Secret Santa Slot Review 2024

Secret Santa

While playing Secret Santa, a Microgaming slot, up to 1024 paylines are available to the player, in a 5 reel game, which has prizes of up to $2,500. The features start with the wild, followed by scatter symbols, free spins and the multiplier.

This game's theme is easy to spot. It's a slot that focuses on Santa Clause and the Christmas holidays. The night when Santa comes to deliver his presents seems to be the time when the action takes place here, with a small town in the background, an image taken at night, right as Santa is due to arrive. The reels take a big part of the screen, and they're all dark red, which doesn't seem to go too well with the dark blue of the night's sky. Symbols include Santa, the Christmas tree with the presents, the fire place, the teddy bear in a stocking, the turkey dinner, the cake and the game logo.

The game comes with 1024 ways to win, which doesn't mean that the player places bets of 1024 coins. Actually the level of the bet uses 1 to 10 coins, on up to 50 different selections of lines. The game's largest bet uses 10 coins of $0.05 each for each level, with the total amount being $25, the cash equivalent of the 500 coins which are wagered. The game's jackpot of $2,500 is obtained with the maximum bet.

The top jackpot is actually a 100x multiple of the total bet, a prize which can be obtained if five scatters make an appearance during the same round. The prize drops considerably if only four or three scatters are present, to 10x for the former, and 2x for the latter.

The Secret Santa symbol, the wild, will pay $400 if five symbols with it are on the same payline. When it's not forming winning combos of its own, the wild helps other symbols form combinations, by substituting for them.

One huge feature of the game is called 5 of a Kind. While this feature is active, the player gets the benefit from regular combinations of 5 regular symbols, but he also gets an extra payout. The initial 5 symbol combo disappears, and another combination of 5 symbols takes it place, giving the player a second payout for the same round. The symbols have to be identical, you can't get this feature if the scatters or the wilds are involved in any way.

Secret Santa's biggest asset is the 5 of a Kind feature, but the graphics and the rest of the features are also some good points in its favor.