Four of the Best Sports Slots

Slots Online Published: fri 8 jan 2021 | Updated: wed 2 feb 2022 Sport is one of the most popular forms of entertainment around, and that’s been the case for several thousand years at the very least. Whilst we might have moved on a bit from chariot racing and gladiators squaring off in the arena, we still love watching teams and individuals battle it out for supremacy in sports like football, hockey, basketball and more.

That being the case, we shouldn’t be surprised that slots developers have created plenty of titles inspired by all kinds of sports. We don’t have the space here to do much more than scratch the surface of this extremely popular genre, but we can certainly get you started by pointing you in the direction of four of our favourites…

Hockey League

There are few sports that Canadians love more than ice hockey, so we’ll start with a game called Hockey League. This was released by Pragmatic Play at the end of 2015, and it has all the atmosphere that you’d expect to experience when watching a game in person. Crowd noises and chants, the clash of sticks and deafening fanfares are just some of the sounds that you’ll enjoy as you play.

Symbols in this five-reel game include the playing card ranks 10, J, Q, K and A, two hockey players, one goalkeeper and a referee. A League Cup symbol acts as a wild, and a puck serves as a scatter.

Land three or more scatters, and you’ll trigger a Most Valuable Player round which gives you 10 free spins. A character symbol will be randomly selected to act like a scatter in this round, which means that you will win a prize with three or more of them anywhere on the reels.

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Basketball Star

Released by Microgaming in 2015, Basketball Star is a five-reel slot that puts you right next to the court. Every spin of the reels gives you 243 ways to win a prize, and symbols include a tabletop game, drinks bottles, a pair of basketball shoes, a medal and five different scenes of players in action.

A Basketball Star logo is wild, and a total of 40 of them appear stacked on the third, fourth and fifth reels. It is also possible to randomly trigger a Wild Shot feature that turns up to two of the middle three reels wild and guarantees you a win. A basketball symbol plays the role of a scatter, and landing 3, 4 or 5 of these on the reels will give you 15, 20 or 25 free spins, respectively.

This game boasts the Rolling Reels feature, which means that winning symbols are removed to make way for new ones. Not only does that give you the chance to win several times from a single spin of the reels, but it can also help you to build up a multiplier to as much as 10x in the Free Spins feature.

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Knockout Diamonds

We might not watch gladiators fighting to the death in Roman arenas these days, but we do enjoy watching fighters confront each other in the boxing ring. Knockout Diamonds from ELK Studios is a game that was launched at the end of 2020 and puts an old-school three-reel slot right next to the ring.

This game has just one pay line (we said it was old-school), and you won’t see any boxers on the reels. Instead, the symbols include the Knockout Diamonds logo; cherries; single, double, and triple BARs, bells, red 7s and a WILD. Multiplier Wilds can also appear and these will multiply any win they help you to achieve by x2 or x3.

Land identical symbols sets on the first and second reels, and you’ll trigger a Ringside Rumble. This will lock the first two reels and give you three free respins of the third reel.

Get three Knockout Diamonds bonus symbols on the pay lines and you’ll trigger a Knockout Spins round. This will give you three free spins, and if you land any win or additional bonus symbols on the pay line, the free spins will be reset to three. Every bonus symbol landed will be counted, and if you get ten, you’ll land the top prize of 2,500 times your stake.

Whilst boxers might not be visible in this game, it still has plenty of ringside atmosphere. The audio effects are superb, with crowd noises, rock music, commentary and the sound of punches being landed contrasting very nicely with mechanical slot effects.

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Quarterback

Our final selection (although we could have continued for much longer) is Quarterback from a developer called Genii. This title was also released in 2020, and it’s a five-reel slot with 243 ways to win.

As you’ve no doubt guessed from the title, this game has a football theme. It is played in a large stadium, and regular symbols include the playing card ranks of 9, 10, J, Q, K and A, a pair of football boots, a helmet, a shirt, a football, a set of goalposts and a Quarterback logo. Special symbols include a Foam Finger, a Free Spins scatter and two different Quarterback Bonus Symbols.

The reason why there are so many special symbols is because this game has multiple bonus rounds. Land both Quarterback Bonus symbols, and you can choose to Pick a Ball, Run the Yards or kick a Field Goal. All three of these bonus games give you a chance to win a jackpot. Three jackpots are available, known as the Mini, Major and Mega. These are worth 1,000, 2,500 and 10,000 times your bet, respectively.

Get three Foam Finger symbols on the reels, and you’ll be able to select one to reveal an instant prize. Get three Free Spins scatters on the reels, and you’ll receive 10 free spins. These can be retriggered, but you should note that it isn’t possible to trigger any of the other bonus games during the Free Spins round.

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