Cash Ultimate in South Africa: How Cash Lock Climbs to 5,000x
Cash Ultimate is a Red Tiger slot from April 2021: fruit-machine symbols on five reels and four rows, paying on 30 lines. Its main feature is Cash Lock. Three or more Cash Ultimate symbols lock in place and stay there for the spins that follow, for as long as new ones keep landing, and the prize comes from a table beside the reels, up to 5,000 times the stake for all twenty positions. Red Tiger rates its volatility as high.
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What Cash Ultimate looks like
Images: Red Tiger, official game page and game files (redtiger.com).
How Cash Ultimate works
Cash Ultimate puts five reels of four rows on the screen, twenty positions in all, and pays on lines: Red Tiger's page gives 30 play lines. The ordinary symbols borrow the look of an old fruit machine: Red Tiger's own screenshots show cherries, a lemon, single, double and triple bars, a star, a bell and a diamond.
Both features in Red Tiger's rules belong to one symbol, Cash Ultimate. Three or more of them start Cash Lock, and the rules promise a stake-multiplier win from it, paid from the prize table when the feature ends.
The rules name no other feature and describe no free spins round, and the game's page on redtiger.com lists no feature buy.
Cash Lock, step by step
As Red Tiger's rules set it out:
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Three symbols start it
Three or more Cash Ultimate symbols activate Cash Lock and lock into place. The rules promise a stake-multiplier win from it. -
The lock holds while the count grows
The locked symbols stay put for the spins that follow. Every spin that adds new Cash Ultimate symbols raises the count, and the count is what the prize table pays on. -
The first spin without a new one ends it
When a spin adds no new Cash Ultimate symbol, the prize is paid from the table to the left of the reels and the feature resets. -
A full screen ends it at the top
Cash Lock also ends when all twenty positions show Cash Ultimate. That pays 5,000 times the stake, the maximum in the rules and the maximum payout Red Tiger's page lists.
Cash Bloxx: the 2x2 Cash Ultimate block
Cash Ultimate symbols can also land as a 2x2 block, which Red Tiger calls Cash Bloxx. A block that lands on the screen, whole or only partly visible, breaks down into standard single Cash Ultimate symbols. A whole block covers four of the twenty positions, one more than Cash Lock needs to start.
The Cash Lock prize table, in rand
Red Tiger's rules pay Cash Lock from the table to the left of the reels but do not print it. Red Tiger's own screenshot shows it at a £2 stake, from £4 for three symbols to £10,000 for twenty; below, each amount is divided by £2 for the multiple and applied to a R2 stake (our arithmetic, both). The table rises in twos at the bottom, 3, 5, 7 and 9, then one symbol at a time.
| Cash Ultimate symbols | Prize (x stake) | At a R2 stake |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2x | R4 |
| 5 | 3x | R6 |
| 7 | 5x | R10 |
| 9 | 7x | R14 |
| 10 | 10x | R20 |
| 11 | 15x | R30 |
| 12 | 25x | R50 |
| 13 | 50x | R100 |
| 14 | 75x | R150 |
| 15 | 100x | R200 |
| 16 | 250x | R500 |
| 17 | 500x | R1,000 |
| 18 | 1,000x | R2,000 |
| 19 | 2,500x | R5,000 |
| 20 | 5,000x | R10,000 |
Reading the table before you set a stake
The bottom of the table moves in small steps. By our arithmetic from Red Tiger's screenshot, three Cash Ultimate symbols pay 2x the stake and ten pay 10x, and no rung up to eleven adds more than five stakes to the one below it. At a R2 stake, a Cash Lock that stops at seven symbols pays R10.
On the same arithmetic, the size is at the top: sixteen symbols pay 250x, and each rung after that adds between 250 and 2,500 stakes: 500x, 1,000x, 2,500x and, for the full screen, 5,000x. Every one of those rungs needs Cash Ultimate on sixteen or more of the twenty positions.
Red Tiger's page adds a hit frequency of 21.93%, one winning spin in about 4.6 on average by our arithmetic, and a high volatility rating. The stake is yours to choose: a bigger one makes every rung pay more in rand, and no staking pattern or betting system can overturn the house edge that a 95.71% return implies.
Cash Ultimate is not Cash Volt
Red Tiger also makes Cash Volt, and the two are easy to confuse: both use fruit-machine symbols and pay for a count of their own Cash symbols. They are separate games with their own pages and rules; the table shows where they differ.
