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hi-lo theme, stakes, pays & symbols

Whenever I visit a land-based casino, I always spend a fair amount of time at the blackjack tables. The fast-paced card game is well over a century old now, but it’s beautifully simple and remains one of the most popular games on the casino floor despite its relatively tiny payouts. Playing online seems different somehow, however – I don’t tend to bother with the computer-generated blackjack games offered by online casinos anymore, but new-style casino games such as Mines, also from Hacksaw, interest me much more thanks to their slot-style jackpots and generous return-to-player percentages. 

So, how much can you win from playing Hi-Lo? That’s quite hard to say – let’s say you start with an ace and you now have four choices of bet – predicting another ace will pay you 12.7x your total bet, whilst going higher will only return 1.06x. You can also choose red or black, both of which will pay 1.95x if you guess correctly. I went higher, the next card was a queen, and this time picking ‘lower’ would pay 1.15x whilst ‘higher or the same’ was much more generous at 6.9x; the red and black options were now worth a little more too, at 2.1x each. I went lower this time and lost! After some more testing, I was able to discern that the payouts for the red/black options continue to increase exponentially with every extra card that you take, but it’s impossible to know how these payouts work as Hacksaw has not given those details in the games information pages – a huge omission in my opinion.

It makes sense to offer a fairly wide betting range in a game such as this, and Hacksaw has wisely made the minimum/maximum wager limits €0.20 and €100.00 per round, respectively. Be careful when betting towards the higher end of the range though – the rounds can be over in the blink of an eye, so your bankroll may not last long if your luck isn’t in!

base game & modifiers

After loading Hi-Lo, you’ll be presented with a huge playing card and several controls. Your first job is to select how much you wish to bet; your second is to choose a starting card. You might as well choose a card that is easy to predict from to give yourself a head start – an ace or a king, for example – and you do have the option of requesting a new card up to five times if you don’t like the one you are given next. The more cards you take, the more risk you are subjecting yourself to and the more you can win. If you decide that you are happy with your accumulated winnings, you can collect them and start again from the beginning if you wish. 

hi-lo bonus features

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