Keep ‘Em Cool Slot Review

Keep ‘Em Cool Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Keep ‘Em Cool slot is played on a 5×5 grid with a Cluster Pays mechanic. Winning combinations are created when 5 or more matching symbols appear horizontally and/or vertically adjacent to one another. The more identical symbols, the bigger the payout. This is true of all grid slots.

Playable from 10p to £100 per spin, changing the bet in Keep ‘Em Cool is very simple. Click/press the up and/or down arrows in the ‘Bet’ section below the reels. When your stake is adjusted, the payouts for all symbols in the Paytable will change accordingly. Players outside the UK can opt for Autoplay (up to 1,000 autospins) and Turbo/Super Turbo Modes for quicker spins.

The Keep ‘Em Cool RTP is 96.19%. This is higher than the online slots average of 96%. Hacksaw Gaming have created 94.07% and 92.44% RTP versions which may the ones used at various casinos, especially new slot sites in the UK. This can be verified within the game’s Paytable section.

The Keep ‘Em Cool slot is a medium volatility game (3/5) with a 31.12% hit frequency rate. This means a winning combination/cluster will land every 3.21 spins on average.

Lastly, Keep ‘Em Cool comes with 5,000 x bet max wins. Larger wins will undoubtedly come from the Sunset Picnic Bonus feature (free spins) due to the higher chance of landing Cocktail Glass and Blender symbols.

Theme – head to a tropical paradise

With a beach theme, the Keep ‘Em Cool slot takes place on a lovely beach in a tropical paradise. Filled with delicious fruit, ocean views and beach pigs, the inspiration seems to be Pig Beach which is located in the Bahamas.

With an idyllic setting, you’ll see clear blue skies and palm trees in the backdrop. Colourful and with cartoon style visuals, you’ll hear the waves smash against the shore. There’s a gentle Caribbean style soundtrack which is quite relaxing.

On the 5×5 grid, paying symbols include green apples, bananas, oranges, cherries plums, dragon fruit and strawberries. The strawberry symbol is the highest paying with 21 or more in a cluster awarding a 5,000 x bet payout.

With no wild symbol, other symbols include the Cocktail Glass, Blender and Picnic Basket Scatters. More details on their functions are provided below in the Bonus Features section.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
Apple	5 to 21+ pays 0.1 to 400 x bet
Banana	5 to 21+ pays 0.1 to 500 x bet
Orange	5 to 21+ pays 0.1 to 600 x bet
Cherries	5 to 21+ pays 0.3 to 800 x bet
Plum	5 to 21+ pays 0.5 to 1,000 x bet
Dragon Fruit	5 to 21+ pays 0.7 to 2,000 x bet
Strawberry	5 to 21+ pays 1 to 5,000 x bet
Cocktail Glass Scatter	Triggers Cocktail Glass feature
Blender Scatter	Triggers Blender feature
Picnic Basket Scatter	3 triggers Sunset Picnic Bonus feature

Keep ‘Em Cool Mobile

Created using HTML5 technology, the Keep ‘Em Cool slot is available to play on mobile, desktop and tablet devices. With the 5×5 grid lending itself to all devices, including iOS, Android and Windows smartphones, the recommended ratio for laptop/PC devices is 16:9.

Keep ‘Em Cool Bonus Features

The Keep ‘Em Cool slot comes with 5 bonus features. Featuring standard cascades, fruit symbols can appear unfrozen, half frozen or frozen. It allows half frozen and frozen symbols to remain on the grid for longer for bigger wins. Cocktail Glass scatters re-freeze symbols and Blender scatters absorbs symbols. Then you have the Sunset Picnic free spins which has a much higher probability of landing Cocktail Glass and Blender scatters.

Cascading Frozen Symbols feature

All fruit paying symbols can appear frozen, half-frozen or unfrozen on the 5×5 grid. When a winning cluster occurs, all unfrozen symbols are removed. Frozen or half-frozen symbols will not be removed, even if part of a win.

What happens is that frozen symbols become half frozen and half frozen symbols become unfrozen. Then new symbols drop in to remove the removed symbols. The process continues until no new winning combinations for formed. This is known as the Cascading Frozen Symbols feature.

Cocktail Glass feature

Look out for the Cocktail Glass Scatter symbol on the grid. It fully re-freezes all symbols of any type that create a win so that those symbols can remain on the grid to potentially create even bigger clusters and pay out time and time again. The number on the Cocktail Glass Scatter shows how many times it can re-freeze symbols (up to 5).

Blender feature

Then you have the Blender Scatter symbol which, when landing, chooses 1 symbol type to blend and absorbs all symbols of that type until the end of the current spin. Furthermore, the Blender Scatter pays out a win equivalent to a cluster of the type and amount of the absorbed symbol.

Sunset Picnic Bonus feature

The Sunset Picnic Bonus feature is triggered when 3 Picnic Basket Scatter symbols are collected during 1 spin in the base game. Each Picnic Basket Scatter will award 3, 4 or 5 free spins each meaning you can begin with between 9 and 15 free spins.

Importantly, there is a higher chance of landing Cocktail Glass and Blender Scatter symbols than in the base game. Look out for new Picnic Basket Scatters landing which will award between 2 and 5 additional free spins, with no limits.

Buy Bonus feature

Finally, the Keep ‘Em Cool slot comes with a Buy Bonus feature. This is only available to players outside the UK. Enabled by clicking/pressing the blue ‘Buy Bonus’ button, you have 2 options. The RTP rate also increases with each choice.

Keep ‘Em Cool Review Summary – simple grid slot with decent twist on cascade concept

With so many grid/cluster pays games being released it seems, Hacksaw Gaming have taken a different approach with the Keep ‘Em Cool slot. Aesthetically, it’s peaceful, colourful and idyllic as you head to the Caribbean to soak up the sun, cocktails and clear blue waters.

With cascades the main factor of the gameplay, I like the way that half frozen and frozen symbols remain on the grid for longer. Basically, a win with unfrozen symbols will see them removed from play. If you get a large number of frozen/half frozen symbols in a win, they remain in play for your next cascade. This can lead to an even bigger cluster being formed.

Then you have the Cocktail Glass Scatter which re-freezes all symbols of any type to increase your chances of a bigger cluster. Similarly, the Blender Scatter absorbs all instances of 1 symbol type and pays out when the current spin (with cascades) ends. Both these extras trigger more frequently in the Sunset Pick Bonus feature.

With 5,000 x bet max wins, the Keep ‘Em Cool slot isn’t the highest paying grid slot around. However, Hacksaw Gaming offers a good twist on the cascades concept in the hope you can increase the size of winning clusters.

If you like the idyllic setting, ELK Studios offer you both the Tropicool and Tropicool 2 slots which comes with 10,000 and 25,000 x bet max wins respectively. ELK also have the Pirots slot which is a grid game, it set in the Caribbean and offers a different takes on the cluster pays concept.