Book Of Xmas Slot Review
Fine snow drifts over dark pines on a cold blue night, and a gold-trimmed reel frame glows against it like a lit window in the forest. Book Of Xmas, a Spinomenal slot, spends its whole budget on that one card and its one Book, and the discipline is the point: this is the rare festive slot that trusts a ten-line classic to carry December on its own.
It runs on a 5×3 grid with 10 fixed paylines, at 95.9% RTP and high volatility. It sits in a crowded corner of Spinomenal’s own seasonal shelf, alongside Book Of Xmas Jingle Bells and Book Of Xmas Reloaded, and it’s the plainest of the three. Whether plain is what you want from a book slot is the whole question.
Symbols and Payouts
The paying cast is standard festive fare: a lantern-carrying Santa up top, then a snowman, a deer and a mug of hot cocoa, with the royals covering the lower end. All symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win on each line counts. Where several lines win on the same spin, they’re added together into the round’s total.
Values below are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet, so they’re directly comparable to what you’re staking per spin. Line wins themselves are multiplied by the bet per line, which is worth keeping straight when you’re reading the two figures side by side.
- Santa (lantern): 2 pays 100x, 3 pays 1,000x, 4 pays 10,000x, 5 pays 50,000x
- Snowman: 2 pays 50x, 3 pays 400x, 4 pays 4,000x, 5 pays 20,000x
- Deer: 2 pays 50x, 3 pays 300x, 4 pays 1,000x, 5 pays 7,500x
- Hot Cocoa: 2 pays 50x, 3 pays 300x, 4 pays 1,000x, 5 pays 7,500x
- A: 3 pays 50x, 4 pays 400x, 5 pays 1,500x
- K: 3 pays 50x, 4 pays 400x, 5 pays 1,500x
- Q: 3 pays 50x, 4 pays 250x, 5 pays 1,000x
- J: 3 pays 50x, 4 pays 250x, 5 pays 1,000x
- 10: 3 pays 50x, 4 pays 250x, 5 pays 1,000x
The biggest prize on the board is five Santas at 50,000x the total bet. Note the two-symbol pays on the premium symbols: Santa and the snowman both start paying from a pair, which matters more than it usually would on a ten-line game.
The Book is both wild and scatter. It substitutes for every symbol, and three or more scattered anywhere on the reels do two things at once:
- Three Books pay 2x the total bet and trigger 10 free spins
- Four Books pay 25x the total bet and trigger 10 free spins
- Five Books pay 250x the total bet and trigger 10 free spins
Those scatter prizes are paid on top of any regular line wins from the same spin, so a lucky spin can collect twice over. That’s the whole special-symbol story: one Book, doing the wild job and the scatter job at once.
Betting is set per line, and the same per-line bet carries into any free spins round you trigger from it. Stakes are adjusted with the plus and minus buttons, which lock during the bonus, as do the help and settings menus mid-spin.
Auto play runs continuous spins at the selected bet, with a configuration screen for choosing how many rounds to play and a pause button to stop early. Turbo mode shortens each round to the minimum, toggled from the rabbit button on desktop or the settings menu on mobile, and it can be switched on from the auto play screen too.
Free Spins and the Expanding Symbol
The bonus round works in three steps:
- Land three or more scattered Books anywhere on the reels to award 10 free spins
- Spin a wheel of every symbol except the Book to pick the expanding symbol for the round
- Play the spins with that symbol expanding, and retrigger with three or more further Books
The wheel is the round’s one flourish. It covers all the regular symbols, from Santa down to the 10, and whatever it lands on stays fixed for the whole round, so the entire bonus is built around one symbol from the moment it starts. The Book itself is excluded, so the game’s one substituting symbol never gets to be the one that expands.
During free spins, after each spin’s result is settled, the expanding symbol grows across its reels to build new lines on top of the ones already paid. It only grows where that growth creates a win, and it pays across all ten lines regardless of whether the winning symbols sit on consecutive reels.
Expanded wins count separately from the original result, so a good board of the chosen symbol pays twice on a single spin.
The round can retrigger: three or more scattered Books during free spins add another 10 spins, keeping the same expanding symbol and the same bet per line as the round that started it. There’s no stated limit on retriggers, so a long round keeps stretching under the same conditions.
Buy Feature
There’s a BUY FEATURE for anyone who’d rather not wait for the Books to land. Clicking it opens a window where you set the bet you’ll play the free spins round at, and the buy price is set according to that bet. Pay it and the round triggers immediately, wheel and all, with the bet per line matching what you chose in the buy window.
The bought round works exactly like a triggered one: same wheel, same expanding symbol rules, same retrigger conditions. The only difference is how you got there, and because the price moves with the bet you pick, the shortcut is there at whatever stake you’ve settled on.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.9/10
Playing this is a patient business: long quiet stretches on ten lines, everything resting on the Books arriving. You’d choose it for exactly that, actually – sitting in a cold blue pine forest while the snow falls, waiting on one round that matters. The waiting is pleasant here, and on a snowy evening that’s not nothing.
The bonus is the best thing in it. Because expanded wins pay separately from the base result, a full board of the chosen symbol pays twice on one spin, and a retrigger simply gives those conditions more room to work. The weakness is the wheel deciding everything up front: the round’s whole character is fixed before the first free spin settles, so it either lands a premium symbol or it doesn’t, and there’s nothing in between.
This is for players who like the book formula straight, no modern extras, with a festive skin that doesn’t get in the way. Anyone after a twist already has the seasonal shelf to browse. The rest can settle in – the frame’s glowing and the snow keeps falling.
Book Of Xmas FAQs
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What is the RTP of Book Of Xmas?
Book Of Xmas runs at 95.9% RTP. -
Is Book Of Xmas high volatility?
Yes, Book Of Xmas is a high volatility slot, so wins tend to be less frequent but larger when they arrive. -
How many paylines does Book Of Xmas have?
Book Of Xmas is set to 10 fixed paylines, and all of them are active on every spin. -
What is the grid size of Book Of Xmas?
Book Of Xmas plays on a 5×3 grid with five reels and three rows. -
How do you trigger free spins in Book Of Xmas?
Land three or more scattered Book symbols anywhere on the reels. Three, four or five Books pay 2x, 25x or 250x the total bet respectively, and award 10 free spins. -
How does the expanding symbol work?
At the start of the free spins round, a wheel of all symbols except the Book picks one expanding symbol. After each free spin, that symbol expands to form new paylines if the expansion creates a win, and expanded wins pay separately from the original result. -
Can free spins retrigger in Book Of Xmas?
Yes. Landing three or more scattered Books during the free spins round awards an additional 10 free spins. -
Can you buy the bonus on Book Of Xmas?
Yes. The Buy Feature lets you purchase and immediately trigger a free spins round, with the buy price set according to the bet you choose for the round.
