A Tale Of Elves

Welcome to yet another Christmas inspired adventure, this time featuring both Santa and his four little elves helpers all joined together to help you win a real gift of 20000x your total stake!

Enter Santa's workshop, as it hides plenty of Stacked Wilds and Free Spins for you to use and have a real holiday celebration!

Theme and Symbols

The game takes you to Santa's workshop, though upon loading it, you won't see the inside of it, but rather a view on the inside as the reels are set across the window showing a beautiful wintery night with snow covering the trees!

On the left, you will see a wooden sign leading to the forest, while on the reels that are decorated with some lighting bulbs, you will see playing card symbols from J to A, blue, green, orange and yellow elves, as well as...

...a Wild wreath and a Scatter smiling Santa!

The whole game is designed in a cartoon-like manner, together with a jolly tune that accompanies the action perfectly!

Betting Options and Other Functions

This festive slot machine coming from the Aurum Signature Studios slot list is played across a 5x3 reel set while using 243 bet ways!

But, before you enter this playful workshop, you need to set your bets that range from 30p to £12, which may come as a disappointment for high-risk punters.

It is a high-volatile game with a slightly below-average RTP percentage of 95.07% and a top prize of 20000x the total stake!

When it comes to symbols, the paytable starts from the lowest-rewarding J to A playing card symbols, paying up to 2x the stake for five in a combo, and followed by four middle-paying symbols – elves – paying from 5x to 8.33x the stake.

The highest-paying symbol is Santa rewarding 1x, 20x or 200x the stake for 3, 4 or 5 in a combo.

When it comes to the special Wild symbol, not only does it substitute for other symbols, but it also pays on its own – up to 16.66x the stake.

Special Features

The Santa is expectedly the most important symbol of this Christmas-themed title, as it both triggers a feature and awards a random cash prize.

Land two of them on the reels and you can win up to 50x the stake in an instant cash prize, but should you land from three to five of them, you will trigger a Free Spins feature.

When that occurs, you will get a certain prize depending on how many symbols were involved in triggering the feature, and then you will be given a chance to choose among 4 different bonus rounds:

• Blue Elf Spins – you will get 18 extra spins and a 2x multiplier, while the blue elf symbol will be stacked on 6 places in height.
• Green Elf Spins – this round gives you 14 spins, a 3x multiplier and 5 stacked green elf symbols.
• Orange Elf Spins – award you 10 extra spins with a 4x multiplier and 4 stacked orange elves in height.
• Yellow Elf Spins – and you will get 8 spins, a 5x multiplier, but only 3 yellow elf symbols in height.

You can retrigger this round if you land another three or more Scatter symbols, but you will not choose another game, only continue the already chosen one.

Verdict

Aurum Signature Studios created a real holiday-themed game with good-looking graphics and simple gameplay.

Though a below-average RTP of 95.07% may be a little disappointing, the game's top prize of 20000x the stake surely compensates for that, as well as a chance you have been given to choose a bonus game yourself.