Advantages
- Great max prospect
- Stunning graphics
- Stacked Symbols in both the base game and FS
- Mini-game with Mystery Symbol and 4 different Jackpots
- Sticky Wilds in the FS
Disadvantages
- Low max stake
- Small single spin max outlook apart from the Jackpots
- Low default RTP
- No Multipliers
- No Bonus Buy
- The Mini-game can be launched only from the base game
- Chance for just 5 additional FS
Magic Apple 2 Hold and Win machine comes a year after the original game Magic Apple Hold and Win, which every player with a fondness for the story of the kind and generous Snow White will appreciate.
Like in the first chapter, players will bask in spinning, where excellent visuals and beautiful cinematic audio makes the design presentation super elegant and pleasant.
The slot comes with a conventional 5×4 layout frame and 20 paylines. It is categorized with High Volatility, and as typical, for a game of this variance, the max bet is kept low (at 40 CAD) and the hit rate is extremely dwarfish (only less than 15%).
The 5000x the bet maximum potential is a tempting reward to look forward to, regardless of the RTP of 95.53% – tolerable, yet below standards – a measure that any gambling enthusiast is currently more cautious about than usual.
Stacked Symbols in the main game and 2 very familiar features: Hold and Win with Jackpots and Free Spins with Sticky Wilds are the properties that any bettor who likes simplicity and routine will cherish in Magic Apple 2 H&W.
While the theme, symbols and general presentation remain untouched, the paytable has been altered in the 2nd installment:
- The Scatter (Castle) is no longer the top value symbol with 100x the total bet, but has only an insignificant worth of 2x the bet for 3OAK;
- The ornate mirror Wild pays no longer 8x the bet for 5OAK, but 12.50x for the same combos;
- The low-value icons pay no longer 1.60x for 5OAK, but 2.50x;
- The premiums pay no longer between 4x and 8x for 5OAK, but between 5x and 10x.
Another essential polarity between chapters 1 and 2 of the Magic Apples is where the H&W Mini-game can be triggered.
While in the original game you get Bonus Symbols (Apples) throughout the entire game, i.e. the Mini-game can be launched from the base, or from the FS, in Magic Apple 2 the Bonus Symbols only appear in the base game, so the H&W Mini-game cannot be activated within the FS.
The rest of the differences that distinguish these 2 fairy-tale-themed sister games can be seen in our table below.
Bonus Features of Magic Apple 2 Hold and Win Slot
- Wilds – The ornate mirror Wild can drop on each reel and brings the top value of 12.50x the bet for 5OAK on a betline. It serves to replace all missing regular symbols when a pay combination can be constructed. Like all the symbols on the paytable Wilds often fall stacked in the base and in the Bonus FS.
- Scatters – The majestic Castle acts as a Scatter symbol. It can appear only on the central reels, and landing 3 Castles will initiate the Free Spins round.
- Free Spins – 8 FS will be granted, during which no Bonus Apples or Scatters will be rolling. Here each Wild that lands will stick to its place, and in the case, on every reel, there is a Wild symbol, 5 additional FS will be awarded.
- Bonus Symbols – The poisonous Apple is the Bonus symbol. They can fall only in the main game, and 6+ Bonus Apples will activate the Hold and Win Mini-game, beginning with 3 Re-spins.
- Mini-game – Only Bonus Symbols roll during this feature: Cash Apples, Jackpot Apples and Mystery Apples.
- The triggering Apples will be frozen in their cells.
- Any additional Apple that lands will also be frozen and that resets the Re-spins tally to 3.
- After the last Re-spin, the cash from all the Apples is computed.
- When no more Re-spins are left or the whole grid is full of Apples, the Mystery Symbol(s) will reveal its Jackpot potential and the sum of all Bonus Symbols will be accumulated.
- Here 1 or more (non-progressive) Jackpots can be awarded:
Mini/Minor/Major – worth respectively 20x/50x/150x the bet. - The ultimate prize of the Mini-game (also the slot max outlook) is the Grand Jackpot valued as 5000x the bet, granted when 20 Apples are locked (i.e. entire grid).
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Settings
- Provider – 3OAKS Studio (Booongo)
- Payment lines – 20 (fixed)
- Volatility – High
- Hit rate – 14.61%
- Default range of bets – 0.20 to 40 CAD
- Playing field – 5х4
- The maximum winning is – 5000x the total bet
- Bonuses – Wilds, Scatters, Stacked Symbols, Hold & Win feature with Mystery Symbol and 4 (in-game, fixed) Jackpots, Free Spins with Sticky Wilds
- Free Spins – Yes
- RTP – 95.53%
