Twin Spin Slot Review

Sometimes there’s nothing quite so enjoyable as firing up a decent retro-styled slot, forgetting all about pick’em games, free spins and other modern bonus features and getting back to good old fashioned slot gaming as it used to be. Well the Twin Spin slot from NetEnt does offer you plenty of that, all dressed up in a 1970’s disco-inspired livery, but it also has one big feature that lifts it above most other retro games.

Before we take a look at that, let’s take a closer look at the basics of the game and what you have here is a 5×3 reel set up that features the standard NetEnt set up, which means a fixed bet amount of 25 coins, a Coin Value and Level selector which can be used to increase or decrease the size of the bets from £0.25 up to a maximum of £125 per spin. You can play this slot now at Leo Vegas Casino.

There’s also the usual Max Bet and Autoplay options you can use to place your maximum bet or play through more spins more quickly.

This is a ways to win slot rather than a line-based game, and there are 243-ways to win on each spin. That means for just a 25-coin bet per spin, the Twin Spin slot does offer its players excellent value for money.

The sound effects, music and the graphics of the slot are crisp and clean as you would expect from a NetEnt game and they do look excellent, especially on higher resolution screens as you find on many mobile devices.

The lower value symbols are the playing card low symbols and these range from 9 through to the Ace. The Nine, Ten and Jack are the lowest value symbols offering wins from 3 coins up to 25 coins for between 3 and 5 symbols across the reels.

The Queen, King and Ace offer slightly higher winning amounts of between 4 coins and 40 coins for the same number of symbols across the reels. This means with the lower value symbols, only five-symbol wins will afford you a profit on your spin.

There are five higher value symbols on the reels and these are all based on famous symbols used in retro slot games. The Cherry and the Bell are the lowest value of these symbols offering between 10 coin and 250 coin wins for 3 to 5 symbols across the reels.

The Bar symbol offers between 15 coins and 400 coin wins, the Lucky 7 offers between 30 coins and 500 coins, while the diamond is the big player here offering wins of between 50 coins and 1000 coins if landed across the reels.

Once you have selected your amount to play for and you are ready to spin the reels, you will immediately encounter what the key feature of this retro themed slot is and we’ll explore that and the Wild feature in the section below.

Twin Spin Slot Key Features

We’ll begin this section with the Wild symbol, which is simply the word Wild on a symbol. This does not have its own pay table associated with it, but can be used to substitute for any of the other symbols in the game. The Wild does not appear on the first or fifth reels, but can appear multiple times across the second to fourth reels and when it does, your chances of a bigger value win are increased significantly.

The biggest feature of the game though is the Twin Reel feature and this is the most important aspect if you are going to win a large amount of money playing the slot.

On every spin, at least two of the five reels will be linked together and will spin displaying the same symbols at the same time together. They will come to rest also displaying the same symbols in the same positions. Of course, this can help land some decent value multiple wins, especially when the other non-linked reels also produce either similar symbols or Wild symbols.  However your better chances of landing a better value win come when the two linked reels appear on reels 1 and 2 or 2 and 3.

Your chances of winning radically increase however when the Twin Reel feature starts to expand across the reels. When this occurs, which is not often, in addition to two reels being part of the same spin, you can get three, four or even all five reels spinning to the same pattern. The more reels you can include and the further to the left of the reels the pattern lands, the better your chances of a big win.

The big prize however comes when you land the full five linked reels during the Twin Reel feature and when this occurs, some truly huge wins can occur, approaching the 270,000 jackpot if you are lucky enough to land the higher value symbols on these spins.

How to win at the Twin Spin slot

As a more retro-styled, with one exception, the best strategy to adopt on the Twin Spin slot is to focus on getting the most out of the base game. That means playing the game with a longer term view to success and trying to eke some better value wins from the main game by landing the higher value symbols across the reels.

The good news is at just 25 coins for 243-ways to win, the chances of you hitting wins and at least breaking even are generally very good and this is definitely a medium to lower variance slot.

As such, it is best to view the Twin Reel feature as a bonus, especially when it expands to cover more reels. It can be a slightly disarming feature as you do expect to win more with it than you actually do. Sometimes the matched reels can actually block a decent win for you (especially when they are on the 3rd and 4th reels) and that is the down side of the bonus.

The up side though is when you land four or the rare five linked reels, especially when the fourth reel includes the first reel, as then you can land some truly epic wins and record a massive profit. However you can also hit three and four reels linked and not trigger a win if the first reel is not included and it produces three different symbols to those on the linked reels.