Faerie Spells Slot

Although very complex and multilevel in terms of gameplay and design, the video slot takes very few efforts to start the play. In the base game, it runs 10 fixed paylines so all players have to do to reveal the magic is to place a bet. The game accepts stakes from $0.01 to $ 1 per line and, accordingly, $0.10 to $10 per spin. This is clearly an excellent range for players on a budget while high rollers may find it too low. The base game plays with 11 non-feature symbols, a wild symbol, a scatter and a bonus symbol. Regular icons are playing cards from J to A, two sorts of Flowers, two species of Insects, a Tree, a Pixie and a Fairy. They pay from left to right provided there are at least 3 matching icons on any payline counting from the leftmost reel. Line awards of non-feature symbols are within the range of x5 to x750 ($5 to $750 max). A weird-looking green face carved of wood is a wild. It substitutes for any regular symbol but cannot do the same trick with scatters and bonus symbols. Wilds pay an award: landing 3+ wilds on any line adds to the balance between x50 and x1,000 the line bet, i.e. wilds can earn up to $1,000 at max. Wilds land on any reel in the base game and do not appear during a feature. The Faerie Queen is a scatter of unrivaled power. Besides the usual ability to launch free spins, this scatter alters the reels completely so free spins play with 1024 ways to win instead of 10 paylines active in the base game. A toadstool is a bonus symbol. Each toadstool brings a cash prize but is not willing to give it to a player unless there is the Faerie Queen on the reels. If Her Majesty comes on the reels along with Toadstools, she puts a spell on them and they become more tractable and gladly add their cash prizes to the balance. Besides, they have their own paytable and pay line wins when they hit a line. Landing 3+ Toadstools on any line pays x2, x10 or x50 the line bet.

When 3+ Faerie Queens land, they award 10, 15 or 25 free spins played on completely new reels, with absolutely different symbols and according to totally different principles. The 5-reel 10-line slot machine turns into a 5-reel 1024 ways-to-win slot. This means the online casino game will pay when icons of a kind land in any position on 3 or more adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel. These icons are 6 precious items awarding between x2 and x150 the line bet. The paytable looks low but the math behind the payout calculations does the magic. Imagine there are nine emeralds on the reels, and reels 1 to 3 host three emeralds each. This is a 3-icon combination awarding x10 the line bet. But it appears in 3x3x3=27 ways so the total payout of the combination amounts to 27×10=x270 the line bet and exceeds the top award of the highest valued non-feature icon of the feature (x150). There is also a special scatter coming with two nice bonuses. Firstly, scatters award x4 and x500 the line bet or up to $500. Secondly, scatters explode after paying the award. These explosions produce empty positions and trigger a cascade of random symbols falling into emptied cells. And this cascade can result in new winnings.

The main attraction of a free spin feature is the chance to hit one of four available jackpots based on a Jackpot Trail system that works as follows. There are four progressive prizes: Plenty, Luxury, Wealth and Riches, each symbolized by a respective phial with a magic potion inside. Phials appear on the reels during free spins and add a drop of potion to a respective vessel displayed on the left side of the reels. To win a jackpot, players need to collect a certain volume of potion in a respective vessel. It takes 7 drops of yellow potion to win Plenty Jackpot. Luxury Jackpot is awarded when 7 drops of pink potion are collected. The Wealth Jackpot is won when 8 drops of green potion are placed in the vessel. The largest jackpot, Riches, is scooped after 9 drops of violet potion have been collected. There is an extra bonus brought by these phials. When they appear, they explode, adding a drop of potion into an adequate vessel. The explosion of phials creates empty positions on the reels. Just like in case of a scatter explosion, this occurrence activates a cascade of new random symbols falling into blank positions. This action does not count as a free spin but can produces new ways to win. To speed up triggering of free spins, players may use a Buy feature.

In essence, it is a useful addition to the gameplay which makes free spins start in the next round. It has a cost of x86 the total bet and its bet-dependent monetary value is always displayed on the Buy Feature button to the left of the reels. When a player decides to play free spins immediately, he presses the button and the game takes the price and awards the maximum number of free spins, i.e. 25. This is a generous solution because some other online casino slot machines with a similar Bonus Buy concept award a random number of free spins, not necessarily the maximum.

A Double Up round is a good old coin tossing game available after any win in the base game. To play it, a punter clicks the Double Up button and selects a bet. They may place the whole spin win or half of it on Heads or Tails. This done, the coin goes flipping and in a matter of seconds reveals the outcome. A lucky bet doubles the stake and offers a choice, to proceed further with doubling or resume the base game by pressing the Collect button. This feature indeed brings more life into the gameplay and considerably improves the winning capacity of the slot which is rather modest.

The Faerie Spells video slot by Betsoft is a 5-reel game using 10 lines in the base game and 1024 ways to win during the feature. It accepts bets between $0.01 and $1.00 per line and pays up to x1,000 the line bet in the base game. The feature offers up to 25 free spins with a chance of winning 1 out of 4 progressive jackpots.