Dazzle Me Slot – Free Demo

The reels are not the same height

Dazzle Me is not merely a flashy name; it describes what the game's reels do when the wilds show up. That happens through Dazzling Wild Reels, and it is a main-game event only. Entire reels go wild across the display, literally in certain cases, generating wins along the way. I played 370 spins of it at a 2.40 stake, and the balance went from 1,000.00 to 814.96.

Dazzle Me's sparkling play unfolds on a grid of irregular reels - 3, 3, 4, 4 and 5 symbols tall. A line pays only when the symbols run from the leftmost reel rightwards with no gap in between. That hands players 76 fixed paylines to land winning combinations across. Wins on separate lines are added together, and each line pays only its highest combination. NetEnt has given Dazzle Me several presentation touches, such as the staggered reel heights and the manner winning totals surface on the display and tick up. I caught one of those counters mid-climb on an ordinary base-game spin: green gems lit across reels 1 to 4, 11.28 credits ticking up over the reels, balance at 992.80, no wild reels and no feature involved.

Throughout the game, the symbols in play include standard pays, a wild and a Scatter. Scatters count from anywhere on the reels rather than along a line. The wild stands in for all other paying symbols. My highest balance of the session was 1,001.92 on spin 18, and I never saw four figures again after it.

Wild reels arrive without a cue

Dazzle Me arrives with three features. The third is Linked Reels, which only runs inside the Free Spins. One is Dazzling Wild Reels, another is Free Spins, where the Linked Reels extra enters into play, and Dazzling Wild Reels triggers randomly while the reels are spinning. Between my first Free Spins on spin 75 and the second on spin 144 there were 69 spins with no trigger at all. When switched on, anything from one to five entire reels go wild. Each of those reels is covered from top to bottom, so a turn on reel 5 puts five wilds on screen and a turn on reel 1 puts three. Once the reels stop spinning, wins are computed with the wilds in place, and the Wilds stand in for everything except the Scatter. My lowest balance of the session, 751.84, was the figure sitting on screen when the feature landed on spin 221.

Where the copies come from

Free Spins are triggered if three or more Scatter symbols land in the main game, and how many you begin with hinges on how many Scatters land, like so:

• 3 Scatters - 8 Free Spins.
• 4 Scatters - 12 Free Spins.
• 5 Scatters - 16 Free Spins.

Scatters don't appear during the feature. Free Spins run at the stake of the spin that triggered them, and their total is added to that spin's own win when the round ends. Free Spins bring in Linked Reels, where reels 1 and 2 and/or reels 3 and 4 become matching, the right reel mirroring the left. Twin Spin runs its whole base game on that same idea of adjacent reels landing identical to each other, and Dazzle Me Megaways is the later Megaways engine on this game.

The Minty Take: The feature paid 288.00 credits across five triggers and 1,000.00 was still down to 814.96 by the end of it, so the base game spent more than the Free Spins brought back. Linked Reels never runs outside those triggers, and five rounds in 370 spins was the whole of my exposure to it.

What 370 spins bought

The largest payout recorded across 370 spins was 51 times the stake, on spin 221 with a bonus round involved. My log records the 122.40 credits it paid but not how many free spins it dealt.

Over 370 spins the session returned 79.2%, with 139 paying spins of which 88 came back under the stake. The longest I went with nothing at all was nine spins, ending on spin 29. There were five feature rounds here, paying 288.00 credits between them, 41% of everything won.