The Hamsteads Slot Review 2024

The Hamsteads

The Hamsteads is a 5 reel slot with 9 paylines, a Cryptologic design which offers us a $25,000 top jackpot. The only features offered in this game are the scatter symbol and the wild.

The game aims to be cute and for the most part it succeeds rather well. The stars of this slot are the Hamsteads, a family of hamsters which behave like all humans do, living in a real house with a white picket fence in front. The game's design is attractive and it has a drawing style for its characters which I haven't seen too many times before so it's certainly different from everything else out there. The symbols being with the high playing card icons which are available in so many other slots these days, starting with the Ten and going up to the Ace. The other five symbols of the slot are a toaster and the four members of the family. They are called Dado, Mumo, Siso and Sono.

The game's 5000 coins top jackpot will have a value that goes up to $25,000. That kind of cash value requires that the bet be made with $5 coins, which is the maximum coin denomination. The smallest coin denomination would be $0.10. Each line gets one coin, so the maximum bet of 9 coins is worth $45.

There are two symbols in the game which are designed to fulfill different roles than the majority. The first one would be the Dado symbol, which has payouts like all other symbols do, but also acts as the wild feature and as a result it will substitute for other symbols. The Dado wild will also award the top jackpot of 5000 coins and for that to happen the player needs a combination of five wilds.

The scatter is the toaster symbol. The biggest advantage of the scatter would be the fact that it triggers the bonus rounds (up to 5 of them), with 3+ symbols of this type. If the player has at least two scatters, he also gets a small prize which is worth double the amount he used in his bet.

During the bonus rounds, the player makes picks, trying to get 3 matching symbols by choosing from a 9 square layout. If he manages to do that, he wins up to 250 times the bet during each of the five rounds.

It's a cute game, it's a bit different from everything else out there and I think that's a point in its favor.