Royal Xmass

Royal Xmass Slot Review

Red satin ribbon loops in from both sides of the frame, fir wreaths tucked behind, a gold border framing a deep green backdrop. Dress it up all you like: Royal Xmass is a game that pays for its own party in one room only. The base paytable is modest by design, and the real maths sits in the free games, where multipliers stack.

Endorphina back the wrapping with the numbers that matter: 98.01% RTP, a 6×4 grid with 4096 fixed pay ways and a 93,750x win ceiling. The later Royal Xmass Dice rolled the same formula in pips; this is where it started. Elsewhere in the catalogue, Santas Gift and Minotaur ReBurn work other seams.

Base Game, Symbols and Paytable

Six reels, four rows and 4096 fixed pay ways. Wins are combinations of a kind, so any left-to-right run of matching symbols across adjacent reels pays, and there’s no line to trace – the count of possible runs is what produces that four-figure ways total.

The symbol set splits into two halves. The premiums are festive and royal at once: a crown at the top, then a purple gem and a red bauble, followed by a blue key and a green scepter. The royals, A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9, fill out the lower rungs.

The wild substitutes for every symbol except BONUS and appears on reels two through six. In the base game that’s its whole job: it fills gaps, it doesn’t multiply anything. The multiplier behaviour belongs to the free games and stays there.

All symbol values below are multiples of the total bet, for combinations of three, four, five and six of a kind:

• Crown: 2x, 2x, 6.25x, 7.5x
• Purple Gem, Red Bauble: 1.5x, 2.5x, 5x, 6.25x
• Blue Key, Green Scepter: 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x
• A, K: 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x
• Q, J: 0.25x, 0.75x, 1.5x, 2.5x
• 10, 9: 0.25x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x

Even the crown pays just 7.5x for a full six-of-a-kind, so the base game isn’t where the money lives. What it does is keep the reel budget ticking over while you wait on the scatters.

Free Games with the Wild Multipliers Feature

BONUS symbols are scatters, so they count wherever they land. Three or more of them trigger the Free Games with the Wild Multipliers Feature, and the trigger count matters a great deal:

• 3 BONUS symbols: 8 free games
• 4 BONUS symbols: 15 free games
• 5 BONUS symbols: 25 free games
• 6 BONUS symbols: 100 free games

Inside the round, every wild that lands is endowed with a multiplier of x2, x3 or x5, applied whenever it substitutes into a winning combination. The wild still substitutes for everything except BONUS, exactly as in the base game; what changes is that each substitution now carries a multiplier.

If several multiplier wilds form part of the same win, all of them apply, which is how a single combination can be boosted to 3,125 times its base value. That figure is the engine of the game’s 93,750x ceiling: stacked multiplier wilds across a 4096-ways grid.

Retriggers

Free games can be won again during the feature, and the retrigger ladder mirrors the trigger ladder with one addition at the bottom:

• 2 BONUS symbols: 5 more free games
• 3 BONUS symbols: 8 more free games
• 4 BONUS symbols: 15 more free games
• 5 BONUS symbols: 25 more free games
• 6 BONUS symbols: 100 more free games

Note the two-scatter retrigger, which isn’t something every game offers. Free games run at the same bet as the triggering spin.

Risk Game

After any win, before collecting, you can take the prize into a card duel. Four cards lie face down; beat the Dealer’s card and your win doubles, and you can run the ladder again, up to 10 attempts in total. Lose any round and the whole stake of winnings goes with it.

A card of matching value is a draw: the win stands unchanged and you can take another attempt without cost. If you’d rather not risk, TAKE WIN banks the prize and walks away at any point, including between attempts after a successful double.

The odds have an unusual shape. Card probabilities aren’t equally distributed, the Joker beats everything and the Dealer can never draw one. Every closed card can be higher or lower than the Dealer’s, and cards can reappear from round to round, so what looks like a straightforward higher-or-lower is really a shifting puzzle.

Take the risk every time, whatever the Dealer shows, and the average return for the round is 84%. Reading the Dealer’s card before choosing turns it from a coin flip into an actual decision, which is more than most gambles offer.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

This is a slot you play for the scatters, not the spinning. Between bonuses there’s not much to do: small ways wins, a wild that fills gaps, and a lot of festive green to look at. But the pull is real, because the free games don’t just pay more, they pay differently.

The best thing here is that multipliers compound rather than stack. One combination carrying x2, x3 and x5 wilds together stretches to 3,125 times its value, and the two-scatter retrigger keeps a round alive long after it started. The gamble runs a close second: the Dealer never holds the Joker, so a player who reads the table has a real edge over the 84% blind average.

The worst thing is that the base game funds almost nothing, so the road to three scatters is mostly decoration. It’s a fit for players who like one big idea and don’t mind waiting for it; anyone after steady action should spend December elsewhere. For patient high-chasers, this is the rare Christmas slot where the maths is more generous than the wrapping.

Royal Xmass FAQs

• What is the RTP of Royal Xmass?

  Royal Xmass runs at 98.01% RTP in its default configuration, well above the industry average.
• What is the maximum win on Royal Xmass?

  The maximum win is 93,750x your bet, driven by stacked wild multipliers during the free games.
• How does the Free Games feature trigger?

  Three or more BONUS scatter symbols trigger the Free Games with the Wild Multipliers Feature. BONUS symbols count at any position on the reels, so they don’t need to sit on a pay way.
• How many free games do you get in Royal Xmass?

  You get 8 free games for 3 BONUS symbols, 15 for 4, 25 for 5 and 100 for 6. The round retriggers on 2 or more BONUS symbols, awarding 5, 8, 15, 25 or 100 extra games.
• What do the wild multipliers do in the free games?

  During free games, wild symbols turn into x2, x3 or x5 multipliers applied when they substitute into a win. If a combination includes several multiplier wilds, all of them apply, boosting a single win by up to 3,125 times.
• How many pay ways does Royal Xmass have?

  Royal Xmass is a 6-reel, 4-row slot with 4,096 fixed pay ways. Wins are combinations of a kind across adjacent reels.
• Is the Risk Game worth taking?

  The Risk Game doubles your win if you beat the Dealer’s card, up to 10 attempts. Taking the risk regardless of the Dealer’s card returns 84% on average, and the Dealer never gets the Joker, so a disciplined player can make a genuine decision.
• Who makes Royal Xmass?

  Royal Xmass is made by Endorphina, the studio behind a large catalogue of slots including Royal Xmass Dice and Santas Gift.