Witches' Book

Witches' Book Slot Review

You'd think a government would know better than to pick a fight with witches. In 2011, Romania went ahead anyway and added witches and fortune tellers 🔮 to its labor code, which put a 16% income tax on every curse and love potion.

The witches didn't take it quietly. A self-styled queen witch named Bratara Buzea marched down to the Danube and tossed poisonous mandrake 🌿 into the river to hex the lawmakers.

How that would affect only them, and not regular folk, is beyond me. What I do know is that it didn’t do anything to change the tax laws.

As far as I know, nobody at ELA Games has had to declare Witches' Book slot to the tax collector. Its spellbook 📖 sits wide open above the reels, and nobody from the tax office has come to sift through its pages.

Gameplay

The setting for this game is a dark-blue night forest, with twisted vines strangling a carved stone pillar on either side of the reels.

Above the reels you’ll see a meter - this will play an important role, but I’ll dig into it in the Features section.

The 5x3 grid has 10 paylines, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. is 95.9%, volatility is medium, and the max multiplier is 1,000x. The max win is $50,000, with bets running from $0.10 to $50. Dogecoin is the only currency you can’t play with.

At the bottom of the paytable, the Carnivorous Mushroom symbol and the Skull Candle pay 8x for 5 of a kind, 1x for 4 and 0.50x for 3. The Potion bumps that to 12x, 2x and 1x.

The Raven and Black Cat share a perch at 15x for 5, 4x for 4 and 1.50x for 3. The Green Witch, Blue Witch and Red Witch top the regular symbols at 20x, 7x and 2x.

There are 2 Wilds, namely the Wild Pumpkin and the Walking Wild (a gruesome spider), and both substitute for everything except the Progress Scatter and the Collect symbol. Each one pays 100x for 5, 20x for 4 and 7x for 3 on its own.

Mix the two on a line and the pay drops to 50x for 5, 10x for 4 and 2x for 3. The Wilds clearly don't like sharing.

The Walking Wild is the base game's standout. Once it appears, it comes to life and shifts 1 reel to the left on every spin, and it keeps going until it reaches the last reel.

The Collect symbol (the Magic Cauldron) collects all visible low symbols and pays instantly, no paylines needed. Anywhere from 1 to 2 low symbols get you 1x, 3 to 4 get you 2x, and 5 or more get you 5x. It's disabled during Free Spins.

Power of Three is the witches' own side hustle. Land 3 different Witch symbols at the same time, anywhere on the grid, and the set pays 5x regardless of paylines.

A 4th witch doesn't add anything beyond that 3-symbol win, but up to 3 Power of Three sets can land in a single round. That's 15x from a coven meeting.

The Jackpot is a single fixed tier worth 500x, and it only lives in Free Spins.

Features

FREE SPINS:

The Progress Scatter can land on any reel, and each one fills a slot on that 8-rune meter above the reels. Collect 8 and the Free Spins round kicks off.

First you choose a witch as your guide, and she randomly decides whether you get 5, 10, 15 or 20 Free Spins. Then you select a magic symbol, which randomly assigns a 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x or 10x multiplier for the entire round.

Look, the word "choose" is doing a lot of the work there. Both picks are random reveals, so you're clicking, not deciding.

Every Scatter that lands during the round adds 1 extra Free Spin. The Collect symbol sits the round out.

JACKPOT:

At the end of the Free Spins round, 1 symbol may transform into a Jackpot symbol. It pays the fixed 500x instantly, regardless of paylines. The Free Spins multiplier doesn't touch it, so a 10x pick won't turn 500x into anything bigger.

BUY BONUS:

For 44x, the Buy Bonus takes you straight into Free Spins. You still get the same random spin count and the same random multiplier as everyone who earned it the slow way.

At 44x, that's well under the roughly 100x most studios charge for a Free Spins buy. Cheap witchcraft, and I mean that as a compliment.

Performance

We didn’t need the eye of a newt or a sheep’s dangly bits to make these reels spin; and spin they did, with no issues revealing themselves during testing.

Maximum Win

Put the max multiplier of 1,000x on the top bet of $50 and you're looking at a max win of $50,000. The minimum bet is $0.10.

Conclusion

The money in the slot sits in Free Spins, where one randomly drawn multiplier rides every win for the whole round. The Collect symbol and Power of Three keep the balance ticking in the base game, but they're tips, not wages.

The top line pay comes from 5 Wilds or 5 Walking Wilds, and by my own arithmetic a full line of Wilds under the top Free Spins pick hits the 1,000x max multiplier exactly. The Jackpot doesn't get multiplied, so it won't get you there by itself.

At 95.9%, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. implies shorter sessions are best. Medium volatility with a 1,000x max multiplier is not cool, though. I would’ve liked to have seen something a bit more generous.

The Buy Bonus is the only shortcut, and it's a good one on price. Just know that you're paying for 2 random draws, so the shortest round at the smallest multiplier costs the same as the longest round at the biggest.

Low-to-moderate bettors who like a busy base game, with small instant pays and a cheap way into Free Spins, will get the most out of this slot.

Slot Details

Game Provider: ELA Games
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 10
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 95.9%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).

The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: Medium
Bonus Round: No
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Free Spins
Max Multiplier: 1,000x
Max Win: $50,000
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