Book Of Elves Slot Review
Icicles hang from the corners of a frosted reel window, pine boughs and red berries wrap the title banner, and faceted teal ice peaks rise behind six reels of festive fantasy. Book Of Elves takes the familiar Book formula and stretches it onto a 6×3 grid with 10 fixed paylines, running at 96.01% RTP – a figure its own sequel couldn’t match. Spinomenal have a whole shelf of these Book games, from Book Of Elves 2 to Book Of Titans and Book Of Rebirth Extreme, and this one quietly does the basics better than most of them.
The Reels and the Paytable
Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts. Multiple line wins in a single round are added together for the total. Wins are multiplied by the bet per line, so a six-of-a-kind on a 10-line game carries real weight.
The Elf is the symbol everything else orbits around. Six of him across the reels is worth 100,000x the total bet, which tells you where the real money lives. He even pays from two of a kind, as do the Reindeer and the two mid-tier symbols.
All values below are multiples of the total bet:
- Elf – 100x (two), 1,000x (three), 10,000x (four), 50,000x (five), 100,000x (six)
- Reindeer – 50x (two), 400x (three), 4,000x (four), 20,000x (five), 40,000x (six)
- Sleigh / Gift – 50x (two), 300x (three), 1,000x (four), 7,500x (five), 15,000x (six)
- A / K – 50x (three), 400x (four), 1,500x (five), 3,000x (six)
- Q / J / 10 – 50x (three), 250x (four), 1,000x (five), 2,000x (six)
The Book itself is the wild and the scatter in one. It substitutes for any symbol, and three or more scattered anywhere on the reels pay on top of line wins. That same scatter is the door to the bonus round.
- Three scattered Books – 2x the total bet
- Four scattered Books – 25x the total bet
- Five scattered Books – 250x the total bet
- Six scattered Books – 500x the total bet
Day-to-day controls are standard for the studio’s format. You choose a bet per line with the plus and minus buttons, spin with the button or the space bar, and every win in a round displays in the win field.
The bet buttons lock during free spins, and the help and settings buttons lock mid-spin. Auto play opens a configuration screen where you set the number of spins, and it runs continuously at the selected bet until you pause it.
Turbo mode, toggled by the rabbit button on desktop or through the settings menu on mobile, shortens each round as much as the game allows.
Free Spins and the Expanding Symbol
Three or more scattered Books trigger 10 free spins, played at the same bet per line as the round that set them off. Scatter prizes are paid in addition to any line winnings from the triggering spin, which softens the cost of getting there.
The twist is that the expanding symbol is redrawn on every single spin. One randomly assigned symbol – never the scatter wild – acts as the expander for that spin only. Where most Book games lock one symbol for the whole round, here a round can swing from forgettable to spectacular without a retrigger, because the symbol that matters keeps changing.
After each spin’s result is settled, the expanding symbol grows to cover its reel positions and forms new paylines on top of the existing ones. It only expands when the expansion produces a win. No wasted animations.
It pays across all active lines regardless of whether the winning symbols sit on consecutive reels, and it pays according to the paytable like any other combination. Expanded wins count separately from the original result, so a single spin can pay twice – once for the base result, once for the expansion.
The round can retrigger. Landing three or more scatters again awards an additional 10 free spins on top of whatever remains, with no stated limit on how many times that can happen. The bet per line stays exactly as it was in the triggering game throughout.
Because the expander changes every spin, the value of the round isn’t fixed at the moment the scatters land. A spin that draws the Elf as its expander carries six-figure potential at the top of the paytable. The next spin might draw a 10 and be worth a fraction of that.
Buy Feature
There’s a BUY FEATURE button that skips the waiting entirely. Clicking it opens a window where you can set the bet for the free spins round you’re about to play, and the buy price is calculated from that bet. Pay the price and the round triggers immediately, at the stake you chose.
Buying in works like this:
- Click the BUY FEATURE button in the base game
- Adjust the bet in the purchase window to set your stake for the round
- Check the buy price, which is set according to that bet
- Click BUY to pay the price and trigger the free spins immediately
Because the price scales with the bet you select in the window rather than the bet you were playing, it’s worth settling on a stake before you open it. The round you buy plays under exactly the same rules as one triggered by scatters, including the redrawn expanding symbol and the retrigger.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
This is a Christmas slot you’d pick for its maths, not its tinsel. The 96.01% RTP is comfortably ahead of what its own sequel offers, and the 6×3 grid with 10 lines gives six-of-a-kind Elf lines a paytable scaled to make them the prize everything else orbits around – 100,000x the total bet for a full line, against 40,000x for the Reindeer.
The strength is the bonus round. Redrawing the expanding symbol every spin means no free spin is written off before it happens, and retriggers stack another 10 spins without a ceiling. The base game is plain line wins with one wild book, which is exactly what it looks like on the tin.
It’s a good home for Book-game players who want the familiar shape with fairer maths than the sequel delivered, and for anyone who likes a bit of arithmetic behind their snow. Value-first players have richer shelves elsewhere on the provider page. For the rest, the elves wrapped something worth unwrapping.
Book Of Elves FAQs
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What is the RTP of Book Of Elves?
Book Of Elves runs at 96.01% RTP. -
How do you trigger free spins in Book Of Elves?
Land three or more scattered Wild Book symbols anywhere on the reels. Three or more scatters also pay a prize on top of line wins, and the trigger awards 10 free spins. -
How does the expanding symbol work in Book Of Elves?
On each individual free spin, a randomly assigned symbol (never the scatter Wild) acts as the expanding symbol for that spin only. After the result is determined, it expands to form new paylines if the expansion creates a win, paying across all active lines whether or not the symbols are consecutive. -
Can free spins retrigger in Book Of Elves?
Yes. Landing three or more scatter Wilds during the round awards an additional 10 free spins, with no stated limit on retriggers. -
Can you buy the bonus on Book Of Elves?
Yes. The BUY FEATURE button opens a window where you set the bet for the free spins round, and the buy price is calculated from that bet. Paying it triggers the round immediately. -
What does the wild symbol do in Book Of Elves?
The Book is both the wild and the scatter. As a wild it substitutes for any symbol, and as a scatter it pays 2x, 25x, 250x or 500x the total bet for three, four, five or six respectively, in addition to triggering 10 free spins. -
How many paylines does Book Of Elves have?
The game is set to 10 fixed lines, and all symbols pay left to right starting from the leftmost reel. -
When is Book Of Elves released?
Book Of Elves’s release date is 30 November 2022.
