Mystic Reels Slot Review

About the Game

• Winning cascades trigger free spins.
• During free spins, Wild symbols award huge multipliers.

Mystic Reels is a video slot from BGaming featuring a 5×3 grid, 20 fixed paylines, and a free spins feature. Advance along the progress bar to trigger free spins with increasing multipliers!

The game has 20 paylines, all of which must be activated. Only the highest win on each line is paid. The outcome of any game or feature may not match the outcome displayed on the graphics. After winnings on all paylines have been paid, the symbols that were part of the win will disappear, and symbols from above will fall in their place. Each time symbols disappear, the free spins track moves one step to the right. The free spins track resets with each new spin. The number of free spins awarded is displayed on the free spins track.

The maximum win is 4,558.7x the bet.
The overall theoretical Return to Player (RTP) is 96.00%.

Buy Features

Encore

The base game features an optional “Encore” purchase mode. This mode transforms the last two “losing” positions on the base game meter into positions that trigger a respin.

If a spin in the base game lands on one of these Encore positions, the player receives an additional free respin. During this respin, the current position on the free spins meter is preserved, significantly simplifying the objective: the player can not only win the free spins themselves but also secure a larger number of them. The Encore mode more than doubles the free spin hit rate compared to standard gameplay.

If the player lands on the first Encore position and the respin advances them along the meter to the next Encore position, they receive another respin from that new location. Activating Encore mode—which ensures such a high feature trigger rate—increases the player’s bet by 50%. The cost of the active Encore mode is deducted from the player’s balance on every spin until the mode is deactivated.

Encore mode operates only in the base game; respins do not occur unless Encore is activated.
Encore can be activated by pressing the “BUY BONUS” button and then the “ACTIVATE” button on the ENCORE card.

Buy a Bonus

If the “Buy a Bonus” feature is available, the player can purchase a round of free spins for an amount equal to 100 times the selected bet. Initially, the progress meter is set to “10 free spins,” but the player has the opportunity to increase this number via an additional reel spin.
If this additional spin results in a win, the position on the meter (and consequently the number of free spins) increases thanks to the Cascade+ mechanic. If the additional spin does not yield a win, the player is still awarded the 10 free spins.
To purchase the free spins feature, the player must click the “BUY BONUS” button and then the “BUY” button on the “FREE SPINS” card.

Game Rules

Free Spins

The number of free spins awarded is 7, 10, 12, 18, or 25, depending on the current position on the progress bar. Free spins are played with the same number of paylines and bet size as the spin that triggered them. The Cascade+ mechanic is used during free spins to award winnings and retrigger free spins. The free spins progress bar resets after every spin.

An independent multiplier is located above each of the 5 reels.
The initial value for each multiplier is x1.
Each Wild symbol landing during a free spin increases the corresponding reel’s multiplier by 1.

Each line win is multiplied by the product of the multipliers of the reels involved in forming the winning combination.
The maximum multiplier value for each individual reel is x5; thus, the final win multiplier can reach x3125.
Reel multipliers do not reset until the free spins series concludes.

Retriggering Free Spins

The Free Spins mode also features its own progress meter, which fills up using the same principle as the base game—the Cascade+ mechanic. However, the meter in Free Spins mode is enhanced, making it easier to retrigger the mode and extend its duration. Players can earn 2, 7, 10, 12, 18, or 25 additional free spins via this meter. This helps increase win multipliers by allowing for a greater number of spins. Thanks to the exponential multiplier growth mechanic, the longer a player remains in Free Spins mode, the larger the potential prizes.

Cascade+

Cascade+ is the name of the mechanic used in both the base game and the Free Spins mode of the Mystic Reels slot.

Payouts for every winning combination across any of the 20 paylines during a single spin are summed up and displayed in the “Total Win” field.
All symbols involved in forming winning combinations are removed from the game grid, leaving empty spaces behind.
Upon their removal, the player’s position on the Free Spins trail advances by one step.
Symbols located above the vacated cells drop down to fill the gaps, creating a new game grid layout.
If new winning combinations are formed as a result of the symbols dropping, the process repeats: payouts are awarded, the position on the trail advances, and symbols drop again to fill the newly created empty spaces.
The base game round ends when no further winning combinations are formed on the grid.
If the player has advanced sufficiently along the Free Spins trail during the cascade sequence, the Free Spins feature is triggered; the number of free spins awarded corresponds to the position reached on the trail.
At the start of each new game, the position on the Free Spins trail resets.

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