Magical Reels Slot Overview

Magical Reels is a new casino slot from Northern Lights Gaming taking us to a magical house where we get to collect fruit, mushrooms, and potions. A magical book awards stars and multipliers to each symbol on an award board, activating the free spins feature whenever a symbol gets 5 stars. This is a very highly volatile game with a frequent free spins feature that activates one time in 49 spins on average. Grab your magic wand, swing it over the reels, and just see what fortunes your spells can bring.

Magical Reels is a video slot from Northern Lights Gaming with 5 reels, 4 rows, and 20 paylines. You can put bets between the Min.bet 0.20 and the Max.bet 20 in this very highly volatile game. The RTP is 96.15%, and the lucky player can score the max win of 11750X the bet on one spin.

There are some things making this game as magical as it can be. The features of Magical Reels are Scatter Symbol, Awards Board, and Free Spins Bonus.

Magical Reels Slot Information

It feels like we are in the house of a witch. Some tree roots are clinging to the ceiling and on the edges of the reels. On tables are a wide variety of plants, potion bottles, and a death skull used as a candle holder. It is not a scary setting, though, rather something taken from a cute fairytale. The grid has a dark background, and the big colorful symbols are easy to spot. The Award Board with a meter counting stars and multipliers for each of the eight paying symbols is to the left of the grid. A magic wand will appear on the screen on your first spins, randomly adding some stars and multipliers to the Award Board. The tranquil music contributes to the feeling of being in a children’s cartoon. To make a win, you’ll need to land at least 3 of the same symbols on one of the 20 paylines going left to right, starting with the first reel to the left. You can play the game on desktop, notepad, and mobile phones.

There are 8 paying symbols and a scatter symbol depicted by a spellbook. The lower-paying symbols are a blueberry, a shell, a mushroom, and a yellow leaf. They pay between 1X and 1.50X the bet for landing 5 on a payline. The more valuable symbols in this magical house are four different bottles of blue, purple, red, and orange potions. They don’t look intimidating except for the purple bottle with three eyes floating around in it. The potions pay between 2X to 5X the bet for taking up 5 positions on a payline.  

Magical Reels Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot Magical Reels?

You can win up to 11750X the bet.

What features are available in the slot Magical Reels?

The features are Scatter Symbol, Awards Board, and Free Spins Bonus.

Scatter Symbol

This magic spellbook works wonders. You can land up to 5 books at a time on the reels, and each book contains either 1-3 Stars or a +1 Multiplier. The stars and multipliers are randomly added to any of the 8 symbols on the Award Board

Award Board

Each of the 8 paying symbols is represented on the Award Board to the left, with the 4 potion bottles at the top and the other 4 symbols below. Every symbol has 5 boxes where stars can land and a multiplier starting at X1, adding up +1 for every multiplier that lands. A magic wand randomly distributes some stars and multipliers to the Award Board on your first spin, so you don’t start completely from scratch on your hunt for stars and multipliers.

Whenever a spell book lands on the reels, it contains either a +1 multiplier or 1-3 stars. The stars and the multipliers are randomly distributed to any of the symbols on the Award Board. The multipliers will be used in the Free Spins Bonus, and the stars are just what you need to activate the free spins. The feature starts whenever you have managed to collect 5 stars on any of the Award Board’s symbols.

Free Spins Bonus

Collecting 5 stars on any of the symbols in the Award Board will give you 5 free spins, and you will get two extra spins for every other symbol that reaches 5 stars during the spins. You can also start the feature with more spins if you landed 5 stars on several symbols when the feature was activated. Landing 5 stars on 3 different symbols will therefore give you 9 free spins.

The symbols that reach 5 stars on the Award Board will be knocked out from the free spins, meaning that they can’t appear on the reels. Any symbol reaching 5 stars during the free spins will also be excluded from the remaining spins. Whenever you hit a win, it will be multiplied by that symbol’s multiplying number on the Award Board. Each symbol’s multiplier can only be used once in every free spin, so if you hit a winning combination with the same symbol twice, it will not be multiplied by anything on the second win. Every used multiplier will be reset to X1 when the free spins are over, and every unused multiplier will keep its value.

Magical Reels Slot Conclusion

This slot basically contains one feature, and that is the free spins. It may not give you tons of variety, but it is, on the other hand, great if you’re tired of slots where you have to wait for ages to hit the free spins. In Magical Reels are the free spins activated once in 49 spins on average. That number is usually several times higher on most video slots, making this a true free spins machine. Our experience after playing it for a few hours was that the free spins landed even more often. Unfortunately, the high appearance of free spins makes the feature less attractive after a while. We also activated the feature several times, ending up winning 1X or 2X the bet. The average win in the free spins is 30X the bet, so don’t expect the game to reward you greatly. On the other hand, Magical Reels is a very highly volatile game with a max win of 11750X the bet, so you might score a super win when you expect it the least.

Magical Reels is a good-looking easy-to-follow game. After just a few spins, most players will get the hang of the spell books, stars, and multipliers. Generally speaking, your best chances for nice outcomes are if you manage to collect many multipliers on the more valuable symbols while the stars end up on the less valuable symbols. Whenever a symbol is being knocked out, the chances of hitting the other symbols increase, but you do, of course, want to be able to hit valuable symbols in the free spins. This game’s RTP of 96.15% is good, just above average in the world of casino slots.

Magical Reels from Northern Lights Gaming is a nice visit to a witch's house where spell books take us to the very frequent free spins.