Time Spinners Slot Review

Time Spinners Slot Overview

Time Spinners from Hacksaw Gaming drops you into a strange stone chamber, where a chained reel set hangs over a pit and a pale ghost toys with your fate. On the surface it looks like a simple 5x4 slot, yet the mood is oddly unsettling, sitting somewhere between cosy and morbid. As a long time slots player, I warmed to that tension quite quickly.

The soundtrack helps sell the concept of borrowed time, starting as a slow dirge before swelling when the reels spin. Bright symbols such as scrolls and hourglasses clash with the gloomy backdrop, making the whole thing feel a bit confused but still intriguing. It is not the most distinctive Hacksaw release visually, yet the time theme and ghost character give it enough personality for me.

Time Spinners Slot Information

Time Spinners runs on a 5 reel, 4 row layout with 10 fixed paylines, paying left to right from three of a kind. Stakes range from 10 pence up to 100 pounds a spin, so I can comfortably grind or push the limits. The default RTP sits at 96.19 percent, though lower settings exist, and the highly volatile maths with roughly 41 percent hit rate leads to spiky sessions chasing that 10,000x stake cap.

Time Spinners Slot Features

The base game in Time Spinners leans heavily on the pocket watch wild multipliers. Red rimmed watches land on any reel, substituting like normal wilds but revealing multipliers from x2 to x12 whenever they connect in a win. Several in one line add together first, which can get spicy if a green sync watch appears, because that symbol upgrades every watch on the grid to match the highest multiplier currently in view.

Land three ghost scatters in Time Spinners and you move into the Borrowed Time bonus, a two phase feature that mixes hold and win collecting with standard free spins. First comes the collect phase on a stripped down reel set where only watches, sync symbols, two flavours of echo dice and dead blockers can land. You start with three spins, and any new special symbol resets the counter back to three again.

Normal echo symbols in Time Spinners add between plus one and plus fifty to all adjacent watch multipliers, while epic echoes multiply watches by x2 to x10, leading to some absurd setups if you get lucky. When three dead spins land in a row you shift to the payout phase, carrying every sticky watch forward. You then play at least three free spins, plus one extra for each reset, and non UK players can buy into these features directly.

Time Spinners Symbols and Paytable

The paytable in Time Spinners keeps things straightforward. At the low end you have the four card suits, paying around one to two times your stake for five of a kind and acting mainly as filler. Premium symbols are the book, scroll, hourglass and golden orb, stepping up sharply to awards between five and twenty times your bet for a full line, so you really want those stacked with multipliers.

Two wild symbols show up in Time Spinners. The gold W is a regular wild, substituting for all low and high pays and returning twenty times stake for five on a line. The red pocket watch pulls double duty as both wild and multiplier, while the green pocket watch is the sync symbol that upgrades them. Ghost scatters only pay as access to the bonus, not as cash wins.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x20
	Multiplier
	5	x20
	5	x20
	4	x8
	3	x2
	5	x10
	4	x3.5
	3	x1
	5	x5
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x5
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x2
	4	x0.7
	3	x0.2
	5	x2
	4	x0.7
	3	x0.2
	5	x1
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.1
	5	x1
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.1
	Scatter

Time Spinners Slot Verdict

After a fair number of sessions, Time Spinners struck me as a classic high variance Hacksaw effort with a slightly strange identity. The mix of cosy colours and grim undertones feels a bit muddled, and dead base game spins are common when the watches refuse to show. When they line up, though, synced x12 clusters can go wild, and that swingy chase towards 10,000x keeps dragging me back.

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