Down the Rails: play a free demo. Overview of the slot.

Characteristics of the slot

Down the Rails slot overview

At first glance, this issue doesn't seem to make much sense. What are characters as different as Henry VII, Churchill, and Shakespeare doing on the London Underground (or "Underground" as it is commonly called)? However, things soon fall into place when you realize that Pragmatic Play's Down the Rails is an ode to London and British history.

In addition to the aforementioned characters, you will meet cartoon characters based on Sir Isaac Newton and Florence Nightingale, and the game is filled with various modifiers and features. In the base game, you get 5 random runs, and you can gamble to improve any bonus round you get. There are also 5 different bonus rounds, and you can win up to 5,000 times your bet.

Features of the slot

The 5 famous British characters serve as premium symbols in this game, and they pay 10 to 25 x your bet for 5 wins. The newspaper wild symbol pays the same as the top level Shakespeare symbol, and it also substitutes for paying symbols to help complete winnings. The wild symbol can appear on any reel, but it does not replace any bonus or special symbols.
The following 5 modifiers can be triggered at random times in the base game:

• Tunnel Vision - adds randomly placed mystery symbols, which turn into a random matching pay symbol.
• The Big Smoke - adds 3×3 paying or bonus symbols to reels 1 through 4.
• Wild Strike - adds random wild symbols to the grid.
• Shifting Stack - adds wild symbols to the reel strips, and new wild symbols that appear cover all the reels with a multiplier of x2 or x3.
• Bonus Blitz - randomly triggers 1 of 5 bonus rounds.

Falling 3+ scatters in sight also triggers 1 of the 5 bonus rounds, and you can play a gamble to get the higher level bonus of the 5 available. If you lose in the gamble, you'll still win 4 to 24 x your bet as a consolation prize before being returned to the base game. You can accept any bonus you receive between gambling games, and if you reach the "end of the line," you will have no choice but to accept.

Pentonville awards 5 free spins, and all winning symbols are designated as a cluster, while the remaining symbols repeat re-spins. Repeat spins end only when the original cluster does not improve, after which the total win of the repeat spin round is paid out.

In the Kings Cross bonus round you also get 5 free spins, and places on the middle reels are marked with a cross on each spin. If a wild symbol appears in the marked place, all other marked places also become wild.

The Buckingham Palace Bonus Round rewards 8 free spins, and you get fully stacked wild symbols added at random to the reel strips. The wild symbols can be shifted to take up all positions on any reel, and all premium symbols become the top tier symbol present on any spin.

You also get 8 free spins in the Canary Wharf feature, and the symbol symbols bring cash prizes ranging from 1x to 50x your bet. However, the Collect symbol must be present to receive the cash prizes, and the prizes only open if the Collect symbol is also in view.

Function End of the Line - is a hold & respin type bonus, and you start with 3 re-spins on a cleared grid. Each cash symbol resets the number of re-spins to 3, and the cash symbols become sticky on the grid. They have values from 1x to 2,500x your bet, and you can also drop special modifier symbols:

• Extra Life - resets the spin counter to 3 if it reaches zero, and you need to collect 3 symbols to get 1 extra life.
• Prize Boost - the value of the cash prize symbols increases for every 3 collected symbols.
• Expand - adds an additional row for every 3 collected symbols, you can get a maximum of 5 rows.
• Multiplier - The multiplier increases from x2 to x3 and finally to x5 for every 3 collected symbols.

The multiplier obtained during the function is applied at the end, when the total winnings are summed up. The function ends when you run out of re-spins, reach the maximum winnings or cover the whole grid with cash prize symbols.