Hugo Carts Slot Review

Hugo Carts Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

Each spin in the Hugo Carts slot starts with 5 reels, 4 rows and 1,024 ways to win. As you’ll discover below, it’s possible to increase the number of win ways courtesy of special modifiers. To create a winning combination, land 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols or wilds from left to right on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel.

Bet levels here range from 10p to £100 per spin. With 5 available stakes appearing below the reels, use the plus and minus buttons to adjust your bet accordingly. In some countries, there’s a Turbo Mode for quick spins as well as an Autoplay function.

The Hugo Carts RTP is 96.23% which is slightly above average. This is a relatively high variance slot. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d put the volatility at around an 8. The most you can win from a single spin here is 25,000 x your total stake.

Theme – Audio & Design Features – dig for treasure in a gold mine  

The Hugo Carts slot is the 4^th Hugo slot from developer Play ‘n GO. You should check out the original Hugo slot. In case you don’t know, Hugo is a franchise created by Danish company ITE in 1990 for a children’s TV series. It’s centred on a friendly, small Scandinavian folklore troll who fights against evil to save his family.

With a mining theme, the design is impressively done. A cartoon gold mine forms the backdrop to the reels. The glossy imagery here is very nicely done and super sharp and clear, even given the dark underground setting.

On the reels, you’ll fine lower value royal symbols (A, K, Q, J and 10) alongside an assortment of mining equipment including shovels, axes, lamps and helmets. The helmet is the highest paying symbol giving you 1.5, 2 or 3 x your total stake for 3, 4 or 5 across a payline.

The dynamite sticks symbol is the wild. Substituting for all symbols bar the scatter, 3, 4 or 5 on a payline pays 3, 5 or 10 x your total stake. The bag of gold is the scatter with 3 or more triggering the free spins. You’ll also see Hugolina, Scylla and sacks of gold on reels 2, 3 and 4 respectively. These can trigger re-spins with modifiers.

Hugo Carts is available to play on all devices including desktop computers, tablets and smartphones. The cartoon imagery is stylishly done which makes the Hugo Carts mobile slot a very straightforward one to play.

Hugo Carts Bonus Features

The 4 bonus features in Hugo Carts are a little unusual. There’s some decent variety on offer thanks to the re-spins and associated modifiers. There’s also a free spin bonus where the modifiers can really come into their own.

Re-Spin features

The Re-Spin features trigger when you land 1 of the 3 character symbols on the middle 3 reels or a winning combination made up of 1 of these characters. A re-spin then follows, complete with the character’s own modifier:

• Hugolina Re-Spin feature: this triggers when you land Hugolina on reel 2. Between 2 and 5 symbol multipliers are then added to the reels increasing the number of ways you can make a winning combination. Each multiplier can be worth up to 10x.
• Hugo Re-Spin feature: when Hugo appears on reel 3, you’ll receive a re-spin with between 2 and 5 wild gold nugget symbols added to random positions on the reels. A payout calculation is made with the wilds in position.
• Scylla Re-Spin feature: Scylla landing on reel 4 awards a re-spin with between 5 and 9 mystery symbols added to the game grid. These all transform into the same matching symbol. A new payout consideration is made with the matching symbols in place.

Free Spins feature

To trigger the Free Spins feature, land 3 or more bag of gold scatters anywhere on the reels on the same spin. On any base game spin, you could see Don Croco appear. He drops 2 scatters onto the reels to greatly boost your chances of triggering the free spins. Anyway, here’s what you’ll be rewarded with initially:

• 3 Hugo scatters = 7 free spins
• 4 Hugo scatters = 9 free spins
• 5 Hugo scatters = 11 free spins

Before the free spins begin, 1 symbol out of Hugo, Hugolina and Scylla is chosen at random. The chosen character’s modifier will become active on each free spin. This can result in symbol multipliers up to 10x, up to 5 wild gold nuggets or transforming mystery symbols on every free spin.

Landing 3, 4 or 5 dynamite scatters on the same free spin delivers a retrigger. Not only will you receive another round of free spins. You’ll also activate a second character modifier. Another retrigger adds more free spins and also unlocks the third character modifier. This means up to 33 free spins with 3 character modifiers in play.

Hugo Carts Review Summary – more madcap action from Hugo   

The anarchic feel of the previous Hugo slots is present and correct in the Hugo Carts slot. It’s light-hearted and slightly slapstick but works very nicely.

There are some decent extras to complement the classy design too. The various Re-Spins features can spice up the base game nicely. Trigger the free spins and the modifiers can really come into their own, especially if you manage to land 2 retriggers.

With 25,000 x stake max wins, Hugo Carts is a lot more rewarding potentially compared to Hugo’s Adventure for example which comes with 5,000 x stake max wins. The original Hugo game pays up to 10,000 x stake per spin so this latest adventure is much more appealing on that front.

The key to big wins is from Hugolina who throws symbol multipliers up to 10x in to the mix. Overall, it’s an entertaining slot with lots of bonus features and potential for big wins.