We’ve hardly had time to digest the previous Blueprint cashpot release,Fish Upon A Cashpot, before King Kong Cashpots dumped down on our proverbial desk. In addition to the instant scatter cashpot prizes, you get the Jackpot King jackpots in this installment. The cashpot prizes have been significantly reduced however, and the top prize awards “only” 1,000x your stake compared to 5,000x in the fishing expedition.
Don’t expect too much monkey antics either, as Kong is mostly busy posing with his bling on top of the scatter prize display. He will assist you in spinning the bonus round wheel though, which can land you up to 30 free spins with an x5 multiplier to boot. The volatility is plain medium, making this a bit more forgiving than the above-mentioned installment, and the 3 local progressive jackpots add an extra layer of excitement.
Thebarrel Wildsteps in for all regular pay symbols, and it will thus assist you to complete winning combinations. The wild is also the most valuable symbol in the game, awarding 125x your stake for 5 of a kind. The 3 premium animal symbols pay between 7.5 and 25 x your stake for the same in comparison.
Landing3 to 9 golden Kong scattersanywhere in view awards aninstant Cashpot. More precisely, you win1, 5, 10, 40, 100, 500 or 1,000 times your stakewhen you land3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 golden Kong scatters, respectively. This is true both in the base game, and during the bonus round.
The Bonus Round is triggered when you land 3 Kong bling scatters on reels 2, 3 and 4 on the same spin. The big ape will then assist you in spinning a huge bonus wheel, and this will give youup to 30 free spinswithup to an x5 line win multiplier. Other than that, the feature plays out the same as the base game.
Finally, King Kong Cashpots is part of Blueprint’s Jackpot King series, and there are thus3 progressive local jackpotsup for grabs. TheJackpot King featuretriggers when you land5 Jackpot King overlay symbolson the same spin, and this takes you to a new set of reels.
The goal is to collect crowns to build multipliers. You can collect your prize, or try your luck on the tombola stylepick’em game, where larger multiplier prizes and the 3 jackpots on display above the reels can be landed. These are the Regal, Royal and Jackpot King jackpots, and the 2 lower-tier jackpots come with fixed upper limits.
We landed a few smaller instant cashpots in the base game, before the bonus round is triggered at 1:20 into the 3:36-minutes highlights video. We got a decent 22 free spins, combined with a solid x4 multiplier, and you can see for yourself how it all played out by hitting the play button below.
While Fish Upon A Cashpot came with instant cashpots up to 5,000x your stake, Blueprint has decided to tone things down a bit in this follow-up. King Kong Cashpots is a tad less volatile though, offering plain medium variance gameplay, but we still think slicing the top-tier scatter prize down to 1,000x is a steep price to pay. After all, this is how you’ll most likely win big in a game like this, although you do get the Jackpot King feature as well.
There are plenty of free spins and up-to-x5 multipliers up for grabs when the bonus wheel triggers, although you might get as little as 10 spins also. A full screen of wilds with an x5 multiplier awards12,500xyour stake, which is still far off the announced/standard50,000x win cap (£250,000). Die hard fans of Blueprint’s Kong range might prefer this one, but we’ll stick with the fishing-themed Cashpot installment for now.
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King Kong Cash- is the Blueprint release that kicked off the whole series, and it comes with fun 3D animations and gorilla antics. You get 4 random features and 4 triggered bonus features, and you can win up to 1,000x your stake in this low to medium volatility installment.
Fish Upon A Cashpot- is the previous installment in the Cashpot series from Blueprint, and it takes you on a fun fishing expedition where instant scatter jackpots up to 5,000x can be reeled in. The bonus round comes with wilds that trigger symbol removals, and you can win up to 5,000x in that feature also.
King Kong Cash Jackpot King- is a previous installment in the Jackpot King range from Blueprint, and the only one that also revolves around Kong. There are plenty of features to delve into here, just like in the original King Kong Cash, but you now get the extra layer of excitement from the 3 progressive local jackpots.
