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Introduction

Ghosts of Christmas is a brilliant high-definition 3D graphics slot by Playtech. This 5 reels and 20 paylines slot game is themed around the life of Scrooge on Christmas Eve as he receives visits from ghosts from the past, present, and future.

This medium volatility slot has an RTP of 92.33% and is available on all devices. Among the features on offer are Marley’s free spins feature, a bonus feature, wild, scatter, multiplier and an autoplay function. Ghosts of Christmas betting range is 0.01 to 1000.00 and offers a max payout of 500 000.

Ghosts of Christmas Bonus Features

The Wild is the Ghosts of Christmas’s most valuable symbol. It pays out a max of 10000x your stake and replaces all other symbols bar the Green Ghost scatter and the Clock Bonus symbol.

To activate the Free Spins, feature players must land 3 or more of the Green Ghost scatter symbols. You then have to select one of the Green Ghost symbols that triggered the feature, and the chosen symbol will reveal the number of free spins you receive with an attached multiplier. The maximum number of free spins is 15 which comes with a 3x multiplier. More free spins get activated each time you land a scatter during this round.

To activate The Ghost of Christmas Bonus you must land 3, 4 or 5 clock bonus symbols. You then get taken to one of 3 scenes, the past, present, and future. Players then select their scene and pick objects to reveal their cash prizes. The number of items you get to select will depend on the number of clock symbols landed.

Conclusion

Playtech’s Ghost of Christmas is not a new release, however, the addition of 3 different Christmas scenes has added an extra layer to the storyline. It’s an interesting slot filled with Christmas ambience and some lucrative wins.

Introduction

In Ocean Hunter, iSoftBet takes you underwater to search for great white sharks, which have no natural predators. It has five reels, three rows, and 20 paylines, and it was developed by iSoftBet. In addition to the regular bet, you can pay 50% more if you activate the extra bait feature, increasing the RTP to 96.14%. The maximum win in Ocean Hunter is 4614X the bet.

Ocean Hunter Slot Features 

Wild Frenzy – Any spin can trigger the Wild Frenzy. Four wilds can be added to the reels by sharks. The multiplier for each wild can reach 4X. There is an additive effect between wild multipliers.

Extra Bait – you can increase your chances of activating the features in the base game. With it, free spins are awarded more frequently (1 in 140 spins instead of 1 in 280) and Wild Frenzy is awarded more frequently (1 in 70 instead of 1 in 150). During the free spins, scatter symbols are multiplied by 2 and can land on the grid in full or in part. They will always be counted as one no matter how they land.

Oxygen Tank Symbol – Oxygen Tanks appear only during free spins. When 10 tanks are collected, a second reel set will be unlocked, and the fifth reel will be turned wild on all unlocked reel sets. By unlocking ten more reel sets, you will be able to turn even the fourth reel wild. As soon as you collect 10 more tanks, your third reel set will turn wild. A player receives 2 extra free spins for each reel set they unlock.

Free Spins – You will receive 15 free spins if you land three scatter symbols. You can spin only the reels in the upper left corner at the start of the feature due to the quadrupling of the reel set. A reel set can be unlocked one at a time by landing oxygen tanks during the spins.

When it comes to gambling stories, you may be familiar with the name of Ashley Revell, not least because his derring-do was chronicled by the reality television series ‘Double or Nothing’, which was broadcast live on Sky One in 2004. As per CasinoGambler.co.uk, Revell, who hails from Maidstone, Kent, was 32 at the time, single and childless. In fact, he described his Las Vegas escapade, which involved placing his entire life savings on a single spin of a roulette wheel as ‘almost like my last chance to go mad’.

‘Mad’ was the operative word in his plan – hatched during a drinking session with friends – but Revell eventually received approval from his parents for his one-off, do-or-die bet. He left his job and sold everything he owned, including his BMW car, Rolex watch and other treasured possessions to build his bankroll. On his arrival in Las Vegas, Revell attempted, unsuccessfully, to increase his stake by gambling with a small proportion of his kitty.

Revell said at the time, ‘I thought I was worth at least £100,000’, but ultimately had to settle for the not insubstantial sum of £76,840, which he placed on red in a red/black bet at 1:1. A hundred or so spectators had gathered at the Plaza Hotel & Casino to discover his fate and, as television cameras focused on the final throes of the roulette ball, erupted in riotous celebration. The end result; seven red, which netted Revell £153,680.

More recently, in 2019, Revell returned to the scene of what he described as ‘the most amazing moment of my life’ to place a ceremonial bet on what was, at the time, the only single-zero roulette table in downtown Las Vegas. Jonathan Jossel, CEO of the Plaza Hotel & Casino, said, ‘Ashley is an exciting part of the Plaza’s history.’

It would probably be fair to say that Kesgrave rarely makes headlines, but the Suffolk town, on the eastern edge of Ipswich, did so in September, 2021. The cause of excitement, on that occasion, was the good fortune of a local man who, although wishing to remain anonymous, nonetheless managed to turn £0.60 into £885,000 at the Betfair online casino, one of those best and legal online casinos in the UK listed here.

His windfall came courtesy of ‘Millionaire Megapays‘, a six-reel, progressive jackpot video slot, featuring between two and seven rows and, apparently, offering up to 117,649 ways to win. Stakes for the game range from £0.40 to £30 a spin but, for his modest investment, the lifelong gambler triggered the so-called ‘Megapays’ feature and accumulated the 15 Megapays symbols required to win the Mega Jackpot.

Reflecting on his windfall, the mystery man said, ‘It’s a completely amazing experience and for a long time I had no idea exactly how much I’d won.’ He added, ‘I took my girlfriend out for dinner to celebrate, then we’ll start looking for our dream house.’ Property aside, he reportedly plans to send his parents on a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ trip to Canada to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary and take a holiday in Dubai.

Of course, the history of gambling is awash with stories of ‘lucky’ winners, who have won huge sums of money, only to find their lives ruined as a result, so Betfair was keen to focus on customer care. A company spokesperson said, ‘Since his big day, we’ve been in touch to help our winner with his withdrawal and to deliver his big win education, where we discuss the importance of controlling play, applying safer gambling tools, and coming to terms with a sum like £885,000, which sounds like it’s going to be well-spent.’