Snow Party

Snow Party: Slot Overview

For any gamblers out there who like ice, snow, and being cold, we might have a slot for you. Titled Snow Party, it has been designed by developer Pragmatic Play, and while there might not be a whole lot of partying going on in a human sense, the game does possess a lot of snow and is populated entirely by animals of the region. As for gaming, Snow Party is a cluster pays slot, though one without tumbles, which is able to dial up the potential thrills with wild multipliers and respins in the base game, then sticky wild multipliers later on when free spins trigger. With that, it's time to check the festivities and do a bit of virtual shivering.

If one were planning to throw a snowy party, then an icy region of the planet like the one that greets players here is as good a place as any. The presumption is that we're braving Antarctica, or somewhere nearby, since penguins are almost exclusively found in the Southern Hemisphere, with the exception of the Galapagos penguin. While the background is cold and snowy, the gaming grid is a warm, inviting one, on account of the cartoon, almost childish set of symbols. Free spins are where the Aurora Australis kicks in, and while it doesn't look like a typical party by human standards, these creatures of the deep south do look happy.

Snow Party creates winning combinations on its 7x7 game board when 5 or more matching symbols are connected to each other vertically and/or horizontally, though it does not have a tumble wins mechanic. There is a highly volatile math model, and no matter how the game is played, the default RTP comes in at 96.5%, except for the random 3-7 scatters free spins buy, where it is 96.49%. When choosing a bet, from $/€0.20 to $/€240 per spin may be staked.

Seven pay symbols land on the reels. They are shrimps, fish, squid, three types of penguins, and dolphins. Hitting a combination of 15+ matching symbols awards players 20x to 250x their stake. Wild symbols substitute all symbols on the reels except the free spins scatter. Landing a winning combination made up of 15 or more wilds pays 1,250x the bet.

Snow Party: Slot Features

The party gets started with a wild respins feature in the base game, a round of free spins where wilds are sticky, a selection of special bets, and several feature buys.

Wild Respins

In the base game, when a wild hits, it can have a multiplier of x2 to x100. The multiplier applies to all winning combinations the wild is part of. Multiplier values are added together if more than one multiplier is part of the same win. When at least 1 wild symbol participates in a win, the game respins, and the wild stays in position for the respin. If, after the respin, a new wild landed and is involved in a win, the reels respin again.

Free Spins

Hitting 3 or more scatters triggers 10 free spins. When 4, 5, 6, or 7 scatters trigger the feature, the minimum multiplier for wilds is x2, x3, x5, or x10, respectively. During free spins, any wild that hits remain on the grid till the round ends. Hitting 3 or more scatters awards an extra +5 free spins.

Special Bets & Feature Buys

The ante bet increases the bet to 5x, making the chance of getting free spins 10x higher, and the chance of wild respins in the base game is 2.5x higher. Super Spin 1 costs 20x and guarantees at least one wild will land on each spin. At 100x the bet, the Super Spin 2 option guarantees at least one wild per spin with a minimum multiplier of x10. Free spins cannot trigger from either Super Spin special bet.

For 100x the bet, players can trigger free spins with 3 scatter symbols, while 200x triggers random free spins with 3-7 scatters. Before random free spins begin, players get the chance to collect or gamble for bigger minimum multipliers for wilds up to x25. Losing gambles lose all free spins. Finally, for 500x, it is possible to land 7 scatters to activate the bonus round.

Snow Party: Slot Verdict

One of the initial assumptions was that Snow Party was going to be a close follow-up or fork from Pragmatic Play's Fruit Party/Fruit Party 2 slots, and the three games do share certain qualities. However, there are enough differences as well to consider Snow Party as its own beast. Shipping without a tumble feature significantly changes the flow of the game, and you do notice the absence of cascades in a cluster-paying slot. In the base game, instead of chain reactions of wins, the focus switches to the Wild Respins feature, which is able to build wilds and their multipliers on the screen if respins are turning over, and when coupled with some fairly valuable winning cluster values, there is potential in that section of the game.

Obviously, what makes free spins a coveted phase of play is that wild symbols are sticky there and peppering the grid with wilds might quickly escalate a session. Multiplier values on wilds are static; they cannot be increased, so free spins are a 'more is merrier' situation, where the number of wilds on the reels can really make or break the round. The climax of this icy get-together is capped at 5,000x the bet, which is all good; it equals the Fruit Party slots, but could have been higher after seeing what a bunch of sticky multiplier wilds on the grid could do.

Sticky wilds are a popular and potent effect that have appeared in some online slot all-time favourites such as Dead or Alive 2, The Dog House, Lil' Devil, and so on. They have been used to good effect here, too, and while Snow Party might not go on to achieve greatness, it doesn't have that ring to it; good times are a possibility at this shindig should the wild multipliers be crashing the party in numbers.