Original Release: Bally, year?
One of the early variants of Bally’s popular Quick Hit series that adds increased possibility of very large wins on regular spins
Quick Hit Platinum (Bally, year?)
Where to Buy: Quick Hit Casino Online Slots (free-to-play app for Android and iOS)
Review by: C. M0use
Platinum was my first dabble in Bally’s “Quick Hit” series, despite these things being ubiquitous in casinos since I started going to them over 10 years ago. If they’re all this favorable to low rollers I’ve REALLY been sleeping on them as a “grinder” game, albeit one you really wouldn’t suspect given how heavily they advertise multiple jackpots that usually require a max bet to qualify for.
As usual it’s hard to pin down accurate information on slot history online, but I know the Quick Hit series has been around for at least 20 years and the Platinum edition appears to be at least 15 years old (despite dates on the spammy SEO sites that flood search results that put it more around 10). Obviously the first thing designed to catch your attention with these games is the stack of potential jackpots on display at the top of the machine, but there’s actually more of interest here for the budget player looking to grind out points or what have you that doesn’t involve ever even sniffing any of these jackpots.
It’s a “simplified” betting style with one fixed bet amount to cover all possible paylines, nicely displayed for you before you sit down and put in money. I assume this can be altered by the casino but the common and lowest minimum seems to be 30 cents per spin. That’s about as low as minimum bets go in Vegas and your other hoity-toity gambling destinations these days, and you range up to 150 credits (or $1.50 per spin at the minimum amount) to max out and qualify for all of those fancy jackpots listed at the top of the machine.
But, as noted, I’ve done pretty well with this thing without ever even touching one of those jackpots. This basically plays like the base Quick Hit game, with the central feature of three or more Quick Hit symbols landing you a sizable win. However, there’s an added “Platinum” symbol that provides another big win possibiliy when you land three or more, and these are even bigger than the Quick Hit wins. But landing just two of either of these also provides a smaller line win.
If you want the five jackpots listed at the top of the machine, obtained by landing five or more Platinum symbols, you have to max bet (usually $1.50 per spin). But even without them you land a solid amount of line wins, and then the bonus feature pops pretty often too. This is basically a “match 3” scratcher card that determines how many free spins you get (from 7 to 25 plus either a 2x or 3x multiplier) and I found this consistently returns somewhere between 10x to 70x your bet depending on how many spins you wind up with. It’s impossible to say exactly how frequent it is, but on my trial of about 300 spins I hit it eight times.
Even without the possibility of the listed jackpots, it’s a very solid grinder between the frequency of the bonus games and the line wins. And while it doesn’t have mega-jackpots, even if you’re not max betting you have the (extremely small) possibility of hitting nine Quick Hit symbols for 2000x your bet ($300 min) or nine Platinums for 5000x ($1500 min). It’s one of those games that seems such a good grinder I’m kinda surprised the casinos haven’t taken it out back and buried it by now! It’s definitely badly outnumbered by the less favorable Quick Hit Blitz, but still hanging in there even on tight casino floors if you pick around.
Really, my only minor complaint with this is that I wish the “scratch card” game was eliminated as it’s all random luck anyway, it just wastes time and makes you repeatedly touch the gross screen; I’d rather they just award a random amount of spins and get on with it. But I guess having to play a bonus game too much is the kind of complaint you want to have!
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