Jackpot Football Review & Free Play

Jackpot Football: Shoot, Stack Jackpots, and Climb Toward the 1,000x Grand Prize

Jackpot Football by TaDa Gaming puts us on the penalty spot, where every bet sends one ball toward the goalkeeper and either builds the jackpot prize board, leaves it where it is, or wipes the whole thing clean.

Above the goal are three prize ladders, and every time you score, one of them gets picked at random and moves up one level. It then adds that level’s multiplier to your cashpot, which can grow up to 200x your bet. As you climb the ladder, you also climb towards a 1,000x Grand Prize and a maximum payout of 1,400x your bet.

Of course, not every shot makes it through, and the goalkeeper can block it before anything gets added. But what I like about it is that even if the goalkeeper saves the ball, you only really lose the initial bet, but the multipliers and your cashpot stay the same.
The one thing that can really wipe out your current cashpot and prize levels is if you miss the goal entirely. However, this only happened a few times during 100 penalties, so as far as I’m concerned, it’s not that big of a deal.

Once something builds in the cashpot, you can collect it straight away or leave it there and keep shooting for more. I usually let mine run for a while, and cash out between 2x and 10x my bet. But then again, I pushed my luck too far a few times, and the whole board went back to zero.

The Golden Ball can speed things up, since scoring with it gives you two or three rewards from the same prize ladder instead of only one. I saw it a few times during my playthrough, and it helped me win a highlight of my session, 50x my bet.

Overall, I spent most of the session building small cashpots through Mini, watching Minor help now and then, and waiting for a Major that only came through once. Good news is that you don’t lose it all often, and bad news is that, as always, you’ll have the urge to push it hard, often too hard.