Snoop Dogg Dollars

Snoop Dogg Dollars: Slot Overview

One of the non-athletic highlights of the 2024 Paris Olympics was the waves of feel-goodness American artist Snoop Dogg brought to the event. There he was carrying the torch through the streets of Saint-Denis, opening the breakdancing event, and looking fly AF at the equestrian decked out in riding gear, as well as other appearances. It's quite astonishing, really, when you consider how Snoop burst onto the music scene in the 90s, rapping about weed, Gz, and hustlers. From gangster rapper to special correspondent at the Olympic Games, described by one NBC executive producer as an 'ambassador of happiness'. Amazing journey. Hopefully, Snoop is able to bring players a bit of gambling related happiness, as well, as he stars in Bgaming's first celebrity branded slot, Snoop Dogg Dollars.

Standing before a heavily graffitied wall is the man himself, big old stogie in one hand, the other casually kept in a pocket, hanging next to Snoop Dogg Dollars' gaming grid. Bgaming has gone for a laid-back urban vibe, sprinkling in sounds of the city while dropping Snoop-esque musical tunes, though not the real thing, sadly. Snoop Dogg Dollars doesn't have the same dynamic ebullience for the hip hop scene that East Coast vs West Coast had, as a comparison, but its 'Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin and juice' attitude feels about right.

Snoop Dogg Dollars bills itself as a very highly volatile slot, which might not be everyone's cup of malt liquor, yet the user-friendly 97% RTP should please a wide audience. After selecting a stake of 25 c to $/€25 and hitting the play button, symbols drop into a 6-reel, 8-row gaming grid that forms wins by way of a cluster pays mechanism.

PS controller icons, circle, triangle, square, and X are Snoop Dogg Dollars 4 lower paying symbols, followed by three canine character symbols. Clusters made up of 5 identical pay symbols award 0.16 to 0.8 times the bet, and the biggest clusters of 15+ OAK pay 16 to 120 times the bet.

Snoop Dogg Dollars: Slot Features

Cluster wins in Snoop Dogg Dollars lead to marked positions, which can lead to multipliers and bonus symbols appearing during the cascade effect. A bonus round comes with free spins and persistent cell progression, which can be bought. As can a special Snoop Spin.

Multiplier Area

Landing 5 or more matching pay symbols in adjacent positions forms a winning cluster. After paying out, the winning symbols disappear from the board and are replaced by symbols dropping down. Winning cascades repeat till no new win appears. Each winning cluster also highlights its respective positions on the reels. If a win occurs on a highlighted position, the position gets a multiplier of x2. Each consecutive win on these positions increases the multiplier by x2, up to a maximum of x10. Multipliers apply to any win they are part of, and when more than one multiplier is part of a win, the values are first summed. Highlighted cells are removed at the end of a base game spin.

Digging Up A Symbol

When winning symbols have disappeared, and the empty positions are not filled yet, bonus symbols may emerge in empty positions. The four possible bonus symbols are wilds, scatters, Weed symbols, and Skull symbols.

Symbols

• Wilds - Wilds may be dug up before empty cells are filled with new symbols. Wild symbols are sticky, so they stay in their position until the end of a refilling sequence. If a wild is dug up in a cell with a multiplier, it gets an x10 multiplier. Every win the wild participates in increases its multiplier by x10 up to a maximum of x100. If a wild symbol digs up in the free spins feature it stays in its position till the end of the round.
• Weed Symbol - Weed symbols may be dug up before empty cells are filled with new symbols. Weed symbols upgrade all the multipliers on the reels before disappearing.
• Skull Symbol - Skull symbols may be dug up before empty cells are filled with new symbols. Skull symbols destroy all low symbols on the reels before disappearing.

Free Spins

The Snoop scatter may land in any position, one per reel max. Scatters can also be dug up on empty positions before they are filled with new symbols. Hitting 3 or more scatters triggers the free spins round. Players get 10, 12, 15, or 20 free spins when landing 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters, respectively. The triggering scatters transform into wild symbols or cell multipliers of x10. Highlighted cells and multipliers are not removed until the free spins round concludes. Free spins round can be retriggered.

Bonus Buy & Snoop Spin

Players can trigger the bonus with 3 to 6 scatters by buying it from the main game. The options are regular free spins trigger for 100x, 1 guaranteed wild for 200x, 2 guaranteed wilds for 400x, or 3 guaranteed wilds for 800x. For 20x the bet, players may buy a Snoop Spin. This feature guarantees at least 1 wild symbol digging up before the start of the spin. It has a maximum win hit rate of 1 in 4,600.

Snoop Dogg Dollars: Slot Verdict

Branded slots at times run a precarious tightrope walk between success and cringe. Snoop Dogg Dollars, for the most part, and it's not entirely without concerns, was actually quite entertaining. Or, dope, to use the parlance of the 'streets'. Its biggest letdown is the lack of actual Snoop Dogg songs. Perhaps stumping up the cost of using real Snoop songs as part of the licensing/branding agreement would have nuked the budget. Perhaps there are other reasons why fans are unable to nod in appreciation to Snoop's hits while they gamble, copyright or legal issues, for example. Hard to say. But while the Snoop voiceovers are great ('That's an epic weeyin'), as are the count-ups, and the provided beats are more than adequate, the actual omission of musical hits was noticeable. Hey, Play'n GO has managed to squeeze bands' tracks in slots such as KISS Reels of Rock and Twisted Sister, just sayin'.

On the gameplay front, Snoop Dogg Dollars was entertaining, too. There are hints, naturally, of Pragmatic Play's Sugar Rush due to the marking of reel positions and the growing of multipliers on them. The system here has been tinkered with, however, so it's not a total repeat performance. Here, individual cells are restricted by the x10 cap, and they don't double up on consecutive wins but add 2 to their value instead. This might sound tamer compared to Sugar Rush, but was not as limiting as it first seemed. Wild symbols are an extremely potent part of the mix in Snoop Dogg Dollars since they're sticky through cascade runs and fully sticky in free spins. Also because their multipliers can hit x100, potentially making a massive difference in achieving or getting closer to the 10,000x max win.

After being let down by bad branded slots in the past, the expectations for Snoop Dogg Dollars were not high going in, especially after spotting connections to Sugar Rush. However, Snoop Dogg Dollars turned out to be a pleasant surprise, not only making fun use of the infamous rapper in a respectably put-together slot but matching him up with solid gaming concepts to produce gin and juice enema moments when its bits are burning up the board.