Santa’s Great Gifts

Santa’s Great Gifts is a Christmas-themed online slot game instalment by Swedish game developer Pragmatic Play.

With a wintry white landscape and a very generous Santa Clause looking to award wins with 8 or more symbols of the same kind, this game is slightly less than conventional. As you play along, Jingle Bells will be belting out, setting out the mood.

The gameplay is very similar if you are familiar with slot games Sweet Bonanza and Gates of Olympus by the same developer.

This online slot game is played out on 6 reels and 6 rows. As such as there are no paylines or ways to win. You simply must land at least 8 matching symbols on the board to generate a win.

The lowest paying symbols in this online slot game are the various Christmas baubles with the playing card suits etched on them. Landing 12 or more of these symbols will reward you between 1.6x and 6.4x your bet.

On the other hand, the highest-paying symbols include the candy stick, the hot chocolate with marshmallows, the Gingerman cookie, the Christmas tree and the snowman. These pay out between 8x and 40x your bet for at least 12 symbols of a kind.

In addition to these symbols, there are also the scatter symbols that activate the free spins bonus round. Sadly, there are no wild symbols available in this slot game to help create winning combinations.

Short facts

• Developer: Pragmatic Play
• RTP: 96.25%
• Volatility/Variance: High
• Layout: 6 x 6
• Paylines: Cluster wins (at least 8 symbols)
• Bonus features: Tumbling Wins, Multiplier Symbol, Scatter Symbol, Ante Bet, Free Spins Bonus Round and Bonus Buy
• Bets: £0.20 to 125
• Max wins (coins): 5,000x your stake

Santa’s Great Gifts jackpots

The Santa’s Great Gifts slot game comes with no jackpots attached.

Santa’s Great Gifts free spins

To activate the free spins bonus round, you must land between 4 and 6 scatter symbols on the reels. You can win between 10 and 20 free spins, respectively. You will also receive a win of between3x and 100x your bet depending on the number of scatters received.

The free spins bonus round in this online slot game is built across four different levels. You can advance between different levels by collecting various multiplier symbols as follows:

• Level 1: Multiplier symbols between 2x and 100x can land on the reels. Collect 6 Multiplier symbols to move up a level.
• Level 2: Multiplier symbols between 8x and 100x can show up on the reels. Collect 5 Multiplier symbols to move up a level.
• Level 3: Multiplier symbols between 15x and 100x can turn up on the reels. Collect 4 Multiplier symbols to move up a level.
• Level 4: Multiplier symbols between 50 and 100x can show up on the reels. This level will keep on going until it is over.

You can also land three or more scatter symbols during the free spins bonus round to receive 5 extra free spins.

Santa’s Great Gifts bonus features

Santa’s Great Gifts comes jampacked with gifts and extras to make this game extra entertaining. These include:

Tumbling Wins feature

This online slot game benefits from the Tumbling Wins feature. Essentially, whenever you hit a winning combination, all winning symbols will be blasted off the reels and replaced by new ones dropping in from the top. This can result in a respin. This feature keeps on going until there are no new winning combinations.

Multiplier Symbol

The Christmas presents, which are presented in different colours, carry a multiplier. They can land anywhere on the reels during both the base game and the free spins bonus round. Multipliers can carry different values starting from 2x and going all the way to 100x.

These multiplier symbols will stay on the reels until the end of the tumble. If there is more than 1 multiplier on the reels, then all of these will be added to the total

Ante Bet

The main purpose of the Ante Bet is to boost your chances of activating the free spins bonus rounds by adding a few more scatter symbols to the reels. To do so, you will have to pay an extra 25% of your base bet.

Bonus Buy

You can also buy yourself an entry into the free spins bonus round by paying 100x our bet. This sum will start you off at Level 1 of the free spins bonus round. You can also jump straight to Level 2, Level 3 or Level 4 by paying 200x, 400x or 500x your stake, respectively.

Santa’s Great Gifts RTP

The payout percentage for the online slot game Santa’s Great Gifts, stands at 96.25%. This is a highly volatile game, so you can expect a few great wins on an irregular basis.

Verdict

Christmas-themed online slot games are a great way to get you into the mood of the festive spirit. It is quite clear that software game developer Pragmatic Play has spotted a gap in the market and created something somewhat unique to tie in with this subject.

While this online slot game may not be as unique as other games by the same maker, it can prove quite rewarding.

The multipliers are also a very nice touch which is highly beneficial and very generous. The fact that the free spins bonus round is also multi-tiered makes this bonus round a little more charming and interesting. Of course, the free flow of multipliers that are available in this round will rope in the wins. They also make up for the absence of wild symbols, which are sadly omitted from this slot game.

Overall, this is a thrilling Christmas-themed online slot game, which is equally as entertaining as Sweet Bonanza and Gates of Olympus. While this game’s multipliers max out at 100x, the other games’ multipliers keep rolling until 500x.

Nevertheless, Santa is known for being a very generous personality, and together with the high variance, there may be a few big gifts under the tree for you as well.