Cash Chips — RTP, volatility and max win

Cash Chips by Pragmatic Play brings the casino table to the reels: chips, playing cards, diamonds, bells, cherries and horseshoes glow in red flames and gold. At its centre is a bonus wheel that hands out fixed jackpots, multipliers and entry to the free spins.

Cash Chips was released on September 27, 2023 and mixes classic fruit-machine symbols with a casino look and fire. The reel window measures 5×3 and carries 20 paylines. The minimum bet is €0.20, the maximum €240, an unusually high ceiling. The hit frequency of 16.67% shows that base-game wins are fairly sparse; the game leans on its many bonus elements instead.

The base game pays on fixed lines: identical symbols must touch each other along a single line, and the game has 20 paylines. Wilds close gaps in a line, and random extra wilds join in on some spins. Alongside the lines runs a count in the style of the nine-masks games, where certain symbols pay wherever they land. Scatter and bonus symbols are counted separately and start the special features.

The wheel: bonus symbols bring the wheel into play. It awards fixed jackpots, multipliers or entry to the free spins.

Free spins: scatters trigger them, and before they begin you choose between different modes. A free spins multiplier applies, random multipliers can lift wins further, and extra scatters extend the round.

Additive symbols: they add their values up to one total win instead of forming a line.

Bonus buy: if you don't want to wait for the trigger, you can buy the free spins outright.

Since the bonus wheel in Cash Chips awards fixed jackpots, put it next to other inferno slots with jackpots and their top prizes.

RTP 96.03%. Background: how RTP works on a slot. Volatility High, like 85 of the 182 slots in the Fire & flame theme. Background: what slot volatility means. Max win 10,000× (€2,400,000 at the highest stake). Background: what max win means on a slot. Hit frequency 16.67%: roughly one spin in 6 wins.

The 96.03% return lifts Cash Chips just above the median of the Inferno slots.

In max win terms, 10,000× lands in the upper third, with roughly 75% of the collection ranking lower. High volatility suits a game whose big amounts come from jackpots, the wheel and multipliers rather than the lines.

Pragmatic Play sets a band, and each casino chooses where Cash Chips sits in it; the list of inferno slots ranked by RTP gives the highest value for each game to compare against.

Similar to Cash Chips: slot games with flames on the reels, a nearby RTP and a high-volatility profile.