Halloween Jack Slot
Fans of Jack and the Beanstalk and wannabes, here’s a version of your favorite slot for the spooky season. Will it be a trick or a treat? Halloween Jack uses the same pay mechanics as JatB with walking, stacked, and expanding wilds to award wins of up to a hair-raising 6,000x your stake. That should be a very sweet treat for everyone.
Halloween is celebrated in numerous countries on the 31st of October. Mostly young children and teens will carve pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, wear scary Halloween costumes, and go trick-or-treating to collect sweet candy in their neighborhood. Also known as the spooky season, it was originally dedicated to remembering the faithfully departed from the past year. Today, it is a three-day celebration with costume parties, prank-playing and the lighting of large bonfires.
Spooky Slot Reels
In true spectacular fashion, NetEnt’s Halloween Jack brings pumpkins and scary characters to live on five reels, three rows and 20 fixed paylines. A frameless game window with ivy-ornamented side columns and carved pumpkins is placed in front of a cemetery on a dark night. Distant lightning strikes announce the arrival of a thunderstorm. The theme is visible even in the smallest details. Skulls sit on top of the spin button, lifting up on a winning spin to reveal the total payout. Crows are often seen flying past the reels.
Players might jump from their seat on teaser spins when the skeletons emerge from the grave as the slot’s harrowing soundtrack reaches a dramatic crescendo. Thumping short sounds highlight a paying spin, while the symbols in the winning combo are surrounded by a ring of fire.
The slot has ten pay symbols, starting with the usual 10s to As suits at the low level. The premium symbols in ascending order of value are the horseshoe, raven, bat, horse, and female vampire. The carved pumpkin is the wild symbol, appearing on reels two, three, four, and five only, and substituting for all symbols except scatters and lanterns. It will multiply any win by x3 when it is part of the winning combo. The wild symbol will appear in different shapes during the free spins round. Scatters come in the form of a treasure chest, with a minimum of three needed to trigger the free spins. Lanterns appear on reel five during the free spins only.
The Halloween Numbers and Stats
Halloween Jack is a high-variance video slot with five reels, three rows and 20 fixed paylines. The RTP is set at a comfortable 96.29%. Entry to the spooky party is granted for 0.20 to 100 coins per spin. Wins for a single five-of-a-kind range from 1.5x to 50x your stake. The win potential in a single spin sequence with walking wilds peaks at a huge 6,000x the initial bet.
Celebrate a creepy Halloween at any time with wild substitutions, walking wilds, win multipliers and free spins with stacked and expanding wilds. The game is designed in the modern HTML5 format, making it available for play on any desktop, mobile and tablet device across all OS platforms.
Walking Wild Feature With Win Multiplier
The carved pumpkin wild appears in the base game on all reels except on reel one. It will multiply any win by x3 when it is part of the winning combo. During respins or free spins, the wild will appear on reels two, three, and four only. A respin is awarded when it appears on the reels. The wild shifts by one reel to the left until it disappears from the screen. The respins end when there are no more wilds on the screen, and all wins from the feature are accumulated and paid.
The walking wild will have a significant impact in the free spins round. Here it will increase to two- and three-stacks-high as well as transform into an expanding wild. Mega wins are almost guaranteed when multiple expanding wilds hit during the free spins.
The Jack’O’Lector Free Spins
Three or more scatters anywhere on the reels award 10 free spins, but no coin wins. Three or more of them during the free spins will add an additional 5 free spins. The walking wild feature can be triggered during the bonus round.
A lantern landing on reel five will be collected in the Jack’O’Lector and unlock progressively three special wilds. The bonus round starts with standard walking wilds. Once three lanterns are collected, the game activates double-stacked Hell Hound wilds. A further three lanterns will unlock the triple-stacked Jack-O’-Lantern wilds. Finally, nine collected lanterns will activate the expanding Death Reaper wild. All special wilds are walking wilds and will award respins in the same way as the standard walking wild.
More Reels With Walking Wilds and Eerie Themes
JatB fans will probably stick to the original and the newly released Halloween Jack. But there are some exciting options available where walking wilds hold the key to mega wins. Try Wild Toro from Elk Studios or Wild Heist at Peacock Manor from Thunderkick. Halloween devotees can enjoy spooky moments on Lucky Halloween from Red Tiger Gaming or Happy Halloween from Play’n GO.
A Seriously Spooky Verdict
Although a clone of Jack and the Beanstalk, Halloween Jack is a superbly designed slot with attention to even the smallest detail of the spooky season. This high-variance game can reap monstrous rewards for those who dare to spin the reels set on a spine-chilling cemetery background while listening to a harrowing soundtrack. Got your best Halloween costume ready? Then jump onto the reels to collect your sweet treats of up to 6,000x your bet.
