Santa’s Xmas Rush

Theme and Design

Santa’s Xmas Rush looks like its set in Lapland with a snowy landscape of fir trees and log cabins in the backdrop, a typically cheery, rosy-cheeked Santa to the right of the reels and a 6x6 grid lined with tinsel, holly and gold coins. The paytable is stacked with festive cheer too, including stockings and gingerbread men with Xmas hats on. It’s a fun-looking game with an upbeat sleighbell soundtrack too. If you want to get in the festive mood, this is a great way to do it!

RTP and Variance

Santa’s Xmas Rush has 3 RTP rates – 96.51%, 95.58% and 94.48% - for casino operators to choose from. There isn’t too much between those but we always advise to play at the maximum RTP rate if you can. To check the setting at your slot site, just hit the ‘I” button under the reels and scroll through until you see Return to Player.

To play at 96.51% RTP we recommend MrQ from Lindar Media which always ran Pragmatic Play slots at the top rate in our tests.

This is also a high volatility slot so expect an uneven distribution of wins. It can blow hot and cold and burn you balance fast so beware.

Maximum Win

The max payout has been capped at 10,000x which is about average for high variance slots from this studio. They have a few with much higher max wins which you can check out in this article.

Symbols and Paytable

Santa’s Xmas Rush is a scatter pays slot which means there are NO paylines. You just need to land 6 or more identical symbols ANYWHERE on the 6x6 grid to score a win.

There are just 7 symbols in the pay table. They are the blue, purple, green and red gems, and the reindeer, gingerbread man and Xmas stocking. They are valued at from 0.25x for 6 blue gems up to 25x for 12 or more stockings.

There is NO wild in this game.

Features and Gameplay

Familiar features crop up throughout Santa's Xmas Rush including tumbling wins, instant prizes and free spins. Here is how it works:

Tumbles After Every Win

As with most scatter pays slots, Santa’s Xmas Rush uses a tumble mechanic after each win. Winning symbols are removed from the grid and remaining ones, as well as new symbols from above, drop into spaces left behind. If this creates more wins, the process repeats. And so on, until no more wins are triggered.

NOTE: Scatter symbols always remain on the grid throughout a tumble sequence.

Xmas Rush With Instant Wins

Look out for the snowflake that marks up to 8 positions at random on the grid during the base game. When this happens, at the end of the tumbles, if a Santa symbol is left on the grid then the marked positions become either instant prize values or re-spins symbols.

Instant prizes are 0.5x, 1x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 30x, 50x, 100x, 200x or 2,500x.

Prizes are paid out and IF there is a re-spin symbol in there, then after paying out, new values are assigned to their positions. If at this point more Santa’s appear on the grid then the new prize values are added together and multiplied by the number of Santas for the payout.

Free Spins With Persistent Snowflakes

The snow globe is the scatter symbol in Santa’s Xmas Rush. You need 4 or more to land to trigger the free spins feature. When 4, 5, 6 or 7 land on one spin you earn 10, 14, 18 or 22 free spins.

Now the game changes because EVERY time there is a tumble, where symbols are removed as part of a win, the position MAY become marked by a snowflake. If this happens, then the snowflake remains for the rest of the round.

Once again, those snowflake positions trigger either instant prizes of up to 2,500x or re-spins. But now, they remain between free spins to be used again and again. That’s a powerful feature.