter and paying the biggest line prize itself. The art is loud in a good way: a clean white grid blazing against an orange starburst with marquee lights, a flaming red 7, glossy watermelon, grapes, plum, lemon and cherries. No free spins, no buy button, no ante, the collect is the only feature. If you want the same framework with more moving parts, the gold-themed Hit Bar: Gold PowerPlay Jackpot bolts wheels and a free-games round onto the same collect ladder.