Take the Shot Slots

Betsoft slots are often a big hit. While Take the Shot isn’t one of their 3D efforts, there is a lot to take in. It’s clear from the start that this is based on basketball, so if that is your thing, check out the features here.

Reels and paylines pose some surprises

Five reels are sensible enough, but there are four positions on each. We were impressed to find 75 fixed lines in action there as well.

You probably can’t guess the minimum bet

This is not a penny slot – you might say it’s better. You can cover all 75 lines for 20 cents a pop here. There’s a huge distance between extremes though, as the biggest bet is $260.

Stay alert for some Take the Shot special icons

Look for the wild basketball hoop, which replaces all other symbols apart from the player and the scatter symbol. The player is self-explanatory. The scatter is marked as a bonus symbol. This can only appear on reels two through four.

Check out the bonuses before you begin

The game will play out in sets of 10 spins. Whenever you find a basketball player spinning the ball on his finger, it will change into a stopwatch. These count down in sets of 10, and when the stopwatch hits 0, all occurrences on the reels change into wilds.

Find three scattered bonus symbols on the middle three reels and you will receive 15 free games. These are given with five, seven, or 10 wilds. These move on each spin, and in these games, you don’t get the stopwatch feature.

Will you count down toward some prizes if you Take the Shot?

You might recognize some of the features in Take the Shot. It’s very like the original Take the Bank game and some other similar titles in the Betsoft collection. It works well with the basketball theme though, as you watch that countdown toward the next appearance of some wilds. Check out the demo to see what it’s like, and then work out whether you’d like to play any real spins.