Haunted Hallows Slot Review
A witch on her broomstick is cut out of the full moon, a crooked mansion glows amber against a purple sky, and a jack-o’-lantern grins up from the shadows. On a screen this charming, Haunted Hallows gets away with being mean: it pays out better than a game this small has any right to, while giving back less over a session than almost anything else you’ll spin.
Eyecon have built it as a straight three-reeler: a 3×3 grid, nine paylines, and a return of 90.740%, which colours everything else the game does. It’s a simpler build than Fluffy Favourites or Enchanted Prince, closer to a classic pub machine dressed for October. October doesn’t last forever, but this one does.
Base Game & Features
Three reels, three rows, nine fixed paylines. Wins pay left to right, and only the best win on each selected line counts, with wins on different paylines adding together. Line wins are scaled by the wager per payline, while scatter wins pay anywhere and scale with the total wager.
Because the grid is only three symbols wide, every win is a three-of-a-kind win. There’s no room for partial lines or two-symbol payouts, so the paytable runs one row per symbol and nothing else. Nine payline diagrams cover every route across the grid, from the three horizontals to the diagonals and the zig-zags between them.
The Haunted Hallows logo symbol is wild and substitutes for everything except the two scatters, the Jack o’ Lantern and the Candy. Because it can stand in for any of the six regular symbols, it’s involved in more winning lines than anything else on the reels. It’s also the richest symbol by a wide margin, which is the usual arrangement in a three-reeler of this kind.
Values below are multiples of the total bet:
- Haunted Hallows wild, three of a kind: 1,111.1111x
- Witch silhouette, three of a kind: 333.3333x
- Frankenstein, three of a kind: 111.1111x
- Skull, three of a kind: 22.2222x
- Ghost, three of a kind: 11.1111x
- Black Cat, three of a kind: 2.2222x
- Potion Bottle, three of a kind: 1.1111x
- Candy scatter, three anywhere: 1.1111x
The drop from wild to witch is steep, and it steepens again on the way down to the cat and the potion bottle. The top three rows carry nearly all of the game’s real win potential; the bottom four are line-fodder that mostly exists to keep the balance ticking over between features.
Scatter wins follow their own accounting: for each scatter, only the highest scatter win joins the line wins. The Candy scatter pays the same as the lowest regular symbol, but its real job is opening the bonus round rather than paying its keep.
Autoplay is built in. You choose the number of automatic spins before the run starts, and you can set a loss limit so the session stops itself before the losses climb past a figure you’ve chosen. Pressing the autoplay button mid-run ends it manually.
It’s straightforward stuff, and the game never asks more of you than matching three symbols. Everything else it does lives in the two scatter-triggered features.
Haunted Hallows Bonus Features & Free Spins
Two features carry the game, both triggered by scatters landing anywhere on the three reels. Neither asks for a specific position or payline, which matters more than you’d think on a 3×3 grid, where scatter room is at a premium.
Free Games
Land three scattered Candy symbols anywhere and you’re awarded 8 Free Games. Every line win and scatter win during the round is tripled. The round runs on the same paylines and wager as the spin that set it off, so there’s no separate bonus bet or altered grid to get your head around.
The tripling applies to everything the round pays, including the wild line and the witch, which is where the arithmetic gets interesting. A tripled top line at 1,111.1111x the bet is a serious prize for a game of this size. Retriggers are allowed, up to a maximum of 15 times.
Each retrigger needs another three Candy symbols, and the free spins keep stacking onto the running total until you hit that ceiling or the candies stop coming. Fifteen retriggers on top of the original eight would take the round past a hundred spins, though getting anywhere near that needs the candies to keep landing on a grid with only nine positions.
Prize Pick
Land three scattered Jack o’ Lantern symbols anywhere to open the Prize Pick. You get three picks, and each one can award up to 111x the total wager, with every prize stacking on top of the last.
Three picks at the top value, stacked together, would make for a very good round indeed without a single payline involved. More often it’ll be a modest consolation prize, but the pick format at least guarantees you leave with something every time it opens.
That’s the full feature list. No gamble ladder, no collector mechanic, nothing else on top, which is exactly what you’d expect from a three-reel build like this one. What the game does offer, it keeps plainly on the table.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.2/10
This is a game you play in the gaps of an evening. Every spin resolves in about a second, there’s nothing to learn, and the mansion-and-moon artwork does the entertaining between features. The one reason to pick it over any other seasonal slot is the tripling inside Free Games, which turns a modest three-reel paytable into something that can genuinely pay.
That bonus pairing is the best thing here. Tripled wild lines, a pick game that always leaves you something, retriggers up to fifteen times – that’s a generous engine under a very small bonnet. The return is the problem, and it’s a big one: 90.740% gives back less than nearly everything next to it, and on a game this fast the grind is real.
So it’s for players who enjoy plain, quick three-reel spins and like their Halloween without a hundred features attached. Anyone who wants a modern mechanic or a fair long-run return will find the treats here too thin. But for a short, spooky session, the porch light’s on.
Haunted Hallows FAQs
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What is the RTP of Haunted Hallows?
The RTP is 90.740%, which sits well below what most modern slots return. -
How do you trigger the Free Games in Haunted Hallows?
Land three scattered Candy symbols anywhere on the reels. That awards 8 Free Games, during which all line wins and scatter wins are tripled. -
Can Free Games be retriggered in Haunted Hallows?
Yes. Free Games can be retriggered up to a maximum of 15 times, and the round keeps the same paylines and wager as the triggering spin. -
What does the Prize Pick award in Haunted Hallows?
You make three picks, each worth up to 111x the total wager, and every prize you uncover stacks together into one payout. -
What does the Haunted Hallows wild symbol do?
The Haunted Hallows logo substitutes for all symbols except the scattered Jack o’ Lantern and Candy symbols. It’s also the top payer, worth 1,111.1111x the total bet for three of a kind. -
How many paylines does Haunted Hallows have?
Nine paylines, all fixed across the 3×3 grid. Wins pay left to right, and only the highest win on each line counts. -
How are wins paid in Haunted Hallows?
Line wins pay left to right and are multiplied by the wager per payline, with only the highest win counted on each line. Scatter wins pay anywhere, are multiplied by the total wager, and the highest scatter win is added to the line wins. -
What is the highest-paying symbol in Haunted Hallows?
The Haunted Hallows logo, which is also the wild. Three of a kind pays 1,111.1111x the total bet, and any win it forms during Free Games is tripled.
