Mr Cashman Slot Machine

Game Theme & Other Basics

The game's theme is based around the Mr. Cashman character, which has become a national symbol for gambling minded Australians. Mr. Cashman is a mascot of sorts, an anthropomorphic gold coin who, with his old-fashioned black top hat, actually bears a slight resemblance to the Mr. Peanut character.

Mr. Cashman is always featured while flashing his signature smiling face and the image is completed by a cartoonish pair of white gloves. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the character in Australia, where game designer Aristocrat is based, the company has also included Mr. Cashman as a symbol on other slot machines.

Among the titles to feature Mr. Cashman, who Aristocrat proudly bills as "the most iconic personality in slots," as a supplemental character are African Dusk, Jail Bird, Jewel of the Enchantress, and Magic Eyes. While these alternatives are each based on a distinct theme, they include references to Mr. Cashman at every opportunity, and Aristocrat designed the foursome to replicate the original Mr. Cashman's gameplay structure.

The enduring success of the first Mr. Cashman slot has prompted Aristocrat to release direct sequels to the original, including Cashman Fever, Cashman Fever 2, and Cashman Live. Conversely, rival slot designers have attempted to imitate the game with knockoffs like Playtech's Mr. Cash Back game.

With the star of the show clearly Mr. Cashman himself, the original slot machine's background screen depicts nothing more than a stock city skyline set against a dark blue sky.

The title screen for the game is similarly simple, with Mr. Cashman's smiling face looking down on players as he invites them to take a seat by doffing his top hat. In Australia, however, the machines are usually banked together under a huge sign decorated by stars which surround Mr. Cashman's familiar face.

As one of Aristocrat's oldest slot machine models, Mr. Cashman features the company's usual arrangement of reel symbols, so you'll find the card rank symbols of 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A. The rest of the reel symbols appear to be stock cartoon animal characters with no connection to Mr. Cashman. These include the grinning cat, the angry bulldog, the flying bird, the dog policeman, and the red dynamite.

The Mr. Cashman slot machine harkens back to a prior generation, before the advent of 50 pay line games and multiple bonus features. For some slot players, the game might not as modern as they might hope, but a session at the Mr. Cashman slots has proven enjoyable for millions of players around the world since its release.

Gameplay Features and Mechanics

The original Mr. Cashman slot is a five reel, 20 pay line game, with each reel featuring three symbols.

When playing any of the four additional Mr. Cashman oriented slot titles mentioned in the introduction, the game remains at five reels and 20 pay lines, but players can exercise an ante bet of five additional credits when max betting.

As a pioneer in the world of penny slots, Mr. Cashman titles all begin with a $0.01 minimum coin, and a $1.00 maximum. This means that penny slot players have a cost to cover of $0.20 on the original machines and a $0.25 cost to cover when utilizing the ante bet in the updated versions.

Of course, players have the option between activating one pay line, all pay lines, or any amount in between. But regular slot players know that the best way to enjoy an Aristocrat game is by activating all of the available pay lines. By using the ante bet in the updated Mr. Cashman four title series, players are entitled to extra bonus features and additional payouts.

The original Mr. Cashman slot diverges a bit from the classic Aristocrat gameplay setup known today, so players will miss the usual excitement of wild symbols which create an additional winning combination. The multipliers and free spin bonuses remain intact, though, but unlike in most slots today, they can't be triggered and only appear at random. The game is not included within any progressive jackpots. See below for a full listing of basic specifications for Mr. Cashman:

• Wilds: No
• Free Spins: Yes, at random
• Multiplier: Yes, up to 10x
• Bonus Game: Yes, at random
• Progressive: No
• Return to Player: 92.39%

During the base game for the original Mr. Cashman slot, and its four associated update titles, you'll be playing for a payout table which many players report being on the low side. Unfortunately, no information on the exact payouts distributed by the game has been published.

The red dynamite symbol is considered a scatter symbol in Mr. Cashman, creating winning combinations from anywhere on the screen and multiplying payouts. However, unlike most Aristocrat titles, the red dynamite scatter symbol bears no connection to triggering the free spins bonus round.

Triggering the Bonus Round

In Mr. Cashman, along with African Dusk, Jail Bird, Jewel of the Enchantress, and Magic Eyes, the free spins bonus round and other bonus features are triggered entirely at random. This means no combination of reel symbols will bring you to the bonus game, so when it occurs, it will always be a surprise. In each case, however, the smiling face of Mr. Cashman will appear on the screen to announce your impending bonus round and celebrate along with you.

When playing on the updated Mr. Cashman four-game suite, each of the game titles you can alternate between offers its own bonus feature. These bonus games can only be played when you are max betting with the ante bet in play or betting 25 credits per spin.

The bonus games for the Mr. Cashman four-game suite are described below.

Summary

The Mr. Cashman slot machine line has withstood the test of time for good reason: players love the character and feel a special affinity toward games featuring his familiar face. While that may not be enough of a draw for modern slot players accustomed to 50 pay lines, animated graphics, and triggered bonuses, fans of the game are quite content with what it has to offer.

The excitement of randomly generated bonus rounds makes every spin of Mr. Cashman and its associated titles in the four-game update a potential for both surprises and significant scores.