Pray for Six: Slot Overview

Keyser Söze may have quipped that ‘The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist,’ but in Hacksaw Gaming’s online slot Pray for Six, the devil’s presence is anything but subtle. Here, players meet the devil’s spawn and Pyropup, ‘two hellraisers who leave a trail of tears behind them as they run wild across the infernal realm.’ The game also draws from earlier Hacksaw Gaming titles like Pray for Three and SixSixSix, merging familiar mechanics and visual ideas into one fresh, unholy concoction.

As with its relatives, Pray for Six leans heavily into black, white, and grey, with occasional bursts of colour scattered across the display. Green flashes of eeriness, wheel effects, and special symbols provide those brighter accents. Visually, despite featuring the devil’s spawn and Pyropup, the cartoonish tone keeps things from feeling too grim. Hacksaw Gaming has clearly embraced this style, with multiple games in its catalogue using the same diabolical, cartoon, monochrome, 1940s-animated, slightly unsettling aesthetic.

Pray for Six is a cascading title played on a 6×5 matrix. It runs on a scatter pays system, meaning a payout is created when at least 8 matching symbols appear anywhere on the grid. Winning symbols then disappear, and new ones fall into place from above. Cascades continue for as long as fresh wins keep landing. This medium-high volatile slot allows stakes from $/€0.10 up to $/€50, and the highest of the four RTP versions is 96.35%.

There are nine regular symbols. Nooses, hammers, morning stars, and swords make up the low pays, followed by goat, doll, and pup heads, skulls, and finger symbols as the higher pays. Low pays return 0.1x to 50x for 8-19+ OAK, while high pays deliver 0.2x to 666x the bet for 8-19+ OAK. And however much you pray for them, wilds can still show up on the reels.

Pray for Six: Slot Features

The feature set includes a Total Win Bar, Wailing Wheels that can award Max Win, Cash Prizes and Additive or Multiplicative Multipliers, three bonus rounds, plus feature buys.

Total Win Bar

Any wins generated during a spin are collected in the Total Win Bar. Positioned outside the grid, the stored amount is awarded once the cascade sequence finishes.

Wailing Wheels

Whenever a ‘6’ symbol lands, it activates as long as there is at least one win on the grid after cascades end. If ‘6’ symbols fall during cascades, they arrive already activated. An activated ‘6’ triggers a Wailing Wheel on its position. The wheel spins and can land on a Cash Prize, an Additive Multiplier, a Multiplicative Multiplier, or a Max Win that is paid instantly. Cash prizes pay 1x to 4x for Bronze, 5x to 20x for Silver, or 25x to 666x for Gold. Cash Prizes and Multipliers are added into the Total Win Bar. If multiple Multipliers are collected, they combine into one value, either adding to or multiplying the current total multiplier. Additive values range from x2 to x333, while Multiplicative values range from x2 to x33.

Free Spins

• Unholy Offspring Bonus Game – This bonus round awards 10 free spins when 3 FS scatters land in the base game. It retains the base mechanics but boosts the likelihood of seeing ‘6’ symbols. Across all bonus rounds, landing 2 or 3 FS scatters grants an extra +2 or +4 free spins, respectively.
• Cradle of Chaos Bonus Game – Landing 4 FS scatters in the main game starts Cradle of Chaos with 10 free spins. Alongside the Unholy Offspring mechanics, the Total Win Bar becomes progressive, building wins and multipliers until the round ends.
• Playtime in Purgatory Hidden Epic Bonus – Hitting 5 FS scatters in the main game triggers this mode for 10 free spins. It uses the Unholy Offspring mechanics, but guarantees at least one ‘6’ symbol lands on every spin.

Feature Buys

Pray for Six’s buys include BonusHunt Feature Spins, which makes each spin 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus for 3x the bet, the 666 FeatureSpins at 50x guaranteeing at least one ‘6’ lands, the Unholy Offspring for 100x and Cradle of Chaos costing 300x the stake.

Pray for Six: Slot Verdict

Much like its name blends Pray for Three and SixSixSix, the gameplay does the same—Pray for Six picks the pieces it wants and bolts them together into a devilish Rube Goldberg-style setup. In general, the combination is handled smoothly, resulting in a tidy, streamlined update that chooses to lower the complexity, or at least keep it steady, rather than ramping it up. The outcome is fast-moving action that’s easy to track. The ‘6’ symbol sits at the centre of it all, uncovering Cash Prizes and two multiplier types in the spirit of SixSixSix, then banking them in a Total Win Bar in true Pray for Three fashion. It’s a strong pairing, made even more distinctive by using scatter pays instead of the other two games’ ways and paylines.

Another potential draw is the expanded top-end potential of 20,000x the bet. Landing the Max Win result from a Wailing Wheel would be the quickest route there, though free spins can also contribute—particularly the two higher-tier rounds where the Total Win Bar is progressive or where at least one ‘6’ appears every spin. Cash Prizes are a nice addition and can be quite substantial at the upper levels, but during the review, multipliers were the real standout, capable of turning a modest hit into something far larger. That said, they also appeared to be awarded less often.

Overall, Pray for Six isn’t trying to reinvent anything, but the way it combines the Wheel and Total Win Bar mechanics—driven by scatter pays—comes together extremely well. It delivers that sudden jump from quiet to explosive that Hacksaw Gaming slots often manage, so anyone who enjoyed earlier entries in the series may want to add Pray for Six to their shortlist.