Money Minecarts - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Money Minecarts Slot Overview

Mining and playing slots are similar activities when you think about it. Both involve a search for something valuable, neither ever guarantee that you’ll find the treasure (often gold or gems) you seek. Slots do let you activate tools like timeout or self-exclusion to help protect you from failure, and in the case of 1x2 Gaming’s (under the Iron Dog Studios label) Money Minecart, they also come with free spins, a hold and win round, and more.

Down in the Underground

We haven’t seen the full game screen of the Down in the Underground slot yet, but from the images that have been released, it looks like we’ll get some typical mining slot imagery, set in a rocky, underground world where the titular minecarts run on wooden tracks. Our miner is a big-bellied, gap-toothed man in jeans, checked shirt and red jacket, a broad brimmed hat on his head, just like the guy in Prospector Wilds Megaways. He’s putting his pickaxe to work hunting gold and gems.

Money Minecarts RTP & Volatility

• RTP: 95%


• Volatility: high

How to Play Money Minecarts

Hard hats on, let’s go digging:

1. Having a budget when playing a slot is like wearing that hard hat, it protects you from dangers, so have it ready before you start.


2. Find the bet adjustor, which has a minimum of 20p, and modify your stake to your preferred level.


3. Read through the paytable, rules and other relevant information so you know exactly what you’re doing.
4. Change any other settings, like sound, that aren’t as you like them.


5. Hit the spin button and enjoy the experience.


6. When you hit your limits, stop.


7. Have fun and be responsible.

How to Win at Money Minecarts

Our Money Minecarts slot overview is slightly limited because we don’t have access to the full game yet, so we haven’t seen the paylines or paytable. We’ll do the best we can, including giving you some more details about the features attached to 3 different minecarts, and the 2 bonus rounds.

Money Minecarts Gameplay Flow & Systems

Without a full copy of the game, it’s difficult for us to fully evaluate the flow and systems of the base game or bonus rounds of the Money Minecarts slot. You’ll be looking for winning combinations, however they’re formed, and occasionally you may find the right scatter symbol or coin combination for a bonus. The ability to reset the spin count does mean the hold and win feature will usually last longer than just 3 spins.

Money Minecarts Win Rules & Symbols

No paytable means we haven’t had a chance to see the regular symbols, let alone their values. We also don’t know about the payline layout, or even if there are paylines as opposed to cluster pays or scatter pays. We are sure there’s a wild, and that bonus rounds depend on either the scatter symbol or the coin symbol.

Money Minecarts Top Win

• As a general rule, the plainer or more generic a symbol, the lower its value.


• Meanwhile, more complex or themed symbols generally sit at the top of the paytable.


• Overall, the max win available is x1500.

Money Minecarts Bonuses

The Money Minecarts bonus features are the area where we have the most confidence in the details. The 3 minecart features, including multipliers, jackpots and collect, which depend on the particular minecart’s colour, then the free spins and hold and win rounds and the way they can boost your payout potential.

Minecarts

There are 3 types of minecart in the Money Minecarts slot. You can distinguish them by their colours, with blue, purple and red all making an appearance. Each one of them has its own distinct feature for you to unlock. You could double, you could find a mystery prize, or you could collect.

Blue (double): All the cash symbols in view double in value.

Purple (mystery): all coins will gain a multiplier or jackpot value at random. Multipliers are worth between 15x and 100x.

Red (collect): gather up all the coins in view and add their values to your total win.

Hold and Win

Landing 6 coins triggers the first 3 spins, with the spin count returning to 3 every time a new coin appears during the round. You can trigger any combination of double, mystery and collect powers if the right coin(s) land. At the end of the feature, you total up all your coin values for your final payout.

Free Spins

With 3 or more scatters in the base game, you’ll see yourself awarded 8 free spins. These mostly function the same as base game spins, other than you not needing to stake any extra money, but there is an additional feature. The wild picks up a 2x multiplier that applies any time it joins your winning symbols.

Max-win 15,000x

Volatility High

Top RTP 95.00%

Money Minecarts Slot Summary

From what we’ve seen of the Money Minecarts slot so far, it uses standard imagery for its theme, though the bright colours and 3D, cartoon style mean it's not as dull as some similar games that rely on earthy browns. Judging by the design of the miner himself, there’s also a sense of humour about it all.

As for the features, free spins and hold and win are both pretty common modern bonuses. You may even have seen them in other 1x2 Gaming slots. These two don’t deviate too much from the norm, though obviously the multiplier wilds and colour coded features are nice additions. The minecart features also add something extra to the gameplay.