Bust The Bank Slot Machine

Pros

• Every winning combination results in really fun and engaging animations on the reels, which are accompanied by sound effects and give the game an extra edge.
• The game includes not one but two different bonus rounds to add extra interest to gameplay and also awards random bonus prizes courtesy of its bank robbing main characters, Bob and Larry.
• Potentially very lucrative free spins, where reels one and five are both wild, can be triggered thanks to the slot’s scatter symbol.

Cons

• Whilst Bust The Bank carries it off pretty well, the overall bank robbery theme is a pretty standard and well-worn one.
• Away from the bonus rounds and free spins, the slot’s jackpots are perhaps a little disappointing and make the game a little less generous than many similar alternatives.

Top Jackpots

As we’ve already mentioned, Bust The Bank does give players a variety of ways to win away from the base game on the reels. The top jackpots, however, are still achieved by seeing five of the slot’s most valuable symbols appear along those reels. The three most valuable symbol combinations and the rate at which those combinations pay are detailed below:

• Five Larry the Robber Symbols = 50 times the total bet
• Five Bob the Robber Symbols = 33.33 times the total bet
• Five Security Guard Symbols = 16.66 times the total bet

Game Features

Bonus

There are two different bonus symbols which, if they appear in the right place on the Bust The Bank reels, can trigger two diverse bonus rounds. If the game’s Safe symbol appears in any position on reels one or five, the Safe bonus is triggered and players have the chance to win coin value prizes. If the Piggy Bank symbol appears in any position on reel three, meanwhile, a player can click the resulting Piggy Bank to receive a ‘Smashing Wild Coin Prize’. Players should keep an eye out for Bob and Larry whilst playing Bust The Bank, too, as they can suddenly appear and provide bonus prizes.

Free Spins

If three, four or five of the slot’s Bomb Scatter symbol appear anywhere on the reels, it triggers a set of eight free spins. During those free spins, both reel one and reel five are wild reels and whenever another Bomb Scatter appears it adds an extra free spin.

Regular Symbols

Bust The Bank sticks closely to its theme when it comes to the images on the less valuable symbols which grace the reels. Whereas the more valuable symbols depict human characters, the less valuable ones show off images of different locations or items related to bank robberies. Combinations made up of those symbols pay out at a significantly lower level than the more valuable symbols:

• Five Bank Symbols = 5 x the total bet
• Five Armoured Car Symbols = 3.33 x the total bet
• Five Dynamite Symbols = 2.5 x the total bet
• Five Guard Dog Symbols = 1.66 x the total bet

Betting Limits

As and when Bust The Bank players want to change the size of their bet per spin, they have two ways of doing so. They can alter the number of coins they wager on each spin and can choose how much they want each coin to be worth.

Between a minimum of one and a maximum of ten coins can be bet on each spin and the value of each coin can be set at anywhere from 1p to R40. As the slot is a 243 ways to win format game, the chosen bet amount then always has a 30x bet multiplier applied to it. That means that the minimum possible bet is 30p and the maximum is R13 000.

Overall Rating

It would be tempting to see that Bust The Bank is yet another bank robbery themed slot and to simply write it off on that basis. You’d be missing out if you did, however, as it is definitely one of the better slot’s within that over-populated genre. The game utilises the theme really quite well, and has added features such as animated symbols and two bonus games to keep gameplay really interesting.

Those bonus rounds, along with wild symbols and free spins, also help to boost the winning potential of the slot and largely mitigate the somewhat disappointing main game jackpots. A final area where Bust The Bank excels, too, is in providing players with a really wide variety of potential bet sizes. Lower budget players, after all, can bet just 30p per spin whilst higher rollers will be happy with the R13 000 maximum limit.