Xmas Collection 30 Lines Slot Review
A gold border studded with round bulbs runs around the reel area like old-fashioned marquee lights, and a candy-cane striped banner sits snow-dusted along the top of the screen. Xmas Collection 30 Lines commits fully to the holiday-card aesthetic, gold script title and holly sprigs included, and beneath the tinsel it’s built around one genuinely strange rule: Santa, the wild, only pays if a bell follows him.
From Spinomenal, it’s a simple build on paper: a 6×4 grid, 30 fixed paylines, an RTP of 94.02% and a richest prize of 3,000x the line bet for six wilds. Sister titles from the studio’s festive range include Book Of Xmas Jingle Bells and Wild Santa 2. The tinsel is the easy part; the bell rule is where it gets interesting.
Symbols and Paytable
All symbols pay from left to right, starting with the leftmost reel, and only the highest win on each line counts. Wins are multiplied by the bet per line, so the values below are per-line multiples rather than totals. The Snowman leads the standard symbols, and the gap between it and the royals is wide.
- Wild (Santa) – three pays 100x, four pays 300x, five pays 1,000x, six pays 3,000x the line bet
- Scatter (Bell) – pays on any position, with prizes multiplied by the total bet: 2x for three, 10x for four, 250x for five, 500x for six
- Snowman – three pays 40x, four pays 100x, five pays 250x, six pays 800x
- Christmas Tree / Gift – three pays 20x, four pays 40x, five pays 200x, six pays 400x
- A / K – three pays 10x, four pays 20x, five pays 70x, six pays 140x
- Q – three pays 6x, four pays 10x, five pays 30x, six pays 100x
Read as multiples of the line bet, the ladder drops off quickly below the top, and the three-of-a-kind wins at the bottom are small change. Three Qs returns 6x the line bet, which is a fifth of the total stake on a 30-line spin. The Tree and Gift symbols share a pay row, as do the A and K, which keeps the table compact.
The scatter sits outside the per-line ladder entirely. Because its prizes are multiplied by the total bet, five or six bells anywhere on the grid is worth more than the same count of almost anything else on the reels.
Scatter winnings are added on top of any payline wins in the same round, so the two can land together. That matters more here than in most games, because of what the bell does for the wild.
Wilds, Scatters and Line Wins
The Santa wild substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, which is standard enough. The twist is in how it pays: three to five wilds only count as a win when followed by a scatter symbol. Six wilds stand alone, but everything below that needs a bell in the sequence to pay at all.
That’s an unusual arrangement, and it gives the scatter a second job. The bell isn’t only a prize in its own right; it’s the key that unlocks the wild’s payline value. When a run of Santas lands, the eye goes straight to the reels behind it, waiting to see whether a bell follows.
Santa appears stacked on the reels, which is where the game’s bigger line wins come from. On a 6×4 grid a stack fills all four rows of a reel, so a run of wilds building left to right can put four, five or six Santa symbols across multiple lines at once.
A full stack on an early reel, with a bell landing after it, turns the top of the paytable into a realistic target. The 3,000x six-of-a-kind wild win is the ceiling the whole design points towards. It’s also the only place in the game where a four-figure line prize exists at all.
There’s a second, quieter effect of the wild rule worth spelling out. Because three to five wilds need a trailing scatter to pay, a run of Santas that stops short is worth nothing on its own, no matter how good it looks. The game is comfortable showing you near-misses, and the bell rule is why.
Playing the Game
Bet per line is chosen with the plus and minus buttons, and the game runs on 30 fixed lines, so the total stake is always thirty times that per-line figure. There’s no way to trim the line count for a cheaper spin, which matters on a game whose small wins are already modest fractions of the total stake.
- The bet can’t be changed during free spins – the plus and minus buttons are disabled
- The help and settings buttons are disabled during a spin
- All wins in a round display in the win field as they land
Auto play opens a configuration screen where the number of spins is chosen, and it can be stopped mid-run with the pause button. Turbo mode shortens each round to the shortest possible.
It’s toggled by the rabbit button at the bottom left on desktop, or through the settings menu on mobile, and it can also be switched on from the auto play configuration screen. Everything here is functional rather than fussy.
The paytable is reachable from within the game, the win field keeps a running total for the round, and the configuration screens do their jobs without getting in the way. None of it will surprise anyone who has played a Spinomenal title before, and none of it needs to.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.2/10
This is a slot you play for one reason: to see a stack of Santas roll in and then find out whether a bell is waiting behind it. That wait is the whole game, and it’s a better hook than most festive titles manage. The presentation around it is lovely in a slightly tacky, warm-glow way, and the maths underneath stays honest to that cosiness.
The stacked wilds paired with the scatter-unlock rule give the base game a genuine chase, and the scatter’s total-bet multiplier means the big line win and the big scatter can arrive together. What lets it down is the 94.02% RTP, well below the modern standard, and nothing about the design offsets it.
It’s for players who enjoy a slow, pretty line game and don’t mind paying a little extra for the scenery. Anyone chasing bonus rounds and fat returns will find richer stockings elsewhere. For everyone else, the bells and tinsel do their job well enough.
Xmas Collection 30 Lines FAQs
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What is the RTP of Xmas Collection 30 Lines?
The RTP is 94.02%, which is below the level most modern online slots offer. -
How many paylines does Xmas Collection 30 Lines have?
The game runs on 30 fixed paylines. You can’t reduce or increase the number of active lines, so every spin covers all 30. -
What is the grid size of Xmas Collection 30 Lines?
Xmas Collection 30 Lines uses a 6×4 grid, giving six reels and four rows across its 30 fixed lines. -
When is Xmas Collection 30 Lines released?
Xmas Collection 30 Lines’ release date is 9 December 2021. -
Who makes Xmas Collection 30 Lines?
Xmas Collection 30 Lines is made by Spinomenal. -
What does the wild symbol do in Xmas Collection 30 Lines?
The Santa wild substitutes for all symbols except the scatter. Unusually, three to five wilds only pay as a winning combination when followed by a scatter symbol, so the bell is needed to unlock the wild’s own payline value. -
How does the scatter pay in Xmas Collection 30 Lines?
The Bell scatter pays on any position rather than on paylines. Scatter prizes are multiplied by the total bet, ranging from 2x for three scatters up to 500x for six, and they’re added to any payline wins in the same round. -
How do wins pay in Xmas Collection 30 Lines?
All symbols pay from left to right, starting with the leftmost reel. Only the highest win on each line is paid, and line wins are multiplied by the bet per line.
