Provider
Blueprint Gaming
Paylines
Up to 3,125 ways to win (Megaways)
Same cabinet, new geometry. Cash Strike Power Force 5 Megaways takes Blueprint Gaming’s October 2025 fruit-machine collect-pots hit and pulls it through Big Time Gaming’s variable-reel licence. The 5×3 grid is gone. In its place sits a 5×1-5 Megaways layout where each reel independently spins up between one and five symbols, peaking at up to 3,125 ways to win. That’s a deliberately small Megaways ceiling, by the way. Most BTG-licensed titles cap at 117,649 ways, but Blueprint clamped this one at 5^5 to protect the Cash Strike maths.
The trade-off is right there in the numbers. RTP drops from 95% on the base game to 94.00% here, and the standard max win shrinks to 6,000x bet. To reach the headline 10,000x cap you need to commit to Ultra Power Play, the top side-bet tier at 19x stake. And yes, the volatility is still high. Released March 2026, this is the third sibling in the Power Force 5 sub-series, sitting beside the original 5×3 build and the Hotstepper Megaways cousin.
Mechanically the Cash Strike loop is intact. Cash Prize coins land on reels 1, 2, 4 and 5 carrying values from 1x to 15x bet. The Collect symbol stays anchored to reel 3, and whenever it appears alongside live Cash Prizes the lot gets vacuumed up and paid instantly. Above the reels, four fireball banks feed into the five Progressive Upgrades, Max Reels, Boost, Power Force 5, Multiply, and Respin. Fill enough, trigger the Cash Strike Bonus, and at least one upgrade fires automatically.
The Bonus itself starts at three spins with locked reel heights, resetting whenever a new Cash Prize lands. Respin bumps that to four spins. Power Force 5 stretches it to five and activates every other upgrade simultaneously at locked 5x values. There’s also a fixed pot ladder: MINI 25x, MINOR 50x, MAJOR 150x, GRAND 1,000x. Not progressive, just clean multiples of bet.
One honest gripe. Stripping the Megaways count down to 3,125 ways feels like cheating slightly on the genre’s promise. You don’t get those gloriously chaotic 30,000-way spins that BTG’s better licensees deliver. But if you came for Cash Strike rather than Megaways theatrics, the Power Force 5 collect engine still hits harder than most fruit-machine remakes have any right to.