Yak Yeti And Roll

Yak Yeti And Roll Slot Review

A brass-and-wood sled hangs at the edge of the reels, fat orange canopy straining above a furry white yeti wedged in the back, gears and wheels bolted underneath. Snow-capped mountains rise behind a carved ice-blue reel frame, and snowflakes drift across the pale sky. This storybook Arctic belongs to Yak Yeti And Roll, a Betsoft slot running on a 5×3 grid with 20 win lines and a healthy 96.54% RTP.

The interesting thing about this one isn’t any single win, it’s the counting: every cascade moves a snowmobile along a 17-position trail, and what that trail pays depends entirely on how long a spin keeps rolling. Betsoft have gone Arctic before, from Stay Frosty to Sleighin It, but few of their winters make the snowfall do this much work.

Symbols and Pays

Wins pay left to right across the 20 lines, and only the highest combination on each line counts. The Yeti wild substitutes for everything except the scatter and only appears on reels two, three and four, which keeps it useful without letting it run away with the game.

The Eskimo scatter pays in any position, from any reel, and sits at the top of the paytable as the game’s richest single payer. All values below are multiples of the total bet.

• Eskimo scatter: 0.25x / 1x / 2.5x / 12.5x for two, three, four, five
• Husky: 0.5x / 1.5x / 7.5x for three, four, five
• Reindeer: 0.4x / 1.25x / 5x
• Igloo: 0.25x / 0.75x / 2.5x
• Snowmobile: 0.2x / 0.6x / 2x
• Mitten: 0.15x / 0.5x / 1.5x
• A, K: 0.05x / 0.15x / 0.75x
• Q, J, 10: 0.05x / 0.1x / 0.5x

It’s a gentle ladder. The Husky leads the standard symbols at 7.5x for a full line, and the royals trail a long way behind it, so the base-game wins come from the middle of the table far more often than the top.

The Snowmobile Trail

Every cascade in a spin advances a snowmobile along a trail of 17 positions, and the trail resets at the start of every spin. Nothing carries over. There’s a hard ceiling too: seventeen cascades is the maximum, and once the trail is completed, no more cascades take place.

The trail carries four types of prize: free spins, cascade multipliers, free spin multipliers and cash wins. Here’s what each position awards.

• Cascade 2: 2x stake
• Cascade 3: 2x cascade multiplier
• Cascade 6: 3x cascade multiplier
• Cascade 7: 8 free spins
• Cascade 8: +2 free spins
• Cascade 9: +3 free spins
• Cascade 10: +5 free spins
• Cascade 12: 5x cascade multiplier
• Cascade 13: +1 free spins multiplier
• Cascade 15: 15x cascade multiplier
• Cascade 16: +2 free spins multiplier
• Cascade 17: 200x stake

Cascades one, four, five, eleven and fourteen award nothing, so the trail has its dead spots, and they’re spread out rather than clustered. Five of the seventeen positions pay nothing at all, which is a lot of trail for a spin to cross without reward.

A few rules keep the arithmetic honest. Win multipliers on the trail don’t apply to the cash awards on the trail, so the 200x at the top stays 200x whatever else has stacked up. Cascade multipliers from the triggering spin apply to the current and all subsequent cascade wins.

Free Spins

Free spins arrive either through the trail or the Buy Feature, and once you’re in, the same bonus trail runs alongside the spins. The two multiplier systems stack rather than compete: cascade multipliers multiply the current free spins multiplier, and free spin multipliers persist for the duration of the round and are cumulative.

The multiplier shown is always the final one, so values aren’t multiplied or added together on the display. Retriggers are available, which matters in a round where every cascade is still pushing the snowmobile forward, and positions eight, nine and ten can add up to ten more spins on top of what you started with.

Double Up

After any standard win, a Double Up button lets you gamble the lot. Pick Gamble All or Gamble 50%, then call heads or tails on a spinning coin; a correct guess doubles the staked amount. Gamble 50% is the more forgiving of the two, banking half the win before the coin ever moves.

You can gamble as many times as you like, and pressing Collect banks the winnings and returns you to the reels. One restriction: Double Up is unavailable after free spins, so the coin is a base-game toy only.

Buy Feature

Impatient for the free spins? A Buy Feature button skips the trail entirely and drops you straight into the round, starting you on the most generous footing the feature offers.

• Cost: 42.00
• Awards: 9 free spins with a 4x multiplier

Nine spins with a 4x multiplier is a different starting point to the trail’s 8 free spins at cascade seven, so the buy isn’t just a shortcut, it’s its own route into the round.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.8/10

Playing this is mostly watching a counter and hoping it keeps moving. That sounds thin, but the counter is the whole point: a spin that would be forgettable on ordinary cascading reels still has somewhere to go, because four cascades later there’s a multiplier waiting and seven in, there’s a feature. The reason to choose it over any other snowy five-reeler is exactly that – every spin is a race with a finish line, not just reels quietly reloading.

The strength is how much a single spin can become. A long enough run stacks multipliers, free spins and free spin multipliers on top of each other, and the ceiling on one spin is far higher than the paytable suggests. The weakness is that none of it survives the spin. The sled returns to the start every time, and five of the seventeen positions pay nothing, so plenty of spins end exactly where they began.

It’s a good pick for anyone who likes their excitement compressed into individual spins rather than spread across a session, and for Betsoft fans after something warmer than the usual fruit-machine fare. Anyone chasing a long, slow build towards one enormous feature won’t find that here. When the snowmobile finally rolls, though, the Arctic doesn’t feel cold at all.

Yak Yeti And Roll FAQs

• What is the RTP of Yak Yeti And Roll?

  The RTP of Yak Yeti And Roll is 96.54%, which sits comfortably above the industry average.
• How does the Snowmobile Trail work in Yak Yeti And Roll?

  Every cascade in a spin advances a snowmobile along a 17-position trail. Each position awards a prize, including free spins, cascade multipliers, free spin multipliers and cash wins, with 8 free spins at cascade 7 and a 200x stake award at position 17. The trail resets at the start of every spin, and there’s a maximum of 17 cascades.
• What does the Double Up game do?

  After any standard win you can press Double Up and gamble half or all of your winnings on a heads or tails coin toss. A correct guess doubles the staked amount, and you can gamble repeatedly before collecting. Double Up isn’t available after free spins.
• Can you buy the bonus on Yak Yeti And Roll?

  Yes. A Buy Feature button lets you buy straight into the free spin feature with 9 free spins and a 4x multiplier. The cost is 42.00.
• Can free spins retrigger in Yak Yeti And Roll?

  Yes, free spin retriggers are available. The bonus trail also runs during free spins, so cascades can award additional spins and multipliers within the round.
• Which positions on the Snowmobile Trail pay nothing?

  Cascades one, four, five, eleven and fourteen award nothing. The trail’s prizes sit at the other twelve positions, with free spins arriving at cascades seven through ten and the 200x stake award at seventeen.
• How many paylines does Yak Yeti And Roll have?

  The game has 20 win lines, paying across the grid from the leftmost reel. Only a line’s best combination counts.
• Who makes Yak Yeti And Roll?

  Yak Yeti And Roll is made by Betsoft.