The Great Stick-Up Slot Review

The Great Stick-Up Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Great Stick-Up slot has 5 reels, 3 rows, and comes with 20 fixed paylines. All matching symbols pay from left to right on 1 of the 20 paylines, and you need just 3 matching to form a winning combination.

Stakes range from 20p up to £100 per spin, so it certainly caters to those who prefer low stakes and higher rollers alike. As with the majority of Pragmatic Play slots, simply use the + and – buttons on either side of the spin button to change your total bet. Autoplay is also an option for most outside of the UK.

The Great Stick-Up RTP is 96.3%, which is slightly above the average of 96% for an online slot. But please note that this has a 5 out of 5 rating for volatility, so it will pay out less often on average than slots with lower variance. However, the chance to hit bigger wins in a shorter timeframe is higher.

The maximum win is 5,000 x your stake, which is the go-to figure for a lot of slots from this provider. It’s not too bad, but we’ve seen higher on the market with similar themes. Nevertheless, the Free Spins feature is your best chance in terms of landing the top prize.

Theme – unlock your way to riches

The Great Stick-Up slot game is all about crime, with gangsters, weapons, and cash filling the reels. The game is set in an old North American town, with the reels changing to a prison setting once you land the Free Spins feature. The graphics are pretty good but it does all feel a bit too basic at times.

The soundtrack doesn’t really fit the theme, but then the audio does take you back to thinking about those TV crime programmes from years ago like Starsky & Hutch. It’s pretty repetitive too, so we wouldn’t blame you if you reached for the mute button after a while.

On the reels, the lower-paying symbols you’ll come across are a pipe, a magnifying glass, a detective’s hat, some handcuffs, a map, and some cash. These are joined by a pistol and 4 different gangsters. The female gangster is the most lucrative standard symbol, paying 3.25, 10 or 50 x your stake for 3, 4 or 5 in combination.

The game’s wild actually pays the most – up to 75 x your stake for 5, and it substitutes for all symbols except for Scatter.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
Pipe	3, 4 or 5 = 0,05, 0.25 or 1 x stake
Magnifying Glass	3, 4 or 5 = 0,1, 0.3 or 1.25 x stake
Detective's Hat	3, 4 or 5 = 0,15, 0.35 or 1.5 x stake
Handcuffs	3, 4 or 5 = 0,2, 0.45 or 2 x stake
Map	3, 4 or 5 = 0,25, 0.5 or 3 x stake
Cash	3, 4 or 5 = 0,35, 0.75 or 5 x stake
Pistol	3, 4 or 5 = 0,6, 1.75 or 10 x stake
Blue Male Gangster	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 3 or 15 x stake
Purple Male Gangster	3, 4 or 5 = 1.5, 5 or 25 x stake
Green Male Gangster	3, 4 or 5 = 2.5, 7.5 or 35 x stake
Female Gangster	3, 4 or 5 = 3.25, 10 or 50 x stake
Sticky Mystery	Reveals a symbol + remains on screen until feature ends
Wild	Substitutes for all except Scatter + pays up to 75x
Scatter	3+ triggers Free Spins feature

The Great Stick-Up Mobile

Pragmatic Play creates all its slot games with HTML5 technology. Set in yesteryear in America, it’s available to play on mobile, tablet, laptop and PC devices. It plays well on smaller screens, but we prefer the game on a larger device in all honesty.

The Great Stick-Up Bonus Features

There’s just 1 main bonus feature here, and that’s the Free Spins feature. Sticky Mystery symbols are the name of the game during this bonus round, so let’s explain how it all works in order for you to understand it fully.

Free Spins feature

3 or more Scatter symbols in the base game will trigger this Free Spins feature.

• 3 Scatters pays 2x your stake
• 4 Scatters pays 10x your stake
• 5 Scatters pays 100x your stake

You will start with 7 free spins, but there are chances to increase that number. Here’s how…

The Sticky Mystery symbol is in play during this bonus round and whenever one lands, it will stay on the screen until the end of the feature. After every free spin, the Sticky Mystery symbol will open to reveal another symbol based on a progressive feature.

The progressive feature essentially increases the value of the symbol that the Sticky Mystery symbols reveal. You begin with a pipe and it will increase with every 2 sheriff badges you collect, which are known as the overlay scatter symbols. These appear randomly attached to any symbol in the game, and every 2 sheriff badges collected will give you 1 extra free spin while moving up the symbols rankings.

You simply continue spinning and landing winners until either you run out of free spins or the progressive feature part reaches the highest paying symbol. It’s as simple as that.

The Great Stick-Up Review Summary – A solid release but there’s better out there

Let’s start with the good points of The Great Stick-Up slot. The bonus feature is pretty good even if there is only 1 available. Furthermore, the RTP is slightly above the 96% average, which is another plus. The max win of 5,000 x your stake isn’t the worst either. There’s plenty to like here when you consider all of these factors.

In terms of negatives, we weren’t a fan of the soundtrack but that’s possibly just down to personal taste. We really would have loved to see more than just a Free Spins bonus too. 1 or 2 more bonus features really would have put this slot above many other similar ones on the market at the moment.

Overall, when you weigh everything up, The Great Stick-Up slot game isn’t bad at all. It will certainly appeal to many players, but there are arguably some much better alternatives out there if you like crime-themed slots.

Firstly, consider the Narcos Mexico slot if you’re into gangster slots. This one comes with max wins of 10,486 x your stake and some decent bonus features. Secondly, Pragmatic Play has another crime-themed game that’s arguably better than this one – their Cash Patrol slot. The max win is over double what it is here and there are some great bonus features to enjoy.