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Pros Tips

As this is a highly volatile slot, I suggest sticking to a lower bet level, something that will get you even more spins for your budget. With that being said, the game can be immensely rewarding in the base game too, so you can still manage to get your hands on some sizable rewards without triggering the free spins or howl at the moon bonuses.

Lucky Halloween Slot Bonus Features

This undead biker’s Halloween theme has a wonderfully whimsical air to it, and you spin your way across graves and tombstones with five reels, three rows and 20 paylines. Wins are awarded for combinations made up of at least two matching symbols, starting from the leftmost reel. The more symbols you have in the combination, the higher the rewards.

As per tradition, the low-paying symbols are represented by royal card symbols from 10 to A and this time around they have a Burtonesque quality to them. These tokens can get you wins of up to 4x your stake for five identical symbols. Higher up the ladder, you get all sorts of spooky creations, including a bat-winged monster cupcake, a purple potion, a mummified cat, a witch’s hat and a jack-o’lantern chopper motorbike with the game’s logo stamped over it.

These tokens can get you far better wins, with the motorbike symbol awarding a maximum of 16x your stake for five identical symbols. You can also get a win with two motorbike symbols, although this only awards a 0.1x win. But the highest paying symbol is the jack-o’lantern wild which can award you a whopping 20x your stake for five matching symbols.

As expected from a Red Tiger slot, Lucky Halloween is equipped with very friendly functions including a turbo mode to boost each spin’s speed. That sets up the basics for the game, but we’ll dive deeper to take a look at all the special features that await.

Pumpkin Biker

The online slot’s protagonist himself, a bad-ass biker with a jack-o’lantern for a head, will randomly show up at the start of spins to add his reel modifiers. These can include additional wilds, scatter symbols, win multipliers and more. I enjoyed how well-animated this feature turned out to be and it felt like a special occasion, every time I saw his glowing head ride onto the screen.

Wilds

I love wild symbols. They pop up in the nick of time to save the day, graciously stepping in for missing pay symbols to complete a payline. They even enhance existing wins and have helped me get to higher wins on countless occasions.

In Lucky Halloween, wilds are crucial. Apart from performing their general duties, they also happen to be the highest-paying symbol in the game. What’s more, the pumpkin biker can also drop a huge 3×3 mega symbol version on the grid, or simply pepper the reels with additional wilds.

Scatter symbol

There are two types of scatter symbols in Lucky Halloween. The free spins scatters quite obviously lead you into the free spins bonus and you’ll need a minimum of three to access the bonus rounds. The second batch is the full moon scatters and you similarly need three of these tokens to access the full moon bonus.

Scatters have no payout value and are purely used to access their respective bonuses.

Special Reels

One of the pumpkin biker features that I found most useful was the special reels. Whenever this modifier hit, the biker would speed past the screen and guarantee reels full of a particular symbol. Now in some cases, this simply turned out to be reels full of a low or mid-level symbol, but on a couple of occasions, the biker brought with him high-paying tokens and even scatter symbols.

My first free spins trigger did come from one of these random activations. It adds even more value to the feature, increasing your odds of hitting bigger wins and reaching new phases within the game.

Pumpkin Tree

Another of the pumpkin biker’s special features, this mechanic adds in the pumpkin tree, which as you may have already figured out is full of jack-o’lanterns. The tree awards random win multipliers and these cap at 20x your win. It’s a significant boost that can push you towards brilliant wins in both the base game and free spins.

Free Spins

With three scatter symbols, you unlock the free spins bonus. Before starting, you pick from three golden cauldrons to determine the number of free spins you get. These figures vary and I even managed to start with 16 free spins during one of my bonus rounds.

The biggest change during free spins is that the pumpkin biker shows up way more often, allowing you to rack up bigger and better wins. You can also land three more scatter symbols, which in turn present you with another three gold cauldrons that contain additional free spins.

The bonus ends once you run out of free spins. Without a bonus buy option, there is no way to immediately access the free spin bonus. So, instead, you’ll always be relying on scatter symbols.

Howl at the Moon Bonus

The second special bonus transports you to a haunted castle filled with instant cash prizes. It’s a trail bonus of sorts, where you pick from random jack-o’lanterns which will progress you along the trail and even help you claim instant cash prizes. The higher up you get, the bigger the cash prizes that await.

After three picks, the bonus runs out and you’re returned to the base game. Just like the free spins bonus, the howl at the moon bonus doesn’t have a bonus buy option and can only be triggered with scatter symbols.

Lucky Halloween Slot on Mobile

As an avid mobile player, I was hoping that Lucky Halloween would run just as well on my phone and tablet. Luckily, Red Tiger delivered. The online slot arguably played even better on my Android phone, with responsive controls and crisp graphics. While you can play in both landscape and portrait modes, I’d suggest going for landscape, as this gives you a much better view of the grid.

The game is compatible with all modern mobile browsers and runs on both Android and iOS devices. It comes with all the same features and win potential, so you have no compromises whatsoever when playing on the go.

Conclusion

Red Tiger knows how to put together a fantastic experience and Lucky Halloween is one of those gems that nails it with its excellent gameplay.

There is a wealth of features and mechanics on offer and rather than hiding them behind the free spins bonus, the developer has let them loose on base game spins too. This means that every spin can be just as exciting as the last and I managed to score some memorable wins outside of the bonus modes. Of course, the bonus modes simply add more value, building on the base game’s foundations to propel those features to new heights.

The game is also visually stunning, with impeccable designs for the backdrops and symbols, as well as jaw-droppingly brilliant animations which light up the grid. The soundtrack is just as good, setting the right tone and mood for the theme. My only complaint is the maximum win cap, which is sadly quite low at 800x your stake.

So, if you’re looking for a whimsical, Tim Burton-like, Halloween-themed video slot with excellent visuals and incredible features, then Lucky Halloween is all you need. Just as long as you’re ok with a relatively low maximum win.