Wish Upon a Jackpot Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Blueprint Gaming
Blueprint hangs the Fairy Godmother above the reels rather than on them, and she can arrive on any spin with no scatter to ask for it. Pick one of her three orbs and it opens into wilds, a spin guaranteed to win, or the door to one of four fairy-tale bonus rounds. The paytable, awkwardly, is still…
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The base game under the Fairy Godmother
At first look, the slot does not seem to stand out in any particular manner, and it's got the usual traits of a Blueprint slot and an arrangement of 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 fixed pay lines. The slot accepts wagers beginning at 0.20. Across my own run, 91 of my 360 spins paid something back, and 47 of those returned less than the spin had cost. It is supplied with a 92.46% theoretical return to player, but it should be noted that Blueprint, just like Play'n GO, Novomatic, and numerous other suppliers, permit operators (casinos) to select a different RTP configuration, so the same game can run as high as 95.26%.
Regarding the theme of the slot, I reckon you've witnessed it before: yes, it's another fairy-tale themed slot, this one constructed around the Fairy Godmother. If that is the shelf you shop on, Snow Wild and the 7 Features from Red Tiger Gaming and Three Little Pigs from KA Gaming draw on the same story book.
A paytable printed in coins
The paytable, regrettably, is stated in coins at a coin value the slot never states. So you cannot read a single symbol payout as a multiple of your wager, and the coin value is not printed anywhere. Wins are read left to right from reel 1, on symbols in consecutive positions along a line.
The wild symbol stands in for everything except the Bonus symbol.
Three orbs, four fairy tales
A random feature triggers on any base spin: the Fairy Godmother Spin. It needs no scatter and no combination of symbols; the Fairy Godmother simply appears above the reels. Three orbs emerge. The one you choose uncovers one of five awards:
Pinocchio Wilds - individual reel positions turn wild.
Wild Reels - the Gingerbread Man turns entire reels wild.
Puss in Wilds - the symbols adjoining the cat turn wild.
Fairy Win Spin - one spin assured to land a win.
Bonus - the Fairy Tale Bonus. You can also attain it with 3 or more fairy-tale book scatters.
Two of the awards behind them put wilds straight onto the grid: Pinocchio Wilds at single positions, and the Gingerbread Man's Wild Reels across whole reels.
The Fairy Tale Bonus leads to one of four rounds:
3 Little Pigs Free Spins - the pigs turn positions wild, the Big Bad Wolf strips wilds away, and the Pig Wizard adds free spins.
Rapunzel Free Spins - every Prince showing scales the tower and nudges the win multiplier up. The round lasts until the tower is finished rather than for a fixed count of spins.
Jack and the Beanstalk - choose beans to scale a prize trail until "collect", with the Golden Goose at the top stated at 1,000 times the wager.
Rumpelstiltskin's Deal Maker - take or decline his proposals, up to five refusals.
Minty’s Closing Thought: Two Fairy Tale Bonus rounds in 360 spins paid 83.00 credits between them, which was 38% of the 218.10 the whole session returned. The base game, with its coin-value paytable and its 20 fixed lines, filled in the other 62% at under a stake a time more often than not.
Where 360 spins at 1.00 finished
Visually it didn't do much to dazzle me. The Fairy Godmother works above the reels rather than on them, so the award is read off her banner and not off the grid. It's far from the worst artwork I've witnessed, though. Only two of my 360 spins came back at more than 20 times the stake. Over 360 spins at 1.00 I hit the Fairy Tale Bonus twice, on spin 241 and again 75 spins later, and the balance never once crept back above the 1,000.00 it began with. The low point was 857.80, reached just before that second bonus started. It can without a doubt be a bit maddening to watch the Fairy Godmother hand over a Wild Reels award instead of the Bonus orb. Those spins still paid: 12.90 on spin 118, and 17.20 on spin 287, when the Gingerbread Man turned reels 1, 3 and 5 wild.
The two bonuses, I must state, were the enjoyable part. In the pigs round the Big Bad Wolf takes wilds off the reels again, working against the pigs that put them there. Between them they delivered 83.00 credits of everything I won, the 3 Little Pigs round yielded 56 times the stake with the Pig Wizard replenishing the spins as it went, and Rapunzel yielded 27 times the stake after the Prince nudged the multiplier up twice. That is no one's notion of a big win, and the session ended at 858.10 for a 60.6% return.