If you are into Chinese culture, we recommend giving Fortune Stacks a try. It may seem as another Oriental-themed video slot, but its free spins feature promises some huge payouts with up to 5x multipliers, which makes it stand out from the crowd. The Chimney Stacks slot has 5 reels and 40 paylines. You can play the game for as little as 0.40 or as much as 400.00 per spin. The city skyline is the wild symbol, and it substitutes for all other symbols except the scattered Free Games bonus symbol. The Free Games symbol appears only on reels 1, 3, and 5. Chimney Stacks is a 5 reel, 40 payline slot from Bally Technologies. Players can complete winning combinations using the Stacked Wilds and also trigger at least 10 free spins.
Get your chimney brushes, rods and bellows at the ready to climb up a long chimney and clear it of all the ash and suit that is clogging it up in order to be rewarded with very big wins!
A chimney I hear you query in amazement. Yes, that’s correct – the Chimney Stacks slot machine is, as the title highlights, based on chimney’s. At VegasSlots.co.uk we have encountered some very weird and interesting slot machine themes this is certainly one of the most peculiar yet!
Of course, a chimney sweep was a worker in the Victorian era famous for climbing the chimneys of large buildings with no safety equipment and clearing the ash and soot from chimneys with their various tools like brushes and bellows, and the traditional style that the Chimney Stacks slot machine has been designed in makes it apparent that Bally have taken inspiration from the era.
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Just as chimney’s in the Victorian era where very tall and towered over the skyline of London, the huge stakes that are on offer will enable you to bring stacks of cash to the reels. With a 93.99% RTP, Chimney Stacks is played across 5 reels and 40 paylines (which is a popular structure for Bally slots and was also used in the Big Vegas slot machine amongst others) the stake per line options range from a mere 1p up to £12.50 which means all paylines can be played for at least 40p while a maximum stake of £500 per spin is allowed for those of you with stacks of cash!
Victorian Styled Symbols
The background consists of a London street outlined in a silhouette and a chimney sweep visible with his tools, the Victorian theme continues on the reels with typical red bricks from buildings in the era adorning the reels with the paylines displayed and symbols of familiar items from those times gone by.
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The most iconic symbol of all is the black silhouette of a London street with tall chimney’s protruding from them and the word Wild boldly displayed overhead, and as with how Wild symbols usually work, this can substitute for the highest win on a payline by replacing all symbols aside from the Scatter. The Scatter in this case is simply states Free Games in a rather traditional style which will likely remind the Western-fans amongst you of a Saloon.
Joining the Wild as the joint-highest paying symbol on the reels is a Top Hat which is notably associated with the Victorian era – though no chimney sweeps would have been adorning one, instead it would have been the person paying him! A hand-made bellow also features which was a device constructed to furnish a strong blast of air, plus a Weathervane and low valued Ace to 9 symbols are featured.
Stacked Wilds for Spectacular Wins
While the wins in the base game are nothing to shout from the rooftops about, those in the free spins feature certainly are. To gain access to this rooftop to clear the chimney of all the coins that are cluttering it up you’ll first need to land the Scatter symbol (Free Games) on the first, third and fifth reels during the same spin.
Once you manage this you are rewarded with 10 free spins, all of which come with a 4x multiplier attached, and simply need to click on the ‘Spin’ button in order for them to begin. On top of this a stacked Wild features (represented by a tall chimney divided into four separate symbols) and should you manage to land the whole chimney in view on a reel it sticks in place for the remainder of your spins – very rewarding if you land this early.
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As you can imagine with a 4x multiplier and stacked Wilds there is the potential for very big wins, so big in fact that Bally have restricted your winning possibilities by not enabling additional free spins to be won as your free spins play out.
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Thoughts on Chimney Stacks
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Hurry up the ladder and get chimney sweeping as you’ll be stacking the cash high instead of suit and ash in the Chimney Stacks slot machine. Available to play at sites like Betway Casino, while the theme is unusual it does actually offer very big wins thanks to the free spins mode, but that’s the only reason you’ll want to spin the reels.
If you like more traditional styled slot machines from era’s gone by, check out the River Queen slot from Novomatic which offers slicker gameplay, more authentic sounds that add to the theme, and even greater opportunities to win.
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You’ll find 40 win lines, which like all Bally slots are not changeable. Bet sizes are from 40c, right up to $400 per spin. Prizes follow the normal Bally pattern too; individual wins are on the smaller side – which is made up for when you hit a few wilds, triggering multiple wins at the same time. The top wins are for the wilds and the top hat, 5 of either on a line get you 10x your total stake amount. Bellows and the weather vane are next, followed by the playing card symbols. You’ll get the standard Bally winning tunes when you do make a win, though the animations are limited to flashing lines.
There are two special symbols on the reels. The wilds are already noted, these substitute for any of the regular symbols to make winning lines, and often come stacked. Sometimes you will get more than one reel covered in these wilds which can be very profitable. The remaining symbol is a simple free games logo, which appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5. When you get all 3 of these you trigger 10 free spins.
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You will see an animated sequence with a large sized city scape before the bonus game starts. The graphics are different during this bonus. The reels have a dark background, the chimneys look like chimneys and there is some lively music playing in the background. I have to ask the obvious question at this point – why not use some of these elements in the main game?
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There are no special behaviours or extra wilds in this bonus game, you simply cycle through your free spins with the total won displaying on the right above the reels and spins remaining on the left. If you are lucky enough to see a few ‘stacked’ chimneys on the reels, the wins during this round can add up nicely. After the game ends you will go back to the main reels via the city scape (full screen) and then a big puff of soot.