Crown Coins slot: nine cells and the crown that pays

Nine cells, and every one of them can hold a coin

The grid is 3x3 with 5 fixed lines paying left to right. What sits on the nine cells is the entire game, with no second layer of cascades or megaways behind it. That is why a spin takes about a second and why the game gets opened on a phone in a queue. The fruit machine part runs in the background, and the coins are what the game is about.

• Coin symbols land with a value printed on the face. The biggest of them is worth fifteen times the bet, and the figure is legible at a glance.
• The crown is the symbol the game is named after. It acts on the coins that landed beside it, and the paytable behind the game prints four jackpot levels it can reach.
• The wild tops the line paytable at fifty times the bet, the bars sit behind it at thirty, and the cherries and sevens below them pay pocket change.
• Any line win can go to the gamble card afterwards: double it or lose it, and the game lets that repeat up to ten times in a row.

RTP 96.06% on three reels that go quiet between coins

Endorphina declares 96.06% and rates the volatility medium to high, and on a three reel game that combination means something specific. The base game pays back a trickle, because five lines on nine cells cannot do much. The coins arrive irregularly, and when they do the round settles most of what the session will pay. Fifty spins with nothing but cherries is normal here, and so is a coin round that returns two hours of a small bet in one screen.

The studio publishes the bet range for this game, from five cents a spin up to eighty euro, and the spread matters more than it looks. At the bottom of that range the dry stretches cost nothing and you wait for coins in peace. At the top the same dry stretch empties a balance fast, and the ceiling of 1000x is not high enough to buy that risk back. This slot pays for a small bet and a long sit.

What the crown does to a pile of coins

The coin feature is the whole bonus, and it happens inside the ordinary spin. Coins land, their values are collected, and the crown decides whether that collection stays a line sized win or climbs to one of the four levels on the paytable. Endorphina gave this game one mechanic and left it at that.

The ceiling here is modest for a modern slot, and Endorphina does not pretend otherwise. A three reel slot with a fixed paytable cannot manufacture the multiplier towers that cluster games build, so 1000x is what a full screen of coins with a crown on it is worth. If you came looking for a five figure multiplier, the TaDa Gaming coin games in the same tab carry higher ceilings.

The gamble card is where coin rounds go back to the casino

Endorphina puts the same double or nothing card after wins in most of its catalogue, and here it is the single biggest hole in a session. The rules are plain: guess the colour, double the win, and you may keep guessing up to ten times. Ten correct guesses in a row would multiply a win by more than a thousand.

I sat with a coin round that paid about forty times the bet on a small stake and decided to run it up. First card, right. Second, right. Third, right, and by then I was calculating the fourth card before it turned over. Fourth card took the lot. Honestly, that button annoys me more than a cold streak does, because a cold streak is the game and the gamble card is a choice I made. Take the money, let the coins do the work, and the profile of this slot stays what the studio designed.

Crown Coins demo: why the window above is empty and how to open the free game

Endorphina runs no public practice server for this title, so the frame at the top of the page carries a plain note where other reviews carry a playable game. The free mode does exist. It lives inside the casino, on the same tile you would bet from, and the walk to it is short: open the Hit tab in the lobby, type Crown Coins into the search, and the game runs on play money until you switch it over. If a login form appears where the reels should be, signing up takes a couple of minutes and the free mode is available from inside the account.

The practice version runs the same maths as the paid one. Same paytable, same coin values, same jackpot levels, fake balance. That makes it worth ten minutes before a real session, mostly to learn how often the coins come on this game and to decide whether five cents or something larger is your bet.

Two more house rules touch this game. The 100 free spins handed out after registration carry an x20 wager on whatever they win, and they run at the minimum bet in any slot, which makes a cheap three reel game a reasonable place to spend them. And any deposit has to be turned over x3 before a withdrawal, bonus or no bonus, which is worth knowing before you plan an evening around one coin round.

Crowns, dragons or the joker: which coin game to open

Three games in the Hit tab run the same collect-the-coins idea, and they split by what you want out of the round. Fortune Coins 2 from TaDa Gaming keeps the jackpot levels and adds a far higher ceiling, so the rare screen is worth several times more than it is here, and the ride to it is calmer. Joker Coins Unlimited Fortune takes the opposite turn: a higher declared return, a grid that grows while you collect, and a ceiling between the two.

Crown Coins wins on speed and on reading time. The other two ask you to learn a multiplier system; this one asks you to look at a number printed on a coin. Take it when you want a fruit machine that occasionally does something, take Fortune Coins 2 when the ceiling matters, take the joker when you plan to sit for an hour on a modest bet.

Would I keep it in the list?

So do I spin it? On a small bet, yes, and mostly for the reason that has nothing to do with the numbers: it is the game I open when I do not want to think. The coins are legible, the round is short, the game never asks me to learn anything. On a bigger bet I would sooner sit in a game whose ceiling pays for the silence, and I would not argue with anyone who says the same about this one at any stake.