The Best Slots to Play after New Years

Snakes and Ladders Snake Eyes – Spin and Roll for Big wins

Board games are always a fun way to spend the New Year and there are many themes that have been built into slots. One such exciting slot was recently released by Pragmatic Play offering an RTP of 96.08%. This 5 reel x 3 row high volatility slot has 10 paylines and provides for some excellent spinning within the beautiful jungle waterfall setting.

Place bets from £0.10 up to a maximum of £50.00 to spin the reels and look out for the higher value symbols such as the king gorilla, snake, banana and snake charmer’s basket that can win you anything from 3x up to 50x the stake when landing 3 or more from the leftmost reel. Wild dice will also substitute symbols to help and form winning combinations. The wild dice will have either 1, 2 or 3 dots that will represent the multiplier it awards if it creates a win.

The main feature game is triggered by landing 3 or more snake ladder bonus symbols. Play the traditional snakes and ladders bonus board with several twists and turns that can provide some massive wins. Landing 3 scatters provides 12 roles of the dice, 4 scatters give 14 rolls and 5 scatters 16 rolls. The 12 x 12, 144 square bonus snakes and ladders board has some fantastic features:

• Guaranteed 20x win against bet
• Climb the ladders or slide down the snake
• Land on randomly placed money awards and win the shown multiplier of the total bet
• Land on a total win multiplier square to inflate the money won so far during the free rolls
• Land on a banana to reveal even more chances of landing on a winning square
• Land on the 144th final square to win 1000x the placed stake

There is even more to discover playing Snakes and Ladders Snake Eyes and you could win a maximum 5300x the placed bet.

Puebla Parade – Celebrate Mexican Style

Party and dance the day and night away Mexican style with Puebla Parade. This colourful street parade celebration has excellent features and can bring massive wins. Play’n GO has developed this 5 reel by 4 row slot that can deliver a maximum win of 5000x the stake with 421 paylines running a 96.20% RTP.

One difference with Puebla Parade compared to typical slots is that it does not have scatter or bonus symbols. This does not make it less entertaining as two wilds increase the chances of winning. You can place a stake from £0.50 up to a maximum of £100.00 and hope to land sequences paying up to 4x the bet for the higher value symbols that include a Mexican guitar, a piñata, a tortilla, skull and tacos.

The wilds are a dancing Senor and Senorita and when they both land on the reels they will pair up as a Pajero wild and give two free spins. The Pajero wild will provide win multiples of 2x. If another wild lands in the free spins it resets the two free spins and the reel will increase by one row. A maximum of three Pajero wilds can be obtained that will give 8 free spins and a win multiplier of x3.

Clovers of Luck 2 – The Luck of the Irish

Everybody hopes the beginning of the New Year will bring a little more luck than the previous year. Clovers of Luck has bags of great features that might help to bring the luck of the Irish to you. Set in an Irish meadow there are 5 reels and 4 rows that offer 50 paylines.

There are plenty of wilds on this slot to help improve the chances of a win. The main wilds are the floating wild and super floating wild, which are clover symbols. The floating wild will randomly appear on any reel and with each spin, it will move up one place until it departs. The super floating wild will have a coin within it that will contain a value.

The activator is a pot of gold and this also acts as a wild, substituting all paytable symbols. However, if the activator lands behind a floating wild or super floating wild then all the immediate adjacent symbols will turn into floating or super floating wilds.

By landing 3 or more tree house scatter symbols you will win free spins.

• 3 scatter symbols = 10 free spins
• 4 scatter symbols = 15 free spins
• 5 scatter symbols = 30 free spins

If three or more scatter symbols land again during free spins then additional free spins will be won according to the number of scatters. There is also another exciting feature in Clovers of Luck 2 and that is Jackpot Mania. It is triggered by landing six or more coin symbols. Three free spins will be given and the idea is to fill the reels with coins that contain a value. Each time a coin lands the respin counter is reset to three spins. If no coin lands on three consecutive spins the game ends and the value contained within each coin is collected as a win. If the whole reel is filled with coins then you get to spin a wheel that can win between 20x to 200x the total bet or 2x to 10x the total of all coin values collected during Jackpot Mania.

