FairyTale Legends: Hansel & Gretel Pokies
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise. Especially if you get a big win on Net Ents’ FairyTale Legends: Hansel & Gretel video pokie, which comes with multiple bonus rounds to complement the outstanding CGI graphics and animated sequences.
Although it’s not crucial to the way the pokie works, a bit of background knowledge could be useful, so anyone who isn’t familiar with the story can read on. Once upon a time, there were 2 kids who got kidnapped by a cannibal witch who lived in a gingerbread house in the forest. Gretel ends up shoving the witch into an oven and they lived happily ever after, but fortunately the gruesome details are left out of the game and we just have symbols of the children, colourful sweets and a couple of bonus symbols like a treasure chest and the game logo.
This is a 5-reel pokie, where 20 fixed paylines run from the left side, and players are looking to land 3 or more of the same symbol across 1 of these lines on connected reels to get a win, although unusually, the run of symbols can start anywhere on the line, not just from the left which is the normal arrangement. Payouts depend on how much is staked, with a minimum of 0.10 per spin and an upper limit set at 200.00, so those on limited budgets and high rollers should all be able to find a bet size to suit, although free FairyTale Legends: Hansel & Gretel video pokies are also available.
FairyTale Legends: Hansel & Gretel
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Playing Hansel and Gretel
Net Ent are known for the high quality of their graphics and anyone who has spun the reels of pokies like Jack and the Beanstalk, or Boom Brothers is going to be familiar with the general looks. Symbols seem to float against a dark forest background, where fairy lights drift through the night sky and the main characters of the game stand to either side of the reels watching the action unfold.
As the game loads up, players are given a little bit of information about the extensive collection of bonus features, all introduced by a fairy who sprinkles magic around the reels, and then once opened up, they are ready to place bets and get them spinning. A review of the paytable reveals that the 4 various sweets will all pay the same amounts, with 5x the line bet returned for a run of 3 of a kind across a payline, while 4 are worth 10x and a full line pays 40x.
Hansel and Gretel themselves are valued at 10. 20 or 100x the line stake and the FairyTale Legends logo is worth 20, 60 or the top award of 400x when it lands across 3, 4 or 5 reels on a line.
Bonus Features
A red brick road is a wild symbol that fills entire reels when it appears, although in the base game it will only land on reels 2 and 4. This symbol acts as others if it’s then possible to complete a winning combination, but whatever happens, it will stay in place while all other reels will re-spin for free just once. The wild can also appear on reels 1 and 5 during this spin, which triggers a further re-spin and so on until no more wilds are left in view.
Treasure chest symbols can appear on reels 1, 3 and 5 to trigger extra mini-games, and players simply click on a chest to reveal which round will then play out. The Candy House bonus consists of 15 sweets, each of which has a hidden multiplier that can go from just 1.2x the bet to a high limit of 120x. A simple coin win of up to 15x can also be revealed, or 10 free spins can begin, during which a wild can fill reel 3 to award re-spins.
Random features can pop up at any time, and these quick rounds can be the Fairy Wonder Spin, where up to 9 connected game logo symbols will appear at once, or the Fairy Surprise, which starts after a non-winning spin and has a symbol selected at random, with all lower-value symbols transforming into it until a winning combination is formed. The other random feature is the Fairy Wild Spin, where 2 reels are fully wild and the re-spin can form further winlines.
The Verdict
This is a great-looking pokie with a good return to player percentage and some impressive bonus features. It’s very similar to the Red Riding Hood game which is also in the FairyTale Legends series, so not quite unique, but they share lots of outstanding gameplay and this is sure to become one of the most successful pokies in an already popular range at online casinos that carry Net Ent games,.