Ice Mints Slot – Free Demo

A drinks-and-fruit grid from Pragmatic Play

Ice Mints is a very volatile slot, and it is rated as 5 out of 6. Over 390 spins at 2.00 credits a spin, 82 paid something and the longest run without a win lasted 17 spins. It ships with a randomised base game feature as well as a free spin feature. The session took the balance from 100,000.00 to 99,900.70 credits on 780.00 wagered, a return of 87.3%.

Visually, it's a slot simple to recognise as a Pragmatic Play game with it's distinctive layout and artwork. It nevertheless comes across as rather a conventional slot with it's 5-reel, 3-row and 20 paylines configuration, although there are some intriguing fresh features at play, and there's nothing amiss with that. Wins pay from left to right on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel, and wins on several paylines are added together.

Smoothie glass at the top, orange at the bottom

Ice Mints contains the gold W coin Wild symbol and a drinks can Scatter. The Wild substitutes for every symbol except the Scatter and the Mints symbol, and the Scatter can land on any reel. The smoothie glass, cola bottle, striped cup and juice carton are the top-paying symbols. Five smoothie glasses on a payline pay 40x the stake and five cola bottles pay 20x. Strawberry, blueberry, kiwi and orange are the lower-paying symbols. Five oranges pay 2.5x the stake, and three pay 0.15x.

How the three cups carry a round

The cups under reels 2, 3 and 4 can trigger at random in the base game. On every spin, random multipliers appear on random cups, from x2 to x20 on reels 2 and 3 and from x2 to x25 on reel 4. They can expand Wild symbols over the entire reel above a cup on reels 2, 3 or 4. When a cup does this, the multiplier on that cup is applied to all wins on the screen, and multipliers from more than one cup are added together.

10, 15 or 20 Free Spins are triggered if 3, 4 or 5 Scatters land. The session triggered Free Spins five times in 390 spins, four times from 3 Scatters and once from 4, and only the round on spin 173 retriggered, going from 10 free spins to 20 and paying 268.00 credits, 134.0x the stake.

In Free Spins, the cups begin with no multiplier. They receive no randomised ones. Multipliers on the cups persist throughout the whole round, and a cup that expands Wilds over its reel applies its multiplier to all wins on the screen. A cup's multiplier climbs by 1x for each Mints symbol for the remainder of the Free Spins round if Mints symbols drop into it without triggering its Wild expansion, and 3, 4 or 5 further Scatters award 10, 15 or 20 extra free spins. On spin 357 in the session, Mints built the cups on reels 2, 3 and 4 to x2, x5 and x3 over 10 free spins, and the round paid 74.30 credits, 37.15x the stake.

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The Minty Summary: The five rounds paid between 1.2x and 134.0x the stake, 394.30 credits in all, which was 58% of everything the session won.

Still a reskin to me

It nevertheless comes across as a representative Pragmatic Play game in spite of the fairly inventive free spin feature.

It's not a poor slot in any respect. But finally I can't avoid to feel like I'm playing a reskin rather than something novel and all-new, and it's one of those slots that will be spun for a week or two and then sink into obscurity.