Santa’s Wild Ride Slot

This Microgaming’s slot takes on a theme of Christmas time. All of us get used to seeing Santa as an old bearded man navigating a reindeer sleigh and delivering gifts to children. You will be surprised to find a brand new Santa Claus riding a cool bike and accompanied by a hot girl in red outfit. The slot features 5 reels and is presented to you in outstanding graphics.

Instead of conventional paylines, you have as many as 243 ways to win by matching three or more symbols on adjacent reels left to right. This approach increases chances for hitting a combination of identical symbols and you will have payouts, though not big, on nearly every spin. The minimum and maximum bets are as low as $0.30 and $7.50, respectively, so the game is affordable for every budget. As is said above, payouts in the slot are fairly small. Symbols illustrating holiday food stuff pay x2 to x80 for five of a kind, which is up to $20. Themed basic symbols such as Santa, North Pole sign and car repairer award the maximum of x200 ($50 at max). A great benefit of “All Pays” slots is that the same combination can count several times on a single spin, which will multiply your winnings for that combination.

Bonus features

Santa’s Wild Ride is a feature-rich game. First, there is a wild symbol with a mystery multiplier. When substituting for a basic symbol, the wild increases a normal paytable award by x2, x3 or x4. Multipliers are not added to each other when two or more wilds appear; instead, only the highest multiplier value is applied to the win. Besides, the wild creates its own combos, with five of them paying out x800 when on adjacent reels.

You have an amusing free spin round with massive 25 free spins and all wins doubled until the end of the feature. To enter the bonus, you need to hit three or more scattered Keys. You are then invited to choose one of the three wild features to accompany your bonus spins. These are:

• Stacked Wilds. If selecting this option, a normal wild symbol appears stacked, i.e., it creates a continuous chain of wilds on a reel
• Expanding Wilds. A wild symbol expands vertically to cover the entire reel, so all the three positions on that reel will be wild
• Trailing Wilds. A wild symbol that lands during free spins will be held and slide one position down after every spin, thus contributing to combinations on the next spin.

Finally, the slot has a random Gift Bonus. Every time a red or green gift box stops on reel 2 and/or 4, Santa gives you a random coin amount. These prizes are usually x2 or x3 times your total bet.