Madame of Mystic Manor

Theme and Design

A Ghostly Tale For a Dark Winter's Evening

If you want to try a slot with a dark side but find the adult horror movie stylings of NLC’s latest production, Possessed, to be a bit too much for you then I recommend checking this game out instead. There is certainly a spooky element to the design with a sepia landscaped background, haunted house and ghostly lady, but it’s altogether more old-fashioned. There is a fortune-telling element woven in with spell books and crystal balls and the atmosphere is complete with an eerie soundtrack to accompany your spins. It’s more mystical that terrifying. A good slot for a cosy winter evening.

RTP and Variance

Madame of Mystic Manor runs at an RTP of 96.25% which is about average for an online slot game. It has a medium-high variance so it will be quite a volatile slot with an unpredictable payout distribution with plenty of wilds, free spins and multipliers to help it go off every now and then.

Maximum Win

The maximum win in Madame of Mystic Manor is 5,000x. That is quite low for a medium-high variance slot, but still means you can win £1,500 with a minimum 30p bet. If you are looking for better potential, check out our list of the highest max win games including slots with max wins over 100,000x.

Symbols and Paytable

This is a 5-reel slot with 4 rows per reel and 30 paylines. To trigger a win you will need to land 3 or more identical symbols across a reel from left to right, starting at the left most reel.

There are 9 pay symbols in the paytable. The win values do not come out as whole numbers as the stake set up is a little unusual. Stakes range from 30p per spin up to £45 per spin, and the wins are as follows:

Low value symbols are the cards, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. These are valued at from 0.23x for 3 Jacks up to 1.16x for 5 Aces. The premiums are the candlestick, the hourglass, the crystal ball and the spell book. These are valued at from 0.5x for 3 candlesticks up to 15x for 5 spell books.

There is a Wild, and it appears on reels 1 to 4 as a ghostly woman carrying a candlestick. She will substitute for any pay symbols to complete pay lines. And she also pays out 1x for 3 on a line or 2x for 4 on a line.

Features and Gameplay

Hot Zones and Returning Wilds

In both base game and free spins rounds, hot zones are central to the gameplay. Here is how they work.

When a wild symbol lands anywhere it will create a hot zone around itself. Hot zones remain in play until an Oracle symbol lands to activate them in the Returning Wilds feature. The Oracle symbol is represented by the lady with the crystal ball and she only appears on reel 5. When she appears, all symbols that are in hot zones become wilds.

And that’s not all. If another wild lands in a hot zone as it is waiting to be activated, then this adds a multiplier value to the hot zone, which will be applied to the wild that appears there when the Oracle drops onto reel 5.

What does this all mean?! Effectively, you are building towards a moment when all hot zones will be filled with wilds and wild multipliers. Potentially, the longer you wait for the Oracle to appear, the more hot zones may form on the reels and the greater your payout will be.

Free Spins With Persistent Hot Zones 

There are two free spins rounds in the game. To trigger the first you will need to land 3 or more scatter symbols, represented by the eye on the triangle. Scatters only land on reels 2, 3 and 4.

To start, you get 7 spins. During the round, hot zones are persistent. That means, if they are activated by the Oracle, after the wild transformations and payouts, they don’t disappear, but instead remain in place for the next Oracle to land when the process repeats.

This is powerful because it means you can keep adding more hot zones and building bigger multipliers as more wilds land in them. The round ends when you run out of spins, but it can be extended as each time the Oracle lands another spin is awarded.

Super Free Spins With Sticky Wilds

The second free spins round is called Super Free Spins. This is triggered by landing 3 or more scatters when the Oracle also lands on reel 5.

In this enhanced feature, there are no hot zones. Instead, all wilds are sticky when they land and carry a multiplier. For each subsequent spin, when the Oracle lands then the value of those multipliers increases by 1x.