Santa Suprise

Santa Surprise Number of Reels: 5 Number of WinLines: 20 Extra Features:  Scatter Wins, Wild Symbol,Stacked Wild Symbol,  Free Spins, Skill Based Bonus Round.

Santa Surprise Slot Machine

Well, I’ll be totally honest – when I fired up Santa Surprise in my browser I thought that this was just going to be another no-frills online slot game that had been designed purely to cash in on a tawdry Christmas theme. But I was so totally wrong – this online slot game is an absolute pleasure to play!

We all know how to play this kind of online slot. Its a 5 reel game with 20 winlines, a Wild symbol, Free Spins and and a bonus round – so far so “same as most other online slot games”. But where Santa Surprise scores highly and what elevates this from just another fruitie is the addition of one or two tiny details that massively increase the playability.

You start, as always, by using the buttons at the bottom of the play area to select your wager. Once you have done this (and helpfully there is a box to tell you how much you will be betting on each game so that you stay within your financial limits), clicking on the “Spin” button will start the game.

Santa Surprise Slot Game

The first thing that you notice are the graphics. Sure, every possible Christmas cliché is represented in the reel symbols, but there is something rather charming about the 1950’s styling that the characters have been drawn in. And (nice touch number 1), the reels are animated when they are involved in a win with Santa Surprise slot game.
The aim of the game is to match symbols on one of the 20 winlines running concurrently from left to right across the reels. The more matching symbols you get, then the more you win. You can win anything from 2x through to 10000x times your wager in any one spin, and multiple win lines are very common (nice touch number 2 – when you win you can click on the “Info” bar and your winnings will flash in the paytable to show you how you managed to accrue the win).

As always there are three reel symbols that will assist you in generating large wins. The first of these is actually Santa Claus himself. His cheery little reel symbol acts as the Wild Symbol. This will substitute for any of the normal reel symbols and help you to generate more wins. So if you have a matching symbol on reels 1 and 3 and a Wild Symbol on reel 2, the Wild symbol will substitute for the missing symbol on reel 2 giving you a win. This can also mean that its possible for multiple wins to be generated on a single game.

The second symbol to look out for is the “Bonus” symbol. If you manage to get three or more of these on a winline starting from Reel 1 then you will activate the Bonus Round. You’ll be taken to a new screen that has 6 gift wrapped presents underneath a Christmas tree. Depending on whether you managed to spin in 3,4 or 5 Bonus symbols you will be allowed to select 3,4 or 5 presents.

Each present has a monetary value. After you have selected your presents all the values are added up to present (!) you with a final win value.

The final symbol to look out for in this online slot game is the Snowy Cottage symbol. Get three of these anywhere on the reels and you will enter the Free Spins Round. (And nice touch number three is that if you only get 2 of them, then you win double your stake back – a win formula that is part of what makes the Cleopatra online slot so popular).

Santa Surprise Free Spins

When you start the Free Spins round, they are played automatically and any wins that you get are paid out at 3x their usual value. Happy days. Not only that but you can retrigger the Free Spins from within the round by spinning in three or more Snowy Cottage symbols – and that retriggering ability is unlimited.

So there you go. I was all ready to think that this was just another online slot game with no bells and whistles, and to be fair it is. However, its produced so nicely and those little added touches certainly elevate the game up to a standard whereby it wouldn’t look out of place next to something like the Desert Treasure online slot.

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