Provider:
Blueprint Gaming
The bonus wheel came round four times in 430 spins and carried 143.00 of the 294.80 Genie Jackpots Wishmaker handed back, stopping short of Magic Carpet and Big Money on every one. Between those four the reels were thin: 126 paying spins, 77 of them worth less than the stake that bought them.
Query me about my preferred online slot theme. Mine held for 430 spins here at a 1.00 total bet. There’s the probability that Arabian nights will push its way into top position, and there’s simply something about it that connects with me, and with so many other slot players as well. With Genie Jackpots Wishmaker, I stepped into a lamp-lit realm of sultans, gems and a genie dispensing wishes. The balance went from 1,000.00 down to 864.80 across those spins, a return of 68.6%.
The game is run using 5 reels linked by a set of 20 winlines. The grid is three rows deep. These are not something that you’re permitted to adjust, though on the other hand, you do possess the choice of altering your wager around simply. I left mine at 1.00 for the whole run, which put 0.05 on each line. The paytable rewards on the line bet rather than the total, so every increment made on the stake shifts each of the 20 lines with it. Only 126 of the 430 spins I played returned anything at all, and the longest gap between them ran 11 spins to spin 367.
Genie Jackpots Wishmaker has some splendid graphics and animations on show throughout, and this is a hallmark of the Blueprint Gaming label. Genie Jackpots and Genie Jackpots Megaways carry the same name, and what this one hangs on it is the Wishmaker wheel and its six bonuses. In this particular slot, the lower end of the reels is packed with the playing card symbols: these are the Q and the J, and then the A and the K just above them. Q and J pay 4x the line bet for three and 50x for five, with A and K on 8x and 100x. Then arrive the themed symbols. All are items of the genie’s realm, and there’s a sack of gems, a treasure book, and a pair of crossed blades alongside a jewelled sphere. The blades and the sphere lead that group at 300x the line bet for five, the sack and the book at 200x. Above them all is the Genie Jackpots Wishmaker logo, a Super Stacked symbol and the joint highest payer. Three of it on a line pays 40x the line bet and four pays 100x. It can pay out up to 500 times the line bet for 5 on a complete winline. It pays from two of a kind as well, at 2x the line bet.
Blueprint Gaming hasn’t swamped this slot with special features, but it does hold one or two, and the first of these is the game’s Wild. It arrives stacked too: on spin 28 a reel of Wilds put three of them across eight lines at 40x the line bet, for 16.00. This one stands in for all other ordinary symbols to assist with building winning combinations. Five Wilds on a line pay 500x the line bet, and four pay 100x. The sole exception is the Bonus scatter, which is never substituted. That scatter is also the only way into the bonus round. The Wild also pays on its own. Wins of that size kept the balance between a 1,021.20 peak on spin 133 and a low of 857.40. It does so from just two of a kind, which is uncommon enough among ordinary symbols. Two Wilds return 2x the line bet, and 77 of my 126 paying spins came back under the 1.00 stake.
The game’s highlight is its Genie’s Wishmaker Bonus, though, and there’s a particular symbol on hand that will trigger this round. It came in four times over 430 spins, on spins 116, 133, 249 and 340. It works as a scatter. It can surface anywhere and still switch on the bonus feature of Genie Jackpots Wishmaker, and at least three of these must land so that the bonus feature starts. All four of my triggers came from exactly three orbs.
What it awards is a spin of a wheel, and it halts on one of six bonuses: Sultan’s Jewels Bonus, Magic Carpet Bonus, Lucky Wishes Cash Spins, Golden Touch Free Spins, Genie’s Wild Storm Free Spins and Big Money Bonus. Mine stopped on four of the six, in this order: Genie’s Wild Storm Free Spins for 88.00, Golden Touch Free Spins for 22.00, Sultan’s Jewels Bonus for 16.00 and Lucky Wishes Cash Spins for 17.00. That’s not all though. Magic Carpet Bonus and Big Money Bonus were the two the wheel never reached. The wheel can be gambled upward, rising toward the Big Money Bonus at the peak of it. On spin 340 I turned the gamble down and kept Lucky Wishes Cash Spins.
The Minty Summary: Four wheel spins out of 430 carried 143.00 of the 294.80 this game paid me back, which is 49% of the session’s winnings resting on a feature that turned up once every hundred-odd spins. The reels in between were quiet enough that 77 of my 126 paying spins did not clear the 1.00 stake. A genie advertised at 96.06% still grants his wishes on his own schedule.
This is of little significance when it comes to the entertainment factor of the game, while it’s accurate that there may not be a vast pile of special features in Genie Jackpots Wishmaker. There is a Wishmaker Power Spin as well, which drops one of seven modifiers: Colossal Genie, Genie Win Spin, Mystery Wishes, Genie Streak, Infectious Monkey Wilds, Genie Wilds and Bonus Boost. It also supplies a wheel bonus that leads into free spins as well, and from all of this, the stated ceiling is 50,000 times the total bet. My four bonuses paid 143.00 between them, which was 49% of everything the session won.
The Genie’s Wishmaker Bonus of the slot is one that carries added fascination because of the inclusion of the gamble, and plus, the bigger prizes are reached thanks to that same gamble scaling the wheel.