Keep 'Em Cool Slot Machine

Hacksaw's Keep 'Em Cool is a moderately volatile fruity beach slot with a 5x5 Cluster Pays grid and a Cascading mechanic with a variation. Frozen and partially frozen symbols remain in play, but advance one step closer to being unfrozen and eliminated. You receive assistance from the Blender and Cocktail feature symbols, which appear more frequently during the bonus round. The maximum gain is 5,000 times your bet.

Slot Features

You win when 5 or more matching symbols appear in the same cluster anywhere on the 5x5 grid, and 5 of a kind pays between 0.1 and 1 times your wager. There are no wild symbols to assist you in this game, but payouts for 21-symbol wins are between 400 and 5,000 times your wager.

Each pay symbol is either unfrozen, partially frozen, or completely frozen, and only unfrozen symbols are eliminated from the grid when a win occurs. In fact, all unfrozen symbols are eliminated, regardless of whether they contributed to a win, while frozen symbols descend to the lowest possible positions to remain in play for the subsequent cascade. This occurs regardless of whether or not they are a part of a win, but their states do alter.

This means that after a cascade, frozen symbols become half-frozen and half-frozen symbols become unfrozen. As long as you continue to win, the cascading mechanism will release a new batch of symbols to fill the gaps, and this process will continue to repeat. When no more winning clusters can be formed, the game begins over with a fresh paid delivery.

If the Cocktail Glass icon is present, all winning symbols will become completely immobilised. This can occur simultaneously with multiple symbol varieties, and each Cocktail Glass is assigned a number. This number denotes how many additional times it can freeze winning symbols, with a maximum of five freezes per Cocktail Glass. The symbol is eliminated when its re-freeze counter reaches zero.

The Blender Symbol absorbs a symbol type chosen at random, effectively removing that symbol type from the grid. This activates the cascading mechanism, and the feature continues so long as you continue to land symbols of the selected variety. You receive a payout equal to the total number of symbols the Blender has assimilated, beginning with 2. You receive +1 for each additional symbol, and the paytable determines how much you win based on the total.

The Sunset Picnic Bonus Round is activated when 3 Picnic Basket Scatters are visible, and each basket opens to disclose a number between 3 and 5. The total number of free spins you receive is equal to the sum of these numbers, and during the bonus round, the Blender and Cocktail Glass symbols will appear more frequently. You receive two to five additional free spins for each Picnic Basket Scatter that appears during the bonus round.