Fairytale Fortune Slot Review
A white castle rises out of the mist on a left-hand cliff, its spires pointed at a sky washed in lilac and peach, while wisteria spills over a golden vine frame and roses crowd the bottom of the screen. The loveliest game Pragmatic Play have ever drawn is also one of their least forgiving in one specific way: it hides four completely different bonus rounds behind a single trigger and refuses to let you choose.
That refusal is the whole design. Three diamonds on reels 1, 3 and 5 deal you a wheel, a shower of wilds, a slow collection or a twenty-spin climb, at random, and a gamble ladder waits on whatever lands. Underneath, it’s a 5×4 grid with 15 paylines, 96.52% RTP, medium volatility, a maximum win of 3,200x the bet and stakes from 0.15 to 240.00 per spin.
For more from the same studio, our reviews of 3 Magic Eggs, Wild Depths and Sweet Bonanza cover the range either side of this one.
Base Game & Features
All symbols pay from left to right on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel. Wins on multiple paylines are added together, and only the highest win on each line counts. All wins are multiplied by the bet per line.
The wild substitutes for all symbols except two, one gem-like and one rose. It has no pay values of its own – it’s there to complete lines the regular symbols can’t finish.
A blue diamond bonus symbol appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5, and three of them open the bonus game. The paytable is worth reading closely, because the drop from the top symbol to the card suits is steep. Values are expressed in coins, at the bet per line in play:
- Fairytale Fortune logo – 5.00 for three, 10.00 for four, 50.00 for five
- Woman (heroine) and Man (prince) – 3.00 for three, 6.00 for four, 30.00 for five
- Dragon, Unicorn and Book – 2.00 for three, 4.00 for four, 20.00 for five
- Hourglass and Spade – 0.50 for three, 1.50 for four, 10.00 for five
- Heart, pink Diamond gem and Club – 0.50 for three, 1.00 for four, 5.00 for five
The premium end of that table is where the theme lives: a heroine, a prince, a dragon, a unicorn and a book, all rendered in the same glossy storybook style as the backdrop. The card suits and the hourglass fill out the lower end.
The suits pay the small wins and the storybook symbols pay the memorable ones, but with a 5×4 grid and 15 lines the ceiling on any single base game result is modest. The real money is in the bonus game.
Medium volatility means payouts come steadily, with the range of individual wins running from low to very high. Frequent modest returns from the suits, occasional larger hits from the storybook symbols, and a bonus game that carries the ceiling.
Fairytale Fortune Bonus Features
Three bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 trigger the bonus game, which awards one of four features at random. There’s no picking screen and no way to influence which one arrives – the draw is the draw.
Special reels are in play during every feature, and none of them can be retriggered. Each bonus runs for its fixed award and then returns you to the base game.
Wheel of Fortune
A spin of the wheel awards one of eleven total bet multipliers: 50x plus one more spin, or a flat 50x, 45x, 40x, 35x, 30x, 25x, 20x, 15x, 10x or 5x. If the 50x plus a spin segment hits, the wheel spins again, and the feature only ends when no spins remain.
It’s the only one of the four features with no free spins attached. The floor of 5x keeps even a bad result from being nothing.
Raining Wilds
Ten free spins, with between three and ten Fairytale Fortune symbols added to the reels in random positions on every spin. They’re removed again at the start of the next spin, so each spin gets a fresh scatter of wilds rather than a build-up.
Super Wilds Free Spins
Ten free spins plus a single Super Wild Free Spin. Across the first ten spins, up to 15 Fairytale Fortune symbols that hit anywhere on the screen are collected. On the eleventh – the Super spin – every collected symbol goes back onto the reels at once, in random positions.
The whole feature is a slow accumulation with one payout moment at the end, and the size of that moment depends entirely on how full the collection got.
Progressive Free Spins
Twenty free spins with a collection mechanic built around the rose symbol, which appears on all reels during the feature and awards one point each time it lands. The points total decides which reel set the next spin uses:
- 0 to 4 points – Level 1, rose stacked on reel 1
- 5 to 9 points – Level 2, rose stacked on reels 1 and 2
- 10 to 14 points – Level 3, rose stacked on reels 1, 2 and 3
- 15 to 19 points – Level 4, rose stacked on reels 1, 2, 3 and 4
- 20 or more – Level 5, rose stacked on all five reels, though the rose itself doesn’t appear on reel set 5
The levels only climb – the reel set improves as points accumulate rather than resetting – so a strong early run of roses keeps paying on every remaining spin. Getting to Level 5 takes consistent rose hits across the twenty.
Gambling Feature
Any feature win can be collected or gambled, at multipliers of 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x. The structure is the same at every level: pick one object from a set, where exactly one wins the multiplied amount and every other object loses the full gambled total.
So the 2x gamble is one pick from two with one loser, and the 5x gamble is one pick from five with four losers. The odds get proportionally worse as the prize gets bigger, which is the whole design of the ladder.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing this is mostly waiting in a very beautiful room. The base game is steady 15-line spinning with modest results, and the reason you’d sit through it is the draw at the end: three diamonds and you find out which of four different games you’re about to play. No two bonuses feel alike here, and that surprise is genuinely rare in a medium-volatility slot.
The strength is that variety – four features that play nothing like each other, with a gamble that lets you push any of them. The weakness is that none of them can be extended: no retriggers, so a thin collection in Super Wilds or a sparse rose count in Progressives pays what it pays and stops.
It suits players who like a steady pace and a bonus that changes shape every time, and it will leave ceiling-chasers cold with that 3,200x cap. For everyone else, this is a storybook worth sitting down with, even if you don’t get to pick the chapter.
Fairytale Fortune FAQs
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How do you trigger the bonus game in Fairytale Fortune?
Three blue diamond bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 trigger the bonus game, which then awards one of four features at random: Wheel of Fortune, Raining Wilds, Super Wilds Free Spins or Progressive Free Spins. -
Can the bonus features in Fairytale Fortune be retriggered?
No. Special reels are in play during the features and none of them can be retriggered, so each bonus runs for its fixed award of spins or wheel spins and then returns you to the base game. -
What is the RTP of Fairytale Fortune?
The RTP is 96.52%, which sits just above the typical online slot average. It’s a medium volatility game, so payouts arrive steadily with a range from low to very high. -
How does the Progressive Free Spins feature work?
You get 20 free spins and collect points by landing rose symbols, which appear on all reels and award one point each. Your points total sets the level for the next spin, from a rose stacked on reel 1 at Level 1 up to roses stacked across all five reels at Level 5. -
What is the maximum win on Fairytale Fortune?
The maximum win is 3,200x your bet. The biggest single feature payouts come from the top Progressive Free Spins level and a full collection in Super Wilds Free Spins. -
How does the gamble feature work in Fairytale Fortune?
Any feature win can be gambled at 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x. You pick one object from a set of two to five, where one object multiplies your win and the rest lose the whole gambled amount, so the risk rises with the multiplier. -
How many paylines does Fairytale Fortune have?
It has 15 paylines across a 5×4 grid. All symbols pay from left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one, and only the highest win per line is paid. -
Who makes Fairytale Fortune?
Pragmatic Play. The game runs on their standard platform, with stakes from 0.15 to 240.00 per spin.
