Santa’s Riches Slot Review

Santa’s Riches Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Santa’s Riches slot begins with 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 fixed paylines. Winning combinations are created by landing 3 or more matching symbols from left to right across any of the paylines.

Available to play from 20p to £40 a spin, click on the plus and minus buttons within the Total Bet box to change your stake accordingly. If you click on ‘Total Bet’, you will see available bet levels. All payouts for the symbols are shown in your currency too. In some countries, there’s an Auto Spin function which allows autospins alongside loss and single win limits.

The Santa’s Riches RTP is 95.26% which is below the 96% average but in line with other Novomatic slot games. With a hit frequency rate of 17%, expect a win in just under a fifth of spins. Medium variance, the bigger wins will come when you expand the reels and play with more paylines.

When it comes to payouts, the max win on a base game spin is 300 x stake. When you bring more rows and paylines in play, 50 paylines and win both ways pays could result in a 3,000 x stake max win per spin or free spin.

Theme – claim your sack full of treats

With an obvious Christmas theme, the Santa’s Riches slot is exactly what you’d expect for a festive release. Set amongst snowy trees, the soundtrack is cheerful and light-hearted. With snowing falling in the backdrop, the graphics are colourful and bright.

Symbols include A, K, Q, J and 10 baubles, a trio of stockings, Christmas crackers, Christmas candy canes, gold bells and Santa himself. Santa is the most lucrative symbol giving you 0.4, 6 or 15 x your total stake for 3, 4 or 5 across a payline.

Then you have a wild symbol which substitutes for all symbols except the Christmas present scatter. The scatter explodes to reveal matching symbols but only appears during the free spins.

Santa’s Riches Mobile

With high definition graphics, Novomatic has produced Santa’s Riches using HTML5 technology. This means you can enjoy this slice of festive cheer on desktop, mobile and tablet devices.

Santa’s Riches Bonus Features

The Santa’s Riches slot game comes with 3 bonus features. It’s all about landing consecutive wins which gives you an extra reel, adds more rows/paylines and gives you win both ways pays. This will carry through to the free spins where Christmas Present symbols up to 3×2 in size can appear.

Reel Drops feature

Beginning with 5 reels and 20 paylines, a winning combination brings the Reel Drops feature into play. Winning symbols explode and new symbols drop into view. Giving you another opportunity to win, the reel drops continue until no new wins are created. Think of it as Cascading Wins like you get in Megaways slots.

Arrow Trail feature

The Arrow Trail feature comes into play with each winning drop as this lights the new arrow on the trail. A drop with no wins clears the trail. Each arrow trail gives you more reels, win both ways pays and extra paylines. Here’s what you need to do:

When you play with more rows, paylines and win both ways technology, your max win potential increases. With 300 x stake max wins, an extra reel is added so 6-of-a-kind wins are possible. Adding win both ways pays can give you 1,200 x stake max wins. Apply this to more paylines for these potential payouts:

Free Spins feature

By getting 4 or more consecutive wins/arrows, you will trigger the Free Spins feature. Beginning with 5 free spins, you play them on 6 reels, 50 paylines and win both ways pays. There is a new arrow trail which each win lighting up an arrow.

As mentioned above, Christmas Present symbols appearing during the free spins. They explode to reveal matching symbols and increases your chances of landing a win.  If you get 5 or more consecutive wins, you can benefit from up to 3×2 Colossal Christmas Present symbols.

Finally, 4 or more successive wins/arrows will give you extra free spins, 4, 5, 6 or 7 consecutive wins will add 4, 6, 8 or 10 additional free spins to your tally. There’s no limits on the number of free spins you can win/play with.

Santa’s Riches Review Summary – refreshing good for a Christmas slot

Whilst the Santa’s Riches slot begins as a 5 reel, 20 payline game, consecutive wins/reel drops really spice up the action with the addition of another reel, more paylines and win both ways technology.

As a result, your win potential increases the further up the arrow trail your go. If you get 3 or more successive wins, 6 reels, 50 paylines and win both ways pays can lead to 3,000 x stake max payouts per spin. Your winning potential increases further in the free spins due to the presence of Christmas Present symbols.

This game is surprisingly entertaining and offers good win potential for a festive themed game. Most Christmas slots are cheesy and quite basic in terms of gameplay. Santa’s Riches is far from that.

In summary, thumbs up to Novomatic for producing 1 of the more enjoyable Christmas games. Another option is Fat Santa from Push Gaming which is my favourite and comes with 10,223 x stake max wins.