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If you look at the surface of BGaming’s Cats Love Yummy, it seems like a great place to chill. It’s a 5-reel cat-café slot full of yawning kitties, feather wands, and cozy vibes. It feels like the kind of game where you can just kick back and slowly kill some time.
But once you look under the hood? The math is a lot meaner than the art.
The game runs on medium-high volatility, which usually means you’re taking bigger risks for bigger rewards. But here, the max win is capped at a measly 1,500x your bet. The RTP is a standard 96.07%, so that is not where the problem sits. To put that in perspective, Playtech’s Stellar Diamonds has an almost identical max win, but it uses a forgiving, medium-low volatility setup that actually makes sense. Cats Love Yummy makes you endure a really rough ride for a pretty modest payout.
The 6th Reel “Tease”
Let’s talk about the jackpot mechanic, because it’s honestly a bit frustrating. There’s a 6th reel on the board dedicated entirely to a jackpot tile. But here’s the catch: only the middle spot on that reel actually matters. The top and bottom spots are just decoys that do nothing.
To actually hit the jackpot, you need to land a natural 5-of-a-kind on the main board while that jackpot tile lands in the middle of the 6th reel. The tile lands in the sweet spot about half the time, so you constantly feel like you’re one spin away from the Grand. But in my test run of about 150 spins, a natural 5-of-a-kind only hit twice, and neither time lined up with the jackpot tile.
Oh, and don’t rely on Wilds. If a Wild helps you complete that 5-of-a-kind, the game actually penalizes you. It downgrades your jackpot from the “Grand” to the “Minor,” slashing your prize to a tenth of its value.
The Bonus Buy is a Trap
If you land three paw scatters, you trigger the Free Spins. During this feature, the entire 5th reel is locked as a stack of Wilds. Sounds awesome, right?
Wrong.
Because every 5-of-a-kind during the Free Spins will automatically include a Wild from that 5th reel, it is impossible to win the Grand or Major jackpots during the bonus. The game literally just removes those prizes from the top of the screen.
You can pay 100x your stake to buy straight into the Free Spins, but I wouldn’t recommend it. My 100x buy-in paid back 20% of its cost. Without any multipliers to boost your wins, it is incredibly hard to make your money back, let alone turn a profit.
The Better Alternative: “Fast 100 Spins”
If you’ve got 100x your stake to burn, ignore the Bonus Buy and use the “Fast 100 Spins” button instead.
For the exact same price, this feature instantly simulates 100 normal base-game spins and gives you a summary of what you won. (Side note: BGaming’s own site says you can stop a bulk run partway through and only pay for the spins you actually played. The dialog inside the game says nothing about that, and I never found a way to do it.)
Missing button or not, this is still the much smarter play. I spent 100x on the Fast spins, and while it was a bumpy ride, I ended up triggering the Free Spins naturally on spin 55 anyway, picking up extra base-game wins along the way.
Here is the bottom line: The 100x Bonus Buy guarantees you play a feature where the top jackpots are disabled by design. The 100x Fast Spins button costs the exact same amount, gets through the spins just as fast, but keeps the top jackpots in play the whole time. If you’re going to hang out in this cat café, play smart and don’t pay the game to lock you out of its own top prizes.
