Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition Slot Review
Snow sits on the ledges of a cream and gold frame, pine garland with red berries runs along the bottom edge, and blue ribbon swags hang from the top corners over a soft glow of festive bokeh. Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition is a fruit machine you set up yourself rather than one that plays at a fixed setting, and that’s rarer in a festive reskin than it should be.
Spinomenal have built a 5×4 grid with a selectable 10 to 100 paylines, a 2,000x total-bet win cap, and an RTP of 89.06%, well below the returns most online slots offer today. The wild 7 is the richest symbol on the board, and the gold star scatter pays anywhere. For more festive fare from the same studio, there’s Book Of Xmas Jingle Bells, Wild Santa 2 and Holidays Joker Xmas.
Reels, Lines and a Snow-Dusted Frame
It’s a five-reel, four-row layout, and the payline count is yours to choose. The default is 10 lines, with the full range running from 10 to 100, adjusted from the reel interface before each spin. Bet and lines each get their own plus and minus controls, so stakes and coverage can be tuned together or independently.
That line selector is the most interesting decision the game hands you. Running 10 lines keeps the cost per spin down but leaves long stretches of the grid doing nothing; pushing towards 100 lights up nearly every row of symbols but multiplies the stake accordingly. Where you land between the two is a genuine choice, and it’s one most festive reskins never bother offering.
The choice also changes the character of a session. On 10 lines the game plays like a tight classic: wins land along a handful of well-defined paths and everything else is scenery. Open the lines up and the same reels start paying across the whole height of the grid, with several combinations qualifying in a single round and stacking into the total win.
Neither setting is the wrong one, but they’re different games dressed in the same tinsel. The win mechanics underneath are the classic line-slot set:
- All symbols pay left to right, starting from the leftmost reel
- Only the highest win on each active line is paid
- Wins are multiplied by bet per line
- Every qualifying line win in a round is added together into that round’s total
Auto play is on the board too. Hitting the auto play button opens a configuration screen where the number of spins is chosen, and continuous play then runs at the selected bet until it’s stopped. During a spin the help and settings buttons are disabled, and everything a round pays shows in the win field as it goes.
The Paytable
The fruit hierarchy is the classic one, with the watermelon on top of the standard symbols and the cherry propping up the bottom. Values below are multiples of the total bet.
- Watermelon – 400x for three, 1,000x for four, 4,000x for five
- Grapes / Plum – 200x for three, 400x for four, 3,000x for five
- Orange / Lemon – 100x for three, 200x for four, 1,000x for five
- Cherry – 40x for three, 100x for four, 500x for five
The shape of that ladder matters more than any single figure on it. The second tier sits unusually close to the top, so mid-tier fruit carries more weight here than in most classic layouts, while the bottom of the table drops away sharply. Three-symbol wins are modest right across the board, so a busy-looking reel isn’t the same thing as a paid one.
Wild 7 and Gold Star Scatter
The wild 7 substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, and it’s also the richest symbol in the game. Its values, again as multiples of the total bet:
- Wild 7 – 800x for three, 4,000x for four, 20,000x for five
- Gold star scatter – 20x for three, 100x for four, 2,500x for five
That top wild row sits five times clear of the watermelon, a wide margin by any fruit-slot standard. Three or four wilds only pay when they’re followed by a scatter symbol, so a run of 7s isn’t worth much on its own. The scatter has to sit there to unlock the win, which ties the game’s two special symbols together in an unusual way.
The scatter pays in any position rather than on a line, and its prizes are added on top of any regular line winnings from the same round, so a spin can collect twice. Five stars is the outcome that matters: it outranks every fruit symbol on the board. Three and four stars are light touches rather than events, and it’s the line wins that carry a normal session.
Win Ceiling
The game caps a round at 2,000x the total bet. For a slot whose wild row climbs as high as 20,000x, that cap is doing real work, and it’s the number to hold in mind when the paytable starts looking generous. The theoretical top symbol values and the amount a round can actually pay are two very different figures here, and the second one is what counts.
It’s an unusual arrangement, and it reshapes how the game should be read. The paytable’s reach exists mostly to describe what lines are worth along the way, not what a single spin can deliver at the top end. Everything above 2,000x on the symbol ladder is, in practice, decoration for the cap to trim.
Treat the win ceiling as the real prize structure and the rest of the table as context, and the maths starts making sense.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6/10
This is a fruit machine you tune before you play. Choosing between 10 and 100 lines changes what kind of game you’re spinning more than anything else on screen, and a gold star landing anywhere can rescue a spin the lines had already written off, which is the one piece of seasonal generosity the reels actually deliver. Under all the garland, it’s that control that keeps a session interesting.
The paytable is the strongest thing here. A wild sitting five times clear of the top fruit gives the reels genuine reach, and the presentation is properly built rather than a border with a bow on it. The weakness is the maths: the return runs well below what most online slots pay back, and over any long run that takes more than the festive charm gives.
So it suits players who enjoy setting up a classic and want their fruit with a seasonal backdrop, and it will hold them happily for an evening. Anyone whose priority is value per spin will find the Christmas cheer here costs more than it looks. The tree is beautifully decorated; the presents underneath are smaller than the wrapping promises.
Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition FAQs
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What is the RTP of Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition?
The RTP is 89.06%, which is well below what most modern online slots return. -
How many paylines does Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition have?
The default is 10 paylines, but you can choose how many to have active. The number of lines ranges from 10 to 100. -
What is the grid size of Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition?
The game plays on a 5×4 grid, with five reels and four rows. -
When is Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition released?
Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition was released on 22 December 2021. -
Who makes Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition?
It’s made by Spinomenal, the studio behind titles like Wild Santa 2 and Book Of Xmas Jingle Bells. -
What is the maximum win on Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition?
You can win up to 2,000x your total bet in a single round. -
What does the wild symbol do in Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition?
The wild 7 substitutes for every symbol except the scatter. Three or four wilds only pay when followed by a scatter symbol, but five wilds on a line pay 20,000x the total bet. -
How does the scatter pay in Penny Fruits Xtreme Christmas Edition?
The gold star scatter pays in any position rather than on a payline. Its prizes are multiplied by the total bet and added on top of any line winnings from the same round.
