Outsourced

Outsourced Demo by Nolimit City

Four reels and four rows give sixteen positions on a factory floor that warns you to keep your hands out of moving machinery. Outsourced is Nolimit City’s smallest grid and, at 5,000x, one of its smallest caps. It also carries the shortest route to a cap anywhere in the studio’s range, because landing M, A, K, and S in the main game pays it out on the spot with no bonus round involved. The art is a sweatshop drawn as a cartoon, all doll heads sealed in bags and knock-off trainers, and the maths underneath is unusually reachable.

It arrived in August 2024 and started a small family, with Outsourced: Slash Game and Outsourced: Payday both following before the year was out. Even among Nolimit City’s regular oddities, a four-by-four board is a departure.

Slot Features

xWays and the Blocker

An xWays symbol reveals between two and four of one low or mid symbol, stretching its column and pushing the ways count past 256. Land more than one, and every one of them shows the same symbol, so a second xWays doubles down rather than splitting the board. xWays can also reveal a size-1 blocker instead, which takes a position out of play rather than adding to it. All four columns have to hold a symbol for it to pay, so a single reveal is often what turns a near miss into a paying screen.

The xNudge Wild

The xNudge Wild lands anywhere and always nudges until it’s fully visible. Each step it travels adds 1 to its multiplier, and where two or more xNudge Wilds arrive together, their multipliers add into one total. Four rows is a short distance to nudge, so these are modest multipliers on their own. Sitting on a position that Print Spins has already inflated, they stop being modest. Several Wilds on one screen add rather than multiply together, which keeps a busy screen from running away with itself.

Print Spins

A win doesn’t finish the spin. Winning symbols pay, then vanish, and the empty positions they leave are refilled on a respin. Every position that has just paid gains 1 to its multiplier, and it gains another for each respin that keeps the chain alive. Only regular paying symbols count towards those multipliers. The chain runs until a respin comes back with nothing. Most of the value on this grid is built there, since one position can be worth several times its table value by the time the run stops.

If an xWays symbol lands mid-chain, its revealed size multiplies with the raised multiplier on that position when it pays, and the position then reverts to its previous value plus 1.

Sweatshop and Sweatiershop Spins

Sweatshop Spins are short by design. Three Scatters give you 3, and four turn it into Sweatiershop Spins, the same round with 5. The length matters less than what you bring in, because every symbol multiplier built up outside the feature stays in place for the whole round. Trigger it straight after a long Print Spins run, and those few spins are working on a loaded board. Trigger it from a cold board, and they’re worth far less. Nothing in the rules adds spins once it’s running, so the count you start with is the count you play.

xBet

xBet is the game’s Nolimit Booster. It costs 1.5x the stake, guarantees a Scatter on the second reel, and makes a Sweatshop or Sweatiershop trigger more than four times likelier, with the return reading 96.09% while it’s active.

The Extra Spin Offer

When a round ends with multipliers still showing, Outsourced can put one further spin up for a price worked out from those values, with the multiplier state carried over. It is only put up when its price is covered by the win that just landed, and the spin itself can’t produce Scatters. The rules spell out the trade, and declining is what they recommend.