Gift Rap Pokie Machine
Although Gift Rap is a Christmas themed online pokie, no matter what time of year it’s played, the combination of brightly-coloured symbols, rapping elves, wild substitutions, scatter wins and a bonus round can make this a rewarding game to play.
It comes from Microgaming, who are one of the premier developers of Poker machines, with hundreds of titles in their collection, all of which are independently assessed for fair play and reliability.
Unwrapping Gift Rap
The fun plays out across 5 reels and 25 paylines, with players able to select just a single line for a micro-bet of 0.01, or they can choose to activate any number of them up to all 25, and up the amount staked on a line to a maximum of 10 coins or 5.00.
This gives a maximum possible wager of 125.00 which should be enough for the vast majority of bankrolls, while still catering for casual players who like to make smaller bets, although having at least something on all lines ensures that qualifying winning spins occur more frequently.
Gift Rap
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A background that’s mostly made up of the reds and greens that are traditionally associated with Christmas sets off the reels nicely although this is an older game and while the symbols may be colourful enough, they are not the last word in sophistication, with fairly basic cartoon style images across the reels.
All of them are related to the theme, so there’s none of the high card symbols that feature in many other pokies. Instead we have various Christmas toys like a squeaky hammer, spinning top, drumming bear and one of those slightly creepy toy monkeys that plays the cymbals.
There’s also a couple of singing elves, which is where the Rap part of the game title comes from, some back up singers, a cool-looking jack in the box that has some unique features and a toy karaoke machine. The top paying symbol is a Christmas tree bauble, which also doubles up as the wild symbol, so it can act as any other with the exception of the scatter, to help complete winning combinations.
A payout table lists what players will win for each combination, and to get a prize they need to land at least 2, and usually 3 of the same symbol on adjacent reels on an activated line, with the row starting from the one on the left side. The more symbols land on the line, the bigger the subsequent prize will be
Land the bauble right across all 5 reels on an active payline to win the game jackpot of 6,000 coins. Another symbol with special qualities is the tin of glitter spray which is a scatter symbol, paying out 5x, 20x or 80x the total bet amount when 3, 4 or 5 land anywhere on the reels.
A rapping Jack Frost leads to a fun bonus round each time at least 3 of them stop on the reels after a spin. The Gift Grab game takes place on a second screen and it consists of a 5 x 6 grid of wrapped presents. All that players need to do is click on the presents at random, unwrapping them and collecting prizes until they uncover a Jack Frost symbol and the game ends.
In theory, they could win 32,250 coins before the end of the Gift Grab bonus by clicking every present and finding Jack Frost on the last pick, but anyone managing that would have to be pretty spectacularly lucky.
Xmas Rapping?
While seasonal games may get largely ignored for much of the year, Gift Rap is actually a pretty good pokie that could brighten up the darkest days of winter. It may have pretty standard cartoon graphics, but it still manages to look cheerful enough, while a fun theme of singing elves shows that this is a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
There are some serious winnings of 6,000 coins in the base game and a potential 32, 250 in the bonus round however, although some players may have liked to see a free spins game on top of this and while the graphics are perfectly adequate these days, they are definitely looking dated.