Penny Fruits Christmas Edition

Penny Fruits Christmas Edition Slot Review

A marquee of chasing white bulbs frames the reels, striped light rays fanning out over a dark purple night, gold coins stacked in the filigree above. Penny Fruits Christmas Edition spends its entire festive budget on that stage set and none of it on the reels, because what spins underneath is a bare 5×4 grid on 10 paylines with not a single bonus round to its name.

Its one real quirk is the red 7 wild, the richest symbol on the board, which only pays when a gold star scatter lands behind it. Tie that to a 96.3% RTP, comfortably ahead of Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition, and there’s an interesting machine hiding under the tinsel. Spinomenal know this orchard well – Fruits On Ice and Glowing Fruits come from the same bowl. The marquee, at least, is always lit.

A Fruit Machine in Stage Costume

The layout is five reels by four rows, with wins counted across 10 paylines. Every symbol pays from the leftmost reel onwards, and only the highest combination on each line is paid. Wins are multiplied by the bet per line, so the stake you set per line is the figure each line win works from.

The line count is adjustable from the panel, which is unusual in a modern release – most fixed-line games don’t hand that kind of control over. Set against the ten lines the game defaults to, it’s a small piece of old-school operator feel that survives from the arcade era.

Controlling it is straightforward:

• Click the spin button or hit the space bar to spin
• Adjust the bet amount with the plus and minus buttons on the right
• Adjust the number of lines with the plus and minus buttons on the left
• Every win in a round displays in the win field
• Help and settings lock while the reels are moving
• An autoplay control sits alongside the manual spin

While the reels turn, a “GOOD LUCK!” message sits in the panel above them. Wins arrive with a coin animation under a big win banner, and the season itself stays in the scenery.

Wild and Scatter

The wild is a red 7 that substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, with one odd condition attached: three to five wilds only pay when a scatter symbol follows them. It’s an unusual hook for an otherwise straight-laced classic, and it’s the closest thing this game has to a twist.

That condition splits the wild in two. As a substitute it behaves like any wild, completing fruit lines across the ten win lines. As a payer in its own right it’s the richest symbol on the board – but only when the gold star lands behind it.

The scatter is that gold star, and unlike everything else on the reels it pays in any position. Line symbols need the leftmost reel; the star doesn’t care where it lands. That makes it the one symbol that can rescue a spin the lines have already written off.

Beyond the wild and scatter, this is a pure spinner. There’s no bonus round, no free spins, no feature to chase. For a Christmas edition, the seasonal content stops at the backdrop and the marquee.

Symbols and Pays

Every pay below is a multiple of the total bet rather than the line bet, which makes the top end look far richer than a classic fruit machine usually manages. It also means the figures are directly comparable across every symbol on the board.

• Watermelon – 400x for three, 1,000x for four, 2,500x for five, 8,000x for six
• Grapes – 200x for three, 400x for four, 2,000x for five, 4,000x for six
• Plum – 200x for three, 400x for four, 2,000x for five, 4,000x for six
• Orange – 100x for three, 200x for four, 700x for five, 1,400x for six
• Lemon – 100x for three, 200x for four, 700x for five, 1,400x for six
• Cherry – 60x for three, 100x for four, 300x for five, 1,000x for six

The ladder is paired as well as steep. Grapes and plum share a row, orange and lemon share another, and from six watermelons down to three cherries there’s a drop of more than a hundredfold. Long combinations are where the money lives in this game; three-of-a-kind wins are small change wherever they land.

The richest symbol on the reels isn’t a fruit at all. The red 7 wild sits far clear of the watermelon, and the scatter keeps pace with the mid-tier fruit despite paying from anywhere.

• Wild (red 7) – 1,000x for three, 3,000x for four, 10,000x for five, 30,000x for six
• Scatter (gold star) – 20x for three, 100x for four, 2,500x for five, 5,000x for six

Remember the condition on the wild: those figures only land when a scatter follows the run. Without the star behind it, a line of 7s pays nothing on its own, which makes the gold star the gatekeeper to every big line win in the game.

That wild is also the ceiling of the whole game. Six of them on a line, with a scatter in support, is worth 30,000x the total bet – the single biggest prize the reels can produce, and a long way clear of anything else on the board.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6.8/10

Ten lines of straight fruit spinning under a theatre marquee, with an adjustable line count and a wild that carries the game’s only real quirk. The garland never leaves the backdrop, and neither does anything else – what spins in the first minute is what spins in the hundredth.

The strength is the top end. A wild paying up to 30,000x the total bet, five times clear of the best fruit, gives these plain reels genuine reach. A scatter that pays anywhere means no spin is dead until the reels stop.

The weakness is that the wild’s biggest pays need the gold star behind it, so the largest prizes depend on two symbols cooperating at once. With no free spins or bonus round to break things up, the base game carries everything alone, and a long session is a lot of the same spin.

For players after a quick, traditional spinner with a serious ceiling, it does the job. Anyone hunting Christmas on the reels rather than around them will find the season here is all scenery – but the marquee is always lit, and the fruit underneath pays well when the star cooperates.

Penny Fruits Christmas Edition FAQs

• What is the RTP of Penny Fruits Christmas Edition?

  Penny Fruits Christmas Edition runs at an RTP of 96.3%.
• How many paylines does Penny Fruits Christmas Edition have?

  The game has 10 paylines, shown by the 10 LINES badge in the interface, and the line count can be adjusted from the panel.
• What is the grid size of Penny Fruits Christmas Edition?

  Penny Fruits Christmas Edition uses a 5×4 grid – five reels and four rows.
• Who makes Penny Fruits Christmas Edition?

  Penny Fruits Christmas Edition is made by Spinomenal.
• When is Penny Fruits Christmas Edition released?

  Penny Fruits Christmas Edition’s release date is 11 December 2019.
• What does the wild do in Penny Fruits Christmas Edition?

  The wild is a red 7 that substitutes for all symbols except the scatter. However, three to five wilds only pay when they’re followed by a scatter symbol, so a run of wilds on its own doesn’t pay.
• What does the scatter symbol do in Penny Fruits Christmas Edition?

  The scatter is a gold star and it pays in any position on the reels, unlike line symbols which must run from the leftmost reel. Landing six is worth 5,000x the total bet.
• Does Penny Fruits Christmas Edition have a bonus round or free spins?

  No. Beyond the wild and the scatter there’s no bonus round, no free spins and no feature to chase – it’s a straight fruit spinner with all the seasonal decoration kept to the backdrop.