Cash Truck Begins

Quickspin swaps the desert, city and villain hideouts of the earlier Cash Truck games for a fantasy setting in Cash Truck Begins, trading the armoured vehicle for a caged wagon piled with gold coins as it rumbles toward a misty, sword-and-axe world. The series keeps its trademark sense of speed even with the theme overhauled from top to bottom.

Base-game spins take place across a 5x7 grid, though the top three positions on each reel start locked and only open as tumbles create new wins. Left-to-right ways combinations pay from three consecutive reels, rising to 16,807 ways once the whole grid is unlocked. Hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs form the low-paying set; an axe, a hammer, a set of swords and three named fighters, Garrik, Thulgrim and Rogar the Red, make up the mediums, with Valeria standing alone as the single high-pay symbol. Five of a kind returns 0.25x for a low, 0.5x to 2x for a medium, or 5x for Valeria, and wilds, both the standard and the 3x3 big wild, cover every symbol except the scatter.

Every winning combination clears from the grid and tumbles fresh symbols into place, and any tumble that lands a further win frees three random cells from the locked rows above. Once the whole grid opens and tumbling stops for the first time, a big wild drops into the centre for one more win check. A second-chance mechanic can also trigger when exactly two scatters remain visible after tumbling and the big wild hasn't already fired: the open cells clear back to just the scatters and refill from above.

Three or more unlocked scatters send play into the bonus game, adding an extra Expander symbol for every scatter beyond the third. The round starts with three spins, resetting to three whenever a new symbol lands, and continues until the counter runs out. Cash tiles hold a bet-multiplier value; Grabbers and the stronger Brutal Grabbers absorb the value of every other symbol on the grid; Zappers and Brutal Zappers double the value of anything chained to them; Boosters and Brutal Boosters push their value out to the rest of the grid; Doublers double on each reset; an Upgrader promotes neighbouring symbols to their stronger form; and Expanders keep freeing up the locked rows. Buying straight into the round costs 40x the stake for the three-scatter version or 185x for the five-scatter version. Stakes run from 20 cents to 100 per spin, the RTP reaches 96.19% at its best configuration before stepping down through 94.19% and 92.07% to 84.21%, volatility is rated high at 5 out of 5, hit frequency lands at 21.98%, and the maximum win on Cash Truck Begins is 20,000x the stake.