Hotline Online Slot: Follow the Wild Red Car; It Expands and Triggers a Respin if in a Hotline Spot
Hotline, a 30-payline online slot created and released by NetEnt, is evocative of the circa 80s hit TV series Miami Vice. Two of the characters occurring as high-win symbols resemble undercover detectives, Sonny Crocket and Ricardo Tubbs. Yet in this game, the image that can draw the most interest is that of a classy Lady Jewel Thief named Kathy Weiss. Running the game plays out a car chase scene involving Kathy's sleek sports car and a police car.
During pursuit, the snazzy red car may land on a Hotline and expand as a full reel image. Such an event will give the spin a boost, since the expanded chase scene represents the Wild Symbol. A Hotline by the way, is any row highlighted by a yellow frame. A Wild cell landing on a Hotline not only develops into a full image, covering the entire reel. It also triggers a Respin, whilst remaining in place for the free turn. In free rounds, the Hotline will keep Expanded Wilds in place throughout the remaining spins.
Kathy Weiss' image is the highest paying symbol; awarding 30, 90, or 200 credits on every set of 3, 4, or 5 that organizes as a winning payline arrangement. On its own, a Wild Symbol is a non-paying icon; 1 or more Car Chase Wilds has to combine with identical images; garnering payouts based on the Paytable Values of the non-wild element.
Hotline Feature and Bonus Bets
To activate a Hotline, players must stake at least 15 credits per payline. Activating 2 or 3 Hotlines requires increasing the line bet credits to 30 or 45, respectively. To make the process of activating or deactivating Hotlines easier, NetEnt placed activation Buttons beside each row.
A Yellow Button lights up the row next to it, indicating that that particular area is a Hotline. If a player so chooses, he or she can click on all three Buttons to set the entire grid in Hotline Mode.
Now if a player wishes to deactivate a particular Hotline, simply click on the Yellow Button beside the selected row. The Yellow Button will then turn Blue; indicating that the row next to it, is a non-Hotline area.
Hotline Online Slot: Expanding Wild with Respin Feature
As mentioned earlier, a Police Pursuit scene enlarges when it lands on a Hotline spot. Each cell composing the enlarged image can act as substitute icon, for purposes of completing a paying pattern.
Moreover, the Expanded Wild image locks in place, since a corollary Respin will ensue.
Should another or more Police Pursuit scenes land on available Hotline spots, another Respin launches. It follows that the next free roll will have more than one Sticky Expanded Wilds in place.
Hotline Online Slot: Free Games
The tile with a picturesque Sunset Scenery poses as Bonus Symbol trigger. Such images though are exclusive to Reels 1, 3, and 5. If after a base game spin, all three reels return with at least one Sunset Symbol, seven (7) Free Games will be awarded. However, the Sunset Symbol will not appear during free rounds; eliminating the possibility of retriggering additional bonus spins.
The bonus bout will carry on with the same Hotline areas activated at the time the free games set off. When the Police Pursuit Expands after a Hotline landing, the full reel image will remain in place until all remaining free-spins have been played.
It is possible to simultaneously activate the Free-Spins and the Respin Feature by way of a single spin, If such is the case, the grid will first play out the Free Round, before running the Respin Bonus.
