Beat the Bobbies
Beat the Bobbies Stats
RTP & Maths
- RTP Versions
- 95.25% here · Other versions 95% (single published build)
Free Spins & Bonus
- Free Spins
- 3+ scattered Penny = choice of 20/15/10/8/5 free games (x2/x3/x4/x5/x10) · 5–20 spins · Retrigger: Retriggered with a fresh option choice, 15 times at most
- Multipliers
- 2x–10x (free games only)
Symbols & Pays
- Wild
- Substitutes for all other symbols except scattered Penny
- Scatter Reels
- Any (scattered wins pay any)
- Line Pays
- Top symbol 40x · Lowest 0.2x
Beat the Bobbies Breakdown
Swap the elephants for a masked robber, and you have Stampede in a police helmet! Beat the Bobbies uses the same 243 ways, the same wild across the middle three reels, and the same five-option free games menu, and you choose from that menu at the trigger and again on every retrigger, up to 15 of them. Take the short, hard-hitting option or the long, gentle one. That pick is the only lever this London-themed slot hands you, and it’s the same lever Eyecon’s savannah title hands you. Everything else is cast and scenery, and the cast is the fun part.
What’s in the Demo
The Free Games Choice
Three or more masked Pennys, in any position, open the Free Games Bonus Feature, and before a single free game runs, the demo stops and asks you to decide. You can take 5 games with every win multiplied by 10, 8 games at 5x, 10 at 4x, 15 at 3x, or 20 at 2x. That multiplier isn’t reserved for wins carrying a wild; it lands on everything the round pays, Penny’s own prizes included. Trigger the feature again while it’s running, and the menu reappears for a fresh decision; a counter above the reels tracks how many triggers you still have, and the active multiplier appears in the opposite corner.
Free games run on the bet that triggered them, and the feature can return up to 15 times. The menu itself is plain, five rows of white text laid over the reels, and it waits as long as you need it to.
Penny and the Bobbies
Penny is the scatter, and she pays wherever she lands: 5x for three of her, 10x for four, and 50x for a full line of five, all measured against the total wager. Only her biggest win joins the way wins, so five of her on the reels won’t stack scatter prizes on top of themselves. The Bobbies wild covers every symbol except Penny, and it appears only on reels 2, 3, and 4. Three Pennys are enough to open the feature and she can land on any reel, so a trigger can assemble itself from the two outer reels the wild never touches. Because ways are read from the leftmost reel, that wild can never start a win; it extends one reel 1 has already begun. You’ll watch it stand there with its truncheon, doing nothing at all, more often than you’d like.
No Second Feature
Eyecon usually bolts a pick round onto its free games, and this game doesn’t have one. There’s no wheel, no gamble ladder, no meter filling beside the reels, and no buy button. Every extra thing the game can do is behind Penny, which makes the choice screen carry more weight than it would on a busier slot. The help is correspondingly short, covering the feature, the substitute, the scatter, and the pay grid, with nothing bolted on beneath them.
The London Cast
A palace fills the background, two police lights flash on its roof, and the symbol set is pure seaside postcard. There’s a Union Jack girl, a busby guard whose hat eats half his face, a postman, a grumbling old man, a granny in a purple bobble hat, and a dog with its tongue permanently out. Above them are the things worth stealing: a ruby ring, a tiara, the crown, and a pink gem that pays best of the lot. It’s cartoon work of the kind Eyecon has been drawing for twenty years, bright and blunt, and it carries the game a good deal further than the numbers do. The robbery framing is a joke rather than a story, and nobody involved seems to mind. Sound is jaunty, closer to an Ealing comedy than a heist, and the reels land with a light clatter that suits the drawing.
How to Play
Ways, Adjacent Reels, Stakes and RTP
Wins are counted by reels rather than by lines, so where a symbol lands within its reel doesn’t matter; what matters is that matching symbols occupy reel 1, reel 2, reel 3 and keep going. 243 ways is the number of combinations in that arrangement; each way pays only its best result, and the game totals every way that hits. It’s also why the Bobbies wild is worth less than it looks, because reel 1 has to supply the real symbol before the middle three can stretch anything into a win. Betting runs on one vertical slider instead of a coin list, and the blue arrows beside the reels are all you touch between rounds.
