3 Magic Pots: Slot Overview
On an apparent journey to cater to a widening array of gambling appetites, developer Push Gaming has identified the popularity of ‘3 pots games’ and decided it wants in on the action. What’s rolled off the production line is 3 Magic Pots, an online slot that links various free spins features to collection pots, running alongside collectable Instant Prizes and Jackpot Prizes. Not the most original premise for a studio of this calibre, perhaps, but Push Gaming has been known to surprise before; let’s see if it can do so again.
3 Magic Pots’ 3 official theme words are alchemy, magic, and fun. The fun will get to later, hopefully, but for now, let’s bask in the alchemically magical side of the game, which is set in a witchy or wizardy room of tomes, candles, and flickering lights. Three pots sit above the reels as if alive, adding to the magic, as does a twinkly soundtrack, providing a final spark of the arcane to a slot that looks like a collab between Push Gaming and Fantasma Games – just making an observation.
When the Magic Reels feature triggers, the gaming grid expands, but for the most part, 3 Magic Pots is played on a 5×4 gaming area in combination with 4,096 ways to win. Players may stake 10 c to $/€100 per game round in a slot where the Push Bet and bonus buys are conspicuously absent. In this low-medium volatile slot, the highest avail.
Playing card icons J to A are followed by blue, green, purple, and orange gems, then a green, blue, and red potion bottle are 3 Magic Pots’ pay symbols. Winning combinations made up of 6 identical symbols award players 1 to 5 times their bet. The wild substitutes for all regular paying symbols on the paytable to help make a winning combination. Wilds are present on all reels except the leftmost.
3 Magic Pots: Slot Features
Collecting Instant Prize symbols and Jackpot symbols is one of the main features in 3 Magic Pots, which also comes with a variety of free spins bonus rounds with features which may be combined.
Collector Symbol
Collector symbols land on the leftmost and rightmost reels. The Collector symbol collects all Instant Prize symbols or Jackpot symbols in view. Instant Prize symbols have values of 0.1x to 90x the bet, while Jackpot symbols are the 15x Mini, the 50x Minor, the 100x Major, and the 1,000x Mega. Instant Prize symbols and Jackpot symbols land in the base game and free spins.
Sticky Prizes
Instant Prize symbols and Jackpot symbols have a chance to become sticky. When sticky, they remain on the grid until they are collected by a Collector symbol.
Token and Super Token Symbols
The 3 Pots are linked to 3 Token symbols. When a Token symbol is collected by its corresponding Magic Pot, the respective free spins feature has a chance of triggering. When a Super Token hits, it is collected by all 3 Magic Pots at once.
Free Spins Features
When a Token symbol is collected by its Magic Pot, there is a chance of triggering the respective free spins feature. All features come with 7 free spins.
- Magic Reel Free Spins – the reels expand to 6 rows high, and the number of ways to win goes up to 46,656.
- Enchanted Collector Free Spins – when a Collector symbol hits, it nudges down 1 row for each free spin.
- Cash Frenzy Free Spins – extra Instant Prize symbols are added to the reels.
Max Magic Free Spins
If all 3 Magic Pots are triggered simultaneously in the base game, 10 free spins are awarded, and all free spins features are active at the same time.
Retriggering and Upgrading Free Spins
Collecting a matching Token symbol during a free spins round and retriggering the bonus has a chance of awarding +3 free spins. Also, collecting a Token symbol of another Magic Pot provides a chance of activating the corresponding free spins feature alongside the current feature and awarding +3 free spins.
3 Magic Pots: Slot Verdict
Where once a Push Gaming slot was almost expected to blow minds, more recently, the studio has seemed just as content latching onto bandwagons in order to expand its mainstream reach. 3 Magic Pots is one such game that might appeal to the masses but may also slightly diminish the Push Gaming brand – amongst a certain cadre of gamblers, at least. One impression during the review was that the game was trying to compete with or join the ranks of Games Global‘s Power Combo slots, which is cool if that’s what you’re into, but it hardly makes for riveting viewing, and 3 Magic Pots doesn’t strike one as a Push Gaming slot which is destined for anywhere near greatness.
With that little rant out of the way, time to delve into 3 Magic Pots’ more positive aspects, and it’s not hard to picture the glowing reception the game might receive in some quarters. Players who get a thrill out of collecting money symbols, hunting jackpot symbols, and being able to trigger free spins with combinable features in a slot powered by a low-medium volatile math model get all of that in a pleasant-looking game from a dependable casino game maker. Winning potential isn’t immense, but it’s not meagre either, where the highest observed payout was 5,992.1 times the bet. A tidy package, then, for the right player.
On the other hand, those who favour the big hitters in Push Gaming’s portfolio may well find 3 Magic Pots an unremarkable minnow of a slot, a reminder of the conformist streak that has been steadily creeping into the studio’s work for a while now (albeit with dashes of Push flair) and sees no signs of slowing down. Hey, business is business, but still.
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