Cash Patrol

Cash Patrol Slot Review

Under a night-time city sky, the reels of Cash Patrol sit in the front of a vintage squad car, chrome grille, round headlamps and a red beacon spinning on each shoulder. That loving cop-and-donuts dressing hides the least nostalgic game imaginable: Pragmatic Play have taken one of the industry’s most repeated ideas and given it five distinct outcomes off a single trigger, which is more variety per spin than most games built this way ever offer.

It’s a 5×3 grid with 25 paylines, running at 96.5% RTP in its default configuration though operators can run a lower setting, with medium volatility and a 10,500x maximum win. Bets run from 0.25 to 250 per spin. It shares its collecting DNA with Empty the Bank and Money Stacks, both of which push the same money-symbol idea harder in different directions.

How the Base Game Pays

All symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost, across 25 fixed paylines. Only the highest win counts per line, and wins on multiple lines are added together. Free spins and bonus wins are added to the payline win.

The wild appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 and substitutes for everything except the bonus, money and collect symbols, so it helps line wins along without touching the feature machinery at all. Every value in the list below is a multiple of the total bet, not the line bet:

• Car – 0.4x for three, 2x for four, 32x for five
• Money/Cash Stack – 0.2x, 1.2x, 7x
• Police Hat – 0.2x, 1x, 6x
• Handcuffs – 0.2x, 1x, 5x
• A – 0.2x, 0.8x, 4x
• K, Q, J – 0.2x, 0.4x, 4x
• Bonus symbol – three pay 1x the total bet and trigger the free spins
• Wild – substitutes for all symbols except bonus, money and collect

The royals are flat and forgettable; the car is the only symbol that pays anything meaningful at the top end, and even that needs a full five across. The real money lives in the feature symbols, not the reel strips.

The Money Collect Feature

This is the engine of the game. Money symbols land on reels 1 to 4 and carry a random value on every spin, drawn from 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 15x, 18x, 20x, 25x, 30x or 35x the total bet. Collect symbols land only on reel 5.

When a money symbol and a collect symbol share a screen, one of five variants fires:

• Collect – sums and pays all money symbol values on screen
• Extra Credit Collect – adds 1x to 10x to every money symbol first
• Multiplier Collect – multiplies all values by 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x or 25x
• Expanding Collect – fills money-bearing reels with money symbols
• Respin Collect – locks money symbols and respins the rest once

Collect

The plain version. Every money symbol on screen is added together and paid. Simple, and the weakest of the five.

Extra Credit Collect

The collect symbol’s own value, between 1x and 10x the total bet, is added to every money symbol on screen first, then everything is summed and paid. Possible values are 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x. On a screen with four or five money symbols this turns modest values into something respectable.

Multiplier Collect

All money symbol values on screen are multiplied by the collect symbol’s multiplier before being paid. A 25x multiplier over a full screen is the stuff the 10,500x ceiling is made of.

Expanding Collect

Every reel holding at least one money symbol expands to fill completely with money symbols, each taking a fresh random value, and the lot is paid. Four expanded reels of money symbols is the loudest sight the base game produces.

Respin Collect

All money symbols lock in place and every other cell respins once, potentially landing more money symbols, before the final total is paid. It’s a single respin, not a hold-and-win chain, so its ceiling is lower than it first looks.

None of these five variants is new, and the feature is standard money-collect architecture. What lifts it is the variety: the base game has five different outcomes hanging off one trigger, which keeps a familiar mechanic from feeling like a single repeated event.

Free Spins and the Bonus Pot

Landing all three bonus symbols across the middle reels awards eight free spins. Money symbols and all five collect variants stay active throughout, but with a twist: every money symbol that lands during the round feeds its value into a bonus pot rather than paying on the spot.

When the spins end, the pot’s entire value returns to the reels as a single giant money symbol covering reels 1 to 4, and one final respin plays out. If a collect symbol lands on reel 5 for that respin, the whole pot is paid. That closing respin is the round’s whole point: eight spins of accumulation riding on one last reel.

Three bonus symbols during the round retrigger eight more spins, with no limit on the number of retriggers, and special reels are in play for the duration. The combination of endless retriggers feeding one pot is what gives the feature its escalation potential.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.5/10

Playing Cash Patrol is a steady patrol rather than a car chase, and that’s exactly why someone would pick it: the reels keep handing you small cases to work, and the squad-car dressing makes the routine charming. The one reason to be here is the free spins round, where eight spins feed a pot that comes down to a single closing respin. That’s a genuinely tense way to end a bonus, and it’s the best thing in the game.

The weakness sits either side of it. The line pays barely register, and the base game between collects is a quiet street. The five variants carry the whole game, and they’re all borrowed architecture dressed in police livery.

So it’s for players who like collect features and want them firing often without the punishing waits of a high-volatility build. Anyone chasing a design they haven’t seen before should keep driving. The streets stay safe on this patrol, and that’s a fair result.

Cash Patrol FAQs

• What is the RTP of Cash Patrol?

  Cash Patrol runs at 96.5% RTP in its default configuration, though operators can choose a lower setting of 95.5%. Always check the RTP at your chosen casino before playing.
• Is Cash Patrol high volatility?

  No. Cash Patrol is a medium volatility slot, which means payouts tend to come steadily with a range from low to very high, rather than in the rare large bursts of a high volatility game.
• How many paylines does Cash Patrol have?

  Cash Patrol has 25 fixed paylines. All symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win per line is paid.
• What is the grid size of Cash Patrol?

  Cash Patrol plays on a 5×3 grid, five reels and three rows, with money symbols on reels 1 to 4 and collect symbols appearing only on reel 5.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Cash Patrol?

  Bets run from 0.25 to 250 per spin, giving a wide spread that covers casual play and higher-stakes sessions alike.
• How do you trigger free spins in Cash Patrol?

  Bonus symbols appear on reels 2, 3 and 4, and landing one on each of the three middle reels starts eight free spins. During the round, every money symbol’s value feeds a bonus pot, which returns as a giant money symbol on reels 1 to 4 for one final respin at the end. Repeat the three-symbol landing to retrigger eight more spins, with no limit.
• What does the Money Collect feature do in Cash Patrol?

  When money symbols land on reels 1 to 4 and a collect symbol lands on reel 5, one of five collect variants fires: a plain Collect that sums and pays all values, Extra Credit Collect which adds 1x to 10x to each money symbol first, Multiplier Collect which multiplies values by 2x to 25x, Expanding Collect which fills reels with money symbols, and Respin Collect which locks money symbols in place and respins the rest.
• Who makes Cash Patrol and what is the maximum win?

  Cash Patrol is a Pragmatic Play slot with a maximum win of 10,500x the total bet. Its release date is 20 June 2022.