tricks and treats slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

Halloween is the perfect theme for all forms of modern culture and entertainment – endless movies have been created based on the supposedly frightening nature of All Hallows Eve, whilst video games and online slots have also seen plenty of spooky-themed titles as well. The Halloween Fortune games by Playtech always spring to mind when I think of this theme, but there are countless more out there, with more being released yearly. The big question would be, is Red Tiger’s take on this theme any better than the other games we have previously played based around Halloween? To find out, we’ll start by investigating the paytable!

Red Tiger has been typically lazy with its paytable implementation, meaning that the numbers shown are based on the minimum bet rather than the currently selected stake. This means you will need to work out the value of each winning combination for yourself, or you could refer to our breakdown here, of course; The black cat on a broomstick, cute as she is, tops off the paytable with a return of 25x your bet for each completed payline of five-of-a-kind. Next up, we have a ghostly character who may be a man under a white sheet – I guess I have no way to know for sure! – and he will pay you 12x for all five of his symbols. The spooky-looking cupcake is worth 7.5x, while the spookier-looking candle will pay you 5x your bet for a full line of five-of-a-kind. Four lower-paying royal symbols complete the paytable, with returns of between 3x and 1x for a full pay line.

The betting range starts at a low roller friendly, €0.10 per spin, and maxes out at a 1000x higher or €100.00 for each round. That’s a chunky amount of coin to be betting every couple of seconds, so I wouldn’t recommend it, even on a lower variance slot such as this. However, it’s nice for some players to have the option!

base game & MODIFIERS

The base game utilises a 5x4 playfield, which is a little bit large for a 25-payline game, so I would have expected the numbers on the paytable to be a little bit higher with this in mind. The three sets of bonus symbols make the base game a little more interesting than a typical slot, but you can also end up blocking regular winning pay lines if you end up with many mismatched scatters on a single spin.

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treat Symbol

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trick symbol

tricks and treats slot bonus features

The base game already offers enough special features to keep most players interested for a reasonable length session, but I’m still glad that Red Tiger decided to include a full bonus round as well. You’ll need three or more of the Halloween Spins symbols to trigger the feature, but there does not seem to be any benefit to hitting more than the required three, which seems a little disappointing.

The main feature of this part of the game is that the multipliers which appear on the trick symbols from the base game will be accumulated throughout the bonus round, and their value will be applied to all winning combinations in subsequent spins.

Given this feature, I would have expected a much higher win from Red Tiger’s billion round simulation than the quoted figure of around 1,700x – my own results seemed disappointing, too. However, that was mainly because of the lack of trick symbols which appeared in the bonus rounds while I was testing the game. This seems as if it should be a valuable feature, but a billion rounds are a decent enough sample size to say with confidence that this isn’t the case.

tricks and treats slot review final thoughts

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