King Cashalot is a networked progressive slot developed by Microgaming. According to official stats, the jackpot is hit an average of once a year and its average size exceeds $650,000. The jackpot is accumulated by taking a small portion of every bet placed on that game by real-money players around the world, which makes the progressive pool growing in size almost every second until someone hits it.

Along with the huge jackpot, the game is very funny and rewarding by itself, offering generous regular prizes and a lucrative bonus feature. The slot has five reels and nine adjustable paylines. A coin value is fixed at $0.05 and you can select to bet 1 to 5 coins per line, therefore, the max spin bet is $2.25.

Bonus features

There are three special symbols that add diversity to the gameplay. First, you have a wild represented by King Cashalot that triggers a progressive jackpot if all qualification requirements have been met by the player (see the section below). Even if you fail to win the progressive, you can win up to $3750 on hitting five wilds. Furthermore, a wild doubles your wins when completing combinations of non-feature symbols. Second, there is a scatter (Jester) that does not trigger any bonus event but pays scatter wins of up to x50 times a total bet. Two or more scatters award independently of their position on the reel set.

Finally, the slot has the Treasure bonus round activated by 3+ Dragons. You are transported to a treasure room that contains 8 chests and you are to pick one of them to reveal a coin prize. You are given three picks for a bonus round that can be used optionally in case you are not happy with the award found in the first chest; however, every subsequent pick replaces the previous one. Deciding to keep the amount found in your selected chest ends the feature and takes you back automatically to a base game.

Progressive jackpot

The King Cashalot progressive jackpot starts at $100 000, meaning that it resets to that value after being hit. To be eligible for the jackpot you need to play at the maximum spin bet of $2.25 and land five King symbols on line 9. Having the same combo on any other line does not pay the progressive jackpot; instead, you earn a fixed prize of 15,000 coins. The biggest win ever recorded in King Cashalot is $1.52 million and was won in April 2011.