Halloween Riches Slots
As staple though it may seem given its theme and all, Halloween Riches from Bede Gaming is a seasonal thrill that is far from your average slot machine. Filled with 5 reels of spooky noises and spine tingling creeps, it provides players with 25 paylines of winning combinations.
Even though there is no escaping its hair raising scare factor, the cartoon graphics of the title help to tone down the fear and crank up the fun. It seems to be a winning slot before we’ve even started, but only time will tell if it goes the distance.
Let’s creep on in and take a closer look – be quiet and don’t look behind you.
Ghost and Ghouls
Where would a Halloween online activity be without a disconnected eyeball and dripping wax candle, and so you can expect to see them lined up and waiting for you here. Despite being generic in conventions, the design here is personal to the brand, as you can see by the wizened spell book and bubbling cauldron.
Some card values are knocking about in the dead of the night, which we dislike seeing, but they’ve been ghostified to make them look the part, accessorised with cobwebs and eyeballs. Out of all the card suits, the J is the smallest winning tile at between 10 and 50 credits, which isn’t that bad going for the minimal amount - some games have you winning but 0.50, so this is a promising start.
The energy builds until you get to the haunted house itself, a foreboding building that looks like it belongs to the Addams Family; three matches will get you 125 credits, but all five will get you the base jackpot of 2,500. There is the chance to win some cash when you just match two, but the value of that is quite low (20 credits).
Cackling Broomstick Rides
So maybe the house actually belongs to the redheaded witch and her identical twin, for they appear on the reels a lot, with the same icons actually doing different things. This isn’t the first time Bede Gaming have done this, but we feel that it doesn’t promote a user friendly game to have icons looking exactly the same.
If you bag yourself the witchy wild, you’ll be flying about into the sky, taking symbols as you go, but if you find the free spins witch you will experience up to 20 games on the house. Furthermore, a random multiplier will be determined by the software and then added, partnered up with the chance of re-activating the free rounds.
Off to the Graveyard
After raiding the house and riding with the witches, your next stop is the cemetery for that is where the bonus tile lives, buried underground; this feature is known as the ‘Pick a Grave’ bonus round. That’s because you essentially pick your prizes when the feature loads, though the number of times you can do this is limited by how many tiles you find. If you get three tiles you get 2 picks, four rewards you 3 and the full five gifts you 4.
Start That Crystal Ball Rolling
The reels need some juice before they start churning out that money, so you need to place a wager of at least 0.01 per payline, meaning your bet can be only 0.25. However you can go the opposite way and up it with 5 credits per line, leaving you with a much more risky maximum stake.
You don’t only have to play around with the money to set your bet, for you can also alter the paylines to make them less scary; you can’t have more than 25, but you can have as few as 1. You can set them in two ways: by using the widget next to the bet button or by clicking the numbers that line the grid.
What a Scream!
Halloween Riches from Bede Gaming is a slot machine we can get behind and back 100%. There are always arguments that a game could be better, but the volatility and variance seem pretty spot on here. You won’t get burnt too badly if you lose, but nor is the money just handed to you, and then you have several special features rather than none.