Fairytale Legends Hansel and Gretel – Find Winnings in the Woods

This slot was developed in 2017 by NetEnt and it has loads of features that will keep you spinning the reels. New Year can be a time to recall some of the old classic fairytales and stories. The slot does not feature the wicked witch who wanted to eat Hansel and Gretel. Instead, it has a calming effect as Hansel and Gretel lead you along a path in the star-filled sky and fairies grant random wishes.

There are 5 reels and 3 rows with 10 paylines that provide an RTP of 96.71% and playing the slot is a whole load of fun with several bonus features. In addition, winning combinations can also be won anywhere on the reels along a payline with 3 or more matching symbols. The stacked paved path wild can land in the base game along reels 2 and 4. If the stacked wild lands and covers the whole reel then it will stick and give a free respin. Let us take a look at some of the other exciting bonus features.

At any point during the game as you spin a non-win, consider making a wish because randomly the fairy might appear and grant one of three bonus features:

• Fairy Wonder Spin – The fairy will produce an overlay of between 5 to 9 of the same logo symbols starting from reels 1, 2 or 3
• Fairy Surprise – This feature sees the fairy randomly select a symbol and then start to convert the lowest paying symbols on the reel to that symbol. The fairy continues until a winning combination is formed
• Fairy Wild Spin – The fairy will cover two reels from either 1, 2, 4 or 5 with stacked wilds. There will then be a free respin and if further stacked wilds cover any reels another respin will occur.

This is not all this slot has to offer with 3 more bonus games available if 3 bonus chests land on reels 1, 3 and 5. If this occurs you randomly select one of three chests to determine which bonus game will be played and these are as follows:

• Candy House Bonus – Select three items from a total of 15 that contain a hidden multiplier ranging from 1.2x up to 120x the stake. You can then decide to choose the average of the multipliers from the three selected items or take a risk and choose only 1 item to reveal the level of the win
• Coin Win – This will provide a win of 15x the placed bet
• Free Spins – 10 free spins are granted and each time a bonus symbol lands, 2 additional free spins are awarded. Stacked wilds covering a reel also generate an extra free spin while it sticks on the reel.

Overall, Hansel and Gretel is a fun slot to play offering a huge number of fun features while giving plenty of chances to create winning spins.

New Year Rising – Oriental Winnings to Start the Year

There is always room to include a Chinese New Year theme slot. New Year Rising is just that and was released in December 2021 by Ruby Play. This 5 reel x 3 row slot has 50 paylines and has an RTP of 96.46% offering a maximum win of 2000x the placed bet that can be a minimum of £0.50 up to £50.00.

With higher-paying symbols including the tiger, a drum and oranges, the wild card often lands stacked and is a Chinese firework, substituting all symbols except the coins and the scatter symbol. When 3 or more scatter symbols land 10 free games are awarded.  

• 3 scatter symbols = 10 free games and 4x bet win
• 4 scatter symbols = 10 free games and 6x bet win
• 5 scatter symbols = 10 free games and 20x bet win

During free games, additional spins can be won by landing 3 or more scatter symbols. All wins will be collected and any coins that land will reveal a value that will also be added to the win total.

A super bonus game is triggered when landing four coins or more in any one spin. The landed coins will remain static as an award of three respins will be granted. The reels will change from the base game to show additional rows of 5, 6, 7 and 8 that will be locked as the 3 respins begin. Each time a coin is landed then the respin counter will reset to 3. If three consecutive respins fail to land a coin then the bonus game ends and the total value of the coins will be collected as a win. To open the locked rows of 5, 6, 7 and 8 the following needs to occur during the respins.

• 8 coins unlock row 5
• 12 coins unlock row 6
• 16 coins unlock row 7
• 20 coins unlock row 8

If a coin lands with mini, minor, major or mega you will win one of the jackpot prizes.