Santa’s Great Gifts Slot

Pragmatic Play has launched its first Christmas slot for the season. Aside from its title, which is obviously Christmassy, Santa’s Great Gifts is obviously a slot that will set you in a Christmas mood, thanks to the seasonal soundtrack and the symbol design, as well as Santa on the right of the reels, greeting you.

The 6x5 slot offers no paylines or set ways to win, but you need to match at least 8 symbols to create a winning combo. It is highly volatile and packed with features, including a Bonus Buy option and an Ante Bet, Tumbles, Multipliers, and Free Spins with several levels. These features may sound familiar, as they are present in previous slots by the developer like the Sweet Bonanza slot and the Gates of Olympus slot. But stay with us as we explore what gifts can Santa get you in this particular slot!

If you’ve played Sweet Bonanza or Gates of Olympus, you’ll know what to expect from the visual representation of the Santa’s Great Gifts slot. There’s Santa on the right of the reels, with his bag of gifts, and on the left, you see the Buy Free Spins and Ante Bet displays, followed by a board where the Free Spins levels will be displayed, once triggered, but more on that later.

Below the reels, in the right corner underneath Santa’s legs, you’ll see the big Play button, with – and + on the sides, where you can increase or decrease the bet from $0.20 to $100. Below the Play button, you'll see the Autoplay button, and going left, you'll see the Win display. The Credit and Bet displays are next, followed by the "i” button, where the paytable is.

Enter the paytable and you’ll meet the symbols. The low-paying are Christmas ornaments with playing card suits on them, the green, red, pink, and blue, giving you 2x to 8x the stake for the top combos. The high-pays are the candy canes, gingerbread men, hot chocolate with marshmallows, Christmas tree biscuits, and snow globes, giving 10x to 50x the stake for a combo of 12 to 30 matching symbols.

Going further left, you’ll see the three-bar button where the game’s settings are, and below it, you’ll see the Speaker button where you can disable or enable the Christmassy soundtrack and sounds of the game.

Regardless of whether you want to use a tablet, smartphone, or desktop device to play Santa’s Great Gifts real money slot, you'd be glad to hear that you can use any since the slot has been optimized for cross-device play. No matter whether your device runs on Android or iOS, you can rest assured that the slot plays smoothly on all mobile platforms.

If you’ve played Sweet Bonanza, you know that the Tumble feature is the star feature in Santa’s Great Gifts online slot. You will see the winning symbols being removed from the grid, allowing for the remaining and new symbols to drop down and fill the void positions.

Wins are awarded when tumbles stop, and that only happens when there are no winning combos on the grid.

Available both in the base game and the bonus game, you’ll see the Multiplier symbols. These are the gift boxes in four different colours which have a random value of 2x to 100x. When a tumble ends as described just now, the values of all Multipliers are added together and applied to the total win of that particular spin.

Whenever you land 4, 5, or 6 Scatters, you will trigger 10, 15, or 20 Free Spins, respectively. Plus, you get a respective 3x, 5x, or 100x payout. Now, we mentioned that this Santa’s Great Gifts Bonus Round has several levels. You start at level 1, during which whenever Multipliers land, their value is collected in the meter. You level up when you reach a certain number of Multipliers in the meter, and at each level, only preset values may appear on those symbols. On the 1^st level, the values are 2x to 100x, just like in the base game.

To reach the 2^nd level, you need to have collected 6 Multiplier symbols. On this level, the values are from 8x to 100x. To get to the 3^rd level, you’d need to have collected another 4 Multipliers, and the values that will appear are 15x to 100x. Finally, as soon as you collect 4 more Multipliers, you’ll reach the 4^th and last level, where values are from 50x to 100x.

Additionally, if during the Bonus Round, you manage to land 3 or more extra Scatters, you will get 5 extra free spins bonuses.

We must mention here the Ante Bet and Bonus Buy options. When you place the Ante Bet for 25% of the stake, you will double your chances of triggering the Free Spins, but for 100x, 200x, 300x or 400x the stake, you can purchase your way into the Free Spins level 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively.

Without the Ante Bet active, the RTP in the slot is 96.25%, and with it active, 96.23%. The slot, as mentioned, is highly volatile and can deliver a payout of up to 5,000x the stake.

For the max bet of $100, it means that Santa’s Great Gifts can deliver an amazing $500,000 payout. Santa really knows his gifts, right?

Pragmatic Play has delivered once again, launching a slot that has the right amount of Christmassy details and holiday-worthy payout potential. It won't be a Christmas miracle getting to that payout, considering the slot is highly volatile, so as long as you go through the many features, you’ll reach it in no time. If you are already in the seasonal mood, make sure you give it a try at the best online slot sites to see first-hand what an amazing game it is.