Mr. Cashback Slot by Playtech

Go 50 spins without a single payline win and the game just pays you anyway. That's the Cashback feature the whole slot takes its name from: after 50 consecutive dead spins it hands back 50x your line bet, a built-in refund that caps how badly a long cold run can sting. Nothing you press sets it off and nothing warns you it's near. It fires on the fiftieth blank spin and resets.

There are two Mr. Cashbacks on the reels, and they do completely different jobs. The wild is the gold one, sitting gleeful in a heap of coins with WILD stamped across him. He covers every symbol except the scatter and pays the most on the board, five along a line returning 7,500x the line bet, which is the game's biggest single hit. The scatter is the framed portrait of him chewing a cigar in a pinstripe suit and yellow tie. It pays from anywhere it lands instead of along a line, so three of them already give back 5x your total bet, four pay 10x, five pay 100x.

Those same cigar portraits run the bonus. Three or more open 12 free games, and every win inside the round is doubled by a flat x2 that holds the whole way through. No pick screen, no climbing ladder, just a straight two-times on whatever the reels turn up for a dozen spins.

The look is pure get-rich cartoon. A bright banknote-green striped background piled at the top with gold coins and cash, comic money premiums for the rest: a grinning pink piggy bank, a bulging coin sack, a wad of green banknotes, and chunky candy-coloured A/K/Q/J/10/9 royals down the low end. A 2011 Playtech classic, cut from the same cloth as the studio's Frankie Dettori's Magic Seven, right down to that safety-net twist you rarely see anywhere else.