Amulet And Charm Power Bet

Amulet And Charm Power Bet Slot Review

Mist pools between dark rocks on a mountain ledge, storm clouds banking up behind a silver filigree frame. Amulet And Charm Power Bet hides its money in that gloom: the line pays are close to decorative, and nearly everything worth winning arrives on the backs of wilds carrying cash. High 5 Games run it on a 5×3 grid with 40 paylines and a 95.0% return that rises to 96.5% while Power Bet mode is in play.

That’s a more pointed use of the Power Bet formula than Platinum Goddess Power Bet or Kiss Of The Rose Power Bet made of it, because here the purchase doesn’t just polish the odds, it puts values as high as 10,000 credits onto every reel. The paytable, meanwhile, sits there looking ornamental.

The Base Game: Lines, Storms and Stacked Wilds

Forty fixed paylines run across five reels and three rows, with line wins needing adjacent symbols from the leftmost reel and only the highest combination counting on each line. Line wins are multiplied by the bet multiplier, and scatter symbols pay in any position, with only the highest scatter combination counting too. Stacked wilds appear in tall blocks, and they do most of the work a plain paytable can’t.

The plain WILD substitutes for everything except the Free Games symbol and the credit-value Scatter Bucks wild. It shows up naturally on reels 1, 2, 4 and 5 and stands in anywhere else via substitution. It’s the one symbol that pays well across a line, and it leads the table below. Beyond that, the line pays are modest.

Symbol pays in credits, shown without bet modifiers:

• Armoured man and woman portraits: 25 / 100 / 400 credits for three, four and five
• Fire-glow woman and swordsman: 20 / 75 / 250 credits
• Green gem stone and red ring gem: 5 / 50 / 150 credits
• A, K, white bird and gold dragon: 5 / 20 / 100 credits
• WILD line wins: 50 / 200 / 1000 credits

That top row is the ceiling of the ordinary game, and it’s a low one. Five portraits pay 400 credits, five wilds 1,000, and nothing in the line table changes during the bonus. Everything above that has to come from the wilds carrying cash.

Scatter Bucks: The Wilds That Carry Cash

Scatter Bucks is the heart of the game. Each wild that lands on the reels arrives either plain or carrying a credit value, and only the valued ones contribute to Scatter Bucks pays. The plain wild is there for line wins and nothing else, which makes every wild landing a small moment of suspense: it’s either a substitute or a cash prize.

At the end of every spin, the sum of all displayed credit values on the reels is paid out on top of any line wins. Those values are pre-multiplied by the bet multiplier, and they scale steeply by reel:

• Reel 1: 25 to 100 credits
• Reel 2: 25 to 500 credits
• Reel 3: 25 to 2,000 credits
• Reel 4: 25 to 2,000 credits
• Reel 5: 25 to 10,000 credits

The rightmost reel is where the money sits: a single top-value wild there can outpay an entire session of line wins. Several valued wilds landing together stack their sums into one payout, so the feature’s biggest prizes come from covered reels rather than lone hits. During the Free Games Bonus, every credit value on a given reel stays the same for each free game, so a good reel five locks in for the whole round.

Free Games Bonus

Three Free Games symbols scattered anywhere across the middle reels open the round, and seven free games come with them. The triggering bet and line count carry over, but the bonus runs on its own reel set. Seven spins is a thin opening round by any standard.

Retrigues are generous by contrast. Three more Free Games symbols on reels 2, 3 or 4 at any point award seven additional free games, and the round only closes when the counter hits zero or 98 free games have been played. That 98-spin ceiling is high enough that a lucky run can build into something substantial, especially with Scatter Bucks values fixed per reel for the duration.

Power Bet: Paying More for Better Wilds

Power Bet is an optional buy that sits on the base game rather than replacing it. It costs 30 times the current bet to activate, and once it’s live the next 30 spins carry an increased chance to win, making the true total outlay 60 times the bet across the purchase and the affected spins.

Activation means choosing between two charms, and the choice decides which boosted wild joins the reels:

• The green stone adds a green wild on all reels, in the base game and the bonus, carrying 50 to 200 credits
• The red ring adds a red wild on all reels carrying 100 to 10,000 credits

Both wilds behave like the Scatter Bucks wild otherwise, so the red ring effectively clones the game’s most valuable reel five value onto every reel. There are strings attached: changing the bet multiplier forfeits the effect on any remaining spins, and a second Power Bet can’t be bought while one is running. The 96.5% return only applies while the mode is active.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6.9/10

This is a slot you play for the wilds, not the paytable, and the stormy mountain ledge is easy company while you wait for them. Most spins belong to the line game, which pays modestly, so the one reason to pick this over a plainer 40-liner is the chance of a wild landing with real money attached.

The best thing in it is the Free Games version of Scatter Bucks: because each reel’s values hold for the whole round, one strong reel early can quietly underwrite every spin that follows. The worst is the round itself, which hands you seven spins and leaves the heavy lifting entirely to retriggers.

It suits players who enjoy cash-collector slots and are happy to pay for the red ring’s boosted wilds to chase the game’s better return. Anyone who wants a bonus that delivers up front, or a printed ceiling to aim at, will find the waits long and the mountain quiet. For cash-wild hunters, though, there’s real money in this storm.

Amulet And Charm Power Bet FAQs

• What is the RTP of Amulet And Charm Power Bet?

  The theoretical return to player is 95.0%, rising to 96.5% while Power Bet mode is in effect.
• How do you trigger the Free Games Bonus?

  Landing three Free Games symbols anywhere on reels 2, 3 and 4 starts the bonus with seven free games. The symbol only appears on those three reels.
• Can the Free Games Bonus retrigger?

  Yes. Three more Free Games symbols on reels 2, 3 or 4 during the bonus award seven additional free games, and the round continues until no free games remain or 98 have been played in total.
• How many paylines does Amulet And Charm Power Bet have?

  The game plays 40 fixed paylines. Line wins must appear on played lines, starting from the leftmost reel, with only the highest combination paid per line.
• What is the Scatter Bucks feature?

  Scatter Bucks pays the sum of every credit value displayed on wilds at the end of each spin. Values range from 25 credits up to 10,000 on reel five, are pre-multiplied by the bet, and stay fixed per reel for the duration of each free game during the bonus.
• What does Power Bet do?

  Power Bet costs 30 times your current bet and boosts the next 30 spins. Choosing the red ring adds wilds worth 100 to 10,000 credits on all reels; the green stone adds wilds worth 50 to 200 credits. Changing your bet multiplier forfeits the remaining boosted spins.
• Which symbols does the wild substitute for?

  The wild substitutes for all symbols except the Free Games symbol and the Scatter Bucks wild that carries a credit value. It appears naturally only on reels 1, 2, 4 and 5, and on all reels via substitution.
• Who makes Amulet And Charm Power Bet?

  Amulet And Charm Power Bet was created by High 5 Games, with the Amulet and the Charm and Scatter Bucks trademarks used under licence from IGT.
• What is the grid size of Amulet And Charm Power Bet?

  The game uses a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows, with 40 paylines crossing them.
• When is Amulet And Charm Power Bet released?

  Amulet And Charm Power Bet’s release date is 9 August 2019.