St. Louis 1904

For the sake of full disclosure, we had absolutely no idea what Blue Guru Games was up to when we heard they were creating a slot game titled St. Louis 1904. Quite frankly, unless you are a real history buff or a true Olympic fanatic, we’re guessing there’s a good chance you’re just as clueless as we were before we thoroughly researched this game and the story behind it. However, now that we’ve done our research, we can definitely say that the story this casino game is based on is well worth reading and we encourage you to do so here in order to be able to fully appreciate what this game is all about.

St. Louis 1904 Base Game Play

Base Game and Features

In the off chance you ignored our suggestion of reading the story we linked to above (shame on you if you did), allow us to very quickly get you up to speed on the idea behind the St. Louis 1904 slot machine.

In a nutshell, this game is based on the St. Louis Marathon of 1904, which was held as part of America’s first Olympics and was also tied to that year’s World’s Fair. Without going into too much detail, let’s just say that this particular marathon was unlike any marathon you’ve likely ever heard of as it featured contestants drinking poison, hitching rides in cars along the way, and hallucinating while crossing the finish line.

As for the game itself, St. Louis 1904 is a 5-reel slot machine with 3-rows (a 5×3 grid) offering 10 fixed paylines. It features a minimum bet limit of £.€0.10 per spin up to a maximum of £.€50.00 per spin with a top payout of 10,000x your wager. The RTP for this game is 95.92%, which puts it roughly in the middle of the pack when it comes to the RTP range for most online slots. What sets this game apart from many of the others that are in the middle of the pack is that it’s loaded with many different features, which we’ll go over briefly below.

Money Medals Symbol

During the base game, the money medals symbols serve as cash prize symbols. During the free games, these symbols will pay instant cash prizes whenever they appear along with a wild collector symbol. The possible values are 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 200x, 500x, and 5000x. If you score a full reel of money medals on the first reel, it can trigger a re-spin feature, which can result in more money medals symbols appearing on the reels to produce larger instant cash prizes.

Whirlwind Feature

When the whirlwind feature is triggered, it can reveal a scatter symbol at random anywhere on the reels.

Trigger One Of Many In-game Features Such As the Second Chance Dogs Feature, Enhancing Your Chances Of Landing A Bonus Round

Second Chance Dogs Feature

In the event you land just 2 scatter symbols, you’ll have the possibility of triggering a second chance, which will hold the current scatter symbols and spin the remaining reels in attempt to trigger the free games feature. When this happens, the current scatter symbols will move down one position on the reels and the other symbols will be replaced with new ones. This will repeat until you’ve triggered the bonus round or until the original 2 scatter symbols are no longer visible on the reels.

Free Games Feature

You can trigger the free games bonus round organically by landing 3 or more scatter symbols anywhere on the reels. By landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols, you’ll be awarded 10, 15, or 20 free games respectively.

Wild Collector Feature

During the free games feature, the wild collector symbol collects all values from any money medals symbols appearing on the reels. All wild collector symbols are also added to the progressive free games meter that appears at the top of the reels. Every fourth wild collector retriggers the feature, resulting in an increase in the awards, spins, and multipliers at a rate of 2x for level 2, 3x for level 3, and 10x for level 4. Multipliers are only applied to re-triggered free games.

Land A Collector Symbol Alongside Medal Symbol Values to Collect Cash Prizes

Consolation Feature

At the end of the free games, there are three scenarios in which a consolation feature can be triggered:
1. If wild collectors are present, but no money medals appear, a pack of dogs can be triggered that will introduce money medals in random positions on the reels.
2. If wild collectors are present, but no money medals appear, the rotten apples feature can trigger. Once triggered, random symbols may be changed to money medals, but wild collector symbols cannot be changed.
3. If money medals are present, but wild collectors are not, the car feature can be triggered. In this scenario, a car will drive over the reels to bring new wild collector symbols.

Bonus Buy

Like a lot of today’s modern slot games, St. Louis 1904 is equipped with a feature that allows you to buy directly into the bonus round.

The cost of doing so is 70x your bet for 10 free games with the chance at modifiers during the bonus round, 145x your bet for 15 free games with one guaranteed modifier, or 270x your bet for 20 free games and two guaranteed modifiers.

Pros and Cons of St. Louis 1904

• Autoplay option ranging from 5 spins to unlimited spins
• Ability to click on any symbol to instantly see its payouts
• Game sounds and game music can be configured separately
• Fast-play option available for quicker spins
• Most players will not be familiar with the story behind the game
• Only 10 paylines available
• The game instructions are more complex than they need to be

Collect Features At the Beginning Of the Bonus Round to Enhance the Free Spins. Collect Wild Symbols During Free Spins to Upgrade Collector Multipliers

First Impression

The St. Louis 1904 slot machine is a respectable entry into the iGaming market from the folks at Blue Guru Games, but we may have actually enjoyed learning more about the marathon than we did playing the game. And that’s not to say that the game itself wasn’t enjoyable because it certainly was, it’s just that the marathon was so wildly outrageous that we weren’t expecting to get a history lesson that we didn’t know we so desperately wanted in the process of putting together this review. If you happen to have a thirst for knowledge and you don’t know the full story of this marathon, we are certain you’ll not only enjoy playing St. Louis 1904, but you’ll also appreciate learning the full story as you spin the reels.

*The screenshots taken of games reviewed on this site are taken from Demo Play, as reviews are often written before games are released for real play.