9 Gifts Of Christmas Slot Review
Snowflakes drift down a mint-green winter sky, a green gift box with an oversized red bow hangs off a braided gold frame, and behind the reels stands a wall of turquoise glacier ice. Most Christmas slots bury the payouts under tinsel and pick-me rounds, but 9 Gifts Of Christmas puts nearly all of its money on one scatter ladder: nine Gift symbols anywhere on the reels pay 2,000x the total bet.
Aurum Signature Studios built it on a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, a 96% RTP and medium volatility, and it’s the more traditional shape of a festive shelf that also holds A Tale of Elves and Book of Mrs Claus. Bets run from 0.20 to 60.00 per spin, and wins land on 39.75% of spins.
Base Game & Features
Twenty fixed paylines across five reels and four rows, wins paid left to right, and only the highest combination per line counts. It’s a layout that needs no novelty, because the interest here lives in the symbols rather than the grid.
The paytable is a nostalgic run of sevens, bells and bars dressed in gold, with holly standing in for the usual royals. The wild star substitutes for everything except the Free Spin and Gift symbols, and it’s the richest symbol on the reels in its own right:
- Wild (gold star): 6.25x / 25x / 125x the total bet for three, four or five
- Red 7: 2.5x / 16.25x / 37.5x
- White 7: 1.25x / 6.25x / 20x
- Single 7: 1x / 3.75x / 7.5x
- Any 7 or Gold Bag/Coin: 0.5x / 1x / 3.25x
- Bell: 0.25x / 0.75x / 2x
- Bar or Holly: 0.25x / 0.4x / 1x
All of those are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet, which flattens the difference between the top and bottom of the table. The low end is thin. Bars and holly pay a fraction of the stake for three of a kind.
There’s a practical consequence to that total-bet pricing. On a 20-line game, a five-of-a-kind Red 7 win is worth 37.5x the stake across the whole spin, not 37.5x on each of the lines it completes, so even the best line hit is a modest result.
Two scatters do the rest of the work. The Gift symbol lands on any reel and pays as a scatter, with its own ladder that runs steeper than anything the lines offer. The Free Spin symbol shows up on the middle three reels only, and three of them pay 1x the total bet on their own.
One piece of branding deserves a flag: the reels carry an Epic Strike mark, and beyond the name being printed on the logo, the game doesn’t explain what it does. Treat it as decoration until it proves otherwise.
9 Gifts Of Christmas Free Spins & Scatter Pays
The Gift Scatter
Three or more Gift symbols scattered anywhere on the reels award a cash prize, and only the highest scatter combination is paid. The ladder is where this game keeps its ambition:
- 3 Gift symbols: 1x the total bet
- 4 Gift symbols: 5x
- 5 Gift symbols: 15x
- 6 Gift symbols: 40x
- 7 Gift symbols: 100x
- 8 Gift symbols: 500x
- 9 Gift symbols: 2,000x
That top rung is the number the intro argued about, and it’s worth being precise about what it is: 2,000x the total bet for nine scatters on a 5×4 grid. Nine is a lot of one symbol to land at once.
But the ladder pays at every step, and it doesn’t need the top rung to matter. Six or seven Gifts is already a proper result, and unlike the line pays, a scatter win doesn’t care where the symbols sit – any position on any reel counts.
The Free Spin Wheel
Three Free Spin symbols on the middle reels awards a spin of the Free Spin Wheel, plus 1x the total bet on the spot. The wheel then settles both halves of the round at once: the number of free spins and the multiplier that runs through them.
The visible wedge values run from 10 up to 30 free spins, each wedge carrying its own multiplier alongside the spin count. Whatever the wheel gives is what you play with – there’s no choice of volatilities, no gamble on the award, just the spin and the number.
That multiplier applies to every win in the round except Gift symbol wins, so the scatter ladder pays its printed values regardless of what the wheel gave you. Free spins can be retriggered, and a retrigger awards the same number of spins as the initial trigger, multiplier and all.
The two scatters do meet inside the round, though. Gift symbols keep landing during free spins – they can appear on any reel – and a good scatter run in a 30-spin session pays exactly what it would have paid in the base game.
So the shape of the bonus is simple: a wheel-gated entry, a multiplier that skips the scatter pays, and a retrigger that repeats rather than escalates. The “win up to 30 free spins at 3x line pays” branding tells you the ceiling of the wheel in one line.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Playing this is mostly watching the reels for one symbol. With wins landing on two spins in five but rarely worth much, the base game is a patient sit by the Christmas tree, and the reason you’d sit through it is the Gift scatter – the one thing on screen that can genuinely change a session.
The ladder itself is the strength. It starts paying at just three symbols, it’s live on every spin, and the money climbs fast once you get past six.
The weakness is that the free spins round doesn’t connect to any of it. The wheel’s multiplier skips Gift wins and the retrigger only repeats the first award, so the game’s headline feature works beside its best one rather than with it.
It suits players who like a single clear target and don’t need layers of bonus modes to stay interested. Anyone who wants stacked features and escalating rounds will find the tree a bit bare. For everyone else, this is a tidy, honest festive slot with one proper present under it.
9 Gifts Of Christmas FAQs
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What is the RTP of 9 Gifts Of Christmas?
The RTP is 96%, which sits right at the industry average. -
How do you trigger free spins in 9 Gifts Of Christmas?
Free Spin symbols appear on reels 2, 3 and 4. Landing three of them awards a spin of the Free Spin Wheel, which decides both your number of free spins (up to 30) and a multiplier, plus 1x your total bet immediately. -
Can free spins be retriggered in 9 Gifts Of Christmas?
Yes. A retrigger awards the same number of free spins as the initial trigger, with the same multiplier. -
What does the Gift symbol do in 9 Gifts Of Christmas?
The Gift symbol is a scatter that can appear on any reel. Three or more award a cash prize climbing from 1x the total bet for three up to 2,000x for nine, and only the highest scatter combination is paid. -
Does the free spins multiplier apply to Gift symbol wins?
No. The wheel multiplier applies to all wins except Gift symbol wins, which pay their fixed scatter values regardless. -
What does the wild substitute for in 9 Gifts Of Christmas?
The gold star wild substitutes for all symbols except the Free Spin symbol and the Gift symbol. -
Is 9 Gifts Of Christmas high volatility?
No. It’s a medium volatility slot, so wins tend to be more regular but smaller than in a high volatility game. -
What is the hit frequency of 9 Gifts Of Christmas?
Wins land on 39.75% of spins, so roughly two in five spins return something. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on 9 Gifts Of Christmas?
Bets run from 0.20 to 60.00 per spin, on a 5×4 grid with 20 fixed paylines.
