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Slot Review: The Hamsteads

Most of us had at least some experience with pet hamsters as children. Whether you personally were the one lucky enough to have a fuzzy little rodent with a spinning wheel or had the vicarious thrill of pet sitting for a friend, you know that it’s easy to love these funny little balls of energy. We wish we could say that it was quite so easy to love the Hamsteads, the fictional hamster family behind the five-reel, nine-line online slot game from Cryptologic. We’ve certainly played more stimulating online slots, with much more enticing jackpots. Therefore, this game doesn’t have a great deal to recommend it.

This slot game features coin values from ten cents to five dollars, with max coins set at nine. The jackpot is a fixed prize of five thousand coins. That means that the most you could make off this game is twenty-five thousand dollars. The highest wager per spin is forty-five dollars. We won’t consider this jackpot a particularly good return on our investment, but your mileage may vary (as they say).

The Hamsteads themselves are featured on the reels, which are situated on their quaint little home. The family seem to be a dour bunch, with grumpy faces. Letters and numbers fill out the spots on the reels. The hamster clan will award you the highest payouts when you score combinations featuring these icons, with the pokey symbols paying out smaller awards. There is a bonus game in which you can open shutters to try and find bonus prize money amounts.

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