Hotline Slot

Hotline is based on a concept which is outlined in a small video intro at the start of the game. It introduces the detectives Quinn and Rivera who are in pursuit of a jewellery thief named Kitty Weiss. Most of the features are thematically linked to this exciting car chase in an inventive way.

The first and most frequently seen bonus are the Wilds. In this game, the Wilds are represented as the red sports car which is owned by Kitty, the jewel thief.  It can substitute in for any symbol on the board bar the scatter. In this way, it helps to generate more wins.

However, Wilds in Hotline also have other capabilities. One of which is triggered when a Wild lands on a Hotline row. If this should happen, it becomes an expanding Wild. Once in this form, it can expand to cover the entire reel on which it landed, therefore creating more chances for players to form bigger wins.

Lastly, when a Wild lands on a Hotline and expands, players will be granted a Re-Spin. Re-spins are the same as the initial spins with the same Hotline rows, coin values and bet levels.

Next on the feature list are Hotline Free Spins. To earn free spins, players must pay attention to the scatter symbols. These can appear on either reel 1,3 or 5. Scatters when they land grant players seven free spins. The Hotline Bonus Bet will emulate the conditions of the round in which the free spins were activated initially.

If you should be so lucky as to land an expanding wild during a free spins round, then it will ‘stick’ on the reel until the free spins have been exhausted.

Lastly, there is the Hotline Bonus Game, which NetEnt say is a feature unique to Hotline. This bonus game concerns the three-round icons which are displayed to the left of the screen. When you launch the game initially, one of these icons will be coloured yellow. This means that that row is an activated Hotline.

For every spin, in the base game, at least one of these icons will be illuminated. However, players have the choice of illuminating two or even three rows when setting up the game, depending on the level of risk they wish to take.  Activating the double or triple Hotline correlates to activating a double or triple bet. This will increase the stake for each spin; however, it will also increase the probability of landing Wilds on the activated rows.

In selecting between one two or three activated Hotlines, players change the return to player percentage. One row Hotlined – 96.13%; two rows Hotlined – 96.7%; three rows Hotlined – 97.04%.