Private Eye Casino Slot

Private Eye, another Microgaming slot featuring 243 pay-lines, all activated by default, has extremely well crafted graphics including symbols well suited to the theme and appropriately animated when forming winning combinations. Featured bonus games are both audio and visually embellished, rendering them even more attractive.

The theme has certainly been very well thought out and is based around the typical 1900′s type Private Eye movies and novels. Symbols are chosen to fit this era and include a rotary dial telephone, a box camera, a 1950′s car, and an old style pistol, as well handcuffs, cash, whisky, a red headed girl, a suspect and a chalk mark around a corpse.

The wild symbol is represented by the Private Eye’s Badge and the swaggering Private Eye himself symbolises the scatter. A newspaper boy, offering the latest crime reports in the extra edition, is the symbol for the free spins, while the bonus symbol appears in the shape of clues shown underneath a magnifying glass. These two symbols will both activate features relevant to their content.

Coin values range from 0.01 up to a maximum of 0.25, with a maximum line bet of 10 coins. Three or more of any one symbol appearing in any position – as long as they are from the left to the right – on the reels will result in payout.

The free spins’ bonus round is triggered by the newspaper boy appearing on reels 3 to 5. The parameters for the free spins are selected via a random process. For this, a newspaper rack containing 3 rows is shown. Selecting a paper from the first row will reveal a number of free spins up to a maximum total of 20. The paper selected on the middle row will reveal a multiplier (max. 4x), while the third row papers hide cash awards. The free spins in this round can’t be re-triggered and the maximum payout possible is 100000 coins.

The bonus game – Solve the Case – played in a separate screen is certainly one of the finest bonus games around. It is played in two levels, with the first one being the Clue Bonus. Here the player picks up clues from a table until the phone rings. Each clue picked up is recorded via a typewriter font suitable for the era and results in a cash reward for the player.

As clues are picked, a cop seated at the table will examine them and if a fingerprint is found, a senior officer is informed. This senior officer will then award the player with the credits for the remaining clues lying on the table, then order the cop to lead the player into the next level, where he has to identify the possible suspect. If the suspect’s fingerprint matches the one found earlier, the player will win the top cash reward. If it doesn’t, he receives a consolation prize.

Certainly a fun game to play. The low jackpots are counteracted by the many winning opportunities.