Great Griffin Slot is a magic-themed 50-payline video slot, running on the Microgaming software platform. There are 5 reels set against the old alchemist’s laboratory background. The game features colourful symbols such as a bird feather, a book of spells, and a glowing liquid. These symbols are the necessary ingredients when it comes to making a magic potion. Give Great Griffin Slot a spin for free, or visit any of the Microgaming Casinos to play for real money.
Before you enter the world of sorcery, you are advised to set your bets first. There are up to 50 paylines players can bet on. “Coin size” ranges from 0.01 to 0.10, while the number of “Coins” varies from 1 to 10. “Bet Max” shows the value equal to the number of paylines selected, multiplied by the bet per line value. Click on the “Expert” button to access the “Autoplay” option. Players need to push “Spin” to start the game.
The Wild is the Great Griffin legendary creature. It acts as a replacement for other game symbols, except the Scatter and the Hooded Lady icon. The game’s Scatter is the Great Griffin logo.
Griffin Wild Bonus is randomly activated once Great Griffin Bonus symbol flies across the reels changing some symbols into the Wild ones. The only symbols that will not be replaced by the Wild are the Scatter and the Hooded Lady.
Free Spins feature is triggered when players land at least 3 Scatters simultaneously anywhere on the reels. Players can choose between 3 sets of Free Spins, with each option giving a different winning multiplier value. Namely, 15 Free Spins carry a 3x multiplier, whereas 10 Free Spins come with a 5x multiplier, and 5 Free Spins will offer players 10x the value of their total bet.
Players can benefit from Pick Me Bonus which is activated when at least 3 Hooded Lady symbols occur simultaneously in any position on the reels 2, 3 or 4. The Lady symbols will then transform into ‘Pick Me’ symbols and players will need to pick one of these symbols in order to reveal the prize. There is a possibility of revealing a “Pick Again” card, or even better, a “Win All” prize.
Any payline win will activate the Gamble Feature. Once it is activated, simply click on the Gamble button and start the Gamble Game. You can skip the feature, or play in order to increase your winning chances. If you guess the colour of the card, your winning will be doubled. In case you guess the suit, the winning will be quadrupled. Remember, if you make a wrong guess, you will lose and will be taken back to the main game.
Game Play
Lines: Set the number of lines to bet on.
Coin size: Set the coin value.
Coins: Set the number of coins per line to wager.
Bet Max: Sets the maximum bet that the slot allows.
Autoplay: Sets the reels in motion without interruption for a chosen number of times.
Spin: Set the reels in motion.
For this second review, I have chosen on purpose a slot from a Microgaming casino, because I could never play more than 5 slots in a raw, in one casino, here where one can play more than 250 different slots.
The game "The Great Griffin" is a slot having 50 paylines, which because of its overall graphical presentation and its theme is very attractive for the player. This slot has good and also less good parts. Choosing a bet 1 cent/line (50 cents/total) the average win during normal spins is somewhere between 10-30 cents (the payout is about 10 cents for 3 consecutive symbols). This 30 cents average win you will get once every 2-3 spins because of the random occurrence of the flying over Griffin that turns ordinary symbols into „Wild“ symbols (also about once in 3 spins). Although three consecutive symbols are very common here, yet in the 250 I have never aligned five symbols. The less pleasant part is the fact that due to these frequent appearances of the Flying Griffin the game runs relatively slow and all the other features of this game are pretty rare.
The "Free Spins" round is triggered by 3 „Wild Griffin" special symbols about once every 50-100 normal spins . During this round you have is the possibility to choose between 5, 10 or 15 free spins for each corresponding a different multiplier (10x , 5x or 3x). In about 250 spins I entered the „Free Spins“ round three times. The largest win was about 1,300 coins (13 USD) and the smallest win was only 300 coins (3 USD) . Apart from theFlying Griffin which turns into wild random symbols and from the Free Spins round, there is a third feature in this game called "Pick Me " triggered by 3 "Lady" symbols. The "Pick me" feature is also found once about every 100 spins and the wins are about the same as those offered by Free Spins.
My impression of this game was that many successive small gains of 10-30 cents are followed by a higher gain of 3-10 USD (provided by the "Free Spins" or by the "Pick Me" feature) about once 50 spins. Playing for an hour (about 250 spins as I said at a total bet of 50 cents) I lost out about 25 dollars. However the game is quite exciting and I think is part of the good games I have played until now.