Sneaky Spinners

Something that can really make new online slot games is the theme that the casino games developer decided to use. Some slots have awesome themes, making them way more inviting than rival releases. Sometimes a studio will even land a licensing agreement to use a movie or television series to connect to the game. At the same time, some go nearly as far as making replicas with slight differences. Sneaky Spinners is a new slot that leaves little guessing as to what TV series it's based on, but it comes off a bit too slippery in that it feels a little cheap. On the other hand, you've got a free spins feature where wilds can lock into place for up to 5 spins.

If you’re a fan of the British gangster series Peaky Blinders, you’ll likely have played the slot online of the same name, perhaps even right here, created by the casino software studio Pragmatic Play. Released some time ago and already having spawned a sequel, we were all treated to a slot online based on Thomas Shelby and his dysfunctional family. Now, Slot Factory has decided to release Sneaky Spinners that is an obvious take on Peaky Blinders, just without the licensing agreement needed to actually make it look authentic. The graphics are all a bit comic book-looking, while the characters don’t look 100% who you think they’re supposed to be, probably in an attempt to ward off any potential lawsuits.

Looking at the mechanics of Sneaky Spinners, Slot Factory has kept it all very simple with nothing that can deemed confusing to players new to the online casino scene. Quite often you'll play online slots that just pack too much into one title, making it a little hard to understand why you landed a win, or perhaps why symbols that lined up didn't award a win. Here, 3, 4 and 5 of a kind lining up on one of the nine paylines will award a win based on the value the symbol carries. The size of the stake you can place can be anything as small as 0.9, with options ascending as high as 180 per spin. You can play on basically any device, desktop or mobile, as long as it uses windows, iOS or Android.

There’s quite a standard selection of symbols that will fall in both regular play and the bonus feature, being lower values, higher values and symbols that bring added value to the experience. The paying icons are playing card royals J, Q, K and A, with the K and A having joint highest value. The symbols that will pay much better amounts are four characters with two women and two men. We assume the man with the tweed hat is supposed to be Mr. Shelby. The highest paying of the regular icons is the game logo.

There are two extra symbols in the wild and the scatter. The wild acts as all regular icons in order to possibly complete winning combinations. The only symbol it doesn't act as is the scatter, which we'll discuss next.

Sneaky Spinners is all about the bonus feature, in that this is where some potentially great winnings can come from. The best part about it all is that you get to sit back and watch reels spinning without you even having to place bets, which is all thanks to free spins.

You trigger the free spins by landing 3, 4 or 5 scatters anywhere on the reels on the same spin. Depending on how many scatters you landed, you'll be awarded 8, 12 or 20 free spins, so triggering the feature with five scatters is always best.

During free spins, you'll have Locked Wilds in play, and these are essentially sticky wilds in that they lock into place for five spins whenever they land. This makes landing wins way easier in that you'll have 'joker cards' on the reels to complete possible win lines.

Sneaky Spinners is a bit of a rip off of the legitimate Peaky Blinders title by Pragmatic Play, and while it could have actually been a better online slots release, it doesn't bring anything to the reels that we haven't seen before. The paying potential isn't too bad, though, so landing enough winning combos in regular play or the free spins will definitely give you the returns you're looking for.