Editorial note: this is a general guide to Christmas slots at Fortune Games. Slot rules, features and RTP can vary between operators and game versions, so always check each game's information panel before you spin. Slots are games of chance — nothing here is a prediction of results, and no strategy changes the odds.
Christmas Slots
A Christmas slot takes its look from the festive season, with Santa, wrapped presents, decorated trees, bells and snow, and many are seasonal editions of games that already exist. Our guides credit Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom with a large share of them, and studios such as Inspired, Blueprint Gaming, NetEnt, Playtech, Big Time Gaming, Hacksaw Gaming, Red Tiger, Light & Wonder and Games Global’s partner studios with others. Our guides to Christmas slots we stock are listed below.
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What makes a Christmas slot
Santa takes on several different jobs. He is the wild in Santa Surprise and in Pragmatic Play’s 2017 Santa, where he can land stacked. In Jingle Winner he is the bonus symbol that opens free spins, and in Christmas Big Bass Bonanza he replaces the angler as the wild that gathers fish values.
Seasonal objects fill the paytables. Santa Surprise shows wrapped presents, a bell, a lit candle and stockings; Amazing Link Christmas climbs through candy canes, candles, red stockings and golden bells; and in Jingle Spin the higher pays are five Christmas tree decorations. Settings run from a snowy market stall in Fruit Shop Christmas Edition to the Victorian London of Christmas Carol Megaways and the frozen lakes of the festive Big Bass games.
Presents often drive the features as well. In Santa’s Great Gifts they hold multipliers from 2x to 100x, and Big Bass Xmas Xtreme asks you to unwrap gifts that reveal modifiers before free spins begin. Santa and Santa Surprise both have pick screens where you open presents on or under a tree for prizes.
How Christmas slots differ
The grids are far from uniform. Many festive games keep five reels and three rows, but Christmas Carol Megaways from Pragmatic Play changes reel heights on every spin for up to 200,704 ways, and Christmas Bonanza from Big Time Gaming offers up to 117,649, with carts above reels two to five that each add a symbol to the reel below. Santa's Great Gifts has no paylines at all: on its six-by-five grid, eight or more matching symbols anywhere pay. Sugar Rush Xmas uses a 7x7 board where clusters of five or more touching symbols win.
Bonus triggers vary too. Jingle Spin has no scatter; a wild that lands beneath one of the baubles passing along the top of the reels opens it for a coin win, spreading wilds or free spins. In Christmas Krampus the free spins pause whenever Krampus lands, and he steps one reel to the left on each respin, taking the cash values of the presents beside him. Christmas Carol Megaways lets you shape its round, trading a longer run of spins with a low starting multiplier against a short one that begins at up to 10x.
Volatility and top prizes spread widely in our guides: Christmas Bonanza is rated high with a maximum win of 26,000x stake, Christmas Krampus medium to high with 2,000x, and Jingle Spin medium.
Where to start
Each of these brings something different to the season:
- Big Bass Christmas Bash: Big Bass Splash maths on a frozen lake, with up to five random modifiers before free spins.
- Santa Surprise: a simple 20-line Playtech game whose free spins triple every win.
- Fishin’ Christmas Pots of Gold: a Santa-hatted leprechaun collects cash fish and fixed jackpots, even in the base game.
- Fruit Shop Christmas Edition: fruit line wins award the free spins, and every win in them is doubled.
- Slingo Elf Blitz: a Slingo game where you back one of three elves in a race round the number grid.
All our Christmas slot guides
Every Christmas slot we have a guide for, A to Z.
- Aloha! Christmas
- Amazing Link Christmas
- Big Bass Christmas Bash
- Big Bass Christmas – Frozen Lake
- Big Bass Xmas Xtreme
- Big Catch Bass Fishing Christmas
- Big Santa Fortune
- Bigger Bass Blizzard – Christmas Catch
- Bigger Piggy Christmas Bank
- Book of Christmas
- Christmas Big Bass Bonanza
- Christmas Bonanza
- Christmas Carol Megaways
- Christmas Krampus
- Christmas Prize Pooch
- Christmas Rush Express
- Crabbin’ for Christmas
- Fishin’ Christmas Pots of Gold
- Fishin’ Frenzy Christmas
- Fruit Shop Christmas Edition
- Gates of Olympus Xmas 1000
- Jingle Bells
- Jingle Spin
- Jingle Winner
- Kong Even Bigger Christmas
- Le Santa
- Merry Christmas Megaways
- Merry Megaways
- Santa
- Santa King Megaways
- Santa Surprise
- Santa's Great Gifts
- Secrets of Christmas
- Slingo Elf Blitz
- Snow Slingers
- Starlight Christmas
- Sugar Rush Xmas
- Sweet Bonanza Xmas
Frequently asked questions
What are Christmas slots?
Christmas slots are slot games with a festive theme, such as Santa, wrapped presents, Christmas trees and snowy scenes, or Christmas editions of existing games. In some the presents carry the feature, as with the multiplier gifts in Santa’s Great Gifts.
Which Christmas slots can I play at Fortune Games?
You can play every game in the A to Z list above at Fortune Games, including Big Bass Christmas Bash, Santa Surprise and Christmas Big Bass Bonanza. Players must be 18 or over.
Do Christmas slots give a better chance of winning?
No. Santa, presents and snow are only the theme: every slot is a game of chance, each spin’s result is random, and the RTP is shown in each game’s information panel.
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