Fishin’ Christmas Pots Of Gold

Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold: Slot Overview

Ho, ho, ho, y'all, Gameburger Studio's happy-go-lucky leprechaun Lucky Lad Flynn is getting into the festive mood in Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold. If you've been following the series, you'll know we are several slots deep in a range that merges gold, fishing, leprechauns, jackpot symbols, and money symbol collects. Now, armchair anglers get all that stuff bundled up with presents and Christmas carols to make it more appropriate for the season.

Also reflecting the seasonal shift, Lucky Lad Flynn is now Santa Flynn, though his gaming duties are the same as ever. Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold's visuals continue to mix elements of Celtic culture with fishing, plus a heavy sprinkling of Xmas imagery on top. Location-wise, the gaming remains water-based, with a background displaying a view of both land and seabed. Sprinklings of snow, a snowman, and a decorated tree reinforce the theme, as do the gifts on the bottom of the screen, as if Santa's sleigh dropped a bunch of things into the sea after hitting turbulence. What really drives the point home is a hardcore Christmassy/Celtic tune, with singing and all - if that doesn't spark the Christmas spirit, it's hard to think what else possibly could.

Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold patchwork quilt of tropes plays out on a 5-reel game panel, which in the base game has 3 rows and 10 fixed paylines, but expands to 5-rows high with 20 paylines in free spins. Medium/highly volatile, the theoretical return to player comes in four possible values, from a maximum of 96% down to a possible minimum of 86.75%, depending on the market. Playable on any device, slot-bound anglers can dangle out stakes of 10 p/c to $/€25 per spin.

Symbols now, of which Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold has ten regular paying symbols. The first five are 10-A snow-covered royals worth 10x the bet for five of a kind, then any combination of fish money symbols for 20x the bet for five, finished off by floats, lures, boots, and boxes, paying 50 to 200 times the stake for a five-symbol winning way. In the base game, Santa Flynn appears on the fifth reel and on all reels in free spins. One of his tasks is to be the wild, substituting for any normal pay symbols.

Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold: Slot Features

The other thing Santa Flynn symbols do is collect fish money symbols when both types are in view at the same time. Fish symbols land with values of up to 100x the bet. It's also possible for Santa Flynn to reel in jackpot symbols. Jackpot Symbols include the Mini, Minor, Major, and Mega, worth 15x, 50x, 500x, or 5,000x the bet, respectively.

Free Spins

Hitting 3, 4, or 5 free spins scatter symbols triggers 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. For free spins, +2 rows and +10 paylines are added to the game board. Free spins also make use of a gadget called the Accumulation Trail. Whenever a Santa Flynn symbol hits, it is collected on the trail. Up to 12 can be accumulated. Each time 3 Santa Flynns are collected, +5 additional free spins are awarded, and the multiplier increases from the starting value of x1 to x2, x3, x5, then topping out at x10. This multiplier is applied to any cash symbols collected.

Feature Buy

Players can use this feature, if it is there, to buy free spins. The cost is 50x, 100x, or 150x the bet to get 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively.

Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold: Slot Verdict

While reviewing Fishin' BIGGER Pots Of Gold, we wondered what the next step in the series' evolution might be. Just for fun, we speculated something 'Book of' related, but Gameburger Studios has taken a different tack and gone down the Xmas route, providing a piscine option for the festive season. Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold is like a strange merging of beliefs from religious to folklore to the popular pastime of fishing, all rolled up into one bizarre trinity. Does it work? Spose so; it works as well as the multitude of other fishing games on the market, including its direct competitor Christmas Big Bass Bonanza, just with a lot more leprechauns. It was a little hard to marshal much excitement about Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold, though since we'd kind of reached and breached the fishing slot saturation point a while ago.

It wouldn't matter so much if the fishing slot in question brought something new to the table. Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold just doesn't, unless you're super excited to see Lucky Lad Flynn wearing a Santa Hat. If not, then there's not much here that fishin' fans won't already have access to. Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold is a run-of-the-mill mash-up of collecting money symbols, jackpot symbols, and free spins with an accumulation trail. It worked well in the Big Bass series, and it works just as well here. To nit-pick, it's technically not as potentially lucrative as Fishin' Bigger Pots of Gold, though, as wins here top out at a respectable but smaller figure of 15,472.5x the bet.

What else is there to say? Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold felt like a quick and easy entry for the Xmas period, but it's possible to say that about a lot of Christmas-themed slots. Oh well. If you're down for some leprechaun, Xmassy, fishy, reelin' in cash symbols and jackpot symbols action while the fireplace is roasting and the eggnogs flowing, eh, why not?