Street Magic Slot Machine
Illusionists and magicians regularly start their career as street artists, entertaining the gathered crowds with close-up performances. Yet, their techniques are so well crafted that everyone is fooled – even with a trick being performed right in front of their eyes.
Play’n GO presents these tricks on the reels of the brand’s latest video slot release, Street Magic. However, instead of bluffing with his latest card trick, the magician will aid us with three of his best performances and a free spins round with sticky wilds for a chance to score mega wins of up to 5,000x our bet.
The Magician’s Slot Reels
The tattooed magician gives us a captivating performance on a rather unusual game window with five reels, four rows and 20 fixed paylines. The background appears in dark purple colors, while the game window has a deep-blue tone with a hue of purple at the top and bottom. Intricately designed pay symbols, sophisticated animations and a suspenseful soundtrack complete the high-quality design of the creative team at Play’n GO.
The slot has ten pay symbols. In ascending order of value, diamonds, clubs, hearts and spades feature as the low-paying symbols. The premium symbols are a set of handcuffs, daggers with an Ace playing card, padlocks, pocket watches, and a golden ring with a dark-purple gem. The wild symbol is a set of three golden cards with the word ‘wild’ across. The David Blain lookalike magician symbol fulfills two roles in this game as he appears on reels one, three, and five only. He is the scatter symbol, and he will also act as a wild symbol when forming part of a winning combo on the spin.
The Magician’s Numbers and Stats
Street Magic is a high-volatility video slot with an RTP of 96.48%. The magician will perform his tricks for as little as 0.20 credits, up to a high-roller-friendly 100 credits. He will reward his crowd with wins for a single five-of-a-kind ranging from 1x to 15x the bet. The ring and wild symbols are the most valuable symbols, awarding 25 times the stake when five land on a payline.
The maximum win for this slot can only be hit in the free spins round when enough sticky wilds land early on the reels. According to Play’n GO, it peaks at a staggering 5,000x your stake. Players will load the game in today’s standard HTML5 format, making it available to enjoy on any desktop, mobile and tablet device across all OS platforms.
The Magician Performances
Scatter symbols appear on reels one, three, and five only. The first outburst of excitement in the base game will happen when only two scatters land on the reels, activating the Magician Performances. The magician will flash his cards to conjure one of three reel modifiers.
The first is Wild Shuffle, where four wild symbols are added to random reel positions, providing a higher potential to score a win. The Expanding Man will see the two triggering magician scatters expand to cover the entire reels. Having them on reel one and three will guarantee multiple line wins. The Transporting Man will add the missing scatter to award the free spins feature.
Free Spins With Sticky Wilds
Scatters anywhere on reel one, three and five in one spin will trigger the free spins feature. Alternatively, it will be awarded by the Transporting Man modifier from the Magician Performances. The magician will shuffle the cards and present the player with three covered cards. One pick is allowed, revealing 8, 10 or 12 free spins.
Any wild symbol landing on a free spin will be locked in place as a sticky wild for the remainder of the feature. Accumulating a minimum of one wild on each reel will award more free spins. Again, the player is presented with a choice of three cards with one pick to reveal 4, 6 or 8 additional free spins. The maximum total free spins per bonus round is 20.
This is the very moment where this slot can produce those super mega wins that are so typical of high-variance games. Hitting sticky wilds on one or multiple paylines early on in the free spins is the key to big-win celebrations. Not only will they retrigger up to 8 free spins, but they will also pay – on every spin – the amount for five-of-a-kind wild symbols. On top of these, there are the smaller wins from combinations of the sticky wilds with regular pay symbols. Street Magic is advertised with wins of up to 5,000x the initial bet from a single free spins round.
Other Reels with Magic Tricks and Wins
We do love that little bit of magic in our lives, especially on the reels of our favorite slots. Game providers did not miss that, and the result is a huge number of video slots with a magic theme. Good examples are Magic Ian from Blueprint Gaming and Magic Wand from WMS. Sticky wilds have proven to be just as popular, with Dead or Alive from NetEnt leading the pack.
The Magical Verdict
A thrilling show or just some dull tricks? I would opt for the first, as Street Magic is indeed a very entertaining game that seems to have something happening on the reels on most spins. I do love the second-chance features, where either wilds or the missing scatter are added to the reels. It means nothing less than the end to the countless two-scatter teaser spins we know from other games. Players will have now the chance to score either some decent wins with the extra wilds, or to still trigger the free spins feature. Add to that the high win potential, and this magic performance is one show you won’t want to miss.
