Keep Your Eyes Out For Crystal Balls – They Are Your Best Hope Here!
Compared to many of today’s feature-packed slots, there is not a whole lot going on in Blue Wizard. But that can be a good thing sometimes, keeping confusion to a minimum and allowing you to focus on key events.
Base Game Is All About Expanding Wilds
In the base game the most common trick is the Expanding Wild. This is your friendly Wizard, the Wild, who lands on reels 2 to 5 and will expand IF in doing so, he creates a win. I saw this one many times over in testing, though most times the wins were small.
A Wizard Wild expands in the base game to trigger a winFree Spins Are Triggered By Landing 3 Castle Scatters
To be honest, during the base game the wins were very small and felt like crumbs being thrown to keep me in the game whilst I waited for the free spins or the Fire Blaze Re-Spin.
Free Spins trigger when 3 or more Castle Scatters land anywhere. The good thing about this game is that you also get a payout when those scatters land. So, on top of 6 spins you also get a 1x, 10x or 50x payout.
Wilds on the middle reel land with multipliers in free spinsOnce the round starts, there is a key difference between the configuration of these spins and the base game that makes it more likely to kick out bigger wins: now all Wilds that land on the centre reel will have a multiplier of 2x, 4x, 8x or 16x attached to them.
6 spins can be enough to build up some nice wins as my test session showed, but it doesn’t have to end there. It is also possible to re-trigger the free spins round by landing 3 or more scatters on one spin too.
Crystal Balls and Fire Blaze Re-Spins
So, the base game is OK, the free spins round better. But where Blue Wizard can really deliver is in the Fire Blaze Re-Spins.
You will notice when you start spinning that alongside standard pay symbols, scatters and wilds, are Crystal Balls with numbers or stars on them. In the base game these are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15 and 50, representing multipliers of your bet value. They get jacked up to 5, 10, 15 and 50 in the free spins round.
Or, if a star is displayed on the Crystal Ball then it represents one of the three fixed jackpots – Major, Minor or Mini worth 500x, 100x or 20x respectively.
2 Crystal Balls landing on reel 5. 6 or more are needed to trigger Fire Blaze Re-SpinTo set this feature in motion you need to land at least 6 Crystal Balls on one spin. When you do then the Crystal Balls are locked in for 3 re-spins. If on a re-spin another Crystal Ball lands then the counter re-sets to 3 and you go again.
When all the re-spins are done, then the total value of all Crystal Balls is added up and paid out. And, if EVERY position is filled with a Crystal Ball then a special Grand Jackpot 2,000x is paid out.
But that’s not all. Remember those fixed jackpots? Each time a Star appears, it will transform into either the Major, Mini or Minor Jackpot. And that can pay out multiple times during the feature.
