The latest release from Pragmatic Play gives me serious Merlin-the-wizard vibes, with a cauldron full of a green substance boiling on the left side of the reels and tiny vials of magic potions hitting as high-paying symbols. The magic happens on a 7×7 grid, with vibrant gems that got me thinking of Las Vegas as low-value symbols, a mystical book that lands as a Wild, and a neon mark that adds a sleek twist to the entire story.
Our wizard learnt to make six of the most powerful potions but needs your help to get the symbols off the reels and into the cauldron. If you’re not ready to welcome magic into your life, you can start looking for other slots. Yet, if you’re willing to accept that maybe there’s a little bit of magic in everything, let The Magic Cauldron prepare its Enchanted Brew (of winnings)!
The Magic Cauldron – Enchanted Brew slot takes places across seven reels and seven rows, on which symbols land in clusters, paying in groups of at least five of the same kind. However, the main attraction isn’t the grid, but the cauldron with its peculiar-looking, green liquid. It’s the key to triggering one of the six modifiers that can either remove certain symbols from the screen, add colossal symbols, or incorporate up to four Unicorn Wild symbols with increasing multiplier into the gameplay.
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I really fancy how the provider pictured this game. The Magic Cauldron – Enchanted Brew falls into the magic slot category, removing the scary factor altogether. If you’ve been browsing and playing slots for a long time, you already know that the titles with a magic theme tend to have a rather creepy approach. However, the cartoonish elements and the curiosity-rising kind of music have nothing to do with it. And it’s not a bad thing. Sometimes, all one wants is to play a slot with a little magic without thinking ‘Is it Halloween already?’. Also, the books and parchments jumbled on the desk, and the cupboards filled with little potions make me feel like if I was inside Snape’s office. Oh, one can only dream!
The Magic Cauldron – Enchanted Brew isn’t your typical slot. It comes with a progressive feature that basically lifts the gameplay. There’re also 20 paylines available, a 96.44% RTP and a high volatility. The symbols can offer juicy prizes of up to 500x the stake for between 15 and 49 yellow vials, the lowest paying ones being the blue gem, with a max award of 2x the bet for up to 49 instances on the reels.
The Wilds aren’t that accessible as in any other slot, with the Book Wild appearing on the screen as a result of the Elixir Wilds or the Moon Seed features. The Unicorn Wild, the second Wild in the paytable, hits only as a result of the Unicorn Wilds feature and can form winning combos with any other symbols, replacing them all, except the Book Wild.
Before moving to the features section, know that everything in this videoslot is connected: tumbles bring new symbols on the reels, symbols form clusters, and fill the cauldron, which can trigger one of the modifiers.
You can prepare six potions in this cauldron, each coming with its own thing. From replacing low-paying symbols with high-value ones, to colossal symbols landing in random places, you can have it all. Except for free spins. The Magic Cauldron – Enchanted Brew doesn’t feature a free games round but this doesn’t mean the games less fun. Read further and you’ll see what I mean.
Pragmatic Play isn’t at its first slot featuring this mode. Many other titles in the provider’s offer have this tumble feature, and it works the same way every time. The winning symbols are removed from the screen and replaced with new ones that come from above. These tumbles continue until there are no more wins resulting from tumbles.
However, this slot doesn’t simply throw away the ‘used’ symbols. It collects them in the cauldron set on the left side of the screen. Gather at least 25 winning symbols to unlock the progressive round of which I’ll talk more about in the next section.
Now, the only way you can activate this mode is by gathering as many winning symbols as possible. This way, you’ll not only increase your balance but also trigger one of the six available modifiers.
So, once you collect 25 symbols, the game will activate a random modifier out of six available. If you manage to collect 125 symbols in one spin, you can play five modifiers in order, with the fifth one being chosen at random between Potion of Darkness and Unicorn Dust. Here’s what each modifier (or potion) does:
This round is all about the Wild symbols. If the spin didn’t result in a win, don’t get upset! The game can add from four to eight Wilds on the reels, increasing your chances of forming winning combinations.
As if there wasn’t enough happening in this online slot, the provider added yet another twist, the moon seed mark. You can notice it right from the start as it surrounds the instances of the same low-paying symbol. It stays glued to the symbol throughout all tumbles and modifiers that follow in the spin.
You can start to feel the magic once a winning combo is formed with at least five market symbols. After the explosion that removes the winning symbols from the grid, 2 Wild Symbols are left in two empty positions.
After the first spin, I thought this is another slot title with tumbling reels and some free spins with Wilds with multipliers from this provider. However, I couldn’t be more wrong. As the tumbles kept going and my cauldron kept filling, I started to see how exciting and thrilling it can be. With so many features and surprises that keep popping up during the gameplay, there’s no way you’ll get bored.
On the downsize, dry hands can appear quite often, with the cauldron missing only a few symbols to get to the lucky 25. However, once you collect those 125 symbols, there’s nothing stopping you from doing everything you can to get to that juicy 5,000x max win!
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