Winter Wonders Slots
Winter Wonders is an upbeat game with a Christmas theme. This slot is all about the festive season and while the gameplay is ultra-simple, the payouts are surprisingly strong so this has the power to potentially boost your festive spirit at any time of year.
There are a few features in this game including wilds, free spins, and a jackpot symbol for the top payout. Although this is not a sophisticated offering from Rival Gaming, it could tick all the boxes for players looking for a simple and festive slot to stir up happy, Christmassy feelings.
Festive Preparations
Christmas is here which means it is time to prepare to party the festive way. In slot terms, this means it’s time to select your bet. There are 15 paylines in Winter Wonders and you can choose to play as few or as many as you like. You can change the coin value from bet €0.01 to €1.00, while the number of coins can be altered to bet from 1 to 5 coins per spin.
Finally, select the number of paylines to play from 1 to 15 and you will determine your overall bet, which can be from €0.01 up to €75.00. This is a wide betting range, making the game ideal for players of all pocket sizes.
The theme is immediately obvious as Christmas with all the traditional symbols of the holiday featuring here, including snowmen, bells, candles, roast turkey, presents, stockings, candy cane, Christmas tree, baubles, holly, Santa Claus, sleigh, and most strangely, a cup of tea. This inclusion of the UK’s favourite beverage gives the game a distinctly English flavour – this is the only symbol to be a general ‘winter wonder’ and not Christmas-specific.
One negative point is that you will notice the incessant bells jingling in the background throughout the game. At first this might remind you pleasantly of Rudolph with his sleigh, but after a while you might wish to silence the background sounds from the options menu at the bottom of the screen.
Rich Rewards From Santa
The payouts in this slot are decent and quite surprising for such a simple game. The best-paying symbol is the Santa Claus icon which pays up to 5000x your bet for 5 symbols together. This is also the wild symbol in the game, so it stands in for all the other symbols to create some extra potential wins, while it also animates with a ‘Ho, Ho, Ho’ message when it gives you a payout! Even if you only hit 4 Santas you still get 2,000x your bet, which is higher than 5 of any of the other symbols. Another great aspect to the Santa symbol is that it awards a 2x multiplier to all payouts it forms a part of.
The second-best symbol in the game is the silver bells icon, which pays 1,000x your bet for 5 symbols. After this, the payouts drop considerably with 5 Christmas trees or candy canes paying 400x your bet, 5 red stockings paying 200x your bet, 5 presents paying 150x your bet, 5 candles paying 125x your bet, 5 hollies or roast turkeys paying 100x your bet, and 5 cups of tea or baubles paying 90x your bet.
Sleigh Your Way to Free Spins
The sleigh symbol is the scatter in this game. If you spin at least 3 of these snowy symbols you will launch the free spins round, where 10 free spins are available along with a tasty multiplier award of 3x on every payout. This round is re-triggerable from within the round, so gives many chances to hit additional free spins and rack up the festive wins.
Simple Christmas Fun With Surprising Payouts
This festive slot game is perfect for players who love Christmas themes. The seasonal spirit is certainly strong here and so players who are not fans of yuletide will want to give this one a miss.
Payouts are good, with the Santa symbol particularly generous, while the silver bells jackpot symbol is another one to watch. The free spins round did not hit often enough for our liking but players who manage to hit the sleigh symbols regularly might find this a lucrative addition to the game.
One surprising omission was any traditional Christmas music, with only some bells and twinkling sound effects to add to the atmosphere. Overall, Winter Wonders is a pleasant yet basic game and one which might entertain players looking for a festive theme over the holidays but not one which is likely to make many appearances outside December.
