Slots to Bring in the New Year

New Year’s Riches Slots

We cannot think of a better way to celebrate New Year’s than Great Gatsby style with gold champagne and fireworks. The presentation of this New Year’s themed slot is remarkable, with fireworks decorating a night sky over a cityscape, the reels are rimmed in Art Deco style with thin gold lines with the words “New Year’s Riches” at the top. The symbols are well chosen, representing the most recognizable landmarks around the world.

This slot, developed by Play‘n Go, features 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 paylines, and you can start playing by staking anything from €0.20 to €100 spin and there is also the option to use autoplay to set up to 100 spins in motion.

The lower value symbols are card deck icons which are shaped as coloured balloons, these include a diamond, a heart, a spade and a club. The higher paying symbols include the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, the Taj Mahal, St Basil’s Cathedral and the Tibetan Potala.

The symbol with the gold champagne and the glass is the wild, this symbol can substitute for all the standard symbols to help and form winning combinations. The clock pointing to midnight is the scatter symbol.

Landing three scatter symbols anywhere on the reels triggers the New Year’s free spin round, where you receive 10 free spins and a 2x multiplier. This multiplier increases by 2x after every spin in the round, meaning you will have a multiplier of an astounding 20x for the final spin.

During the free spins round you can land scatter symbols, which will grant you respins with the same multiplier. Landing one scatter symbol will earn 2 respins, two 4 respins and three or more scatters 6 respins. However, during the respin rounds you cannot land any more scatters.

The gold champagne wild is the most rewarding symbol, paying 5,000x for a combination of five, 250x for 4, and 50x for 3. The Statue of Liberty pays 1,000x for a combination of 5, 100x for 4 and 20x for 3. Big Ben pays 500x for a combination of 5, 60x for 4, and 15x for 3. The Tibetan Potala pays 300x for a combination of 5, 50x for 4 and 15x for 3. The Taj Mahal pays 200x for a combination of 5, 40x for 4 and 10x for 3. St Basil’s Cathedral pays 100x for a combination of 5, 30x for 4 and 10x for 3. Diamonds and hearts can both payout up to 50x, while spades and clubs can payout up to 40x.

Live Blackjack Party

If slots are not really your thing, then why not try the Live Blackjack Party?

It is essentially the same as a normal game of Blackjack, but without having the formalities of a casino Blackjack table. It is more like a casual game of Blackjack that you would have amongst friends, only here there are two dealers who organize the games for you. Forget the times when you had to deal or teach people how to play or keep the rules, here you can play quick Blackjack with real dealers who will provide you with serious games but in a light-hearted party atmosphere.

The dealers are contactable through a live chat, and they will keep you entertained during your game; better yet, there are a few extra features in the Live Blackjack Party.

There are two side bets that give you the chance to win more. These are the Perfect Pair and the 21+3. The Perfect Pairs side bet is on the first two cards forming either two cards of the same suit and value, or two cards of the same value and colour, but from different suits, or two cards of the same value but different suits and colours.

The 21+3 side bet pays if your initial two cards and the dealer’s first card form a Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Straight Flush or Suited Three of a Kind combination.

There are seven places open to players at the Live Blackjack Party table, but if the table is full then players can use the Bet Behind feature. Here they can make bets on other players' hands, which can be exciting as well. Usually places free up quite quickly, so you can sit behind and do not need to worry about waiting too long. 

Fruit Party Slots

If your New Year's resolution included eating more healthily, perhaps the sight of a mix of fruits may be what you are looking for, with Fruit Party slots. Developed by Pragmatic Play, this arcade style 7 reel 7 row slot has cascading reels and cluster pays, as well as free spin bonus rounds and multipliers.

If you enjoyed Candy Crush, this game will not be too much of a jump, the symbols include a strawberry, an orange, an apple, grapes, a plum, a star and a heart. In addition to the main symbols, there is a wild that is a golden lychee.

You start by setting a stake for each spin, this can range from €0.20 to €100, and there is autoplay functionality that you can use to set up to 100 spins with win and loss conditions.

Winning clusters can be won vertically or horizontally on the 7x7 grid, allowing for many different payline combinations.

The strawberry is the highest value symbol, and landing a cluster of 15 or more will pay a maximum of 150x. The oranges can pay 100x for a cluster of 15 or more, the apples can pay 90x, the grapes can pay 80x, the plums can pay 60x, the stars can pay 40x, and the hearts can pay 20x.

The cascading reels is a useful feature, after any spin the winning clusters are removed to allow more symbols to fall from above, if there are any new winning clusters then they are also removed until there are no more combinations.

You can win 10 free spins if you land three golden lychee symbols anywhere on the reels.

The 2x and 4x multipliers that are randomly attached to the symbols in the base game appear more frequently during the free spin, and these multipliers can be accumulated to a maximum of 256x. Scatter symbols can also be landed during the free spin round, with three, four, five, six or seven scatter symbols awarding 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14 extra free spins, respectively.

Cherry Bomb Deluxe Slots

The name says it all: this slot is a mix of charges and cherries, with scatter symbols, expanding symbols, wilds, and tonnes of free spins. The excitement does not stop there, with a potentially explosive jackpot of up to 20,000x.

The game, developed by Booming Games, features 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 paylines.

The stake can be set anywhere between €0.01 and €50, and there is an autoplay function that can be used to set up to 100 spins going complete with stop conditions.

All symbols are tied in to the main theme of the slot, these include a red apple, a green apple and a yellow apple, a party hat, some yellow rockets, a red rocket, some sparklers, and some firecrackers.

The wild symbol is the Cherry bomb, and in addition to substituting for all of the other standard symbols, landing 5 wilds on a payline awards a x20,000 jackpot.

Landing three or more wilds across the reels activates the 2-way pay mode, where for the next ten spins the winning combinations can be formed both left to right and right to left.

For daredevils, there is a chance to double up on any spin. You can gamble your winnings by selecting the gamble control at the bottom of the screen. You will be taken to another screen where you will have to pick between the red or green cherry, and when the detonator explodes, if you have picked correctly, you double up. You can gamble your winnings up to ten times in a row.

To trigger the free spins you must land at least three scatter symbols across the reels. This will also activate the Expanding Symbol feature. Before you begin, you have to hit stop to choose a symbol at random, this symbol will become an expanding symbol during the free spin bonus round. When you land three or more of the expanding symbols across three different reels, the symbols will then expand to fill the whole reel, increasing the chances of forming a win.