Peaky Blinders

The riveting tale of post-first world war Birmingham gangsters is debuting on the slot from Pragmatic Play in collaboration with EndemolShine Gaming. Peaky Blinders is bringing the fictional plot and the members of the Shelby crime family from the immensely popular TV series to a 5×3 reel set for an intense gaming rollercoaster. Wild substitutions, random spin features and two free spins modes can lead to wins of up to 2,022 times your bet.

Slot Details

Peaky Blinders is a video slot with five reels, three rows and 25 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for three to five matching symbols on a line from left to right only. You can join the gang on desktop or mobile from 0.25 to 100 credits per spin. The game has high volatility with an RTP of 96.50%. Beware, lower RTP settings might be used by some operators, always check the help file to find out which version you will be playing.

A dusty alleyway with brick buildings on either side is opening up when you load the game, reminiscent of 1920s Birmingham. The scenery will move to the inside of the Shelby Betting Shop during the bonus features. The main characters dominate on the reels as pay symbols and with occasional shoutouts at various points in the gameplay. The original soundtrack from the TV-series is the main audio.

The pay symbols start at the low end with steeled card royals from 10 through to A, awarding 2x to 4x your stake for a single five of a kind. They are followed by four of the main characters from the TV-series – Michael Gray, Polly Gray, the moustached Arthur Shelby and the flat cap-wearing Thomas Shelby. Hit five on a line to win 5x to 20 your bet. A metal door badge marked with the word itself is the wild symbol, substituting for all regular pay symbols and also yielding 20x your stake when five land across the reels. The Peaky Blinders logo is the scatter on reels one and three while two different badge scatters on reel five will determine which bonus feature will be awarded.

Peaky Blinders Slot Features

Premiering in Great Britain in September 2013, the TV series loosely based on a real 19th-century urban youth gang going by the same name and hailing from the same city has been a resounding success for the BBC network. It has wrapped up season 5 in 2019 with two more seasons to follow in the near future. The story of the Shelby crime family has attracted millions of TV viewers and is now bound to mesmerize slot players. Pragmatic Play teamed up with EndemolShine Gaming to create an authentic gameplay that follows the storyline of the TV series.

Core to the action are the two scatters on reel five marked with Shelby Betting Shop and By Order Of The Peaky Blinders respectively. Whenever they appear on a spin in the base game without scatters on reels one and five, they will each trigger a separate feature after any line wins landing on the same spin are paid.

• Shelby Betting Shop: A bet slip-style reel appears next to the game window. Each character symbol in view will receive a random cash reward from 2x to 50x your stake. All will be added and the total amount paid before the next spin.
• By Order Of The Peaky Blinders: All character and wild symbols are held for a free respin once any potential line wins are paid. All in view after the respin will transform into a common character symbol.

Hitting scatters on reel one and three as well as either the Shelby Betting Shop or the By Order Of The Peaky Blinders scatter on reel five will trigger the Free Spins feature. Neither can be retriggered, so the initial number of spins is all you get, however, their respective modifier will trigger more often during the bonus round thanks to more scatters being added to the fifth reel.

The Shelby Betting Shop mode gives you 8 free spins with the Shelby Betting Shop landing on reel five triggering the bet-slip style cash rewards. In turn, the By The Order Of The Peaky Blinders round will give you 10 free spins, awarding the respin and performing symbol transformation when the respective scatter lands on reel five. In both features, any line wins hit on a free spin are added to the total round winnings.

Final Verdict

The period between the two world wars never fails to mesmerize the crows, even now nearly a century later. The era has a special attraction although it was heavily marked by gang criminality. The makers of Peaky Blinders succeeded in bringing the atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s England with a stunning authenticity to the TV sets. Equally, Pragmatic Play dug deep into their creative chest and produced a suspenseful yet entertaining video slot with ample features that all have the hallmark of the notorious Shelby family.

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