Take the role of Ebenezer Scrooge and wait for a visit of Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future in Betsoft’s visually stunning online slot A Christmas Carol! Ghosts will bring you free spins with a guaranteed win on each spin, or will turn all your Ghosts on your board into Wilds!
This online slot, based on the Charles Dickens novel from 1943, was released in 2015.
Where to Play A Christmas Carol
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Slot information
The game is played on a standard 5×3 board with 25 fixed paylines. The minimum bet per spin is $0.25 while the maximum is $125. Theoretical return to player (RTP) is 94.58%, which isn’t much by modern standards but is almost exactly the same as you’re getting when playing Realtime Gaming slots.
Base game
The game has ten symbols in the paytable, and of the five low-win card symbols three are really useless, but Ace and King can get you some decent wins. The five high-win symbols are really something and you’ll be able to win big just by landing one winning payline.
Wins are denominated in coins, based on a 25 coin bet. That means the best symbol, Scrooge, that’s paying 1000 coins for five-of-a-kind, is actually paying 40x your bet. Prizes are really great for the top symbols, and even the fourth-best symbol, Presents, will pay 8x your bet for four-of-a-kind and 4x your bet for three-of-a-kind.
This game doesn’t pay often, but when it does it will always matter. As long as the win is not formed by card symbols, as they’ll basically only give you your stake back. Wild is a paying symbol, and you can get 2400 coins if you land all five.
Ghost of Christmas Present is a Scatter symbol, and if you land all three of them, all Ghosts presently on the reels will turn into Wilds.
Free Spins
The game has three Scatters, for Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. This gives us two different free spins features, but Scatters also take up valuable space on the board so it’s even more difficult to land a winning payline in the base game.
The two free spins features, for Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future, are identical in everything except for wonderful graphics. You do want to trigger both features just to see each Ghost fly across your screen. You get 3, 6 or 12 free spins for three, four or five Scatters respectively. Each free spin is guaranteed to land a payline win or an additional feature trigger.
Verdict
A Christmas Carol is a visually stunning online slot that shines brightest during the two free spins feature. Graphics are really incredible, and that’s the number one reason to play this game, followed by the excellent paytable wins. The paytable is at its best during the free spins as each spin is guaranteed a win in what is otherwise a tight game.
This is an excellent slot to play every Christmas season, make it a habit. Sign up with Spartan Slots and play A Christmas Carol for free or for real money!
