Halloweenies Pokie
Scary ghosts and creepy monsters populate the reels of the Halloweenies pokie from Microgaming, guaranteed to spook even the bravest of players. Not really; this is a very tame game that has fun cartoon characters in bright friendly colours across the 5 reels and 20 paylines that it offers.
It comes complete with weird wild substitutions, freaky free spins and a putrid pick a pumpkin game to help bloat the bankrolls of anyone willing to take on the challenge at the many online casinos that use Microgaming as a supplier, while a good choice of bet sizes means that even those on limited budgets can spin the reels for some great rewards.
Digging into Halloweenies
Seasonal games understandably attract extra players depending on the time of year, but Halloweenies has plenty to entertain at any time. Opening up the game uncovers lots of colourful images, all of which are related to the theme and all set against a background that has an eerie green glow to it, lighting up the logo and highlighting the payline indicators to the sides of the reels.
There’s details on how winning lines are created and a link to the paytable, all written on gravestones to add a bit more to the spooky atmosphere, but it’s all done with a sense of fun that makes Halloweenies look good, despite it being a fairly old game.
Underneath the reels we find the standard control panel used across so many Microgaming pokies. It’s easy to use and gives players the option to spin the reels automatically, stopping at a balance level or prize payout of their choosing, while they can also adjust the amount staked per line and number of lines in play.
Halloweenies
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It’s possible to bet 0.01 on a single payline, but unless players are happy to see winning combinations pass them by, it’s perhaps best to activate all 20 of them for a minimum stake of 0.20 per spin, and then adjust the amount to suit the budget to a maximum of 100.00 per spin.
Players win whenever identical symbols stop on an active line, running from the left hand reel, except in the case of scatter wins which can be anywhere, with the paytable detailing how many times the coins per line will be won for each combination.
Various images of sweets make up the lower value symbols, with some of them being suitably gross worms, lizards and gravestones, while other look like tasty treats such as liquorice and chocolates.
Higher value images are kids dressed up for trick or treating, with a skeleton in a purple shawl, Frankenstein’s monster with blonde pigtails, a witch with bright red lipstick and it looks like someone has got the dog involved as well, as the highest paying regular symbol is some kind of a zombie dog/sheep fusion.
Bonus symbols include 4 monsters who morph into the letters of the wild symbol when they can create a winning combination by acting as any other except the scatter and bonus ones. The wild is also a jackpot symbol, with just 2 of them on a line being worth 13x, and a full line of 5 rewarding players with 13000x the coins staked per line.
A crazed looking pink bunny rabbit is a scatter symbol, so he can appear anywhere on the reels and as long as there are 3, 4 or 5 in view, players win a prize that will 5, 10 or 100x the total stake respectively. It also triggers 13 free spins, during which any wins are tripled in value, while 3 or more scatters landing again will add another 13 spins to the end of any left to play out.
A pumpkin is a second scatter symbol, with up to 5300x being awarded, while players get to pick any 3 of the pumpkins on the reels for a further cash prize.
Treat? or Trick?
Haloweenies is a good looking pokie that has some decent bonus features and a good bet range to attract players with various bankrolls. A high paying wild symbol and those extra multiplier wins during the free spins round can really unearth some extra payouts, although unlike some other games, the reels are not enriched with extra symbols during the free spins, so payouts are not guaranteed.
The only other thing missing from Halloweenies is the gamble game that features across much of the Microgaming range and can boost modest wins substantially, but that’s a fairly minor omission and doesn’t distract from what is essentially a high quality and potentially rewarding pokie.