Baking Day

Magnet Gaming has cooked up something special in Baking Day. With its theme of a baker preparing sweet treats, this three-by-three slot is filled with tasty bonus features, as well as two separate progressive jackpots. Don’t be fooled by the seemingly mild-mannered visuals: this is slot gaming at its best.

Theme

It’s hard for a slot to seem more wholesome than Baking Day, set as it is vintage kitchen where delicious pies baked goods are being made by a photogenic woman. A freshly-baked pie sits on the sill of the open window, and birdsong fills the air. Gaming symbols include all the ingredients needed to make delicious desserts – butter, sugar, icing, eggs, honey, milk, and strawberries – as well as several bonus symbols that open the oven door to their respective bonus features. Last but not least is the baker wild symbol, whose smiling face substitutes for other symbols in order to form winning combinations, and, in the context of a three-by-three slot, can trigger some pretty big wins all by herself.

Betting Options and Functions

Mathematical balance is key in both baking and online slot gaming, so it’s getting that this title’s betting structure is so simple and well-defined. Bet size per spin is easily adjusted from 0.10–10.00 times the betting currency. There are eight paylines occurring horizontally, vertically, and diagonally, each paying in both directions. Autoplay can be engaged without limits for spin totals or total bankroll swings, so players should be careful before walking away from the screen with autoplay turned on. Paytable and payline information is available on a separate screen; the overall theoretical return to player ratio is a healthy 96.5%.

Features

Magnet Gaming is making a name for itself by turning out solid three-by-three slots that are packed with more features than most games three times their size. With that said, though, the bosses to be found within base play are just as remarkable: any win in base play triggers an automatic respin with an added double win multiplier. A second win triggers a second respin with a triple multiplier, and a subsequent third win triggers a final respin, this time with a fivefold multiplier. This feature alone is more valuable than the free spin modes found in many online slots that would be considered this game’s competition.

Game Flash acts a sort of mini-feature, either awarding players cash prizes, triggering larger bonuses, or, occasionally, triggering one of the game’s jackpots. In Cupcake Tower, players play a kind of frosted version of Donkey Kong, devouring tasty cupcakes as they climb higher and higher, accumulating prizes as they do so. Cake Decorator lets players explore the most lucrative way cakes have ever been iced, while The Recipe offers 25 free spins at a time (it can be retriggered without limit) as well as possible paths to the holy grail of the feature, the Super Jackpot Flash. Finally, two progressive jackpots are available in this game, the larger of which never falls below a payout of 10,000 times the betting currency.

Our Take

Magnet Gaming seems to have discovered a reliably excellent recipe for success in online slots: built a beautiful three-by-three structure, keep base play interesting, and bake an almost obscene quantity of bonuses into the game’s crust. Players are certain to develop a sweet tooth for this title.