The Magic Orb Hold & Win Slot Review

The Magic Orb Hold & Win Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Magic Orb Hold & Win slot is played on a 7×7 grid with a magical Orb in the centre of it. It boasts the cluster pays mechanic. Wins are awarded for 5 or more matching symbols touching horizontally, vertically or both.

Bets range from 20p to £20 per spin, so those who prefer to bet more per spin may need some persuading to play this one. If you’re a high roller and not yet sold on it with the £20 max bet, wait until you see the bonus features!

The Magic Orb Hold & Win RTP is 95.94% which is a little under the 96% average for an online slot. With just 0.6% in it, it’s not a major concern. With a hit rate of 32%, just under a 3rd of all spins on average will result in a winner.

The maximum win here is 20,776 x your stake, which is pretty generous and is more than a lot of the slots on the market today. Your best chance of landing this is in the Free Drops feature due to the increasing multiplier.

Theme – Audio and Design Features – grab your fishing tackle

You’d expect nothing less than a fantasy theme with suspense and magic as you spin those reels, and that’s exactly what you get with The Magic Orb Hold & Win slot game. The colours of the gemstones are striking, and you’ve also got a colourful background along with each jackpot being highlighted in bright green, purple, blue, and pink.

The gameplay is quite fast and the soundtrack is quite slow, but I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. It didn’t have any impact on how I played the game, but I can understand if it did affect some. There’s always the mute button of course.

The reels are dominated by colourful gemstones, with the ones without the gold background counting for less in comparison when it comes to payouts. The most rewarding symbol is the pink gemstone with a gold background. It pays from £1 up to £500 for between 5 and 15+ in combination.

The game’s wild is a purple W, which substitutes for all symbols except Bonus or Scatter.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
Turquoise Gemstone	Pays up to 2 x stake
Light Blue Gemstone	Pays up to 4x stake
Orange Gemstone	Pays up to 5 x stake
Purple Gemstone	Pays up to 10 x stake
Green Gemstone	Pays up to 25 x stake
Dark Blue Gemstone	Pays up to 35 x stake
Red Gemstone	Pays up to 250 x stake
Pink Gemstone	Pays up to 500 x stake
Wild	Replaces all except Bonus or Scatter symbols
Scatter	5+ triggers Hold & Win Respins
Bonus	3 triggers the Free Drops feature
Magic Orb	Stays in the middle of the reels and cannot cascade

The Magic Orb Hold & Win Mobile

Created using HTML5 technology, you can enjoy The Magic Orb Hold & Win mobile slot on all smartphones and tablets via Android or iOS. With HD graphics and colourful gameplay on a 7×7 grid, it works very well on smaller screens.

The Magic Orb Hold & Win Bonus Features

There are 4 main bonus features that come with numerous modifiers to enhance the gameplay, especially when it comes to The Magic Orb itself. Let’s explain how they all work so that you understand everything fully.

Cascades feature

Every winning symbol is removed from the 7×7 grid, which allows new symbols to fall and fill the gaps below them. This process keeps going until no new clusters are formed.

The Magic Orb

The magic Orb, as you’ll notice clearly when you play the game, sits in the middle of the reels and never cascades. On any spin, it can activate and cause 1 of the following:

• Transform – This feature will pick a symbol to be transformed into another symbol to help create potential wins.
• Wild – the Orb will reveal an icon to symbolise the Wild. Wilds are then added to potentially create some big wins.
• Multiplier – A multiplier is awarded of 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x for that bonus round.
• Destruction – This feature will shatter all the paid symbols except 1.
• Free Drops – The Orb can reveal a Free Spins Bonus symbol to trigger the feature.
• Hold&Win – If the Orb reveals a Hold and Win icon, this will trigger the Hold&Win feature.

Hold&Win feature

5 or more Hold and Win scatter symbols will trigger this feature in The Magic Orb Hold & Win slot. It works like many other respins features – simply collect the coins to reset the spins back to 3 and climb the win panel to win bigger prizes. Here’s what each of the 4 jackpots in the game will get you:

Of course, you need a certain amount of scatters to land 1 of these jackpots. Here’s all you need to know around the scatter requirements:

• Mini Win – 10+ scatters
• Major Win – 15+ scatters
• Maxi Win – 30+ scatters
• Mega Win – 40+ scatters

Free Drops feature

3+ scatters will trigger the Free Drops feature. You can also land the feature if the Free Drops Bonus symbol appears in the Orb.

What’s great about this feature is that any cascade will increase the win multiplier by 1. The Orb can also award any of the following:

• Transform
• Wild
• Destruction
• Additional Drops

It’s important to note that the Orb will trigger on every spin in the Free Drops feature.

Side Bet feature

To the left of the reels, you’ll notice a super bet button. By activating this, you will be spinning away at an extra 25% per spin of your total bet. iSoftBet says that it will double the chance of triggering the magical Orb. But it’s worth noting here that you won’t increase the paytable by activating the side bet.

The Magic Orb Hold & Win Review Summary – iSoftBet has produced another cracker

There are a host of exciting bonus features in The Magic Orb Hold & Win slot, which is arguably the best thing about the game. The Free Spins feature will trigger 1 in every 376 spins, and the Respins feature will trigger, on average, once every 272 spins.

The theme is fantastic, although we have seen it done a number of times before, and the visuals and audio are very nicely done. Overall, with a generous hit rate and great max win potential of 20,776 x your stake, it’s a great slot that you should consider giving a go.