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Slot Review: Five Dollar Shake

We’re a little offended by the Five Dollar Shake online slot game by Playtech. For years now, we’ve managed to get by playing slot machine titles (both internet and land-based) with many, many paylines without having those lines drawn on the screen. We’ve even taken a crack at a one-hundred line punter and somehow gotten by without the casino equivalent of training wheels hampering our experience. Yet, Playtech has seen fit to obscure the video reels of this five-reel, five-payline game with thick, white marks indicating the paylines. We personally feel that, if you can’t keep up with five slot game paylines, you probably shouldn’t be playing!

Five Dollar Shake, appropriately, allows you to play coin values up to five dollars. If you play this title, it is worth it to bet the maximum five coins. The jackpot prize for playing the most coins is five times as high as for a four coin bet. The jackpot is a paltry two thousand coins, or ten thousand dollars, however, so we’re not sure how hard anyone is going to vie for this particular prize. We aren’t fans of this design of online slot games, which are styled to look like you are playing an actual slot machine. There is too much of the screen taken up by nonsense. The images on the reels are tiny and generic. They are the classic fruit icons, and the jackpot symbol appears to be a mixed drink in a martini glass. Maybe this is the five dollar shake of the title? We’re honestly not interested enough to find out.

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