A crew of thieves has spent months planning one night at the bank: a grifter already inside dressed as a security guard, a hacker, and a masked leader in red. That leader is the wild in Heist Stakes, PG Soft's June 2021 slot, and she does her best work on the middle reel. One wild there turns the whole reel wild, and the reel stays that way through the cascades that follow. Over 100 demo spins at 12.00 I won 26 times, and two spins with a wild middle reel made almost the whole result.
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300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays freeA vault-shaped board, 720 ways
The five reels are cut like a vault door: three rows on the outer reels, four on reels two and four, five in the middle. Multiplied together the heights give 720 ways, and that count never changes. Wins pay from reel one rightwards and cascade.
The masked leader appears on the three middle reels. On reels two and four she only substitutes; on reel three she starts the Unlimited Wild Symbols Feature.
Safe of gold at the top
Prizes are paid per way. Five of a kind on one way, measured against the 20 points a spin costs, comes out as follows:
| Symbol | 3 / 4 / 5 | Five on one way vs stake |
|---|---|---|
| Safe of gold and gems | 15 / 20 / 50 | 2.5x |
| Sack of gold bars | 12 / 15 / 25 | 1.25x |
| Jewel bag | 10 / 12 / 20 | 1x |
| Cash bundle, coin purse | 8 / 10 / 15 | 0.75x |
| A, K | 5 / 8 / 10 | 0.5x |
| Q, J | 3 / 5 / 8 | 0.4x |
The gaps are narrow: three Qs already pay three points, and five safes only 50. The value of a spin depends far more on the wild column than on which symbol completes the ways.
Unlimited Wild: the middle reel turns
When a wild appears on reel three, every symbol on that reel becomes a wild. After each win, wilds keep dropping into reel three, so the full wild column holds until the cascade runs dry. Every matching pair on reels one and two then connects with whatever lines up on reels four and five.
Spin 28 shows it at full strength. Aces filled reel one and part of reel two, the middle reel went wild, and the first round paid 144.00. The wild column stayed, the next round added 135.00, and the spin closed at 279.00, more than 23 stakes.
The same feature produced 114.00 on spin 52 and 96.00 on spin 78. Spins without it never passed 40.00, a little over three stakes; 720 ways is not a large number, and the paytable is compact.
Ten free spins with a climbing multiplier
Three scatters give 10 free spins, each extra one 2 more. Here a multiplier joins in: x1 for the opening free spin, one step more after each round that wins, and no reset until the round is over.
The feature arrived on spin 77, and the spin that triggered it had already paid 99.00 with a wild middle reel. The free spins started slowly: by the eighth spin the multiplier had crept to x6 and the round stood at 115.20. Then a wild landed on reel three again, the column turned, and that free spin paid 232.80 over several rounds, one of them worth 168.00, while the multiplier moved past x7.
The last free spin missed, and the round totalled 348.00, 29 stakes; with the trigger the whole spin was worth 447.00. Whole reels of wilds also decide Bikini Paradise, where each full wild reel carries its own multiplier.
Studio figures and my result
The bet never left 12.00, the demo's opening value of size 0.30 on level 2, so a point was worth 0.60. The balance finished at 100,235.20, which means 1,435.20 back on 1,200.00 staked, and spin 77 alone returned 447.00 of it. On the studio's game page it is listed at 96.72% with a top prize of 30,000x. The demo is free to play like every other PG Soft slot reviewed here.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | June 2021 |
| Reels | 5: 3-4-5-4-3 rows, cascades |
| Ways | 720 fixed, base bet 20 |
| Unlimited Wild | A wild on reel 3 turns the whole reel wild for the cascade |
| Free spins | 10 for 3 scatters, +2 per extra; multiplier +1 per win, kept for the round |
| RTP | 96.72% |
| Max win | 30,000x |
| Bet in the demo | 0.60 to 180.00 per spin |
Heist Stakes FAQ
What is the Unlimited Wild Symbols Feature?
Does the multiplier reset during free spins?
How many ways does Heist Stakes have?
What starts the free spins?
Everything runs through reel three
Heist Stakes is a one-trick game, and the trick is a good one. Spins without a wild on the middle reel pay little; spins with one can pay twenty stakes or more in the base game, and in the free spins the same column meets a multiplier that only goes up. My two best moments came from that pairing, on spin 28 and in the free spins of spin 77.