Happy Holidays Slot Review

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Enjoy some wintery holiday treats

This Microgaming Happy Holidays slot brings all your favourite things about Christmas in five 243 ways to win reels.

Grinch, leave your hat outside, because the moment you play the Happy Holidays slot machine, you are bringing jolliness and festivities to your screen. You’ll find turkeys, gingerbread houses, stockings full of fillers, Christmas trees on an ice rink, sledding in the snow, as well as kids unwrapping presents, building snowmen, and telling Santa what they want for Christmas.

No one does traditional holiday games like Microgaming. After all, isn’t another seasonal favourite none other than the Secret Santa slot?

The idyllic Happy Holidays setting is beautifully done, and every symbol blends in with the overall festive theme.

The only slight let down are the sounds, still jolly enough, but in our opinion Microgaming could have left out the sounds of the spinning of the reels which doesn’t doesn’t add anything to the atmosphere.

243 ways to win with random Frosty Feature

One of the main draws to this Happy Holidays video slot will no doubt be the 243 ways to win reels. We’ve seen it done well in many Microgaming slots in the past, and no doubt many more to come.

The 5×3 reel layout has fixed paylines, where you win from left to right if there are 3 or more symbols on adjacent symbols. For example if you get the same symbol on reel 1, 2 and 3 you’ll win. Get the same symbol on reel 1, 2 and 4, and you won’t.

It keeps the wins coming thicker and faster than a Mr Frosty slushy.

And then there’s the Frosty Feature bonus

This mini bonus can appear randomly throughout your base game spins only, and will freeze the lower paying symbols, leaving only the higher paying ones on the reel.

Each of those symbols reward you with instant cash prizes and only appears on a non-winning spin; helping you get some of your cash back and sometimes some great wins.

Not only that but if you manage to have one scatter on screen when this feature occurs, you’ll trigger the potentially high paying free spins bonus.

How much can you win here? Well, it varies. We’ve had some great 50x our bet wins and at other times walked away with around 4x – 5x.

Sprinkle the right of magic and you might walk away very happy.

1024 ways to win free spins make for a jolly good time

Find 3 or more of the golden bauble scatters and you’ll trigger 10 free spins. But unlike the base game which only has 243 ways to win in a 5×3 reel layout, these free spins add an extra row of symbols to the top, creating a 5×4 reel layout and a whopping 1024 ways to win.

That’s an extra 781 ways to win right there. You’ll also find that during the free spins the snowman symbol with the golden border can transform into any of the higher paying symbols to award the highest possible win.

All this means that you get better odd for huge wins.

10 free spins doesn’t sound like much, and you’d be right. These, much like the Frosty Feature, can be fairly hit and miss in what you can win. We’ve walked away with anything ranging from 15x to 70x our bet – a wide average and hard to predict.

However, the free spins trigger quite easily in our experience, around every 100 – 120 base game spins.

That said, with some decent wins in the base game, a couple of lucky frosty features, and those huge free spins, your balance should stay fairly steady as long as you budget for about 150 spins.

A very Happy Holidays slot

If you are fan of the holidays, and like to dive into every aspect from this season, then the Happy Holidays slot game is perfect for you.

Though lovers of Christmas slots might also like the Merry Xmas or Xmas Joker slots from Play’n GO as alternative to keep the season of good cheer alive.

But why move when you can enjoy a 243 ways to win game that keeps the wins coming, the bonus features hit quite regularly, and with graphics and animations that stand out?

A decent betting range, starting at 0.30 per spin, allows most gambler the chance to play Happy Holidays, though high limit slots players should know the maximum you can bet is 30.00 per spin.

The bonus features are fun; the Frosty Feature in particular strikes randomly throughout the base game rewarding you with a little festive cash cheer.

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