Court of Hearts Slot Review

Court of Hearts Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Court of Hearts slot is played with 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 fixed paylines. Create a winning combination by landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols from left to right across a payline, starting from reel 1.

Stakes here range from 10p to £100 per spin which caters to all players. Using Play ‘n GO’s standard interface, you will see 5 stakes along the bottom. Click on the plus and minus buttons for more stake options. There’s a Turbo Mode and Autoplay facility too (which may not be available in your jurisdiction).

The Court of Hearts RTP is 96.27% which is above the 96% average. It’s standard for a Play ‘n GO release. Like many slots from this developer, the volatility is high. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d put the variance here at a 9 so it has the potentially to be pretty feisty. The most you can win from a single spin is 8,500 x your total stake.

Theme – Audio & Design Features – head to Wonderland

The Court of Hearts slot is the sequel to Rabbit Hole Riches. As a result, the surreal cast of characters that frequent the Alice in Wonderland stories by Lewis Carroll take centre stage here.

The story sees the Jack of Hearts stand trial for a crime he didn’t commit. If you help him win the case, Wonderland’s treasure will be yours. With a fantasy feel, it’s colourful and bright.  As usual for a slot from Play ’n GO, I’ve no complaints about the design in Court of Hearts.

On the reels you’ll see the likes of the Cheshire Cat, Caterpillar and Dormouse. The most lucrative standard symbol is the Queen of Hearts which pays 5, 10 or 20 x your total stake if you manage to land 3, 4 or 5 of them on a payline. Those awards are on offer from the wild which can land on all 5 reels and substitute for all the standard symbols. The Queen of Hearts becomes a second wild when you trigger the free spins (more info below).

You can play Court of Hearts on mobile, tablet and desktop devices. Play ’n GO are old hands when it comes to optimising slots for smaller screen play and the developer’s usual high standards are evident here. The Court of Hearts mobile slot is a very playable one.

Court of Hearts Bonus Features

There’s plenty going on in Court of Hearts, offering you a total of 6 bonus features. It starts with cascades and a trio of modifiers that can strike at random on any spin. There’s also a free spins bonus with expanding multiplier and an extra wild symbol.

Cascading Wins feature

After a winner is formed, the Cascading Wins feature comes into play. The winning symbols are removed from the grid and new ones replace them. These cascades keep on coming as long as you form a new winning line.

Rabbit Hole Bonus features

Whenever a Rabbit Hole symbol lands, you’ll trigger the Rabbit Hole Bonus features. You’ll then play 1 of the following 3 randomly chosen modifier extras:

• Cheshire Cat feature: the Cheshire Cat wild expands to fill the whole of that reel. A cascade then follows. The expanding wild moves to a new reel on the grid as long as a new winning cascade win is created.
• Caterpillar feature: in this modifier, the Caterpillar blows smoke across the game grid which in turn adds wilds to between 3 and 7 positions. A new payout calculation follows with the new wilds in place.
• Dormouse feature: land this extra and the Dormouse lobs a Mega Wild onto the reel. This starts as a 2×2 wild but can randomly expand to 2×3 to 3×2 to 3×3 to the maximum 4×3 symbols in size.

Rabbit Reward feature

On any base game spin, the White Rabbit can leap onto the reels and add 2 scatters, making it that much easier to land the third and trigger the Free Spins feature. This is known as the Rabbit Reward feature.

Free Spins feature

To trigger the Free Spins feature, land 3, 4 or 5 scatters on the same spin. You’ll pocket an award equal to 5, 10 or 15 x your total stake before going on to play 9 free spins.

The Queen of Hearts transforms into a new wild symbol for the duration of the free spins. The feature starts with payouts made at the standard 1x rate.

Each time you land a winning cascade, that multiplier increases by 1. Winless free spins don’t reset the multiplier either. They keep on getting bigger as the feature progresses. In fact, there’s no limit to how high the multiplier can go.

Furthermore, each time you land a scatter symbol during the feature, 1 more free spin is added to your total. Again with no limits. Lastly, the Rabbit Hole Bonus features can all trigger in the free spins, just like in the base game.

Court of Hearts Review Summary – better than the prequel

Lewis Carroll’s surreal stories have provided plenty of source material for slot developers. Play ’n GO has created an impressive addition with the Court of Hearts slot. The trio of Rabbit Hole Bonus features come along frequently in the base game with the Dormouse feature offering the biggest potential.

However, it’s the free spins where the 8,500 x stake max wins can come from due to the increasing multiplier. Compared to the Rabbit Hole Riches slot, it has a slightly higher RTP, offers bigger wins (8,500 x stake vs 5,000 x stake)  and better bonus features.

If you’ve enjoyed journeying through the looking glass, White Rabbit Megaways by Big Time Gaming shares the same theme and is a unique Megaways game. It boasts 13,000 x stake max wins and a very high 97.77% RTP rate.