Christmas Slots 101: ‘Tis The Season For Festive Fortunes
Jingle bells, candy canes, stockings hanging above the fireplace, and mistletoe overhead. These are the images that surround us at this time of year.
Even at NJ online casinos.
That’s because Christmas is just a few short weeks away and there are a huge number of slots at the top online casino sites in the state that celebrate the holiday by featuring all of your favorite Christmas themes.
Of course, even Christmas-themed online slots feature multiple paylines and bonus games. These days it’s almost as if you need a manual to figure out how to beat the one-armed bandits. Thankfully, this NJ Online Slots 101 turned Christmas Slots 101 series is here to help.
We’ve taken a deep dive into the most popular Christmas-themed online slots on the NJ online casino market and emerged with an easy-to-follow guide for each.
There’s no guarantee reading one will make you a Christmas winner. But knowing how is half the battle this holiday season.
In honor of the holidays, the series continues here with a Christmas-themed GVC Holdings-designed online slot that captures the Christmas spirit as much as any. Festive Fortunes is available exclusively at GVC’s PartyCasino NJ, Borgata casino online, and BetMGM and despite being on the streamlined side, it is about as festive as the name suggests.
Let the festive season begin
Festive Fortunes is GVC’s entry into the world of Christmas-themed online slots, which makes the festive season the perfect time to give it a spin, even if it is available online all year long.
The game features nothing but Christmas-themed symbols and enough free spin bonuses and multipliers to keep you spinning throughout the entire holidays.
‘Tis the season
Festive Fortunes is three-row, five-reel, and 30-payline online slot. The game features a classic five by three-row column layout filled with Christmas-themed symbols. However, there’s also a sixth reel offering up a free spins bonus with a multiplier. On every spin, there are 30 ways to line up the various Christmas-themed symbols that pay.
On the bottom left of the screen, you’ll seed the slot’s ‘Rules‘ and ‘Paytable‘ tabs. Click on either to see the paytable, information about the features, and the pattern for all 30 paylines.
Starting Festive Fortunes
You can start playing Festive Fortunes by clicking the snowman spin button on the bottom right of the screen.
To the left, you can toggle through bet amounts and even the number of lines in play. Your total bet is the bet multiplied by the lines and it is displayed on the left side of the screen.
The slot’s ‘MaxBet‘ button is also to the left. Here you can set the reels to spin for the maximum bet amount and lines automatically.
The highest-paying symbols
Players can find success in Festive Fortunes by lining up three to five of the same symbols along any of the game’s 30 paylines.
The highest paying symbols are the wreathed Christmas bells. Line up five and the game will reward you with 2,000 credits.
The Festive Fortune$ logo is wild and substitutes for all symbols except the Santa scatter symbol. Land three or more Santa scatter symbols to trigger the Festive Fortune$ free spins game.
The rest of the game’s symbols are all Christmas related and pay less in order from gifts to snowmen, angels, candy canes, snowflakes, stockings, wreaths, stars, and candles.
Festive Fortunes bonus feature
Festive Fortunes isn’t exactly chock full of bonus features.
The bells and whistles you’ll find in other modern online slots have been stripped away to allow players to focus on the paylines and winning the old fashioned way.
The game does include a sixth reel on the left that offers a free spins bonus.
The Festive Fotune$ Free Spins reel spins every time you do. Then, when you land three or more Santa scatter symbols the Festive Fortune$ free spins game is triggered.
This gives you the chance to win combinations of free spins and multipliers.
The arrow on the Festive Fotune$ Free Spins reel will stop on your prize, which could be anything from a couple of free spins and a small multiplier, up to 13 free spins and a ten-times multiplier.
Festive Fortunes RTP
Festive Fortunes is more of a classic reels slot with a holiday theme than anything else. However, it also features a solid Return to Player rate (RTP).
In fact, Festive Fortunes offers players among the highest RTPs they’ll find in a Christmas-themed online slot at 95.01%.
That doesn’t mean the game is guaranteed to give you back 95 cents of every dollar you put into it.
But it does mean Festive Fortunes has a relatively low house edge. It won’t swallow your bankroll in one fell swoop and you should get enough play out of Festive Fortunes to give you plenty of opportunities to get lucky this holiday season.