Countdown – Slot
NOTE: All monetary amounts displayed in this document are irrespective of currency unless otherwise stated. The operator reserves the right to remove/suspend the game at any stage.
The Bonus Rounds
The Letters Bonus
The Numbers Bonus
Conundrum Bonus
How to Play
The goal is to achieve a winning combination of icons on any of the 20 selectable lines. Payouts depend on the stake per line played and the winning combination of icons achieved. All combinations must start on the first reel on the left. Only one award (the highest) is paid per line.
How to Bet
The Countdown slot has 20 win lines. You can bet between 0.01 and 25.00 on each win line.
Select Number of Lines – If you do not want to bet on all 20 win lines, use the arrows underneath this field to change the number of win lines you would like to play.
Select Bet per Line – Choose the amount you wish to bet per line. Use the arrow keys to adjust this amount. Your Total Stake amount will adjust accordingly.
Total Stake – Displays total amount staked per spin.
Paid – Displays total Paid amount for last spin.
Press Spin - When you are happy with your selection, click SPIN.
Auto Spin – Use Auto Spin to play up to 25 games with one click. Once selected, press the START button to begin auto spins. Press the STOP button to end current auto spin sequence. Press the CLOSE button to hide Auto Spin interface.
View Pay Table – View all the payouts and win lines in the game including information about the bonus features.
Sound On / Off – The player can choose to have the game sound on or off.
SCATTER SYMBOLS
Three or more Letters Bonus Scatters triggers Letters Bonus.
Three or more Numbers Bonus Scatters triggers Numbers Bonus.
Three or more Conundrum Bonus Scatters triggers Conundrum Bonus.
WILD SYMBOL
Substitutes for all symbols expect Scatters (Letters symbol, Numbers symbol, Conundrum symbol). When one or more wild substitutes in a win, highest win is paid. Wild substituting in a winning combination doubles the prize.
Rules
- Malfunction voids all plays and pays.
- Choose lines to be played, then bet per line to activate game.
- Player is responsible to confirm bets to be placed.
- All wins pay from left to right except scatters which pay any.
- Line wins are multiplied by the value bet on the winning line, except scatters.
- Only highest win paid per selected line, except scatters.
- Coinciding wins on different win lines are added.
- Any number of Wild symbols substituting in a winning combination doubles the prize
- Three or more scatter symbols of same type will trigger associated bonus feature.
- The maximum award on any transaction is capped at £250,000/€375,000. A transaction includes the results of free spins in bonus plus the outcome which launched the bonus.
THE BONUS ROUNDS
Bonuses are triggered from 3 or more of a kind LETTERS BONUS, NUMBERS BONUS and CONUNDRUM BONUS. The player is eligible for all bonuses at any number of lines or bet.
Letters Bonus
3 or more Letters Bonus symbol will trigger the Letters Bonus game. Play the Countdown Letters game and see if your word answers are longer than your opponents to win cash prizes over 5 rounds.
- 9 random letters will be chosen and displayed.
- Press the Reveal word button to reveal your constructed word.
- Upon pressing the button, a word with 4 to 9 letters is displayed.
- Then the opponents’ word is displayed.
- If your word has the same or more letters than the opponents word, the prize level for that many letters is awarded.
- Letters Bonus prizes are multiplied by the total triggering bet and also the free game multiplier if won during free games.
Numbers Bonus
3 or more Numbers Bonus symbol will trigger the Numbers Bonus game. Play the Countdown numbers game to see how many free spins and win multipliers they have won.
- The player is presented with 28 numbers cards and chooses 6.
- The outcomes will be arranged to display a number of free games and multiplier for those free games.
- Free Games are played at the same number of lines and bet per line as the triggering game.
- All prizes are multiplied by the free game multiplier during free games.
- Free Games can be retriggered at the same number and multiplier as the originally awarded set.
- If a Letters Bonus or Conundrum Bonus is triggered during free games, it is played and the resulting award is also multiplied by the Free Game multiplier.
Conundrum Bonus
3 or more Conundrum Bonus symbol will trigger the Conundrum Bonus game. Play the Conundrum game to see how many letters they can collect and rearrange to complete the Conundrum.
- An incomplete word which would spell COUNTDOWN is presented.
- Only the letters O, N, O and N are displayed. Spin a wheel with all 9 letters on it to get C, U, T, D and W.
- The wheel is spun 5 times.
- Only letters that can be added to the board to help complete the word are counted.
- When a counted letter is spun up, the award increases to the next level.
- Conundrum Bonus prizes are multiplied by the total triggering bet and also the free game multiplier if won during free games.
Unresolved Bets
Any unresolved bets placed but remaining undecided in incomplete games will become void after 90 days.
Game RTP
The Countdown Slot has a Return to Player value of approximately 95.49%
System malfunction voids all plays.
The operator reserves the right to remove/suspend the game at any stage.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
© Countdown logo and design © Endemol UK Plc 2010 – used by permission – all rights reserved. Countdown registered trade marks are used under licence from ITV Studios.
