Slot of the Week: Cash Eruption

Turn up the heat with our Slot of the Week, the explosive Cash Eruption, with 20 paylines and a classic appearance hiding three lucrative features and four jackpots!

As excitable and unpredictable as the geological feature it’s based on, Cash Eruption promises plenty of action with expanding wilds, free spins, four jackpots, and more!

In Short:

• Cash Eruption is a 20-payline online slot by IGT.
• It is available to play at 15 New Jersey online casinos including Golden Nugget, SugarHouse, Unibet Casino and Pala Casino.
• Top features of this game include expanding wilds, free spins, and four jackpots.
• The maximum payout of a single spin in Cash Eruption is $10,000.

The Basics

Cash Eruption is a 20-payline, 5-reel slot that was launched in late 2020 by IGT. The game is currently the 2nd most popular slot in New Jersey, probably due to its combination of simple, familiar style and rewarding features. The name itself elicits an emotional response — well, who doesn’t want to benefit from a “cash eruption”?

First Impressions

When you first open the game, you’ll notice it’s set inside a torchlit stone temple, which features intricate stone carvings and bathes in a warm orange glow. Wide steps lead up to the central point of the scene, the reel set, which has a decorative thin gold frame and teal colored reels with faint aztec style symbols on them.

Above the reels you’ll see the game’s red hot glowing logo and to each side are the four set jackpot amounts. Along the bottom are the game controls, allowing you to adjust your coin value, set auto-spin options, and spin the reels.

Start spinning and you’ll be greeted to an energetic musical outburst of hand drums, xylophone and tambourine in a kind of mystery adventure style that will get the adrenalin pumping. Land a win and you’ll be treated to a celebratory rising jingle. If you come close to triggering one of the game’s features, you’ll be made aware of it by an increasingly loud anticipatory choral hum. Land that final required symbol to unlock the feature and you’ll hear all about it!

Symbols

The game’s main symbol set consists of familiar favorites including bells, 7s, and fruits, but with each sporting a more luxurious, gold-plated look. The high value symbols are the lucky red 7, the blue 7, the gold bell, and the watermelon.

On the slightly lower end of the scale are the rest of the fruit symbols, namely, the purple grapes, plum, orange, lemon, and cherries.

The scantily clad lady is the game’s wild symbol, which not only stands in for all other symbols in the game (except fireball and scatter), it also expands to cover the entire reel it’s on if a winning combination is possible.

Fireball symbols can appear anywhere on the reels, are stacked, and contain coin wins or Mini, Minor, or Major, which represent the set jackpots. This symbol is one to watch as it unlocks one of the game’s special features.

The free spins volcano symbol is another feature trigger, but it also has its own payouts, so look out for this one too!

Cash Eruption Features

Aside from the expanding wilds, which can certainly skyrocket your winnings in themselves, there are three main features in Cash Eruption: the Cash Eruption Bonus, the Free Spins Bonus, and the Pattern Feature. Let’s take a closer look at how each of these features works.

Cash Eruption Bonus

To trigger the Cash Eruption Bonus feature, look out for at least six fireball symbols in the base game or one giant fireball symbol on the three central linked reels of 2, 3, and 4.

You’ll then be whisked off to the foot of the volcano, where you’ll get three respins to land as many additional fireball symbols as you can. Each time you land a fireball symbol, it remains in place and your respins reset to three.

The feature ends in one of two ways: either by running out of respins or by landing a fireball symbol in every position. If you run out of respins, the coin values are added up to give your final feature payout. If you’re lucky enough to fill all positions with fireball symbols, you’ll win the Grand Treasure, ie. the Grand set jackpot!

Free Spins Bonus

It’s tricky to do, but if you land three or more free spins volcano symbols anywhere on the reels at once, you’ll trigger the Free Spins Bonus.

Once your scatter win pays are awarded, you’ll be given six free spins with the central three reels 2, 3, and 4 linked together and featuring only jumbo-sized symbols. That means your paylines will contain a minimum of four symbols and a maximum of five for even bigger potential winnings.

