Cash Elevator

Cash Elevator Slot Review

A brass floor dial arcs over the reels, lightning cracks behind the lobby windows, and a raven perched on the ironwork looks on. The storm-lashed art-deco hotel of Pragmatic Play‘s Cash Elevator is the easy thing to notice, but the interesting thing is that it’s a slot you can’t play casually: this game remembers which of its thirteen floors you’ve reached at every stake level, so a single change of bet erases your progress and drops you back to the ground.

The setup underneath is a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, running at 96.64% RTP with low volatility, a 20,000x win cap and stakes from 0.20 to 240 per spin. If the hotel look appeals, Towering Fortunes covers similar vertical territory, and the studio’s Fire Portals chases bigger swings. Cash Elevator’s own pitch is stranger and more patient than either.

Base Game & Features

All symbols pay from left to right on the 20 fixed paylines, with only the highest win counted per line and multiple line wins added together. Wins are scaled by the line bet, and the paytable values below are shown as multiples of the total bet.

• Cash Elevator (building): 2.5x, 15x, 50x for three, four, five
• Cat: 1.25x, 7.5x, 30x
• Pocket Watch: 1x, 5x, 25x
• Telephone: 0.4x, 1x, 5x
• Key: 0.4x, 1x, 5x
• Car: 0.4x, 1x, 5x
• Suitcases: 0.4x, 1x, 5x
• A, K, Q, J: 0.3x, 0.75x, 3x
• 10, 9: 0.2x, 0.5x, 2.25x

Wild symbols appear only in the Dead Lovers free spins, where they substitute for everything except the UP, DOWN and MONEY symbols.

The Cash Elevator Feature

The game is built as a lift in a thirteen-floor building with a basement, and it starts on the third floor. Every floor strips the lowest-value symbols off the reel strips, so the higher you climb, the fewer cheap symbols there are to land.

Wins move you between floors, and arrows move you further. A win containing the lowest symbol remaining on your current floor takes you up one floor. ARROW symbols land only on reel 3: an UP arrow carries the game 1, 2, 3 or 12 floors higher, while a DOWN arrow drops it 1, 2 or 3 floors.

There’s a memory in the machine, too. Your current floor is saved for every bet level, so returning to a stake you’ve used before restores its floor. A brand new stake level resets the lift to floor one.

That stake-linked memory is the mechanic that makes the base game more than a reel set. It rewards settling on one bet and staying there, and it gives the floor dial a reason to matter on every spin.

Cash Elevator Bonus Features

Three features hang off the floor system, and each one engages with it differently:

• Dead Lovers Free Spins: a full 1×3 WILD on reel 2 or 4
• Hold and Spin: reaching floor 13 by any means
• Basement relocation: dropping below the first floor

Dead Lovers Free Spins

A full 1×3 WILD landing on reel 2 or reel 4 awards the round. Before it starts you pick one of three options to receive 6 to 12 free spins. If the round was triggered by 1×3 WILDS on both reels at once, the pick offers 12 to 24 instead.

The game then jumps to a random floor between one and twelve, with special reels in play. The round opens with full 1×3 WILDS on reels 1 and 5, and they stay on screen for the duration.

After any free spin that wins with the lowest symbol of the current floor, those wilds move one reel towards each other. When they meet on reel 3 they merge into a single symbol and award 5 extra free spins. Further qualifying wins split them apart again, first back to reels 2 and 4, then out to 1 and 5, after which they start walking towards each other once more.

That cycle can repeat indefinitely until all free spins are played. Once it’s over, the game returns to the floor it occupied before the feature began.

Hold and Spin

Reach floor 13 by any means and the Hold and Spin feature triggers. The game first moves to a random floor from one to twelve, then you pick one of three options to determine how many MONEY symbols the round starts with, anywhere from 3 to 11, scattered across random positions.

Only MONEY symbols and blank spaces appear during the round. A MONEY symbol can carry one of three things:

• A random cash value, redrawn from a set range at every respin
• A random multiplier of 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x applied to the round’s total
• A fixed amount tied to the floor the feature is played on

Where more than one multiplier lands in the same respin round, their values multiply together. That’s the route to the round’s biggest totals.

You start with four respins. Every MONEY symbol that lands sticks until the end, and any hit resets the respin count to four. The round runs until the respins are exhausted or every position is filled, at which point all values are added, multipliers applied, and the total paid.

After the payout, the game moves to a random floor from one to twelve and normal play resumes.

The Basement

Drop below the first floor and there’s no punishment beyond the ride. The game is automatically relocated to a random floor between one and twelve, and play continues from there.

One cap governs everything: any feature that reaches 20,000x the bet ends immediately, the win is paid, and any remaining free spins are forfeited.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 8/10

Riding this lift is a slow, deliberate business. You pick a stake, you stay there, and the hotel rewards the loyalty by quietly clearing junk symbols off the reels floor by floor. That’s the one reason to choose it: nowhere else does standing still get you a better game.

The Dead Lovers round is the best thing in the building. Two wilds that walk towards each other and pay five spins every time they meet give the free spins a rhythm most rounds can’t match, and because they can split and re-merge forever, a good round doesn’t know when to stop.

What it costs you is pace. Low volatility plus slow climbing means long stretches where the dial barely moves, and the top of this building is a very long ride up. For players who enjoy a long build at a steady stake, the lobby doors are open. Chasers of sudden big wins will find the wait too quiet.

Cash Elevator FAQs

• What is the RTP of Cash Elevator?

  Cash Elevator runs at 96.64% RTP.
• Is Cash Elevator high volatility?

  No. Cash Elevator is a low volatility game, paying out more often in smaller amounts while still offering the chance of a big win.
• How do the floors work in Cash Elevator?

  The game is an elevator across 13 floors and a basement. Each floor above the first removes the lowest-value symbols from the reels, and a win with the lowest symbol on your current floor takes you up one floor. UP and DOWN arrows on reel 3 move you multiple floors at a time. Your floor is saved per bet level, and a new bet level resets you to floor one.
• How do you trigger the Dead Lovers free spins in Cash Elevator?

  A full 1×3 WILD landing on reel 2 or reel 4 triggers the round, awarding 6 to 12 free spins. If full 1×3 WILDS land on both reels at once, the pick offers 12 to 24 free spins instead.
• Can the Dead Lovers free spins retrigger in Cash Elevator?

  Yes, indefinitely. Every time the two walking wilds meet on reel 3 and merge, the round awards 5 extra free spins, and further wins with the lowest floor symbol split them apart so the cycle can begin again.
• What happens when you reach floor 13 in Cash Elevator?

  Reaching floor 13 by any means triggers the Hold and Spin feature, where only MONEY symbols and blanks appear. You start with four respins that reset whenever a MONEY symbol lands, and the round ends when the respins run out or the screen fills.
• What happens if the elevator goes below the first floor?

  Nothing bad. Going under floor one simply reroutes you to a random floor somewhere between the ground and the twelfth, and the ride goes on.
• What is the maximum win on Cash Elevator?

  The maximum win is 20,000x your bet. If any feature reaches that amount, the round ends immediately, the win is paid and any remaining free spins are forfeited.
• What are the minimum and maximum bets on Cash Elevator?

  Stakes run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin.