Chip Spin

Overview Chip Spin

Through the magical conveyance of digital technology, Relax Gaming is transporting players to the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas strip in their latest free online slot machine, Chip Spin. Here you will meet dangerous femme Fatales, big-money poker players and shady characters of all backgrounds. You will see the gleaming lights of Vegas illuminate the famous landmarks of the desert city and spin the reels as though you were situated in one of their stunning casinos found nowhere else on earth.

In terms of features, there are 3 main bonuses included in this game. These include extra spins, multipliers and sticky wilds. The first is a free spins bonus that delivers special chip symbols that act as exciting modifiers. The second feature is the bonus game feature; this is a re-spin feature that, like the free spins, has special chips active on it to help boost your winnings. Finally, this game has a bonus buy feature, which allows you to purchase access to the other two features; sadly, this is not available in the UK.

Theme and Symbols

As mentioned, this game’s theme is the wild and exciting world of Las Vegas, the city synonymous with gambling and partying into the night. Founded in the 20th century, Las Vegas is a relatively young city, once only a tiny railroad service centre in the middle of the desert. However, thanks to a combination of entrepreneurship, water access and an extensive transport network (as well as permissive state laws), Las Vegas was transformed into a gambling mecca only matched by China’s Macau.

The background for Chip Spin is a vista of various Las Vegas landmarks in the purple dusk-time sun. The lighting changes when you enter the bonus feature games to that emulating day time. Players can see the faux Eifel Tower and the famous Las Vegas sign on the right-hand side of the reels. To the left-hand side of the reels is the London Eye-style building.
On the other hand, the board is styled to look like one of the various entrances to the famous casinos you will find up and down the main Vegas boulevard. Its pink and gold columns exude power, wealth and extravagance, the typical stylistic inspirations that dominate much of Las Vegas’ architecture.

Regarding the symbols, they are split between low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying symbols comprise the A to J royals. In the higher-paying category, there are the 3 gem symbols and 4 different gambler characters. The most valuable of these is the character on a red background – smoking a large cigar. If you manage to land 6 of these symbols on the reels, you will be rewarded with 6x your total stake. Accompanying these symbols are the various chip symbols that are used to trigger the bonus game. Finally, the fruit machine symbols are this game’s scatter for the free spins.

Game Play

Chip Spin is played on a 5-reel, 5-row playing window with 259 fixed pay lines. To achieve wins on this slot, players must match a minimum of 3 of a kind on a pay line. Each combination made must start on reel 1. The betting range for Chip Spin is 10p to £40 per spin.

Players can toggle their stake up and down using the coin value adjuster tool located under the reels to the left of the spin button. The current coin value is displayed on the bottom of the reels to the right. Information about the slot, including the paytable and the auto spins options, can be found via the menu button on the left-hand side of the reels.

The volatility rating for Chip Spin is extremely high. The return to player percentage for Chip Spin is 96.41%, which is a little better than average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is an incredible 25,000 x your total stake.

Features

There are a total of 3 bonus features for this game. The first is the free spins game. To trigger this feature, players must land 3 of the fruit symbols on the reels simultaneously. Doing so will grant you 8 free spins with 2 extra free spins for every fruit symbol you landed over the minimum 3 scatter threshold. During these free spins, a range of coloured casinos chips will fall onto the reels offering modifiers. The 3 modifiers that can fall are explained below:

Green Chip: This symbol adds an extra free spin to your total when it appears.
Purple Chip: This symbol increases a win multiplied by 1x.
Black Chip: The position this chip lands on is converted into a sticky wild, which locks in place for any free spins you have left. The black chip can land anywhere apart from reel 1.

The second feature is called the bonus game and is triggered by landing 5 or more of the casino chip symbols anywhere on the reels on the same spin. The chips that triggered the bonus are then held in place, and a re-spin is awarded to the player. As in the free spins bonus, the 3 different casinos chips can fall onto the reels, but they have different abilities in this bonus. These are explained below:

Green Chip: This symbol awards the cash value displayed on the chip.
Purple Chip (The Target): This symbol doubles the value of between 1 and 3 chips.
Black Chip (The Collector): This symbol collects the value of the other chips on display.
Things get interesting if you manage to fill a reel completely with green chips. All of the values displayed on these chips combine into a singular chip symbol if this should happen. The other symbols are removed from the table to give more room for more chips to fall.

You start the bonus round with one life. As long as chip symbols continue to fall, you will hold onto that life. If a di with a heart falls, you will gain another life. The bonus round finishes when you run out of lives, at which point all chip values are added together and paid out.
Finally, there is the bonus buy feature; however, as it is not available in the UK, there isn’t much point discussing it here.

Conclusion

The sequined glamour of Vegas never felt so close. Even at home sitting at a computer, you can feel the rush and excitement that Vegas brings through this game. This is perhaps helped by the sizeable max payout on the line and the excellent gameplay and fantastic bonus features on offer here. The volatility is a little worrying, and Vegas doesn’t appeal to everyone, but on the whole, the slot is a winner.