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A Christmas Carol Slot

If any Christmas tale is big enough to be told all year around, then it is surely Charles Dicken’s classic ‘A Christmas Carol’. BetSoft clearly agree and the Christmas Carol slot is another in their amazing line of character driven slots. Scrooge himself hosts the game but do expect to see your childhood friends such as Tiny Tim and his business partner Jacob Marley make an appearance as ghostly images on the reels!

With two different free spins features on offer and some novel wild action from one of the ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge may not be as miserly on a slot game as you might imagine. Join us as he watches from his bedchamber whilst the reel action unfolds!

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Game setup for A Christmas Carol

The Christmas Carol slot eschews the current popular trend for any ways win games and goes back to classic routes with a 25 pay-line format. BetSoft have proven with the famous ‘A Night in Paris’ machine that this playstyle still has plenty of fans. With the pay-lines highlight able it is easy to follow and the coin system lets you adjust both your bet per line and coin value, though the win lines themselves are fixed.

Like many BetSoft slots the high quality graphics can be hard on older machines so the options menu lets you set the quality level. It also allows you to disable the welcome screen, some of the larger animations and set turbo spin to speed up the reel action. The most likely thing to be used here is keeping the sound effects active but disabling the music – there’s only so many times any sane person can listen to ‘O Come Ye Merry Gentleman’ on repeat!

The controls are super clear as is the display, the only other thing to consider is whether to manually spin or auto play. This is largely determined by your desire to play the heads or tails double up gamble game. As that is disabled during automatic spin mode. As with other BetSoft games this is superbly optimised for mobile play and we expect to see it at a lot of Android casinos.

Wild Ghosts and Ghouls

BetSoft have gone for a slightly unusual route in their own retelling of this classic story on the Christmas Carol slot. On the main pay-table only the pyjama clad Scrooge himself sits as a human character and he offers the biggest reward at 5000x your line bet for a 5-of-a-kind combination. The rest of the larger value symbols are a Christmas bell, gold coin stacks, wrapped presents and the sign from Scrooge’s infamous bank. It’s slightly disappointing to see ace to ten plaing card symbols rounding out the bottom of the game pay-table. We’ve seen on other BetSoft slots that they are perfectly capable of producing a complete bespoke set of icons for their themes.

The Wild on the game is the much maligned Christmas turkey. The bird does get the last laugh as it’s the most powerful symbol on the slot – as well as replacing all other symbols except the scatter they have a prize attached. 5 of-a-kind will give you a huge 12000x fixed jackpot with even four or three of the cooked beasts giving out 6000x and 4000x respectively. You do need to line them up on an active pay-line to get this full benefit.

Two Sets Of Free Spins With Wilds

As with the Alkemor’s Tower slot game there are two sets of spins on the Christmas Carol slot which work pretty much the same way but have a unique flavour. The first is represented by the Tiny Tim ghost of Xmas past and the second by the future ghost of Jacob Marley. In the case of both spins features 3,4 or 5 scatters will grant you 3,6 or 12 spins. There’s no multiplier here but the big draw as that each and every spin is a guaranteed win. Not only that, you can re-trigger them – this is clearly where the big win potential on the game lies.

At any time during the free spins games, you can land the ghost of Christmas present in the form of Mr Scrooge, bathed in a ghastly green glow and different to the main pay-table icon. When he arrives not only does he function as a wild, but any of the other ghostly scatters on the reel will turn wild also. We loved it when a big win came in with this as the host character on the reel background stopped his scowling for a moment and came alive with a savage laugh of satisfaction and flipped a gold coin in celebration. It’s these animations and effects which make these slots so popular. Well, that and the massive pay-out potential if you hit the right streak!

Conclusion

The Christmas Carol slot may not be the best slot BetSoft have ever produced but it is very good. It’s better than almost anything else from any other manufacturer out there for players from the USA especially and we’d expect it to be stocked by the best online casinos serving that market for sure. If you catch this game right, then scrooge will follow the pattern of the story and become very generous indeed. If not, he’s likely to remain a petty old miser!

A Christmas Carol written by Garry Edgards average rating 4/5 - 343 user ratings