Hundreds and Thousands: Slot Overview

For children, and adults with a sweet tooth, hundreds and thousands refers to huge amounts of tiny sugary sprinkles that can be, say, scattered over ice cream to make it that bit more special. The phrase has also picked up a gambling angle, since Pragmatic Play partner Reel Kingdom has used it as the name of its online slot Hundreds and Thousands. Even though the studio may have produced hundreds and thousands of fish slots, this one isn’t among them, and because it’s such a specific sort of game, players probably won’t need long to decide whether it’s a yes or an emphatic no thanks.

Hundreds and Thousands is unusual, and that extends to how it looks. It gives off a Mr Money Bags vibe, with a green felt tabletop and a cash-heavy theme. In the base game, a large banknote and gold edging take centre stage, while the free spins round shifts to purple and gold tones. A green-suited character with a pocket watch and bow tie adds a bit of flavour to a game that could really use more personality, and yes, the home screen really does show a man holding a fishing rod. Why? That’s a very fair question. Anyone with a taste for retro styling might warm to Hundreds and Thousands, provided they’re also fine with the odd quirks that show up along the way.

The action runs on a 5×5 matrix featuring no fewer than 100 paylines, which explains the “hundreds” part of the name. The win ceiling isn’t huge, though the game uses a high risk, highly volatile math model, delivering a maximum RTP of 96.52% with stakes from 5c to $/€250 per spin. That same return applies if you enable the ante bet, which boosts the stake by 100% in exchange for more scatters landing on the reels, improving the odds of starting free spins.

There definitely aren’t hundreds and thousands of symbols here. For paying symbols, there are only two: Xs and Bars, paying 1x the bet and 10x the bet respectively for landing 5 matching symbols. There are no wilds at all, and the 0 symbol doesn’t pay anything.

Hundreds and Thousands: Slot Features

Much like the limited paytable, the feature set is minimal too. The main additions, sort of, are a free spins round and a feature buy.

Free Spins

The banknote free spins symbol shows up only in the base game. Landing 5 free spins symbols on a winning payline activates the free spins bonus round. The total number of spins you receive depends on the total number of winning paylines created using the free spins symbol. During the bonus, an x2 multiplier is added and applies to every win in the round. The feature cannot be retriggered.

Feature Buy

You can start the free spins feature straight from the base game by purchasing it for 100x the bet. When you buy it, a random number of paylines containing free spins is guaranteed to land.

Hundreds and Thousands: Slot Verdict

Seeing a fishing guy on the Hundreds and Thousands home screen caused a genuine spit-take moment, like Reel Kingdom—despite trying—still can’t quite sever the ties to the Big Bass giant. And after playing some of Reel Kingdom’s non-Big Bass titles, it’s easy to understand why the studio holds onto that cash cow so tightly. Sorry if this sounds a bit mean girls, but Hundreds and Thousands would have a hard time even serving as chum for a Big Bass slot. To be fair, it is different, and somewhere in gambling land there will be players who are attracted to the “charms” of Hundreds and Thousands. Possibly—but whatever strengths it has are overshadowed by its shortcomings.

One of the game’s most surprising feats is how it manages to produce so few connecting wins despite having so many paylines. Yes, the 0 symbol blocking space contributes, and only 5 OAKs pay, but the volume of dead spins in a slot with 100 ways to win and only 2 paying symbols is some impressive maths. What’s far less impressive is what the “thousands” part points to: a top win of 2,000x the bet, which, realistically, plenty of players wouldn’t even bother with these days. And even if Hundreds and Thousands had shipped with a massive win cap, no number—however big—could disguise how dull the gameplay feels.

All the way through, Hundreds and Thousands came across as a strange slot, and it was difficult to picture who would genuinely get excited by what it offers. It leans retro, with the Bars and all that, and it’s extremely basic if that’s what you want—plus it is a little different, to be fair. Still, set aside the effort of trying to find positives, and Hundreds and Thousands felt like it was taking the mickey, as though there’s a punchline here that only the creators are in on.