All Ways Luck slot: 243 fixed pay ways and no published ceiling

What counts as a win when there are no lines

A payline game pays when symbols sit on a route drawn in advance. This one pays when the same symbol turns up on reel one, reel two, reel three and onward, in any row, with no gaps. Five reels, three rows, and the arithmetic of that arrangement gives the 243 fixed pay ways printed on the card. There is no way to buy more of them and no way to switch any off: the count comes from the shape of the grid and stays there.

• The seven tops the paytable at 500x for a full set across the reels, and it is the symbol the whole design is waiting on.
• The watermelon sits behind it at 100x, and below that the plums, lemons and cherries pay in small change.
• The clover is the wild. It stands in for the paying symbols and, on a ways grid, one clover on a middle reel can complete several sets at the same time.
• The scatter pays on its own account: five of them are worth 50x, and three or more open the free spins.
• Three rows mean every reel offers three candidates for the next step in a chain, so small wins land on most spins and almost none of them are large.

The practical effect is a game that pays you something on the majority of spins and asks nothing of you in return.

Free spins from 7 to 15, with a multiplier that climbs

Scatters open the round: three of them give 7 spins, four give 10, five give 15. Inside the round a multiplier attaches itself to the wins, starting at x2 and climbing to a ceiling of x8. Endorphina prints both ends of that ladder and leaves the steps between them to the rules screen inside the game, which is where I would look before deciding how much a round is worth to you.

On a ways grid a multiplier behaves differently from the way it behaves on lines. A single screen can pay several chains at once, so the multiplier lands on a pile of small wins together, and a modest round adds up to something the base game needs a long time to produce. That is the engine of this slot, and it is the only one under the hood: the scatters open the round, the ladder does the work inside it, and the game asks you for nothing else.

The number Endorphina leaves off the card

Look at the specification list above and you will find a gap where the top prize normally sits. That gap is the studio being quiet, and it is the honest thing to report. Endorphina publishes a paytable, a return figure and a volatility rating for this game, and it publishes no maximum win at all.

I can tell you what the card does contain. The largest single figure on it is the seven at 500x, and the free spins multiplier tops out at x8. Multiply those two together and you have a number I could print in bold. It would be my arithmetic and no studio figure, so it stays off this page. What you can take to the reels is the stake box: 0.01-100 EUR a spin, with a floor low enough that an evening costs less than the bus fare to a casino with a door.

RTP 96.00% and the quietest hour on the shelf

Three rows on a ways grid make a volatility label of low about as literal as a label ever gets: every reel offers three candidates for the next link in a chain, chains complete constantly, and almost none of them are long. Put a declared 96.00% behind that and you have the quietest hour in the tab. Wins arrive on a large share of spins. Most of them return part of the stake, some return a couple of stakes, and the balance moves downhill at walking pace. A hundred spins at the floor of the stake box cost small change, and the free spins round is the only event that will interrupt the pattern.

That profile does one job better than anything else in the tab: passing the x3 turnover every deposit carries before a withdrawal. You want bets that go through without the balance collapsing under them, and a card that pays something back on most spins is exactly that. It suits a second audience too: anyone who wants to sit with a slot for an hour on a fixed budget and knows in advance that nothing dramatic is going to happen.

All Ways Luck demo: the free reels sit inside the casino

Endorphina runs no public practice server, so the window above this text holds a note and a button into the casino. The free version is real, and the Hit tab is where it lives. This is one of the newer cards in that tab, so it sits well down the grid, some way past the first row of covers: the clover on a green field is what you are looking for, and the demo label sits on the card itself. If the login form appears first, the sign up form is the only thing in the way.

The practice reels use the same generator, the same paytable and the same multiplier ladder as the paid ones. Fifty spins on play money answer the question this game actually raises, which has nothing to do with money: can you sit through a round that pays in small pieces and keep your hand off the tab with something louder in it. If the answer is no, you have saved a deposit. If the answer is yes, you have found a cheap way to spend an evening.

On real money one house rule quietly works in this card's favor. Every bet feeds your status, the statuses run Beginner through Platinum, and each step up lifts what you can take out in a day. A game that keeps you spinning for an hour on a small budget puts more bets through than a card that empties the balance in forty spins, which is the unglamorous way people climb that ladder. The wagering, the caps and the rest of the terms are on the bonuses page.

Where this one sits between the coins and the sevens

The studio keeps several machines on the Hit tab and they differ by what you are waiting for while the reels turn.

Pick between them by what you want the hour to feel like: steady paying reels here, one decisive round in Crown Coins, nothing but speed on the three reel machine. The other cards rated low, the ones that let an hour pass without an event, are gathered on the Vavada slots page.

Still undecided after three hundred spins

Honestly, I am still arguing with myself about this one. Half the time it is the best thing in the tab: the balance holds, the clover keeps completing chains, and an hour passes for the price of a sandwich. The other half I catch myself three hundred spins in with nothing to show and nothing to remember, which is the specific failure mode of a slot that never does anything wrong. Open the free version, sit through fifty spins, and see which of those two you are looking at. I have never decided, and I keep coming back, which is probably its own answer.