Spinions Christmas Party Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

Spinions Christmas Party adds a holiday themed version of an existing slot machine, making it relevant again, at least for a little while. The Spinions are very similar to the Minions that you might’ve noticed in various animation movies, and they’re just as cute to look at, and play a game that uses them as characters. In this particular slot, we have the Christmas version, so there are plenty of gifts and some snow added to the design. The changes don’t go further than those visuals.

Its symbols include a Spinion Elf as the Wild, a Bonus Gift as the scatter, and a list of regular symbols showing Champagne Bottles, Turkeys, Bells, Baubles, Gingerbread Man, and five Royals, 10 to Ace.

Developer

The developer that’s bringing us Spinions Christmas Party is called Quickspin. It’s a company that has close to 100 slot machines out at the moment, and it’s been over 9 years since they launched in Sweden. They have a lot of impressive-looking slots in their collection, some even better than Spinions. I’d mention Sakura Fortune 1 and 2 among those, along with Hall of the Mountain King, and Big Bad Wolf.

How To Play It

There are 17 different bet values that you can choose from, the lowest of which is $0.05, while the highest is at $100.

Spinions Christmas Party has 5×3 reels, and a total of 25 paylines. Nothing unusual there, it’s the same system of forming winning combinations as we get in most slots. Land 3 or more symbols that match, from left to right, and you get a win.

Special Features

First among its features, the slot has the Spinion Wild. A substitute for other symbols, this is also the one that pays the top prize, when up to 5 of them occupy a line. In that case, the prize is 20x the stake (compared with 8x from a regular symbol).

If you have 2+ Spinions on the reels, then the Sticky Wild Respins trigger. The triggering wilds become sticky, and you go through an initial respin. You can keep getting new respins after that, provided that you keep getting new wilds to appear each time.

The other feature symbol is a scatter, with the image of a Gift and a Bonus logo in front. Landing all three, on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th reels, will get you inside its 10 free spins. The X-Mas Party Free Spins will use any landing wilds as sticky symbols. I would’ve liked it if the free spins could be retriggered, but that is not an option that we’re given.

Maximum Payouts

With a top prize of up to 1,876x the stake, Spinions Christmas Party does well enough for a slot machine that’s supposed to be easily accessible to a lot of players. The medium volatility that’s used strikes a good balance, managing to bring the game a top jackpot worth pursuing.

It also comes with an adequate Return to Player, of 96.05%, which is average for a game like this.

Summary

Spinions Christmas Party is a version of the original Spinions, designed for the winter holidays, nothing more. There is nothing original inside, it’s just a reskin that’s designed to be appealing for a few weeks of the year, at Christmas.