Preach TV Slot (Shady Lady)

The Preach TV slot has 5 reels, 4 rows and 1,024 ways to win: winning combinations are simply formed when 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols appear from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel, and in any position. Only the longest winning combination per symbol will be awarded.

With a 10p minimum bet per spin, the max bet per spin is £5 in the UK (or £2 if you’re under 25). Press/click on the plus and minus buttons or the actual bet amount to change your stake. Outside the UK, there are Autoplay and Turbo Mode functions.

The Preach TV RTP rate is 96.21%: 51.03% is from the base game and 45.18% from the bonus features. As expected, there are 94% and 92% RTP alternative variants. The difference playing with £20 at the minimum bet of 10p would result in the following number of theoretical spins before running out of funds:

• 96.21%: 5,251 spins
• 94%: 3,317 spins
• 92%: 2,488 spins

High volatility (9/10), a winning combination will land every 1 in 4.21 spins on average as the hit frequency rate is 23.75%. This varies to 23.21% and 22.71% for the 94% and 92% RTP versions, respectively. Triggering the main bonus feature will happen every 1 in 294 spins, on average. When it comes to payout potential, Preach TV comes with 20,000 x bet max wins: the same for all Shady Lady games.

With a faith/religion theme, the Preach TV slot focuses on the timeless art of turning belief into revenue (according to Shady Lady). Set in a TV studio, you are taken straight into a religious broadcast where the televangelist preaches in order to suck money out of the despairing viewers.

Spouting religious messages, Preach TV exploits faith, trust and desperation to defraud viewers and attract donations. These programmes take place late at night and sell fake miracle products. With fake plants and yellow armchairs on the TV set, you’ll see a neon dove on the studio wall. The soundtrack is rather cheesy and feels like a 90s informercial.

On the reels, you’ll see Preach TV tapes, bottles of red wine, books on tax evasion, gold watches and 4 Preach TV viewers characters. The bald-headed viewer is the highest paying, awarding 2 x your total bet for 5 in combination. Other symbols include a Preacher and a Preach TV Scatter: there is no Wild symbol.

Preach TV Mobile

With Shady Lady creating all slots using HTML5 technology, Preach TV is available to play on desktop, mobile and tablet devices. Prefer playing on the go? It’s compatible with iOS and Android smartphones, in Portrait Mode.

Preach TV focuses on 3 randomly-triggered TV features that upgrades low-value symbols, award coin wins for high-value symbols and sees the Preacher nudge up to 200 times with the chance of collecting high-value symbol donations. These trigger more frequenty in the free spins and super free spins games.

TV Features 

On any spin, the 3 television sets above the reels may activate. When this happens, each TV set can award 1 of the following TV features:

• Spread the Word: 1 low-value symbol is randomly chosen. All instances of that symbol transform into the same high-value symbol. If multiple Spread the Word triggers occur on the same spin, all transformations result in the same high-value symbol.
• Donate Donate Donate: every high-value symbol awards a random coin win. The amount you’ll win depends on the symbol type, with more valuable symbols resulting in a bigger payout, on average.
• Preacher: a stack of Preacher symbols nudge down starting from the top row with every nudge triggering the Donate Donate Donate feature. Known as Shady Nudges, the stack always nudges to the bottom row: it can continue for up to 200 nudges. If the stack covers a high-value symbol during a nudge, all donations that symbol would award will be collected instantly.

Free Spins

The Free Spins feature is triggered by landing 3 Preach TV Scatter symbols. With 6 free spins awarded, triggering TV features greatly increases. More importantly, the chance of long nudges also increases significantly if you activate the Preacher feature.

Landing 4 Preach TV Scatters will result in the Super Free Spins feature being played. With 6 free spins, it works like the standard version but with an even higher chance of TV features.

The Store

In Preach TV, there is ‘The Store’. A Bonus Buy element, this isn’t available outside the UK. For those non-UK players, there are lots of options to choose from:

• Bonus Boost: for 1.5 x bet, you boost your chances of triggering the Bonus feature by 236%. RTP is 95.9%. 
• Big Bonus Boost: for 5 x bet, your chances by 1185%. RTP is 96.4%. 
• TV Boost: for 70 x bet, you are guaranteed to trigger 1 of the 3 TV features. RTP is 96.7%.
• Bonus Buy: for 102 x bet, you will trigger the Free Spins feature. RTP is 96.2%. 
• Super Bonus Buy: for 485 x bet, you will trigger the Super Free Spins feature. RTP is 96.2%. 
• Bronze Bonus: for 128 x bet, you will trigger a Bronze version of the free spins. RTP is 96.6%. 
• Silver Bonus: for 347 x bet, you will trigger a Silver version of the free spins. RTP is 96%. 
• Gold Bonus: for 1,595 x bet, you will trigger a Gold version of the free spins. RTP is 96.1%. 
• Highlight Reels: With 3 options, you buy the best 3 of 100, 300 or 500 spins for 80, 198 or 293 x bet (with a 96.4%, 96.1% or 96.1% RTP respectively).
• Loot Boxes: With Rare, Epic and Legendary Loot Box options, you will be awarded 1 of 9 Enhanced Bonuses. There are Bronze, Silver and Gold Enhanced Bonuses which cost 186, 344 or 571 x bet (with a 96.3%, 96% or 96% RTP respectively). There are 1, 2 or 3 star versions of each option, with higher win potential the more stars.

Preach TV Slot

Rating: 4.6/5

Preach TV is a humorous and satirical slot with an innovative Shady Nudges mechanic that can take win potential to the heavens.

Shady Lady’s 12^th release, the Preach TV slot is about a revenue-making televangelist who exploits faith, trust and desperation to attract donations. Complimenting other controversial and humorous releases such as Brainwashed and Truth, it’s clear Shady Lady isn’t afraid to theme their games around more sensitive issues.

When it comes to the gameplay ,the focus is on the 3 TV features: randomly triggered, they transform low-value symbols into the higher-value counterpart, award random coin wins and deliver Shady Nudges. The Preacher feature is the most lucrative, with up to 200 nudges offering the possibility of some huge payouts. The key is for the stack to cover a high-value symbol as all donations will be collected.

In the free spins and super free spins, there is a higher chance of TV features coming into play. With more long nudges, it is theoretically more plausible for bigger wins.

With 20,000 x bet max wins, Preach TV is built around the Shady Nudges popping off and collecting donation coin wins. High volatility, the simple yet effective Preacher feature is one that I found compelling and drew me into chasing.

All in all, Preach TV is controversial, funny and packs quite the punch with a new twist on nudges to make it tempting enough to donate to the cause.

The Preach TV slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades.

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