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Cash Bandits 3

5 reels, 3 rows · 25 paylines. One of the most-played titles on the operator's front page.

Cash Bandits 3 slot artwork

What it plays like

  • Vault bonus with free games
  • Progressive jackpots
  • Wilds

Specification

Reels and lines
5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines
RTP
95.6%
Volatility
High
Max win
50,000× the line bet
Released
21 Jul 2020
Studio
Realtime Gaming (RTG)

Specifications come from the studio's and RTG operators' own launch listings.

Where to play it

18+. Wagering contribution for slots is 100%; check the cashier terms.

The City At Night in Full View

Load Cash Bandits 3 and you get a city at night, a vault standing open and lights turning outside before you get anything else. In Cash Bandits 3 the art is built around one motif — a heavyset robber with a satisfied grin — and it is that motif you see on the tile before you open the game.

The rest of the high symbols in Cash Bandits 3 are the vault door, a bag of money, a police car and a lockpick; card ranks handle the low end, as they do across most of the RTG catalogue. The palette: night blue, orange street light and gold — a light-hearted scheme that stays the same whether you play on a desktop monitor or a phone held upright.

The audio is light-hearted and stays out of the way until a bonus starts, at which point it changes register entirely. Vertically on a phone, Cash Bandits 3 drops the surrounding scene and keeps the reels with the motif on them: heavyset robber — which is exactly what matters when the symbols are eight millimetres tall.

Cash Bandits 3 identifies itself quickly, which counts for more in a lobby of this size than it would in a small one.

The Maths Behind the Heavyset Robber

Under the art, Cash Bandits 3 is a straightforward 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines machine. Wins are read left to right from the first reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts, so a second robber further along the same line adds nothing. The robber is the top symbol, the vault door sits under it, and the card ranks below those are what most Cash Bandits 3 spins return.

Wilds is the entry to read first — the wild stands in for everything except the scatter — because it is what turns a near miss on Cash Bandits 3 into a paid line. Top end on Cash Bandits 3 is 50,000× the line bet, and nothing on the base grid gets close to it — the number assumes Vault bonus with free games lines up.

On Cash Bandits 3 one entry does the heavy lifting — Vault bonus with free games: the vault code is worked out, and free spins follow it. Practically, that means a session on Cash Bandits 3 divides into two very different modes, and judging the game on the base spins alone gives you half the picture.

Choosing a Stake for Cash Bandits 3

The stake on Cash Bandits 3 is 25 lines times whatever you set per line. Playing fewer than 25 is possible but rarely sensible on Cash Bandits 3 — it lowers the cost and the hit rate in the same step. That is also why 50,000× the line bet is written as a multiple rather than an amount — the Cash Bandits 3 ceiling moves with the stake.

This one runs high volatility — it asks for patience in exchange for a ceiling the quieter games in the lobby do not reach. Return to player is not a fixed property of Cash Bandits 3 or of any other RTG title: the studio ships the game with a configurable return and the operator sets it, which is why an RTP quoted for Cash Bandits 3 on another site tells you nothing about the game as it runs here. The authoritative figure is the one in the info panel of Cash Bandits 3 itself, in the lobby.

There is no reason to ladder the stake on Cash Bandits 3: each spin stands alone, and its paytable scales linearly with whatever you set. Autoplay handles the base grid of Cash Bandits 3 perfectly well. Set it to stop on Vault bonus with free games and you get the pace without losing the event.

Vault bonus with free games and the Rest of the Toolkit

Cash Bandits 3 carries three features, and they are where the game earns its place in the lobby rather than on the base grid.

Vault bonus with free games — the vault code is worked out, and free spins follow it. Everything else Cash Bandits 3 does on the base grid is a preamble to Vault bonus with free games.

Progressive jackpots — standing prizes are played for on top of the ordinary payouts. In a high-volatility game like Cash Bandits 3 that matters more than it sounds: Progressive jackpots is the round the quoted ceiling is calculated from.

Wilds (the wild stands in for everything except the scatter). In a high-volatility game like Cash Bandits 3 that matters more than it sounds: Wilds is the round the quoted ceiling is calculated from.

The features are the game. Vault bonus with free games in particular is where the quoted ceiling of 50,000× the line bet comes from, and no amount of base-grid play approaches it.

Getting the Most From Each Spin

On Cash Bandits 3 the stake wants to be small relative to the balance: the game can go a long way without paying, and the only protection against that is spin count. Set the limit before the first spin of Cash Bandits 3 rather than after a bad run — the deposit and self-exclusion tools are in the account area and take effect immediately.

Bonus play on Cash Bandits 3 is straightforward: slots clear wagering at 100%, and the detail is on the bonus page. Before staking Cash Bandits 3, run it in practice mode until Vault bonus with free games has landed at least once — that wait tells you more about Cash Bandits 3 than the paytable does.

A dry stretch on Cash Bandits 3 is not a signal. Vault bonus with free games does not become more likely because it is overdue, and betting as though it does is the fastest way to shorten a session. Our responsible gaming page has the limits, the self-exclusion options and the contacts for independent help — none of it requires talking to support about Cash Bandits 3 or anything else first.

Cash Bandits 3 in Short

Cash Bandits 3 suits a player who wants a game that can do very little for a long time and then do a great deal at once. The natural companion in our lobby is Cash Bandits 2; the theme is close, the feel is not.

There is no cost to trying Cash Bandits 2 first. Cash Bandits 3 is the better opening move when you are prepared to sit through the quiet. Full specifications for Cash Bandits 3 — the 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines, volatility, the top end (50,000× the line bet), the feature list and the release year — are in the table at the top of this page.

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Ready to play Cash Bandits 3?

An account takes a minute, and the welcome package is waiting on the first deposit. Cash Bandits 3 runs in demo mode too, if you would rather look first.

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