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5 November 2024 
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Santa’s Xmas Rush Slot Review
Explore festive-themed wins in Pragmatic Play’s latest release, Santa’s Xmas Rush!
Pragmatic Play is taking us to the North Pole, where Santa is busy cooking up big wins in Santa’s Xmas Rush. Thanks to the Cluster Pays mechanic, wins come in all shapes and sizes on the grid, with a minimum of 6 symbols needed to unwrap wins.
The biggest wins come from presents via the Xmas Rush feature. If you’ve been particularly good this year, Santa may reveal a number of Respin Prizes worth up to 2,500x your bet.
No need to worry naughty list players, Santa has something for everyone in Santa’s Xmas Rush!
Base Game & Features
Santa’s Xmas Rush is a 6×6 Video Slot featuring a Cluster Pays mechanic and varying bet sizes between £.€0.20 per spin and £.€240 per spin. Other statistics include an overall RTP of 96.51%, a High Volatility rating, and a max win cap of 10,000x your bet.
Each high and low-paying symbol award wins in blocks of 6+ symbols connecting Horizontally or Vertically. Winning clusters are subject to removal via a Cascade Feature. This creates space for new symbols to drop in from above, potentially enhancing or creating wins in a single spin.
Xmas Rush Feature
In the base game, 3-8 random positions can be marked with a Snowflake. If after a Cascade, a Santa symbol is present, it will transform all marked Snowflake positions into direct Money symbols worth between 0.5x and 2,500x your bet or trigger a Respin Prize.
If a Respin Prize is not revealed, all awarded Money symbols are collected and paid out. If more than 1 Santa symbol is present at the time of the reveal, all money symbols are multiplied by the total number of Santa symbols in view.
Ante Bet
Players will have the option to activate 1 of 2 Ante Bet features:
- Ante Bet 1: For an additional 50% of your current bet, your chances of triggering Free Spins are 3 times higher
- Ante Bet 2: For triple your current bet, your chances of triggering Free Spins are 8 times higher
Bonus Buy
Non-UK players can purchase the Free Spins round for an additional 120x their bet.
Free Spins
Landing 4, 5, 6, or 7 Scatters in the base game triggers the Free Spins round, awarding 10, 14, 18, and 22 Free Spins respectively.
During Free Spins, Snowflake markers are not added randomly. Instead, every winning cluster that occurs will have the chance to add a snowflake marker on a random position until the end of the feature. Please note, that this round cannot be retriggered.
Our Verdict
After putting 2 and 2 together, we admittedly came up with 5. Going by its title, we were wrong to think that Santa’s Xmas Rush was a carbon copy of Pragmatic Play’s Sugar Rush. Granted, there are certain similarities, particularly the Cluster Pays mechanic and Snowlake Markers, but as a whole, it’s an entirely different ball game.
Pragmatic Play has taken the magic of Christmas and blended it with elements of gameplay that players enjoy, making Santa’s Xmas Rush an appealing option with great potential.
Choosing Christmas as a theme is a big risk for providers, especially when this particular festive season only runs once a year, but pulling it off could mean players hold it dear all year round.
If there’s an area in which Pragmatic Play succeeds it’s the cluster pays mechanic. Slots like Cyclops Smash, Fire Portals, and Fruit Party 2 are some of their best work, so we’re confident Santa’s Xmas Rush will radiate with players.
*Santa’s Xmas Rush is available to play across Top Casino Sites on the 28th November 2o24
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