Crazy Pachinko Live: Our Review, How and Where to Play

After you fire up the game for the first time, you’ll see a simple online slot machine. This part of the game is not really “live” in the usual sense of the word. You get to play it at your own pace, but there are no presenters or dealers involved. You can spin as many or as few times as you want while setting the stake size yourself. The only classic live casino feature present at this point is the chat box.

The goal here is the same as with most slot machines. Your job is to simply choose the size of your stake, hit ‘spin’, and hope for the best. It’s pretty straightforward as much as modern slots online go, using 5 reels with 3 rows each and 10 active paylines. If three or more matching symbols land along one of the paylines, you get a payout based on the value and number of symbols in the combinations. All lines are calculated from left to right, starting with the leftmost reel.

This Crazy Pachinko slot round also features Scatter symbols, which are used to qualify for the other two phases. Scatter symbols can win from anywhere, and you don’t need to hit them along paylines. If you land three Scatters in a single spin, you instantly qualify for the Bonus round. To make Scatters easier to land, each of them persists on the board for a few spins. If a scatter is on the top row, the next spin nudges it down to the middle row; if a scatter is on the middle row, the next spin
nudges it down to the bottom row. Scatters can also appear with multipliers up to 10x, which increase any winnings from the possible resulting bonus round.

Lastly, you can increase your chances or instantly trigger the bonus by clicking the ‘Spin Modes’ button. This window allows you to turn on XXXTreme Spins, increasing your chances of qualifying at the cost of increasing bet costs. Alternatively, you can simply click ‘Feature Buy’ and instantly qualify for the next Bonus round by paying 75x.

The bonus Game Show in Crazy Pachinko is not always available. Essentially, a new bonus round starts every few minutes or so. Everyone who has qualified during this period gets to participate in the upcoming round.

While waiting for the bonus round to begin, all players who qualify can spend their time playing the Top-Up game. Much like the Qualification Round, this phase is not truly ‘live’. It’s also a slot machine of sorts, and you can spin it as many times as you want in the given time window. You can also simply choose to ignore it as bets in the Top-Up round are purely optional.

The goal of the Top-Up phase in Crazy Pachinko is to potentially increase your winnings in the upcoming Bonus phase. It also works like an online slot, but with a few crucial differences.

In this phase, the slot consists of 16 positions divided into 4 rows and 4 columns. Every position essentially works like its own reel with possible results that include multipliers and/or nothing. Players here are hoping to hit as many multipliers as possible. Every time you hit a multiplier, it moves to one of the 16 positions at the bottom of the window, which corresponds to the 16 possible results in the Bonus phase. 

The more you play the Top-Up round, the higher you’ll stack the multipliers at the bottom. You’re hoping to get as many multipliers onto as many of the 16 positions as possible. Having them spread over multiple positions increases your chances of getting a better reward at the end. Conversely, bigger multipliers can result in a bigger prize.

Once the next Bonus round kicks off, all players currently playing the Top-up round are presented with a choice. You can choose to end the current phase and start the Bonus with the multipliers you stacked up to this point. Alternatively, you can click on ‘Top-Up’ to keep playing this round until the next Bonus phase comes around.

Once you choose to stop topping up, you finally get to the big all-important Bonus Round. As noted above, this round is essentially the Crazy Pachinko bonus game from Crazy Time, with a few upgrades.

The Crazy Pachinko bonus round is where the live dealer part of this game finally comes into play. You’ll be taken to a live stream of Evolution’s colorful studio inspired by the looks of Crazy Time. It’s presented by real dealers, and its outcome is not determined by RNG, unlike the previous phases.

The central component of the Crazy Pachinko Live bonus round is a big wall with obstacles. The presenter drops a puck from the top, and it travels down to the bottom. The obstacles will nudge the puck and determine which way it falls. In the end, it falls into one of 16 positions which hold 16 different prizes. This determines your final payout.

The positions at the bottom are all randomly assigned multipliers at the beginning. These multipliers are increased by multipliers stacked up in the corresponding position at the bottom of the Top-Up slot as well as by possible multipliers on Scatter symbols. Check out the Payouts section of this review to find the complete final formula for your prize.

Beyond that, this round also features a special ‘Double’ position. If the puck lands on the Double, all of the base prizes in this round are doubled and the presenter drops the puck again. This can only happen once per round.

Once the bonus round in Evolution Crazy Pachinko ends, the steam closes and you’re taken back to the Qualification phase.