Cashman Fever II Pokie Machine
Mr Cashman is a very popular figure at casinos in Australia and beyond, and across many pokies, as he’s usually a sign that players are about to enter a bonus round or receive a special reward. One of the newer releases from the Aristocrat developer is Cashman Fever II which sees our little yellow friend pop up on the Rotten Apple and Hot Chocolate pokies, both of which share gameplay and features, but just have different symbols across their reels.
So Who Is Mr Cashman?
Mr Cashman is a disembodied yellow cartoon head who bounces around a variety of pokies. Smartly dressed in a top hat and white gloves, he’s always got a big smile on his face and depending on the pokie, he will trigger extra features that can be free spins, multipliers, nudges, holds, or even jackpot payouts.
Cashman Fever II has him giving out wild symbols, expanding reels, symbol duplications and entry to no less than 4 progressive jackpots, all from a couple of bright and cheerful base games that feature either different types of delicious-looking chocolates, or sinister types of fruit.
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Playing Cashman Fever II
Rotten Apple and Hot Chocolate are identical in gameplay, so by just focusing on Hot Chocolate, it’s really covering both titles, just mentioning tasty sweets because they appeal more than mouldy fruit.
There’s 5 reels to the game, with symbols laid out across 3 rows and a format that instead of conventional paylines, sees players winning whenever 3 or more matching symbols stop across the reels from left to right.
The design of the games is fairly simple, although unlike most from this developer which have standard playing card symbols taking up much of the screen, Aristocrat have decided to make the 9, 10, J, Q, K and A look like they are made from chocolate.
Other symbols include chocolate strawberries, rabbits and a pink and white spiralled candy, which all adds up to a good-looking, but not over-fussy style.
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Mr Cashman turns up on several occasions in these games, performing different jobs each time. After any random spin, he can float around on top of the game holding a hammer which he uses to bash selected reels adding more symbols to the mix. The reels he hits will then have 6 symbols on them instead of 4 and this should lead to more winning combinations being formed as matching ones can now be on adjacent reels.
Another randomly-occurring treat is when he appears at the bottom of the reels, where he throws magic dust across them and can turn symbols into additional wilds, or simply make standard symbols into more of the same type, stacking them one on top of another on a reel which can lead to lots of winning lines appearing across the game.
There’s 20 levels of progressive jackpot prizes up for grabs in these games, which comes about by having Mighty, Mega, Jumbo and Super jackpots that are worth more depending on how many credits are being played with.
Landing 3 or more Cash Pot symbols in any positions at once is enough to take players through to a grid of 25 squares which players click on to reveal cash bonuses, or if they are lucky, any of the 4 jackpots. Any square that bursts into flames is a winner, or some of them give players extra spins, meaning additional chances to pick more squares and trigger jackpot payouts.
The number of flaming $ symbols collected determines which jackpot is claimed, with players winning the Mighty one for picking just 2 of them, while the Mega is awarded with 5, finding 8 of them will win the Jumbo jackpot and anyone who manages to find 20 flaming $ symbols will scoop the Super progressive jackpot.
How much each jackpot is worth depends on the stake, so for example, anyone with a 0.50 bet will get a smaller prize than someone with a 2.00 stake.
The Verdict
Mr Cashman is always welcome to make an appearance on the many pokies across the Aristocrat range, and there’s plenty of reasons to be pleased when he turns up on these 2 games. The progressive jackpots may not be a regular feature when people play them, but the extra wilds, symbol duplications and additional symbols on the reels will certainly be occurring quite often.
These extra features replace the sort of things that most pokies have, such as free spins, scatter wins and wild multipliers, so anyone who really wants to see things like these may be a little disappointed that the Cashman Fever II games don’t have them.