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Snakebite Review

When we’d only heard the title, we didn’t figure this for a Darts-themed release. Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright is apparently number 2 in the world in this sport, and he won the 2020 PDC World Darts Championship. The nickname stems from the colourful Scot’s mohawk hairstyle, not from the drink, and apparently his hairdresser wife changes the color of his hair for every tournament he attends.

Quite a character to base a slot game around in other words, but we don’t see this thing taking off amongst those who could care less about darts. You get Dartboard instant prize wins up to 150x in the base game, and the main attraction is the hold-and-win style Snake Spins feature. It comes with 3 modifier symbols that can boost your total winnings up to 6,000x your stake. The audience is very enthusiastic, and you get some decent action commentary as you play.

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Snakebite Slot Features

The Trophy Wilds can land on all 5 reels, and wilds step in for regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations. The wild also pays like a scatter symbol, awarding 2, 10 or 200 x your stake for 3, 4 or 5 in sight, respectively. Regular premiums pay between 20 and 24 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins.

Special Dartboard symbols can land on reels 1 to 4 only, and these pay if at least 2 land on the same spin. You get an instant cash prize up to 10x your stake for each Darboard symbol that lands. If you land the special Snakebite symbol on reel 5, together with at least 2 Dartboard symbols on reels 1 to 4, you trigger the Snake Spins feature.

The Snake Spins feature awards 3 spins on a 5x5 grid, and the triggering Dartboard symbols become sticky Instant Prize symbols. Only new instant prize symbols, Snake Snap, Peter Pays, Golden Dart or blank symbols will land during the feature, and any non-blank symbol that lands becomes sticky and resets the spins tally to 3 again.

The streak respins style feature ends when you run out of spins, or when all 25 positions are filled with symbols. The symbols you can land have the following attributes:

• Instant Prizes come with values of 1, 2, 5 or 10 x your stake.
• Snake Snaps duplicates and collects the value from all Instant Prize symbols in view.
• Peter Pays adds a random value of 1, 2, 5 or 10 x your stake to the Instant Prizes.
• Golden Darts increases a win multiplier up to x10. It is applied when the feature ends.

The 200 Spins Snakebite Slot Experience

You get to see a healthy dose of the base game, with its limited vocabulary action commentary, before we finally trigger the Snake Spins feature at 3:30 into the 4:52-minute highlights video. Peter Wright jumps across the screen, waving his arms to liven up the audience, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We haven’t really witnessed many live Dart championships before, we must admit, and we were surprised to learn that the audience is as lively as football fans. This has been captured nicely in this branded Play’n Go effort, where instant cash prizes up to a total of 150x your stake can be landed in the base game. A screen full of the tip-tier premium symbol awards 240x your stake, in comparison.

Not exactly eye-popping numbers in other words, and you only have the hold-and-win style Snake Spins feature to look forward to. A 5x5 screen full of 10x symbols, combined with the x10 multiplier, awards 2,500x your stake. You need to be very lucky with Peter Pays and/or Snake Snaps to crack the 6,000x potential in other words. Fans of darts, and Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright in particular, might enjoy this, but it will probably not fly with anyone else.

If you appreciate Snakebite Slot you should also try:

PDC World Darts Championship - is a branded Blueprint release that features big names like Michael Van Gerwen, Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright and world champion Gerwyn Price. You can win up to 180 free spins, and you’ll collect cash prizes in both versions of the feature.

Jackpot Darts - is a Playtech release that’s the closest you’ll get to a real game of darts. You will try to predict the outcome of 3 thrown darts in this game, and this is how you win money. You also have an ‘extra bet’ feature that can award payouts up to 2,000x your stake, or a progressive jackpot.

Darts Heroes - combines darts with a superhero theme, and stars like Phil Taylor, Gary Anderson, Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen are included in this StakeLogic effort. They can land as 2x2 mega wilds in superhero mode, and you also get expanding wilds (vertically or horizontally). You get even more wild action in the bonus round.