Remember, if you land a single jumbo fireball symbol here, you’ll trigger the Cash Eruption Bonus too! You can also win an additional three free spins if a jumbo volcano symbol appears.

Pattern Feature

As displayed center-stage on the game’s loading screen, the Pattern Feature offers a set payout of 1,000x your total bet if your reels land as shown, with lucky red 7s on the first reel and expanded wilds on the other four reels. The relevance and value of this particular feature only becomes apparent when you realize that almost all other payouts in the game are a multiple of your coin value.

Cash Eruption Payouts

Cash Eruption’s payouts are a little more complicated than those of your average slot, with base game and free spins wins paying out a multiple of each line’s coin value rather than total bet. Free spins wins pay out a slightly reduced amount (since landing more matching symbols is more common), while only the volcano symbol pays a multiple of your total bet.

Here’s a breakdown of each symbols payouts in both the base game and the free spins feature:

Base game payouts:

Symbol	x3	x4	x5
Lucky Red 7	10x coin value	50x coin value	250x coin value
Blue 7	10x coin value	30x coin value	200x coin value
Bell/Watermelon	10x coin value	25x coin value	100x coin value
Grapes	5x coin value	20x coin value	75x coin value
Plum/Orange	5x coin value	15x coin value	50x coin value
Lemon/Cherries	5x coin value	10x coin value	40x coin value

Scatter payouts:

Volcano

2x total bet

15x total bet

100x total bet

Free spins payouts:

Symbol	x4	x5
Lucky Red 7	10x coin value	200x coin value
Blue 7	10x coin value	100x coin value
Bell/Watermelon	10x coin value	25x coin value
Grapes	5x coin value	20x coin value
Plum/Orange/Lemon/Cherries	5x coin value	15x coin value

As you can see, the most you can win from a single line in Cash Eruption is 250x your coin value. With a maximum coin value of $0.50, that equates to a maximum single line payout of $125.

Of course, you can land more than just a single payline win in one spin, but that’s not the only way you can win more. Thanks to the Cash Eruption Bonus and the Free Spins Bonus, your winnings can be exploded to new heights without it costing you any extra.

Plus, don’t forget about that Pattern Feature, which awards 1,000x your total bet (NOT coin value). With the total bet maxing out at $10, that’s a $10,000 potential win right there!

Finally, the set jackpots also pay increasingly attractive coin wins as follows:

• Mini: 1
• Minor: 5
• Major: 20
• Grand: 10,000

Cash Eruption RTP and Volatility

So how do the payouts of Cash Eruption compare to those of other slots? The industry standard measurements of Return To Player (RTP) and Volatility are best for making such a comparison.

The RTP of a game is defined as the percentage of played funds that is paid out to players over the long term (ie. the opposite of the house edge). Cash Eruption’s RTP is 96%, which is the industry average, making it an attractive slot to play in terms of payouts over time.

The Volatility (or Variance) of a slot is the balance between small, frequent wins and large less frequent ones and where on that scale that payouts of a game fall. Cash Eruption ranks as a medium to high volatility slot, which means you can expect a pretty wild ride (ie. lots of variance) in terms of both the sizes and frequencies of the payouts. This excitability very much suits the volcanic theme of the game!

Trigger Volcanic Wins!

Cash Eruption is a red hot slot that’s deceptively simple at first glance, with its classic symbols and 20-payline design giving way to three pretty unique and rather rewarding features. The most often-triggered bonus round is the Cash Eruption itself, which can be particularly lucrative thanks to the four waiting jackpots, not to mention a balance-restoring relief if you’re waiting to trigger the free spins feature.

The jumbo-sized symbol in the middle of the free spins feature means wins are automatically bigger and with the Cash Eruption also capable of being triggered here, that’s a lot of potential wins waiting to flow right into your bankroll!

Cash Eruption can be found at almost all of the top New Jersey online casinos including Golden Nugget, SugarHouse, Unibet Casino and Pala Casino.

Ready to get that lucrative lava flowing? Check out our in-depth reviews of the online casinos linked above and join the one you like best. Claim the site’s welcome bonus if you like, then open Cash Eruption and play for explosive wins!