Let it Snow

Go on a festive reel adventure in a wintery wonderland on the slot from Hacksaw Gaming powered by Relax Gaming. Let It Snow is a remake of their popular Cash Compass for the holiday period. It comes with cluster pays, a Spreading Christmas Wreath feature, a Bonus Wheel and a Free Spins round that can lead to wins of up to 7,400 times your bet.

Slot Details

Let It Snow Cash is a 6×6 grid slot with cluster pays, however, no cascading symbols or tumbling reels mechanic. Wins are awarded for clusters of six or more matching symbols landing horizontally and/or vertically connected. You can go on a tropical reel expedition on desktop and mobile from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin. The game has high volatility with a generous RTP of 96.42% and a hit rate of roughly 1:4 spins.

A cozy winter landscape is opening up when you load the game with firs in a snow covered valley and distant mountain tops. The pay symbol set has been exchanged with typical items for the festive season together while a fitting soundtrack aims to get you into the Christmas mood.

The pay symbols start at the low end with the Christmas items – candy cane, bell, bauble and stocking – awarding across the board 10x your bet for a cluster of 15 or more symbols. They are followed by Christmas trees, gingerbread men, snowmen and Santa himself. Hitting 15+ clusters will yield 60x to 130x your stake. The special symbol is the Christmas wreath with clusters of 30 or more paying a massive 1,000 times your bet. A red gift box marked with the words itself is the Free Spins scatter while a green gift box acts as the bonus symbol.

Let It Snow Slot Features

Releasing slots for the holiday season is the norm for most game developers and most choose to remake one of their existing slots, preferably a popular one. Cue in for example Fat Santa from Push Gaming which is identical to Fat Rabbit. Hacksaw has gone down the same route and gave Cash Compass new graphics while keeping the rest of the game unchanged. Well, let’s take you through the features on offer.

Just like the original, the grid slots uses the cluster pay mechanic to award wins. However, Hacksaw has forgone symbol cascades that are usually core to grid slots, meaning what drops into view what you get. No winning symbol removal and tumbles of new ones falling into the empty spaces.

With that said, the main potential falls to the Spreading Symbol modifier that will trigger when you land five or more Christmas wreath symbols any where on the reels. The needle on the compass at the top of the reels will spin once after any normal wins are paid and all wreath symbols in view will start spreading into the direction the needle is showing until they reach the opposite end of the grid. A handsome 1,000x bet is up for grabs if the spreading leads to a cluster of 30 or more compass symbols.

Landing three green Bonus gift boxes anywhere on the reels in one spin will award the Bonus Wheel. As the name indicates, a wheel with eight segments will appear – seven with an x1 starting bet multiplier and one with a skull. Initially, one spin is given and landing on a multiplier segment will award the displayed multiplier before increasing it progressively as well as giving you another wheel spin. Should you land again on the same segment, then the increased multiplier is awarded and you can continue spinning the wheel, up to 50 times in a single feature. The bet multiplier increments are x1, x10, x25, x100 and x250. The round ends instantly when you land on the skull segment. All awarded bet multipliers are accumulated and paid before you return to the base game. Up to 7,400x bet can be won in the bonus game.

The Spreading Symbol modifier will also play a significant role in the Free Spins round. Three scatters will trigger 10 free spins during which more wreath symbols are added to the reels. You will need to land only a single one on a free spin will to activate the Spreading Symbol feature. The free spins cannot be retriggered, this the round will end once you have played all spins.

Final Verdict

Hacksaw Gaming is following with Let It Snow dozens of other providers for this year’s Christmas surprise by slapping new graphics onto an existing slot. Not inherently bad if they choose a good game for the makeover but still something we call the lazy road. Nevertheless, Let It Snow is entertaining and has big win potential, maybe even a nice Christmas gift for some players worth up to 7,400x their bet.

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