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Vending Machine Slot Review

Titles don’t come much more self-explanatory than Vending Machine, the latest video slot from Hacksaw Gaming. The 5 reels and 5 rows of this 35-payline game are designed to look like the inside of a vending machine cabinet, full of snacks and drinks that light up for the Vending Machine bonus features, which include a range of multipliers, free spins and cascading symbols. 

The City at Night

There’s a certain atmosphere that you only find in a metropolis after dark. The usual crowds and noises are stilled and all the regular buildings are viewed in a new light. That’s the world we find in the Vending Machine slot. It could have been set in the corridor of a school or office, but instead it stands outside, a bench and streetlight on one side, a balcony overlooking the wider city on the other. Except for the yellow of the crescent moon and the lamp’s glow, it’s all shades of shadowy blue.

You might think everyone would be asleep in this night-time world, but there are signs of life everywhere. Little strands of green grow through the cracks in the pavement, a cat twitches its tail as it stares out across the balcony, and a young woman leans insouciantly against the vending machine itself, her hand in her pocket and eyes fixed on her glowing phone screen.

Stack up on Snacks

When you think about it, a vending machine is a perfect framework for a set of reels. It’s a wonder we don’t see it in more slots. There are inbuilt rows where every symbol is either a piece of food (including gum, sweets and sandwiches) or a soft drink. The theme is truly integrated in every way, right down to the woman giving it a kick to get it to work and the cat glaring at the noise.

Vending Machine RTP and Variance

The Vending Machine slot has an RTP of 96.28%. The variance is medium.

How to Play Vending Machine

Unfortunately, you can’t just put a coin in the machine and guarantee the symbols you want.

1. See the menu button? That’s the first place to find nearly everything you need, from switches for both sound and music to a link to the paytable.
2. On the other side of the screen, you’ll see your current bet and the arrows to adjust it. Get in good habits with your betting and budgeting, even in demo slots.
3. Some casinos make it easier than others to gamble responsibly, but it’s also down to you. That includes a budget and limits established before you hit spin.
4. Press spin or hit the space bar to turn the reels. You can’t control their landing, but you can keep reviewing your settings.
5. Stay in control, and stick to your limits.

How to Win at Vending Machine

When we buy stuff from vending machines, we’re not generally trying to collect specific combinations in order, but Vending Machine is also a 5-reel slot, which means you need to match identical symbols across those 5 reels, preferably following one of the 35 paylines. It’s not an unusual format in slots, despite its original theme.

Top Wins

• To understand payout potential, check the paytable. Popcorn wilds need a full 5 symbols to pay, but the 8 regular symbols start paying at three matches.
• You still need 5 symbols for the biggest payouts.
• There are 3 different scatter symbols that don’t pay but do have special functions.
• Food is worth less, while drinks are worth more. A sip through the 5 straws will earn you 20x your bet.
• Overall, the max win is x5000.

Vending Machine Bonuses

Lighting up the vending machine doesn’t just mean that a tasty snack is about to drop. It’s also a sign that you’ve triggered a win multiplier, one of several available bonus features. You can also find cascading symbols and free spins, similar to the Sloth Tumble slot but with different mechanisms. 

Cascading Symbols

These occur after winning spins in the base game, but unlike in most slots with the same feature, they may also occur randomly when no winning combinations remain. If there aren’t any winning symbols to remove, low-paying symbols disappear instead. In both cases, new symbols fall into the spaces.

Multipliers

Every row has a win multiplier at the end ranging from x2 to x10, but at the beginning of the game, these multipliers will be dark. They light up if that row lands some winning symbols or a lightning bolt scatter appears. That improves your overall payout. Each win increases the multiplier by 1. There’s also a multiplier boost scatter symbol that raises the multiplier by 2. Blackout skulls deactivate multipliers.

Free Spins

FS stands for free spins and it’s another type of scatter symbol. You need 3 of them for lo-fi free spins or 4 of them for spin and chill. Lo-fi spins are played with 3 rows of active multipliers and last until all multipliers are deactivated. Spin and chill works in a similar way, but with 5 active multipliers rather than 3. Not all slots have two different levels of free spins.

Max-win 5,000x

Volatility Medium

Top RTP 96.28%

Vending Machine Review - Summary 

The Vending Machine slot is full of atmosphere. Its distinctive look and feel set it apart from other slots. Bonus features are well integrated into the theme, have innovative mechanisms, and, thanks to the presence of multipliers, may have an overall positive impact on your total win. You’ll still need luck to be successful but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun, as we hope our Vending Machine slot review shows.
 

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