Count Down Slot Review 2024

Countdown

Endemol's Countdown is a 5 reel slot, with payouts of up to $125,000 and with up to 20 bet lines. The game's major attractions are its rich features, a combo of wilds, free spins, multipliers, bonus games and scatters that should be a lot of fun.

The theme of Countdown is that of a game show where you have to give various answers that focus on words and letters (collecting letters and giving long answers as part of the bonus games). The design focuses on the color blue quite a bit and in this case it works. It's a decent design, a pleasure to play on and the playing cards actually improve its look a bit. The symbols found inside start with poker icons from Jack to Ace, plus a dictionary, a wall clock, a table clock, a trophy, the wild and the bonus scatter icons.

While the game's betting requirements don't ask for the player to use all 20 coins possible, it's a good idea to do so since that will cover all the paylines. Each one of those coins can have a betting range between $0.01 and $25, taking the maximum bet value to $500. The top payout is an impressive 5000x multiple for the line bet, so up to $125,000 may be won here.

No less than three bonus scatter symbols are offered inside this game, something that most slot developers don't bother with that much. Endemol does though, which makes the game a lot more appealing. The three included scatters are called Conundrum, Numbers and Letters. Each one has its own bonus round, plus a payout that goes from 2x to 50x the bet for 3 to 5 scatters. Conundrum is a bonus round where you collect letters and you rearrange them. Letters is a game where you have to give a word answer that is as long as possible. In Numbers you get to win multipliers and free spins.

The Countdown Wild is another powerful symbol, substituting for the other icons and at the same time giving the player 2x multipliers for those combinations. The same wild awards payouts of up to 5000x, for up to five icons of this type present on the same line and in consecutive order from the left.

Countdown looks like one of those games that is simply fun to play. Its multiple bonus games will actually make you think you are competing on a game show.