Take the Money: Slot Overview
If you’ve ever harboured bank robbing fantasies, but, you know, are an honest, law-abiding player, then online slots could provide just the outlet. Heists are a fairly big theme in the online gambling scene, and software provider Red Tiger has made the selection wider by developing Take the Money. This is a slot played in cycles of spins that is not only able to build a pot of cash, but also calculate a precise cut percentage which players collect at the end of the cycle when the takings are divvied up.
These days, robbing a bank has got to be hard, risky work, what with CCTV all over the place, modern detective methods, not to mention all the danger involved. To get around this, the crook in Take the Money’s big idea is to… dress up in a clown mask? Sure, a mask hides your identity, but yeah, not sure about that. Bill Murray used a similar approach in the film ‘Quick Change’, so maybe it would work? Anyway, let’s skip the real-world experimentation to enjoy a pretend clown-masked heist instead, and Take the Money helps by providing some decent vault imagery to fuel the mental imagining.
The steel-framed play area consists of a 5×3, 25-payline reelset, four Big Heist prize values, the Score and the Cut meter – what these do is covered below. First comes the bet selection, where the options are 10c to $/€8 per spin. The RTP at the most is 96.11%, though several lower values are also available, while the volatility is high, and winning potential rather high as well.
Ten to ace card royals are Take the Money’s low pay symbols, and banknotes, watches, drawers of loot, and a guy in a clown mask are the high pays. Hitting 5 matching royals in a winning combination awards 4x-6x, or 8x-40x is paid for landing 5 matching premium symbols in a line. The wild substitutes for all paying symbols, helping to complete winning lines. Wilds appear on all reels, and if they create a 5 OAK wild win, it is worth 400x.
Take the Money: Slot Features
Take the Money is played in batches of spins where the task is to load up the Score meter and the Cut percentage to build as big a final prize as possible. When free spins trigger, they are solely focused on potentially increasing the Score and Cut.
Bank Heist
The Bank Heist takes place in cycles of 20 spins. A counter above the reels keeps track. Also displayed is a Heist Score amount and a Cut percentage. The Score can be increased by landing Gold Coins, Big Heist, or Heist Multipliers – up to a maximum of 10,000x. The Cut percentage can be increased by landing Cut symbols, up to 100%. After the final spin in the Bank Heist, a portion of the Score equal to the Cut percentage is awarded.
- Cut symbol – has values of 1% to 50%.
- Gold Coins – carry values of 1x to 20x the bet.
- Big Heist – four prize values are displayed above the reels. They are the 25x Mini, 100x Minor, 1,000x Major, and the 10,000x Mega.
- Score multiplier – holds a value of x2 to x10, which multiplies the current Score amount after any increments made by Gold Coins or Big Heist symbols.
Free Spins
Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards 8, 12, or 20 free spins. During free spins, only Gold Coins, Big Heist, Score Multipliers and Cut symbols may land, and they lock till the feature ends. Free spins are not counted towards the Bank Heist spin cycle, providing a chance to increase the Heist Score and the Cut percentage. The bonus round will end if all positions are filled with locked symbols.
Take the Money: Slot Verdict
Red Tiger is no stranger to slots that operate in batches of spins, performing a certain action while the cycle is active before triggering a special event on the final spin. One that came to mind was Siren’s Riches, played in 15 spin rounds, adding things like wilds, multipliers, respins, and a monetary award depending on the progress. Like that game, Take the Money’s spin system is quite evolved as well, and the way the Score and Cut values tie right into heisting is actually quite inventive on Red Tiger’s part, giving imaginative gamblers additional mental fuel to slip into the pretend bank robber role.
And unless the 20 Bank Heist spins are a total bust and no Score or Cut-related symbols land, which seems unlikely, then players know they’re going to win something at the end of the cycle. The payout might end up being minuscule, but there’s probably going to be something to collect, which is a motivating factor. This system might be fun for numbers people too, as they can figure out what 28% of $/€76 (or whatever happens to be on the meter) while spins are playing through. This is a system that might be painful if the Score is big, but the Cut isn’t, and vice versa. The opposite might happen as well, letting wannabe bank robbers rub their hands in glee as the spin cycle closes in on a sizable reward.
Despite a solid theoretical max win of 10,009.2x, however, the excitement fizzles quickly, leaving behind a system that feels more like work than play. Take the Money tries to deliver a structured, numbers-based heist fantasy, but ultimately, it’s a dry and forgettable experience that fails to cash in on its potential.
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