Cash Volt and Cash Ultimate side by side 🔍
From each game's own page on redtiger.com and from each game's rules.
| Red Tiger's figure | Cash Volt | Cash Ultimate |
|---|---|---|
| Released | July 2020 | April 2021 |
| Reels and rows | 5x3 | 5x4 |
| Play lines (max) | 20 | 30 |
| Cash symbols for a prize | 6 or more: an Instant Win prize | 3 or more: Cash Lock, locked for the spins that follow |
| Maximum payout | 2,500x | 5,000x |
| Hit frequency | 19.15% | 21.93% |
| Volatility | High | High |
| RTP | 95.71% | 95.71% |
Cash Ultimate RTP and volatility 📊
Red Tiger gives Cash Ultimate's return to player as 95.71%.
Volatility is high: long quiet stretches between the wins that matter.
Top payout: 5000x.
Paying for Cash Ultimate in rand
Cash Ultimate is in the lobby at 12 operators we list: all of them take cards; 11 take Ozow; 7 take Capitec Pay; 11 take cash vouchers.
The smallest first deposit for Cash Ultimate among them is R1, at Luckyfish.
Cash Ultimate winnings are paid by EFT to an account in your own name, after FICA.
Get FICA done first · How to deposit in rand · Every payment method
Is Cash Ultimate legal in South Africa? 📜
Cash Ultimate is a slot, which licensed bookmakers carry under their provincial betting licences.
All 12 operators we list for Cash Ultimate hold a South African provincial licence.
Before you play with real money ⚠️
Set your Cash Ultimate budget and a deposit limit before the first round, not after a losing one. If it stops being fun, the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation helpline is free on 0800 006 008.
Pros, cons and verdict ⚖️
- Three Cash Ultimate symbols start Cash Lock, and the rules promise a stake-multiplier win from it
- Locked symbols stay while new ones land, so one Cash Lock can climb many rungs
- The prize table sits beside the reels, in money at the stake in play
- A whole 2x2 Cash Bloxx block covers four positions in one landing
- No free spins round in the rules and no feature buy on the page
- The lower rungs are small: 2x for three symbols and 10x for ten, by our arithmetic from Red Tiger's screenshot
- Every rung from 250x up needs sixteen or more of the twenty positions
Cash Ultimate is built around one feature that can play out over several spins: three or more Cash Ultimate symbols lock, every new one lifts the count, and the first spin that adds none, or a full screen, pays from the table beside the reels. By our arithmetic from Red Tiger's screenshot, that table pays 2x to 10x at the bottom and 250x to 5,000x on its last five rungs. Pick a stake at which the small rungs still feel worth landing, and read 5,000x as the top of the table, not a target.
Cash Ultimate FAQ ❓
How does Cash Lock work in Cash Ultimate?
Three or more Cash Ultimate symbols lock in place and stay locked for the spins that follow; each spin that adds a new one raises the count. The first spin that adds none, or a full screen, ends it, and the prize is paid from the table to the left of the reels.
What does a 2x2 Cash Ultimate block count as?
Under Red Tiger's Cash Bloxx rule, a 2x2 Cash Ultimate block breaks down into standard single Cash Ultimate symbols, whether it lands whole or only partly visible. A whole block covers four of the twenty positions on the 5x4 screen.
What is the maximum win in Cash Ultimate?
5,000 times the stake, for all twenty positions showing Cash Ultimate. Red Tiger's page lists the same figure as the game's maximum payout. At a R2 stake that is R10,000, by our arithmetic.
Does Cash Ultimate have free spins or a bonus buy?
Red Tiger's rules describe no free spins round: they name two features, Cash Lock and Cash Bloxx. The game's page on redtiger.com lists no feature buy. Cash Lock is the feature that can run over several spins, for as long as new Cash Ultimate symbols keep joining the locked ones.
Is Cash Ultimate the same game as Cash Volt?
No. They are separate Red Tiger games with their own pages and rules. Cash Volt, from 2020, gives an Instant Win prize for six or more of its symbols on a 5x3 screen, up to 2,500x; Cash Ultimate, from 2021, locks three or more on a 5x4 screen and builds towards 5,000x.
Where to play Cash Ultimate in South Africa
Licensed South African operators we have found carrying Cash Ultimate, each with its licence and our score, and the date where we saw the game in the lobby ourselves. Ordered by that score. How we score Offers checked September 2026.
Also carrying Cash Ultimate. Bonus, payment and payout terms for each are on its review.