When it rains it usually pours. We’re not seeing as many slot releases from Yggdrasil as we saw in the past. Yet, this week has been a special week since we’ve reviewed two Yggdrasil slot machines.
Jelly one of Yggdrasil’s partner studios drops CleoPatrick DoubleMax slot. The central theme is all about St.Patrick’s Day with a unique flair of its own with an ancient Egyptian twist.
Playing out on a grid with 5 reels, 4 rows, and 1,024 paylines the RTP is 96% dropping to 86%.
It’s a volatile slot tipping the scales at 8/10 offering a jackpot of 5,000x your stake. The special features include Patrick Modifiers up to 64x and Respins. The slot uses Cascades offering repeat wins during winning combinations.
The betting range is 20 cents up to $80 per spin. Perhaps not the widest but it caters to all budget types. Heading into the symbols, ancient Egypt acts as the setting for the backdrop of the reels in this Yggdrasil slot.
You’ll see green vines wrapped around temple columns and a rainbow. The top symbols on the reels are the Money Pay, St. Patric Wild, Cleo, Scarab, Snake, Hammer, and Harp.
The premium symbol is Queen Cleo paying 10x the stake for 5 matching symbols. The low-pay symbols are from 10 to Aces paying as much as 1x the stake for 5.
Finally, there’s the standard Wild and Stacked Wild that substitute symbols adjacent to them.
Gameplay and Features
Golden Bet
To increase your chances of triggering the Respins, flick on the Golden Bet feature for an extra 50%.
DoubleMax Multiplier
Each Cascade that occurs increases the DoubleMax Multiplier.
Patrick’s Modifiers
You can trigger the Patrick’s Modiefier on any random spin. It adds Mystery Symbols to the reels which reveals a pay symbol.
Cleo’s Respins
When 2 Money Symbols appear they initiate the Cleo’s Respins bonus round. The Golden Pot above the reels will burst offering you respins.
When 5 or more Money Symbols land they trigger Cleo’s Respins bonus. Money Symbols that appear on the reels stick to the grid until the bonus ends. Every Money Symbol that lands reset the respin count back to 3 respins.
The values of the multipliers range from 0.5x up to 100x. Now, if you initiate Cleo’s Respins feature when the DoubleMax feature is active, guess what?
You’ll play with a Stacked Reel, and when you fill it with Money Symbols, the DoubleMax will multiply all prizes.
Bonus Buy Respins
If you don’t want to wait for 2 or more Money Symbols to pitch. You can buy Cleo’s Respins for a fee of 100x your stake.
Paylines
Paytable
What We Like About CleoPatrick DoubleMax
The Cleo’s Respins Bonus is mint because you can play with multiplier wins of up to $100x the stake. If you land a bunch of them their multiplier values tally for a final payout.
Tips & Strategy
Bankroll permitting we suggest you increase your average stakes a bit. The betting range that worked well for us was $2. We had wins of up to 15x the stake in the base game.
Play with free credits before you play for real gives you an idea about how the engine operates. For example, how many symbols trigger the Cascading Engine or Respins feature? You also get to experience the hit frequency and RTP.
How to Win Money CleoPatrick DoubleMax
We kept things relatively simple with an average bet of $2 per spin. We nearly filled the reel set with multipliers and the biggest multiplier we got was 4x. By the way that was when we tested the buy option.
In the end, we played with a top multiplier of 8x for a final payout of $466. That’s a profit of $266 or 133x our stake which is sublime.
Verdict: CleoPatrick DoubleMax Slot
CleoPatric DoubleMax from Jelly/Yggdrasil is a slot of two halves. There’s a reason as to why we say so. We played the slot in demo mode for the maximum wager of $100 and it nailed us.
That prompted us to lower our betting range to $2 stakes per spin. That worked out well for us via the Buy Feature for a profit of $266. To trigger the buy option at that betting range cost us $200.
The moral of the slots story here is to keep it simple. Another thing, the Cascades seldom let rips and the most Cascading wins we could string together was two.
If we compare it to casino games like The Dog House Dog or Alive it pales in comparison. Instead of playing for a jackpot of 5,000x.
You’re spinning the reels for a life-changing win of 10,000x the stake. Pragmatic Play further juices up The Dog House Dog or Alive with 2x and 3x Multiplier Wins on each Cascade.
