Azteca: Cash Collect

Azteca: Cash Collect goes exploring among the treasures of the Aztec Empire, and the empire, to its credit, has kept the whole hoard in one convenient place: on the reels.

The game plays across a 3x5 grid with 30 lines, and the total RTP is 93.49%, a long-term statistical average measured across a very large number of spins rather than anything to expect within a single session.

At the centre of the design is the Cash Collect symbol, which gathers up the coin symbols in view, supported by three wheels positioned above the reels that can award extra prizes and feature triggers.

If collector mechanics are your sort of thing, there is plenty more to browse in the wider online slots collection.

Game Features

Cash Collect

The Cash Collect feature comes into play when a Cash Collect symbol lands alongside at least one coin symbol on the same spin. In the main game the Cash Collect symbol appears on reel 5 only; during Free Games it can arrive on any of the five reels.

There are three coin symbols to be gathered:

• Cash Prize coins, marked with a value.
• Free Games coins, marked with a plus and a number such as +3, +4, +5, +7 or +10.
• Bonus Wheel coins, marked with the words BONUS WHEEL.

Each coin collected awards its corresponding prize, a number of free games, or a spin of the wheel. Coin symbols reset whenever a new spin begins.

Free Games

Landing a Cash Collect symbol on reel 5 together with one or more Free Games coins triggers the Free Games feature. Where several Free Games coins land at once, their numbers are added together to set the total.

Inside the feature, each Cash Collect symbol can appear on any reel and stays frozen in place for three spins, collecting every Cash Prize, Free Games and Bonus Wheel coin that lands, once for each Cash Collect symbol present. The feature can retrigger when a Cash Collect symbol and a Free Games coin land together again.

Bonus Wheel

A Bonus Wheel coin landing alongside a Cash Collect symbol sets the Bonus Wheel feature in motion. Three wheels sit above the reels in blue, green and red, with prizes growing progressively larger from left to right.

Each wheel holds a mix of segments:

• Cash Prize coin, awarding the prize shown on the wheel.
• Free Games coin, awarding the number of free games shown.
• Advance, which upgrades play to a wheel carrying larger prizes.
• Wild Respin trigger.
• Aztec Respin trigger.

Wild Respin

The Wild Respin feature grants a single spin with stacked WILD symbols on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. The number stacked depends on the wheel that triggered it: two from the Blue Wheel, three from the Green Wheel and four from the Red Wheel. The WILD symbol substitutes for all symbols except Cash Collect, Cash, Free Games and Bonus Wheel symbols.

Aztec Respin

The Aztec Respin feature grants three spins, with every coin except the Aztec Respin coin locking onto the reels as though chiselled there by a very determined temple mason. Any Free Games coins present on the triggering spin stay locked in view too.

• A spin with no new coins reduces the respins remaining by one.
• A spin that brings in a new coin leaves the respins remaining unchanged.
• When the spins run out, the feature ends and all locked coins are collected.
• If no coins land across all three spins, one random empty position awards a consolation prize, chosen at random.

Should Aztec Respin be won from a wheel during Free Games with more than one Cash Collect symbol on the reels, all of those symbols lock in position and the respin is played once.

Cash Collect Prizes

Cash Collect Prizes can turn up from one of the wheels in the Bonus Wheel feature and from the Aztec Respin feature. There are four fixed prizes: GRAND, MAJOR, MINOR and MINI, and the one awarded is selected at random. Each prize can be awarded more than once when multiple Cash Collect symbols are locked on the reels during Free Games, with a single prize collectable up to three times.

Taste & Feel

The framing is the Aztec Empire and its treasures, with the coin symbols doing most of the visual talking: values, plus-numbers and the BONUS WHEEL lettering, all waiting for the Cash Collect symbol to come round and gather them in.

Above the reels, the blue, green and red wheels line up in a strict order of seniority, the red one clearly under the impression it runs the place.

Stacked WILD symbols during Wild Respin give the reels a fuller, heavier look, while the locked coins of Aztec Respin hold the grid still for three spins at a time. The overall pace is steady and unhurried, shaped by the collecting rhythm rather than anything frantic.

If ancient civilisations are your preferred backdrop, you might also enjoy exploring Ancient Tumble and El Dorado City of Gold.