Furlong Fortunes Sprint Slot Review
A sunlit racecourse, flower beds crowding the bottom of the screen and a reel cabinet framed like a racing club’s trophy case, all gilt scrollwork and rope-twist columns. That’s Furlong Fortunes Sprint: a day at the track, dressed for a summer meeting.
For all that polish, this is a gentle board with unusually big numbers sitting just above it. It plays on a 5×3 grid at 96.48% RTP on low volatility, from Inspired, the same stable as Centurion Megaways and Big Bonus. It’s a far gentler ride than either – the quiet horse in a field of louder ones.
Reels, Jockeys and the Horseshoe Wild
Wins come from matching three, four or five symbols across a valid win line, and the coin symbols are the one exception to that rule. The paying cast is a racing one. The game’s own logo leads the field, followed by three jockeys on horseback, with the card suits J, Q, K and A filling out the lower end.
Each jockey is colour-coded so you can read the reels at a glance, which matters more than it sounds in a game this quick and calm. The red and white rider is the pick of the three. The yellow jockey sits a step behind, and the green and red rider brings up the rear of the premiums.
All paytable values are multiples of the total bet rather than the line bet:
- Furlong Fortunes Sprint logo: 22.5x for five, 4.5x for four, 2x for three
- Red and white jockey: 15x for five, 3x for four, 1.5x for three
- Yellow jockey: 12.5x for five, 2x for four, 1x for three
- Green and red jockey: 7.5x for five, 1.5x for four, 0.5x for three
- J, Q, K and A: 3.5x for five, 1x for four, 0.3x for three
Two things stand out from that ladder. The top symbol pays more than the three jockeys combined for a five-of-a-kind, so the logo is doing real work rather than decoration. And the drop from the premiums down to the royals is steep enough that the bigger line wins all live at the top of the board.
The wild is a horseshoe stamped with the word WILD, it substitutes for every symbol except the coin, and it only ever appears on reels two, three and four. That’s its whole job, and it does it without fuss. Because it’s restricted to the middle three reels it can’t build a five-of-a-kind on its own, but it can complete one from the middle outward, which is where its value lies.
Coin Multipliers
Coins are the unusual piece of this design. They carry printed multipliers and they’re deliberately excluded from the standard line-win rule, so a coin isn’t a symbol you match three of. It does its own thing, and the wild can’t stand in for it either.
- x10 – the entry-level coin
- x20 – second step of the ladder
- x25 – the middle value
- x50 – the second-highest coin
- x100 – the top of the coin range
Even the x10 coin out-pays every royal combination on the board, and the x100 coin out-pays the logo’s five-of-a-kind several times over. A coin landing anywhere on the reels is a bigger event than most of the standard line wins.
What the game never explains is how a coin’s multiplier is applied to a win, beyond the number printed on it. The x100 coin is clearly the one to hope for. The range between x10 and x100 is wide enough that the difference between a low coin and a high one is the difference between a tidy win and a genuinely good one.
The Race Streak and Lucky Lucy’s Form
Across the top of the reels sits a banner with the game’s other idea: win consecutive races with your horse and the game pays a fixed prize. The prizes escalate with the streak:
- Two races in a row: a fixed prize of 100.00
- Three races in a row: a fixed prize of 1,000.00
The jump between the two is tenfold, so the third race is where the banner gets serious. The shape of the reward is clear enough: consistency across consecutive races, not a single lucky spin, is what the banner pays for.
How a race is actually run and won is the part the game keeps to itself, which leaves the mechanic more decoration than instruction. A horse named Lucky Lucy also has a form counter in the header, ticking up from 00000. Racing form is a record of past performances, so the counter suggests the game is tracking something about Lucy’s runs, but it leaves the meaning to the imagination.
Between the banner and the counter, the top of the screen promises a racing game inside the slot that never quite explains itself.
Put together with the coin multipliers, the streak banner means this low volatility board has two routes to a prize well beyond its paytable. That combination, a calm base game with a couple of unexplained escalations sitting on top of it, is the whole character of the game.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.9/10
This is a slow afternoon at a pretty racecourse: the reels turn gently, the balance drifts rather than dives, and every so often a coin or a banner promises something the paytable itself would never pay. The one reason to choose it is that contrast – a steady board with a couple of much bigger numbers floating above it.
The coins are the best idea here. A multiplier symbol sitting outside the line-win rule gives a plain grid a second thing to root for, and even the x10 coin embarrasses the royals. The race streak is the disappointment: a tenfold jump from 100.00 to 1,000.00 is a serious prize, and the game never says what you actually do to win a race, so the ladder hangs there unclaimed.
It suits players who like long, calm sessions with occasional glances at the top of the screen, and it will leave anyone chasing five-figure hits unsatisfied. For a gentle day at the track, Furlong Fortunes Sprint is good company – just don’t come expecting to learn how the races are actually run.
Furlong Fortunes Sprint FAQs
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What is the RTP of Furlong Fortunes Sprint?
Furlong Fortunes Sprint runs at an RTP of 96.48%, which sits comfortably above the typical industry average. -
Is Furlong Fortunes Sprint high volatility?
No. Furlong Fortunes Sprint is a low volatility slot, so wins tend to arrive steadily and in smaller amounts rather than in rare, dramatic hits. -
What is the grid size of Furlong Fortunes Sprint?
The game plays on a 5×3 grid, with five reels and three rows. Wins come from matching three, four or five symbols across a valid win line, except for coin symbols. -
Who makes Furlong Fortunes Sprint?
Furlong Fortunes Sprint is made by Inspired, the studio behind titles including Centurion Megaways and Big Bonus. -
When is Furlong Fortunes Sprint released?
Furlong Fortunes Sprint’s release date is 5 July 2019. -
What does the wild do in Furlong Fortunes Sprint?
The wild is a horseshoe symbol that substitutes for all symbols except the coin symbol. It only appears on reels two, three and four, so it can complete line wins through the middle of the grid but can’t build a five-of-a-kind on its own. -
What are the coin symbols in Furlong Fortunes Sprint?
Coin symbols carry printed multipliers of x10, x20, x25, x50 and x100. They’re excluded from the standard three, four or five symbol line-win rule and can’t be substituted by the wild, so they pay by their own logic rather than as line matches. -
What are the biggest prizes in Furlong Fortunes Sprint?
The biggest prizes on the board are the race streak rewards: 100.00 for two consecutive race wins and 1,000.00 for three, alongside coin multipliers reaching x100. The paytable itself tops out at 22.5x for a five-of-a-kind logo match.
