Don’t be surprised if you find yourself surrounded by images of Santa and his sleigh, red-nosed reindeer, wreaths, gifts, and brightly decorated evergreen trees at this time of year.

Even at NJ online casinos.

Christmas is right around the corner and there are a number of online slots that celebrate the annual holiday by featuring Christmas themes.

Even these Christmas-themed online slots feature multiple paylines and bonus games that can be downright difficult to figure out. Thankfully, this NJ Online Slots 101 turned Christmas Slots 101 series is here to do it for you.

We’ve broken down the most popular Christmas-themed online slots in the NJ online casino market today and emerged with easy-to-follow guides for how to play these holiday games.

Of course, there’s no guarantee reading a guide will make you a winner. However, knowing how might just give you the edge you’re looking for this Christmas.

In honor of the season of giving, the series continues here with a Christmas-themed 888 Holdings-designed online slot that truly captures the spirit of the holidays. Santa’s Super Slot is available exclusively at 888 Casino in NJ and it packs a pretty big Christmas punch.

Climb down this chimney and win big

Santa’s Super Slot is a truly Christmas-themed online slot making the holiday season the perfect time to play it even though it is available all year long.

The game is hosted by a 3D-animated Santa Claus there to guide players through the game’s various rounds.

Plus, there’s plenty of festive graphics completing the theme and Free Spins, Sticky Wilds and Bonus Game features making it a fun online slot to play.

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa’s Super Slot is a five-reel and 15-payline online slot. The game features a relatively standard five by three-row column layout filled with Christmas-themed symbols. There are just 15 ways to line up the various symbols that pay off.

On the bottom left of the screen, you’ll seed the slot’s information tab. Just click on the “i” symbol to see the paytable, information about the bonus features, and the pattern for all 15 paylines.

Starting Santa’s Super Slot

You can start playing Santa’s Super Slot by clicking the spin button on the bottom right of the screen.

To the left, you can toggle through and set a bet amount. Your total bet is always the bet multiplied by the 15 lines and it is displayed on the screen.

The slot’s autoplay button is to the left. Here you can set the reels to spin 10,25,50, or 75 times automatically. Although, players can stop the auto-spins at any time.

The highest-paying symbols

Santa’s Super Slot gameplay is an effort to line up three to five of the same symbols along any of the game’s 15 paylines.

The highest paying symbols are the Gingerbread Men. Line up five and the game will reward you with 1,500 credits.

Next up are the Christmas Stockings, Trees, Ornaments and Bells. These are followed by the Christmas-styled playing card values ace through ten.

Santa’s Super Slot bonus features

Santa’s Super Slot is chock full of bonus features. The game includes four different scatter symbols that unlock the various bonus features.

Free Spins

Land three or more scatter symbols anywhere on the reels to trigger the free spins feature. The more scatter symbols the higher the chance of earning a larger number of free spins.

Santa’s Super Slot adds Wild symbols to the reels during the free spins. Plus, once landed, the wilds stick around through the free spins round. These wild symbols substitute for any symbol except for the scatter and bonus symbols.

Bonus Game

The bonus game starts when three or more bonus symbols appear anywhere on reels 2,3, or 4.

The game features two Pick’em game rounds awarding bet multipliers. Players first choose a gift from three available items. Then, they choose another from six available items in the second stage.

The designers have attached a multiplier to each gift. The game calculates the bonus prize by multiplying the product of the two multipliers with the total bet on the last spin.

Progressive Jackpot

Santa’s Super Slot features a progressive jackpot. The game awards the jackpot randomly. It grows at a rate of 2% of all bets and there is no cap.

All spins are eligible to win it.

Santa’s Super Slot RTP

Santa’s Super Slot is good old-fashioned holiday fun. It also has as many bonus features as you’ll find in a slot and a progressive jackpot. However, its outstanding Return to Player rate (RTP) also offers players some great value.

Santa’s Super Slot has one of the highest RTPs you’ll find in a Christmas-themed slot at 95.02%.

That doesn’t necessarily mean it will give you back 95 cents of every dollar you put in the machine during a spins session. You’ll get back more or less depending on luck and timing.

It does mean the game has a relatively low house edge over time. So, you’ll get more play out of Santa’s Super Slot over the long haul, giving you more opportunity to get lucky.