Rags to Witches

Nights are drawing in, the weather is getting colder, and pumpkins are starting to appear in supermarkets all over the country. All of this can only mean one thing, it's spooky season, and every online gaming producer has started to produce Halloween-themed games. The BetSoft studio looks to be first out of the blocks this year with a new online slots uk called Rags to Witches. Mechanically, this is a five-reel, three-row game with 30 pay lines and an RTP of 96.21%. The volatility for this game has been rated in the high range, and the top payout is controlled by the size of the progressive jackpot amount.

Rags to Witches Overview

The features for this game start with the wild symbol, which can appear on reels two, three, and four. It can substitute for any other icon on the board apart from the scatter to help form more wins. The main feature in the game, however, is the free spins round, triggered when players land five or more scatter symbols on the board. This will award you with ten free spins. Free spins in this game also come with progressive multipliers that grow with every spin. The more scatters you land to trigger this bonus, the higher the potential multiplier you have access to. Finally, a range of jackpots can be won on any random spin, including a progressive jackpot. All features will be explained in more detail later in the review.

Rags to Witches Theme and Symbols

This game quite clearly has a very strong Halloween theme, with the reels full of bats, pumpkins, skulls, and sweets. As Halloween themes go, this is a good one with some excellent high-quality details, such as the glowing jack-o-lanterns and the spooky witch who appears on the board with green hair. Just out of interest, it is worth explaining that Halloween's origins can be traced back to the ancient Celtic holiday of Samhain. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest, and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death.

The background for this game is a scooby-do-style haunted house estate. The image is complete with gnarled and twisted trees, gravestones, and a huge moon that looks to be oversized to exaggerate the spookiness of the whole scene. Although covered mainly by the playing board, you can also see a big, haunted house in the centre of the screen, which seems to be glowing green through its many windows. The playing board for this game is a normal rectangle covered in twisting vines with a dark interior.

The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying icons are the 10, J, Q, K and A in playing card royals. The most valuable of these is the A, paying out at 2x the stake for the top combination. The more valuable icons are the candle, the sweets, the black cat, the bat, the skeleton and finally, the witch. The witch is the most valuable of these, worth 16.6x the stake for the top combination. The specials for this game are the pumpkin wild, and the haunted house free spins scatter.

Game Play

Rags to Witches is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with 30 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel. The betting range for Rags to Witches is 30p to £112.5 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stakes up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen. Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen. Volatility for this slot is rated in the high range. The return to player percentage for Rags to Witches is 96.21%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 3,355x your stake.

Rags to Witches Features

The first feature in this game is the wild feature. This concerns the wild icon, which can substitute for any other icon in the game barring the free spins scatter to help form more wins.

The next feature in this game is the free spins round, which is triggered when players land five or more free spins scatters on the board simultaneously. Scatters also have their own paying value and pay out for combinations. The most you can earn is 12x the bet for seven scatters. During the free spins round, multipliers are applied and increase for every spin that is awarded. The more scatters that you landed the bonus with, the higher the starting multiplier and the higher the growth potential.

Finally, this game also has a range of jackpots which can be won on any random spin. There are four different jackpots which are increasing the more people play the game and won't stop until someone wins it. Although these jackpots can climb to impressive heights, don't get too excited, as winning them is rare.

Conclusion

Spooky spins and feature-filled excitement are the order of the day for this new game which takes some of the best aspects of the Halloween holiday and combines them with a great slot gaming experience. Enjoy this game for its layered gaming experience and decent win potential, and who knows; you might even come away with a huge progressive jackpot. Try also Buffalo, a fun demo game full of bonus.