Cash Stax slot
GAME FEATURES
OJO’s Cash Stax slot is for every gamer who loves no frills, stripped-back slots action with a fab free spins bonus. Once you’re in the groove, it’s a wild black & white ride full of free spins, variable paylines and variable RTPs.
Why play Cash Stax?
✔ Feature wins can pay 5x
✔ Competitive RTP
✔ Retro slot design
What we think about Cash Stax
“Barcrest slots aren’t for everyone, but the scatter mechanic and free spins feature make Cash Stax worth a look”
Is this game right for you?
Cash Stax game is a 5-reel 3-row online slot with between 10 and 30 paylines. If it weren’t for the unusual changes in win lines and RTP, we could explain how to play our Cash Stax slot in seconds, as it’s otherwise a very simple game.
Released in 2015, it’s a Barcrest game now supplied by SG Interactive, the online arm of Scientific Games. Like most Barcrest slots, Cash Stax has a very land-based casino vibe and it takes just a few spins to master the Cash Stax slot rules.
This Cash Stax slot machine has an interesting twist that I haven’t seen in any other slots online. The number of paylines you play depends on the size of your bet per line. You don’t ever need to choose anything except your line bet, but it helps to know what your total stake will be and why you sometimes get more paylines.
If you bet less than £2, you play 10 lines. If you bet £2 or more, it’s 20 lines, and if you play the £10 or £20 Big Bet Game, you get 30 lines. It’s not just more paylines that you get either. As your stake increases, so does the Cash Stax RTP.
Don’t get over excited about betting more just to reduce the house edge though. In my view it is always far more important to play stakes you are comfortable with – that keep your gaming fun and affordable – rather than betting higher than your bankroll allows just to squeeze out a tiny bit more value from the RTP. RTPs only really have an impact over hundreds of thousands of spins, so you won’t see the difference anyway.
Game features
Wild
Let’s see if I can explain Cash Stax wilds in less than 1 line of text. They substitute for all symbols except noughts. Nope, I can’t.
Free Spins Bonus
With just 1 bonus feature and a handful of reel symbols, this game may seem simplistic at first glance, but the Cash Stax game’s free spins bonus has a bit more about it than most classic slots.
Land a gold ring on any reel and it’ll be added to the slot above the reel. Your mission here is to collect at least 1 gold ring in each slot so that you trigger the free spins bonus. If you fail to get a ring in all 5 slots on any spin, the slots are cleared and you start afresh on the next spin.
Once you’ve got at least 1 ring in each slot, as I did in the game above, the game adds all rings together to determine how many free spins to award. Get 19 or more and all of your wins during free spins will be multiplied by 5x.
During your free spins games, you can retrigger more free spins in exactly the same way, by collecting at least 1 ring in each slot above the reels..
The number of retriggered free spins depends on how many rings you got, and it’s this retrigger feature which gives you an even better chance of topping your thermometer out at the magic 19 spins, to add the 5x multiplier.
Big Bet Game
As we said earlier, a £10 or £20 Big Bet Game involves 5 spins, all at the best possible Cash Stax RTP and using the maximum 30 win lines. You can trigger the free spins bonus at any time, as I did in the game below to earn 8 free spins. Once all of your Big Bet Game spins and any free spins are over, all wins are combined and paid out.
Other games you might like
Action Bank Cash Shot
In 2022, Light & Wonder released the Action Bank Cash Shot slot (from the same series as Action Bank Plus), which was heavily based on the Cash Stax UK slot design. It may look very similar, but this one’s got 1024 ways and a multiplier trail with prizes of up to 5,000x, which may explain why it’s a much more popular slot than Cash Stax.
Rainbow Riches Pick n’ Mix
Rainbow Riches Pick n’ Mix is the definitive Barcrest slot and it has kept its place as one of the slots community’s favourite games. It’s got all of the Cash Stax slot simplicity but this time with a fantastically cheesey Celtic theme and some superb bonuses.
My verdict
Barcrest’s Cash Stax slot game may seem like it’s right out of the 70s but it’s been carefully crafted for desktop and mobile by the kings of classic slots. If you like a bit of vintage slots action, the gold rings scatter mechanic may well be enough to persuade you to play the Cash Stax online slot every now and then.
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FAQs
Can I play the Cash Stax slot for free?
Yes, there’s a Cash Stax demo with unlimited freeplay if you’d like to try it risk-free first. Simply fill in our registration form, then head to the Slots section and search for “Stax”. Once you’ve found the game, choose TRY FOR FREE if you want to play for free – no deposit needed. The Cash Stax slot demo is a nice introduction to this slot’s features but it won’t take you long to figure ‘em all out.
What is the Cash Stax RTP?
The Return To Player is different for the lower stake, higher stake and Big Bet versions of the game, and this could make some difference in the long run, if you’re likely to play this game a lot. Bet less than £2 and the RTP is 94.12%. Bet £2 or more and it rises to 96.02%. For the Big Bet Game, the RTP is a whopping 98.14%
You’ll be hard pressed to find many online slots with RTPs higher than 98.14%. This doesn’t mean you should always play the Big Bet Game however, and as I said in the main Cash Stax slot review, safe gambling and sensible slots strategies are much more important than RTPs.
How do the Cash Stax payouts work?
Let’s get the big number out of the way. You can net up to £250,000 per spin, though most OJOers will be more interested in something a bit more realistic.
As with most slots, the name of the game is matching paytable symbols on an active paylines, starting from reel 1 and going left to right.
How much you can win when you play our Cash Stax slot machine depends on your stake and win lines. It’s easier to compare all 3 Cash Stax paytables as there are only 3 standard symbols, 7, BAR and X. Remember, you’re getting more paylines for the higher stakes games, and in the case of the Big Bet Game, 5 spins for 1 coin, which is why the multipliers get smaller.
