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Easy Money

Easy Money is a Scientific Games (Light & Wonder) title on the WMS Blade cabinet, one of two inaugural games in a revived Barcrest series that began appearing at Red Rock Station in 2016. It's a 3-reel mechanical stepper explicitly pitched to fans of IGT's Top Dollar, built around a take-it-or-leave-it Easy Money Bonus: land three Bonus symbols and choose to accept or decline offers of 10 to 1,000 credits, guided by a comedic announcer voice. It's a confirmed physical cabinet, tracked by community sightings at casinos including Talking Stick Resort and Island Resort & Casino.

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Fact sheet

  • Manufacturer: Scientific Games -- credited as manufacturer on URComped's physical-cabinet locator listing, and described by Strictly Slots magazine as the first title in a revived 'Barcrest' brand series that Scientific Games launched on the WMS Blade cabinet platform (WMS was a Scientific Games-owned hardware/content brand at the time). Scientific Games' gaming/slots business has since been rebranded Light & Wonder (and the land-based hardware side is now marketed under Light & Wonder / LNW Gaming), so 'Scientific Games (Light & Wonder)' both refer to the same corporate lineage, not two competing manufacturers.
  • Release: 2016 -- Strictly Slots magazine (casinocenter.com), in an article posted March 7, 2016, describes Easy Money as one of two inaugural games in the new Barcrest series that had begun appearing at Red Rock Station 'several weeks' before publication. A used-machine resale listing independently tags a physical Easy Money cabinet as a '2016' unit.
  • Cabinet: WMS Blade cabinet family (also referred to as the 'Blade Stepper' cabinet), a mechanical three-reel stepper unit flanked by dual 23-inch LCD monitors with 'halo effect' emotive lighting, built on WMS's CPU-NXT3 platform (per Light & Wonder/LNW Gaming's own product page and reseller listings). Game is configurable as single-payline/3-coin or 5-line/5-coin. Strictly Slots reports it is 'being promoted as a classic dollar slot, although it is available to casinos in denominations ranging from quarters all the way through the $100 denomination.'
  • RTP: unknown -- no manufacturer-published or regulator-filed RTP for the physical Easy Money cabinet was found via search. No third-party slot-review or paytable-analysis source for this specific land-based title turned up a figure either, so no range is reported rather than estimating one.
  • Mechanic: standard

Known quirks

  • The Easy Money Bonus is a take-it-or-leave-it credit offer: triggered by three Bonus symbols in a winning combination, the game presents an offer of between 10 and 1,000 credits, shown as different-colored rolls of dollar bills on the top box with lights flashing behind each amount. The player can accept the offer or decline it for a new offer, up to three times total. A comedic, 'mock-dramatic' game-showstyle announcer voice guides the player through each offer.
  • Easy Money is explicitly pitched to fans of IGT's older Top Dollar game -- Strictly Slots writes that Easy Money is 'instantly familiar, incorporating as it does all of the best features of the game that was IGT's biggest hit in the Barcrest brand, Top Dollar,' while noting 'IGT still holds trademark rights to that name.' This is useful disambiguation context: Top Dollar is a separate, IGT-manufactured game, and should not be confused with Easy Money despite the shared design lineage and Barcrest branding history.
  • Easy Money is a confirmed, currently-tracked physical land-based cabinet: URComped's slot-machine locator page for the game lists it under manufacturer 'Scientific Games' with community sightings tagged at named casinos including Talking Stick Resort, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City (IA), and Island Resort & Casino.
  • A related but distinct title exists that could be conflated with this game: 'Double Easy Money,' part of Scientific Games' revived 'Hot Hot Super Jackpots' series on WMS hardware, uses a two-bonus-symbol respin trigger (landing two Bonus symbols respins the reels for a chance at a third) and a wild multiplier -- a different bonus structure from the original Easy Money's credit-offer round covered here.

Recognition clues

  • WMS Blade (also called 'Blade Stepper') cabinet: a 3-reel mechanical stepper flanked by dual 23-inch LCD monitors with 'halo effect' emotive lighting
  • Configurable as single-payline/3-coin or 5-line/5-coin, sold across denominations from quarters through $100
  • Three Bonus symbols in a winning combination trigger the Easy Money Bonus, shown as colored rolls of dollar bills with flashing lights on the top box
  • A comedic, 'mock-dramatic' game-showstyle announcer voice narrates the Easy Money Bonus offer -- the game is explicitly modeled on IGT's Top Dollar

Photo checklist

  • Full cabinet shot showing the WMS Blade cabinet's dual 23-inch LCD monitors and halo-effect lighting
  • Close-up of the paytable showing the three Bonus symbols that trigger the Easy Money Bonus
  • The top box during an Easy Money Bonus offer, showing the colored dollar-bill-roll credit amounts
  • The denomination plate or bill acceptor, since this cabinet is sold across quarters through $100 denominations

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