New Year’s Bonanza Slot Review

New Year’s Bonanza Theme/Symbols

The New Year’s Bonanza game is quite simple visually and has a star-lit backdrop. With a classic and elegant feel, it has a jazz theme about it. You’ll see low value A, K, Q, J and 10 royals on the reels. The high win symbols include bottles of champagne, champagne glasses, saxophones and 2 characters – the sophisticated male pays 0.5, 1 or 7.5 times your stake for 3, 4 or 5 on a payline.

Firework wild symbol

The rocket symbol is the wild and replaces all symbols bar the scatter – it can only appear on reels 2, 3 and 4 (the 3 middle ones). When a wild appears on the reels, it rotates to face a random direction and expands in that direction. If it appeared at the bottom of reel 2 for example and faced upwards, it will give you trail of wild symbols on reel 2 (i.e. a wild reel).

If you get more than 1 wild symbol on the reels, the wilds can cross paths – the position they meet on will transform into a 3x multiplier wild symbol. If this 3x multiplier wild travels across another 3x multiplier wild, the symbol becomes a 10x multiplier wild symbol! This is known as the Rocket Wild Multipliers feature.

Free Games feature

New Year’s Bonanza comes with a Free Games feature which is triggered when you get 3 clock face scatter symbols on reels 2, 3 and 4 in the base game. Beginning with 10 free spins, positions that wilds land on are saved – if more than 1 wild lands on the same space, a multiplier value is added – it goes to 2x, 3x, 4x and finally 5x. Wilds do leave a trail of wilds which helps!

On your final free spin, all wild symbols that landed during the feature are repositioned onto the reels with wild multipliers – up to 5x. Finally, 2 or 3 scatters landing during the feature will give you 3 or 9 additional free spins respectively. The Rocket Wild Multipliers feature can apply too which can give you 10x multipliers.

New Year’s Bonanza slot thoughts

The New Year’s Bonanza title is definitely different to other online slots out there – I like the rocket wild which creates a trail of wilds that can cross to give you potential 10x wild multipliers. Medium variance, you can win up to 375 x stake on each spin – add in the potential 10x wild multiplier and the max win rockets up to 3,750 x stake.

With an RTP of 95.99%, New Year’s Bonanza is unique and perfect to place at the end of a given year – it also has the potential payouts to match! If you looking for explosive wins, the Mexican themed Esqueleto Explosivo slot by Thunderkick comes with firework wilds can increase the multiplier up to 32x.