Fortune Teller Pokies
While most things in life are pretty unpredictable, anyone playing the Fortune Teller video pokie will be able to look to their future and see that they played an enjoyable game that has some unique bonuses and a great design. Whether good fortune crosses their palms with gold remains to be seen, but it comes from the reliable Net Ent company whose games have a good return to player ratio, so plenty of winning spins will be on the cards.
The detailed surrounds to the 5 reels are made to look like an old-style gypsy caravan, with carved woods, painted flower patterns and bright jewels to add some sparkle. A total of 30 paylines run from the left of the game and players will be wanting to land matching symbols from this side across adjacent reels to get a winline. Free Fortune Teller video pokie games have been made available if anyone wants to play for fun or just test things out first, but the minimum stake to get the reels spinning for real cash is only 0.01, while the upper limit is 25.00.
The style of the symbols is slightly old-fashioned, which punters may see as a positive or negative point, depending on their personal tastes, but like many Net Ent casino games online, unfortunately, Fortune Teller isn’t mobile-optimised.
Playing Fortune Teller
Tarot cards are used as the lower paying symbols, and they range in value from the 10 and J, which are each worth 2, 15 or 75x the coin value when landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels across a payline, to the A that returns 10, 50 or 125x for the same combinations.
Picture symbols include a traditional caravan, while the black cat and a white carthorse are each worth 50, 100 or 500x. The top wins are paid out when the slightly disturbing image of the hand with an eye in the middle appears. This traditional symbol of protection is called the Hasma Hand and should protect players bankrolls by adding up to 7500 coins to their accounts when it fills a payline.
Not only that, it will also act as the wild symbol and helps complete combinations by acting as any of those listed above. It’s also able to create modest payouts from lines of 3 or 4 symbols into bigger rewards by extending them further across the reels.
Fortune Teller
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Bonus Features
There’s a tarot card bonus round triggered when the gypsy symbol lands in any 3 or more places across a line. Players are taken to her tent where she sits in the shadows reading the cards and stroking the black cat. 11 tarot cards are shown and players simply click them in any order to pick up multiplier awards. This carries on until the Death card is found, which ends the mini-game and all accumulated multipliers are paid out.
Free spins can also be awarded, and this round begins once winnings from the crystal ball scatter symbol have been collected. This symbol doesn’t need to be across a line and rather than coin values, it’s worth multiples of the total stake per spin. Just 2 scatter symbols is enough for a prize of twice the triggering bet, although no bonus games will follow on from this, while 3 scatters are worth 4x the bet and then 12 free spins begin. If 4 scatters appear, then the free spins are preceded by a payout of 50x and a special prize of 200x the stake is won by anyone who has 5 scatter symbols on the reels at once.
Net Ent have the nice habit of making their bonus rounds extra rewarding, so in the case of the Fortune Teller video pokie, any wins will be tripled in value, although the standard set of reels are used, so the odds of picking up a prize are the same as in the base games. The free spins will start over again at the end of the current round if any bonus game sees 3 or more scatter symbols appearing at once.
The Verdict
Fortune Teller is an unusual game for Net Ent mainly because of the artwork style which isn’t in keeping with most of the rest of their range. It’s not a case of the design being bad, it’s just different, but it shouldn’t be an issue and many punters may prefer it to the CGI and cartoon images that they have become known for.
What’s certainly a good point about this online pokie is the winning potential and bonus rounds. A high-paying wild symbol will help to boost the returns even further, while the tarot card side games and free spins with multipliers are enough to make a confident prediction that Fortune Teller will be a success.