What’s Up? Witches Slot Review

About the Game

What’s Up? Witches is a 6-reel video slot from NetEnt featuring Avalanche™, Arcane, Free Spins with Magic Orb, and an Elevate feature with five paylines.

The gameboard consists of 6 vertical reels and 1 horizontal reel, rotating from right to left. The reels are arranged in a diamond shape, with reels 1 and 6 each having 4 symbols, and reels 2, 3, 4, and 5 each having 6 symbols. There are always 4 symbols on the horizontal reel adjacent to vertical reels 2, 3, 4, and 5.

The game features 20,736 ways to win and varying bet values. Matching symbols in any position on three or more adjacent reels, from the leftmost to the rightmost reel, without gaps, results in a win according to one win method. Additional wins per win mode are created when additional instances of the symbol appear on the same reels as the longest win per win mode.

Only the longest combination of two identical symbols is paid. Wins from different betting options are added together. A win from a single betting option is equal to the value listed in the paytable multiplied by any applicable multiplier. The symbol payout values ​​listed in the paytable are dynamic and change according to the selected bet amount.

Buy Bonus

Game features can be activated using the Level Up feature. The Level Up feature allows you to activate one of the following features during a single game round:

	Bonus Hunt	For 3 times the bet increases the chance of activating Free Spins.
	Arcane	For 10 times the bet, activate the Arcane feature.
	Free Spins	For 100 times the bet, activate Free Spins immediately without any main game wins.
	Arcane + Free Spins	For 300 times the bet, activate the Arcane feature and then 4 or 5 Scatters appear to activate 10 or 15 Free Spins.
	Arcane + Free Spins Maximum	For 500 times the bet, activate the Arcane feature and then activate 15 Free Spins.

RTP

• The theoretical return to player for this game is 96.03%.
• The theoretical return to player in the Elevate Feature with Bonus Hunt is 96.05%.
• The theoretical return to player in the Elevate Feature with Arcane is 96.08%.
• The theoretical return to player in the Elevate Feature with Free Spins is 96.08%.
• The theoretical return to player in the Elevate Feature with Arcane + Free Spins is 96.08%.
• The theoretical return to player in the Elevate Feature with Arcane + Free Spins Maximum is 96.04%.

Game Rules

Bet Ways Calculation Example

The longest winning combination of Witch symbols is 4 symbols on reels 1-4. The number of winning bet ways is calculated by multiplying the number of Witch symbols on each of these reels: 1 * 3 * 1 * 3 = 9 winning bet ways.

Avalanche™ Feature

Any win triggers the Avalanche™. Symbols in winning combinations disappear, making room for a new Avalanche of symbols. Once all positions are filled, winnings are recalculated. Avalanches continue until there are no winning combinations left.

Arcane Feature

The Magic feature includes nine spells: a simple spell, a vertical spell, a horizontal spell, a positive pattern spell, a downward spell, an upward spell, an omnidirectional spell, a right-hand spell, and a left-hand spell, which can appear during the first spin.

Three spells can appear on the reels per spin. Spells are activated when a grimoire symbol appears on a horizontal row. There are two types of grimoire symbols: a regular grimoire and a super grimoire.

• Normal Grimoire

• Super Grimoire

A regular Grimoire can only activate spells appearing on an adjacent reel. Spells within the active spell’s range are activated, triggering a chain reaction. A Super Grimoire activates all spells on the reels simultaneously, regardless of their position.

Regular and Super Grimoires can only appear on the horizontal reel, and only one Grimoire can appear on the game board. When activated, they transform into Wild symbols along with any other symbols in their area, excluding Scatter symbols and the horizontal reel.

Spell Picture	Spells	Function
	Simple Spell	Convert only its position to Wild.
	Vertical Spell	Convert its position and the symbols adjacent to it to the left and right to Wild.
	Horizontal Spell	Convert its position and the symbols adjacent to it to the right and right to Wild.
	Plus-pattern Spell	Convert its position and the symbols adjacent to it to the right, right, left, and right to Wild.
	Downward Spell	Convert its position and all symbols located vertically downwards from its position to Wild.
	Upward Spell	Convert its position and all symbols located vertically upwards from its position to Wild.
	Omni-directional Spell	Convert its position and all symbols adjacent to it to Wild.
	Rightmost Spell	Convert its position and all symbols to the right of its position into a Wild symbol.
	Leftmost Spell	Convert its position and all symbols to the left of its position into a Wild symbol.

When a normal Grimoire Chain Reaction activates multiple spells close together, the spell on the same reel as the Grimoire is activated first, and then the remaining spells are activated from the leftmost reel to the rightmost reel.

Wild creatures affected by activated spells gain a +1 multiplier, becoming x2 creatures, and can increase to a maximum of x3.

A spell activated by a regular grimoire, where its area of ​​effect overlaps that of another spell; this position will not turn Wild and will wait its turn in a chain reaction.

The Wild Multiplier multiplies the number of bet options that pass through it by the multiplier value. Multiple Wild multiplier values ​​are multiplied.

For each winning bet option that begins with a combination of Wild symbols, the payout for that option is determined by the highest payout from either a combination of Wild symbols alone or a winning combination of symbols. If the payouts between the two are equal, the win is paid out as a regular winning combination. If the payout for Wild symbols is higher, the win is paid out as a combination of Wild symbols.

Wild-only bets are paid only if a winning combination of Wild symbols consists of 6 symbols from the leftmost reel to the rightmost reel. Wild symbols substitute for all symbols except other Wild, Scatter, Spell, and Grimoire symbols. Substituting a Wild symbol pays out according to the payout table for the highest possible winning combination based on the bet.

Free Spins

In the main game, 4 or 5 Scatter symbols appearing anywhere on the reels activate 10 or 15 free spins, respectively, on a 5-reel, 5-row gameboard. Free spins can award multipliers of x1, x2, x5, x10, x20, x50, and x100.

The Magic Ball feature includes nine modes: Doubler, Collector, Enhancer, Compressor, Adder, Generator, Converter, Sweeper and +3 Spins, with one of these modes randomly activated during each spin in Free Spins mode.

	Magic Orb feature	Function
	Doubler	Randomly doubles 3 multipliers on the reels.
	Collector	Collects 2 to 6 multipliers on the reels.
	Upgrader	Randomly increases 3 multipliers on the reels by 1.
	Compressor	Adds multipliers on a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line, removes them from the reel, and places their sum on the last position on the selected line.
	Adder	Adds a random value of x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, x10, x20, x30, x40, x50, x60, x70, x80, x90, x100, or x200 to 3 multipliers on the reels.
	Generator	Land 3 multipliers on empty reel positions with random values: x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, x10, x20, x30, x40, x50, x60, x70, x80, x90, x100, x200, x500.
	Convertor	Select a multiplier on reels and rows 2, 3, and 4, check the top, bottom, left, and right positions for the highest multiplier value, and convert 5 positions to that multiplier value.
	Sweeper	Collect and remove all x1 multipliers from the reels.
	+3 Spins	Award 3 additional free spins.

Free spins are played with the same bet as in the round that triggered them. After the free spins end, the total winnings from the free spins are added to any winnings from the round that triggered them, and the game returns to the round that triggered them.

Pay Mechanic

The main game features 20,736 ways to win. Matching symbols in any position on three or more adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel and ending with the rightmost reel, without gaps, results in a win according to one of the winning ways. Only the longest combination of identical symbols is paid. A failure voids all payouts and game results. For more information, see Unfinished Game Rounds.

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