Expert review by Tanvi Clarke
Scudamore’s Super Stakes, produced by the highly popular NetEnt, is a 5-reel, 3-row 20 betting line slot. If you happen to be a huge fan of horse racing, then this is the slot for you as that is what its theme is. NetEnt developed this unusual theme (for a slot game) in order to pay homage to Peter Scudamore, who is a horse racing legend. This game comes equipped with a number of great features that will keep you thoroughly entertained. Read on to find out more.
Slot game developers know that people tend to get bored easily, so to ensure this doesn’t happen, they load their game with many exciting bonuses. This is the case with this slot. For example, there’s a random wild feature that can leave anywhere from 2 to 5 wild symbols on the reels. There’s a bet slip feature where you have to choose a symbol to collect within a particular number of spins. You can win up to 1242x your stake here. There’s the Peter’s Classic Cup feature, but this is explained in detail below.
Slot game developers are paying more and more attention to the graphics in their slots – it’s like they believe that if the graphics in their game are lacking, then there’s a good chance that people won’t be attracted to them and will get bored and stop playing. Whether this is true or not is debatable, but what we cannot dispute is the fact the NetEnt slots have some of the best graphics around, and when you see the symbols in this slot for the first time, you’ll see that no exception has been made this time.
This slot comes equipped with 8 regular symbols. The lowest paying symbols are the player card values J, Q, K, and A, while the highest paying symbols are four jockeys and their horses. The jockey that is dressed in the red outfit is the highest paying regular symbol and will reward you with 12.5x your stake if you manage to land 5 along one of the 20 paylines. The legend, Peter Scudamore, is the wild symbol and he acts as a substitute for every symbol except the scatter and the bet slip.
The free spins feature on this slot is pretty unique. When you land the trophy scatter symbol on reels one, three, and five the Peter’s Classic Cup feature will be activated. When this occurs, the betting lines increase to 32 and the rows to 4. You will then have to choose one of four horses to represent you in the race. Each horse pays out a different amount, which corresponds to the odds of you winning the race. For every winning combo that you land during your free spins, your horse will move forward, until there’s a winner.
The iGaming world is getting more competitive with each passing month, so in order to ensure that the slots that they worked very hard on stay relevant, many game developers are adding progressive and standard jackpots to their slot machines. However, not all slots have a jackpot, and this is such a slot. Despite this, you shouldn’t let this put you off from giving this slot as go as, if Lady Luck is smiling down upon you, you could still end up walking away with 5,000x your stake.
It is not hard to grasp the fact that the more betting lines (also known as paylines) there are, the better your chances of winning some money will be. It’s just simple logic. A betting line represents one way to win, so if there are 10, you only have 10 different ways to win. This particular slot has 20, which is pretty standard for a slot machine nowadays. However, as mentioned, during Peter’s Classic Cup feature, this increases to a pretty impressive 32 paylines.
When a seasoned slot player comes across a slot game that they have never encountered before, one of the first things that they are likely to do is to open up a web browser and find out what the return to player, or RTP, percentage of the slot is. This is because it will give them some idea as to how much they can expect to get back from the game. This slot has an RTP of 96.99%, which means that if you stake £100, you’re, theoretically speaking, likely to see a return of £96.99.
If the RTP is something that they think is reasonable, and 96.99% is more than reasonable, then the next thing a veteran slot player will find out is the volatility of the slot in question. The reason for this is because it will give them some sort of indication as to what type of wins they can expect and how often the slot will pay out. This game has a high volatility, which means that you shouldn’t expect many small wins, but when a win does come along, the wait will have been worth it.
As we mentioned earlier, if you are a big fan of horse racing and slot games, then this is a must try. However, even if horse racing isn’t your cup of tea, you should still give it a shot. The brilliant NetEnt have managed to take an unusual theme and make it work extremely well. Those who don’t like horse racing find it extremely dull, but we guarantee that there is nothing boring about this slot. Its great bonus features will keep you thoroughly entertained.
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