Return to player here is 95.250%. Both halves of the pay sheet already read against the whole round’s bet, which isn’t how Eyecon’s 25-line classics work. On those, a win is a multiple of one line’s share. Here, 40x means 40x what you staked on that round, and scatter prizes work the same way. If you’ve arrived from the rest of the wider Eyecon range, that’s the one thing to re-learn before you start a free play session.
Demo Paytable
Nothing on this sheet pays from two reels, so a win needs three adjacent reels at minimum, and the cast is flat along the bottom of it. Granny and the guard return 4x for a full line of five; 6x goes to the postman and the old man, and 8x to the dog and the Union Jack girl. The stolen goods climb from there, with 20x for the ruby ring or the tiara, 32x for the crown, and 40x for five pink gems. Penny’s row stands apart, since her prizes pay from any position and the game adds them on top of the ways rather than counting them among them.
| Symbol | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penny (scatter) | 5x | 10x | 50x |
| Pink gem | 2x | 4x | 40x |
| Crown | 1.4x | 4x | 32x |
| Tiara | 1.2x | 4x | 20x |
| Ruby ring | 0.8x | 2x | 20x |
| Union Jack girl | 0.4x | 1.2x | 8x |
| Dog | 0.4x | 0.8x | 8x |
| Old man | 0.4x | 0.6x | 6x |
| Postman | 0.4x | 0.6x | 6x |
| Busby guard | 0.2x | 0.6x | 4x |
| Granny | 0.2x | 0.4x | 4x |
Ultimate Slots Verdict
A likeable London skin on an engine Eyecon already had, carrying one real decision and a thin stretch between features. Worth the free play, and better company if you haven't met the savannah original. The choice screen is what you'll remember.
✓ What We Like
- The free games menu is a real decision, and it returns on every retrigger
- Way wins and scatter prizes are already stated against the whole bet, so the pay sheet reads straight
- The London cast is drawn with more personality than most Eyecon skins
✗ What Could Be Better
- The engine is Stampede's, so nothing under the art is new
- A 40x top way and a 0.2x floor make standard play thin between features
- The wild never reaches reel 1, so it can only extend wins that have already started
Detailed Review
What the Beat the Bobbies Demo is Like
A palace, two flashing lights, and a dog with its tongue hanging out, and the whole thing reads in about three seconds. What the art can’t do is make the game underneath new. This is the engine Eyecon built for its savannah title, down to the ways count, the reels the wild uses, and the five options on the free games menu, wearing a different costume and telling different jokes. Even the frame around the reels carries a chequered police band, which is the sort of detail Eyecon usually gets right.
Those options are the part of this review worth arguing about, because they aren’t five versions of the same prize. Multiply the games by their multiplier, and the 5-game pick at 10x carries the most multiplied value, 15 at 3x lands just under it, and the other three are lower still. What separates them is shape. Five games want one strong screen and are over before you’ve settled into them; 20 games at 2x give the reels four times as many chances to find something, and on a grid where plenty of symbols pay 0.4x, something is what usually lands. You’re picking how long the round lasts as much as how hard it hits, which matters more than it sounds when the alternative is five games and out.
Between features, there isn’t much to watch. No pick round, no gamble, nothing filling up beside the reels, and the wild’s confinement to reels 2, 3, and 4 means a promising screen still depends on reel 1 behaving first. With a top way of 40x and a floor at 0.2x, a lot of what lands barely registers as a win, and the game’s whole case rests on getting three Pennys in view. That’s a thin stretch of standard play by 2026 standards, and it’s the price of a feature that hands you a decision instead of a fixed round. The trigger counter and the multiplier readout are the only parts of the display that ever change state, and both of them belong to the feature.
If the cast is why you’re here, there’s a sequel, Beat the Bobbies at the Tower of London, which moves the same crew to a smarter postcode. That’s the honest way to pick between any of them, because the maths won’t separate them. Choose the skin whose jokes land, and take the long free games option while you’re learning what the reels do.
