Tattoos are always in the news. Which celebrity has what tattoo and where are questions always rife in the gossip columns. This interest is the prime reason for the popularity of Hot Ink online slot from Microgaming. You can play it at Microgaming online casinos like 32Red, Platinum Play and Spin Palace.

Hot Ink is a fantastic video slot in its own right, both visually and as far as gaming features are concerned. The slot takes you inside a posh tattoo parlor through symbols like parlor, customer’s chair, tattoo artist and his female aides Angel and Luci. Both award payouts in like and mixed combinations. The low paying symbols are popular tattoo designs like flaming dice, winged heart, star, horseshoe and cherries. The game logo is the wild symbol. The scatter tattoo logo triggers the Tattoo Bonus. The scatter fish symbol triggers the free spins. The win animations make the Hot Ink tattoo parlor come alive.

The Tattoo Bonus feature on the second screen is triggered when three or more tattoo logo symbols appear scattered on the reels. You select one album, which reveals a set of tattoos. Your bonus depends on the tattoo selection. If you have opened a complete set of tattoos then you will be awarded 10 free spins at doubled payouts. Three fish symbols appearing anywhere on the reels trigger the regular free spins feature. You will be awarded 20 free spins at doubled payouts. These free spins can be retriggered.

Hot Ink has a third feature called Re-Spins. After every spin a value will be displayed below each reel. You can pay that amount and spin only that reel again, keeping all others fixed. For a cost you get a chance to hit additional winning combinations. The Re-Spins feature will continue to be available after each respin. You must keep in mind that if you change the bet amount the Re-Spins values will be removed and you will have to start from scratch.

Hot Ink is an all pays slot game. Because there are four rows of symbols across the reels you have 1024 ways to win. The highest line payout is 1,000 coins, which is great for 1024 paylines. You can wager up to ten coins per payline with a maximum coin size of $0.25. The total bet is 50 times the line bet. The maximum total bet per spin works out to $125, which will bring in the high rollers.