The story of Aladdin is a tale as old as time, with Disney’s animated film being the most recognised around – and 3 Genie Wishes takes that concept and adapts it, using both the original and cartoon versions for help.
The end result is a highly addictive and high variance slot machine from Pragmatic Play, allowing users to lose themselves to an enchanting tale of love, pain and courage.
Replacing the typical 3x5 matrix is a 4x5 one, giving a larger and therefore more immersive interface for you to work with; when you look at the screen, you feel embedded inside the imagery. Consequently, each spin becomes that much more thrilling and risky. It’s not everyday that a 50 winlines game presents itself to you, especially one with so many symbols and several features in tow.
What would this story be without you starting off from the bottom and working your way to the top - if it’s good enough for Al, it’s good enough for you! Some of you will already be high rollers, in which case you won’t have to give much thought to the bet amount and whether you should or shouldn’t go all in. However, if you’re a street rat on the streets of this exotic place, you’ll need to know what you’re doing.
The starting point is a friendly looking 0.01 credits, a total that can be increased up to 0.50, another reasonable figure that fails to strike fear into the hearts of many. The raising of your funds comes from how many coins of these values you wish to play with; between 1 and 10 can be placed on all the active lines.
On the display below the spin button, the amounts will read ‘50’ and ‘500’, causing you to think you’re playing with much more than what you actually are, but go to the lower left hand side and you’ll see your bet clearly. This design flaw is quite a big one, for it misleads users.
In addition to questioning how much money you can truly risk, you also have the decision of whether you automatically spin the 5-reels or not. As many as 1,000 rounds can be played at any one time, of which they can be stopped whenever you want to, giving flexibility to all users.
Becoming a prince with 3 Genie Wishes is quite easy, ignoring your abundant need for luck and cash. You have to line up between three and five icons, and prizes are yours. As always, the five of a kind wins will turnover a lot more cash, however with the extra paylines under your belt, you stand a better chance of hitting more victories.
Out of all the symbols, the wild and scatter will prove most rewarding, mostly because of the variance they offer when compared with the rest of the paytable. The wild, a dashing blue genie, will gift as much as 500 credits and substitute other icons (save the scatter). What is more, it can be stacked, thus improving your combo win significantly.
The scatter, on the other hand, can pay wins x1 of your bet, but also activate the bonus round; both of these rewards need at least three symbol matches to trigger them. Moreover, the tile is isolated to the first, third and fifth reels.
Once you’ve launched the bonus round, customers will need to select one of three items, of which there are four possible outcomes, one of which is free spins. Spins sound boring, but here you have two options, whether you get them with Raining Wilds or Sticky Wilds.
In our experience, we found the former a lot more rewarding because of how readily the wilds rained down. That being said, every experience will be unique, and so it’s truly one to try for yourselves.
Pragmatic Play have managed to take a story we all know and make it great again, as a fresh as it possibly can be without completely changing every detail. We love how varied the gameplay is, with the twists and turns helping to keep you in the money, even if it happens to be the lower payouts more often than not. Furthermore, the cost of playing is hardly existent, making it a title everyone can appreciate.
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