Enchanted Unicorn Pokie Machine
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise. Namely some acorns, mushrooms berries, roses and a big white unicorn, because these are some of the items that fill the reels of IGT’s Enchanted Unicorn pokie.
It’s an older style game, where fairly simple cartoon images are found, but players shouldn’t be put off by this, as it’s got some old-school charm and a couple of bonus features like stacked wilds and a round where players pick from rows of tiles until the fun is stopped by an evil wizard.
A straightforward and uncomplicated layout has the symbols in 3 rows across 5 reels and running across the game, from left to right, there’s up to 20 paylines. Wins occur whenever 3 or more matching symbols stop across any of these lines, on adjacent reels, with the row needing to start from the left side.
Playing Enchanted Unicorn
Despite the simple drawings, this is a colourful pokie, where a deep blue background sets off the reds and greens of many symbols. A couple of decorative unicorns sit above the reels and some Celtic designs are dotted around the game, which gives it that mystical atmosphere.
Players have the option to activate just a single line for a bet of just 0.01, although as this means 19 out of 20 winning combinations that land on the reels won’t count, most will opt to activate all lines for a minimum bet of 0.20. This can then be adjusted up to suit, with a maximum of 100.00 per spin being enough for all but the highest rollers.
The various forest-related items will pay out lower value wins when they turn up across active paylines and the more valuable prizes come from seeing a princess, prince and lion stopping across the reels.
Each of these only needs to land on reels 1 and 2 for a win, with the lion being most valuable at 5x, 100x, 250x and 2000x the amount staked per line when he stops on 2, 3, 4 or 5 reels at once.
Enchanted Unicorn
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Bonus Features
The unicorn is a wild symbol, meaning that it will act as any other, apart from a bonus symbol, if it’s possible to complete a winning line. To help achieve this, it will be stacked on any reel it lands on, which can often lead to several combinations being completed in a single spin, although the unicorn on its own carries no value.
If the full moon symbols shine across any 3, 4 or 5 positions on the reels, without needing to be on a payline, players win multiples of the total bet per spin, not just the line bet. Seeing 5 of these scatter symbols will be worth 100x the stake.
A separate bonus symbol is the treasure chest, which starts a side game whenever it lands on reels 1 and 5 at the same time. In this round, 30 tiles will be seen in a grid pattern and the aim is to pick one from each of the 5 rows to uncover a bonus prize, moving from the bottom row upwards.
There are unicorns and a wizard hidden amongst the tiles, with anyone uncovering the unicorn winning all bonus prizes in the row and finding the wizard ends the round, although he won’t be on the bottom 2 levels, so players are sure to win something.
Gamble Round
Enchanted Unicorn has a gamble feature which players can choose to enter with any win of less than 3000x the line bet. All they need to do is correctly guess if a playing card will be revealed as red or black to double the win and from there, they can try to gamble it again up to 5 times over, or collect the prize. Any wrong pick along the way loses the triggering bet and the gamble wins, so players should tread very carefully.
The Verdict
Ok, there’s no avoiding the fact that Enchanted Unicorn is an older pokie, but anyone who can look beyond the basic design will find a pretty good game with lots of retro appeal.
The symbols are quite nicely presented in a somewhat plain style, and it’s always nice to see a game where everything is related to the theme, plus the simple background and decorations around the reels all add to the charm.
Bonus features can be quite rewarding, especially when stacked wilds bring in some wins during the normal run of play, and although there’s no free spins, the side game is guaranteed to win something, as all tiles on the bottom rows will unveil awards and it’s only further up the screen that the naughty wizard can come along to end the round.