Canny the Can and the Book of Time

Hacksaw Gaming brings back its own mascot, Canny the Can, for a release subtitled the Book of Time, pairing a returning character from earlier titles in the studio's catalogue with a set piece built around expanding reel symbols and a second, separate bonus round. The base game unfolds outdoors against a painterly nature backdrop, its reels carrying a loosely witchy, autumnal symbol set, while the two bonus rounds move the action indoors to library- and gallery-style scenes.

Play runs on a 5-reel, 4-row grid across 20 fixed paylines, with stakes from 0.10 to 100 per spin. Volatility is rated 4 out of 5, and the maximum return under normal play is 96.13%, though Hacksaw's variable-RTP system means lower configurations are also in circulation. Ten to Ace card ranks form the low-paying tier of the table, worth 5 to 15 times the bet when five land together, while a wand, a hat, a dead animal, a severed serpent hand and a mouse top the table at 50 to 250 times the bet for that same five-symbol combination. A Book symbol does double duty as both wild and scatter, substituting for regular symbols when it isn't triggering a bonus.

Landing three, four or five Books activates the It's a Classic! free spins round, awarding 10, 15 or 20 spins respectively and marking one, two or three randomly chosen symbols with a gold frame as specials. Once a marked symbol appears on at least three reels in the same spin, it expands to fill those reels after ordinary wins are paid and then pays out from any position on them; if more than one special symbol qualifies at once, they expand in turn rather than together. A further three Books landing mid-round adds five extra spins and marks one more special symbol, up until every symbol on the paytable has been claimed.

A separate trigger, three Clock Man scatters, opens What Time Is It?, ten free spins built around clocks displayed above the second, third and fourth reels, each showing a different time on every spin. When a Clock Activator lands on one of those reels, a column of wild Multiplier Clocks spreads down from the top, overwriting everything beneath it including the Activator itself, and the multiplier each one carries, anywhere from x2 to x12, comes from the time shown on its clock, with several landing on one line adding their values together.

Where buy-ins are offered, this release has five: a cheap option at three times the bet that simply raises bonus frequency for the next spin under high volatility, a straight purchase of the Classic! round at three escalating tiers costing 100x, 200x or 400x the bet for 10, 15 or 20 spins with one to three specials already marked, and a 200x buy-in that heads straight into What Time Is It?. Each carries its own maximum RTP, ranging from roughly 96.25% to 96.39% depending on the option chosen. Hit frequency across regular play is 16.35%, roughly one spin in six, and the maximum win reaches 10,000 times the stake.