Terms & Conditions
This game is a virtual fixed odds betting game. Players may bet at fixed odds on the outcome. The games are not pre-scheduled; instead they start when you confirm your bets. As such, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Terms and Conditions, you will not receive a confirmation message in order for your bet to be valid.
The General Rules of Paddy Power ("General Rules") contained within the Terms and Conditions of this web-site, Paddypower.com, ("Terms and Conditions") apply to all eventualities relating to this game ("Product") that are not covered by these Conditions. The General Rules are available on this web-site.
In the event of any inconsistency between these Conditions and the General Rules or Terms and Conditions, unless otherwise stated, the General Rules and Terms and Conditions shall prevail. By playing this game you agree to be bound by these Conditions.
In these Conditions, "we", "us", or "our" refers to Paddy Power and/or its group companies.
1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
1.1 You acknowledge and agree that all copyright, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights in all material or content supplied or made available to you as part of the Product shall remain at all times vested in us or our licensors. You are permitted to use this material only as expressly authorised by us or our licensors.
1.2 You acknowledge and agree that the material and content contained within the Paddypower.com Website and/or otherwise provided as part of the Product is made available for your personal non-commercial use only and that you may download such material and content onto only one computer hard drive for such purpose. Any other use of such material and content is strictly prohibited. You agree not to (and agree not to assist or facilitate any third party to) copy, reproduce, transmit, publish, display, distribute, commercially exploit, tamper with or create derivative works of such material and content.
2. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS
Notwithstanding clause 1 above, the Product may only be used for lawful purposes and in a lawful manner. You agree to comply with all applicable laws, statutes and regulations regarding the Product and any bets placed on or via the Product.
3. NO WARRANTY
3.1 We will endeavour to provide the Product using our reasonable skill and care. We make no further warranty or representation, whether express or implied, in relation to the Product. All implied warranties or conditions of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose, completeness or accuracy are hereby excluded.
3.2 We make no warranty that the Product will meet your requirements or will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Paddypower.com web-site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs or represents the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials or as to results or the accuracy of any information obtained by you through the Product.
3.3 In the event of systems or communications errors relating to the generation of any race result, bet settlement or any other element of the Product, we will not be liable to you as a result of any such errors and we reserve the right to void all bets on the races in question.
4. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
4.1 You agree that your use of the Product is at your sole risk.
4.2 We shall not be liable in contract, tort, negligence, or otherwise, for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from or in any way connected with your use of the Product, whether direct or indirect, including, without limitation, damage for loss of business, loss of profits, business interruption, loss of business information, or any other pecuniary or consequential loss (even where we have been notified by you of the possibility of such loss or damage).
4.3 We will not be responsible or liable for any loss of content or material uploaded or transmitted through the Product and you confirm that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification to, suspension of or discontinuance of the Product.
4.4 Nothing in these Conditions shall exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our servants, agents or employees.
5. INDEMNITY
You agree to fully indemnify, defend and hold us, and our officers, directors, employees, agents and suppliers, harmless immediately on demand, from and against all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including legal fees, arising out of any breach by you of these Conditions, the General Rules or the Terms and Conditions, or otherwise arising out of your use of the Product or any use of the Product by any other person accessing the Product using your user identification.
6. TERMINATION
6.1 We may terminate your account (including your username and password) if we believe in our sole discretion that you have breached any of these Conditions, the General Rules or the Terms and Conditions or have acted in a manner inconsistent with the spirit of any of them or for any reason we discontinue to provide the Product.
6.2 You acknowledge that we do not have to give you prior notice of any such termination.
7. GENERAL
7.1 No bet can be cancelled by a customer once confirmed by us. All valid bets stand once confirmed whether the customer is on-line or off-line, subject to the provisions set out in clause 3.3 or as otherwise provided in the General Terms or (as applicable) the Terms and Conditions.
7.2 We reserve the right to withdraw the Product or any element of the Product at any time without notice to you, and we will not be liable as a result of any such action.
7.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the General Rules, the maximum pay-out (meaning the aggregate winnings including returned stakes) for any calendar day (based on Greenwich Mean Time) to any individual customer (including any other person accessing the Product using your user identification) or to any group of customers acting together is £2,000,000 or currency equivalent, notwithstanding the number of different games played by the customer or group of customers acting together in the calendar day.
7.4 If any part of these Conditions shall be deemed unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed to be severable from these Conditions and shall not effect the validity and enforceability of any of the remaining provisions of these Conditions.
7.5 No waiver by us of any of these Conditions shall be construed as a waiver of any preceding or succeeding breach of any of these Conditions.
7.6 Nothing in these Conditions shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership or any other form of joint enterprise between you and us.
7.7 These Conditions, together with the General Rules and (as applicable) the Terms and Conditions contain the entire agreement between you and us relating to the Product. You confirm that, in agreeing to accept these Conditions, you have not relied on any representation save insofar as the same has expressly been made a representation in these Conditions. You agree that you shall have no remedy in respect of any misrepresentation which has not become a term of these Conditions save that your agreement shall not apply in respect of any fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation whether or not such term has become a term of these Conditions.
8. LAW
8.1 These Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Ireland and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ireland.
