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Break Away
A Microgaming slot with sports, hockey themes. This entry explains its listed format only; it does not promote play.
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What this guide explains
Key concepts to understand
Format: 243 Ways
Volatility: High
Theme tags: Sports, Hockey
Slot information
Theme & game design
One-line verdictThe original in a long hockey series, and still the cleanest read of the group.
A Microgaming slot with sports, hockey themes. This entry explains its listed format only; it does not promote play.
A short story from the game world
A player takes a shot from the blue line and the puck leaves a trail of heat behind it. The goalie has committed already.
Microgaming effectively wrote the grammar of the online slot, and that depth still shows in every corner of the screen. The silhouette of a single symbol, the order of a paytable, the cue that marks a change of state — nothing here is left half-finished. Almost no other studio carries decades of formats, from classic three-reel machines to 117,649-way Maxways boards, in one library without the design language coming apart. If you are studying how these games are built, this is the most reliable text you can read.
- Built as a ways to win game on 5 reels and 243 ways. 328 titles here share this format, so it is a well-covered one to learn from.
- Its published RTP of 96.29% sits level with the 96.2% median of the other 275 ways to win games here. RTP is a long-run theoretical figure, not a per-session one.
- The studio grades it high volatility, which 45% of ways to win games here share. Volatility describes the spread of outcomes, not how often a result arrives.
- Its artwork reads as sports, which is how it is grouped for the structure-match panel below.
- A studio-published play-money demo is embedded above, as it is for 264 other Microgaming titles here.
Microgaming does not publish win cap for this title, so that field is left empty rather than estimated.
Assembled from the published figures above and arithmetic over the catalogue. It does not forecast results.RTP, volatility, maximum win and bet ranges are reference values and can differ by game version or market.
Structure match
Closest by published structure
Nearest by format family, volatility, RTP, win cap and theme — computed from published specifications only. A study aid, not a recommendation.
