Cash Bandits 2 is the middle entry in the most recognizable franchise in the Realtime Gaming Real-Series catalog, and it is the title that established the vault-cracking bonus structure later expanded by Cash Bandits 3. The game runs on a conventional five-reel, three-row grid with 25 selectable paylines and a cops-and-robbers symbol set. The commonly deployed configuration publishes a theoretical return near 95.5 percent, with a fixed top award rather than any progressive meter.
Vault Feature Mathematics
Three or more Police Car scatters open the Vault Feature. The player is presented with a bank of safes and attempts to guess a three-digit combination for each one, with a limited number of attempts per digit. Every successfully cracked vault adds free games and lifts the feature multiplier, and cracking all four available vaults awards the advertised ceiling of 190 free games at a 12x multiplier.
The important structural point is that the feature is a nested probability chain, not a single draw. Each additional vault has a lower joint probability of being opened, so the distribution of feature outcomes is heavily right-skewed: most triggers resolve into a short first-vault package, while the headline 190-game outcome is a tail event. Averaging advertised maximums as if they were typical results is the most common modeling error players make with this title.
Volatility and Session Planning
Base-game hit frequency is respectable for a Real-Series slot, but a large share of those hits return less than the total stake because 25 lines are funded on every spin. The pay curve therefore drains slowly during base play and repays in concentrated bursts when the vault sequence runs deep.
Practical bankroll planning follows from that shape. A session sized in the low hundreds of spins may never see a feature trigger, so a unit size that survives several hundred spins at the chosen line count is the only way to give the feature distribution a realistic chance to express itself. Raising bet size to chase a trigger does not change trigger probability; it only shortens the number of trials the bankroll can fund.