Wish Upon a Jackpot Megaways Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Blueprint Gaming
Two routes lead into the free spins: three scatters, or the Fairy Godmother turning up unannounced on any spin. Either way three orbs float over the reels, and the one picked decides what the round is — stacked beanstalk wilds, flying pigs, or mystery symbols that all turn the same.
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The paytable is not on the rules screen
Wish Upon a Jackpot Megaways is a fairy-tale-inspired slot from developer Blueprint Gaming. It showcases a Free Spins round that can result in some substantial winnings. Over 450 spins it came in three times, the best paying 116 times the stake.
It might not immediately seem like a Blueprint Gaming title. But it delivers the kind of statistics that are characteristic of the studio, and volatility is high, for one. So one minute it appears like your desire is about to be fulfilled; the next minute, it's disappeared up in smoke. The longest run without a win was 14 spins, ending on spin 299; six spins later the balance peaked at 1,073.70 credits. The RTP, in the meantime, is a reasonably ordinary value for the category. The session came back at 98.0%, which is what a short sample looks like rather than a correction to it.
The ways count is redrawn every spin and the banner above the reels states it. It ran from 8 at its narrowest to 25,200 at its widest across the frames below.
One symbol on the paytable is verified: the A symbol. It pays 0.30 times the stake for four of a kind, and 1.00 times the stake for six. Neither figure was read off a paytable screen, though — both were recovered by dividing a stated win by its ways count.
The wild substitutes for all winning symbols on the reels to form a win. It can't substitute for the scatter or bonus symbol, though, and only the highest-paying win on each line applies. Wins tumble: the symbols that paid burst and are replaced from above, and the spin runs on until it produces nothing further.
Three orbs decide what the whole free spins round is
Wish Upon a Jackpot Megaways includes one feature: the Fairy Godmother Free Spins. It's triggered naturally, since there's no bonus buy.
Landing 3 or more Bonus Scatter symbols triggers the Fairy Godmother Free Spins, and independently, there is a possibility the Fairy Godmother Bonus is triggered without scatters, if the Fairy Godmother appears during any game. How many free spins either route awards is not stated in the rules; the session's three rounds dealt 12, 18 and 12.
Before the round starts, players select a magic orb to reveal a modifier. A fairy godmother flies in, three orbs float over the reels, and the prompt reads "Pick a magic orb". It remains active for the entirety of the free spins.
Three modifiers are available:
Magic Beanstalk Stacked Wild: Jack can appear and turn reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 wild. This multiplies the wild by up to x7. The multiplier is printed on the beanstalk reel, and x3 and x4 both turned up in captured play, so the value is drawn rather than fixed.
Pigs Can Fly: the Little Pigs can appear and turn any position on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 wild. No multiplier is printed on them.
Golden Arrow Mystery: free spins run on enriched reels bearing a Prince Charming symbol. Golden Arrow Mystery symbols all change to reveal the same random symbol when they land, wilds and scatters excluded.
In all three, a bonus symbol landing during free spins grants one additional free spin. Two of the session's three rounds retriggered; the first, on spin 146, did not.
The same fairy-tale cast — Jack, the Little Pigs, the Fairy Godmother — has been Blueprint's since the 2013 Wish Upon a Jackpot, a five-reel machine listed at a 92.46% RTP. The Megaways rebuild carries the cast over and lists 95.99%.
Three rounds in 450 spins carried 31% of it
In Wish Upon a Jackpot Megaways, players receive Blueprint Gaming's typical style of volatile, large-potential play experience, and on the gameplay side of things, the base game serves to toil away to trigger the Fairy Godmother Free Spins. Those three rounds produced 31% of everything won. Captured play never got near the top end: its biggest single spin was 16.2 times the stake, against a 50,000x ceiling.
