Magic of the Ring is a video slot powered by Wazdan software provider and it has 5 reels and 10 paylines. This slot is inspired with the famous Lord of the Rings books and movies. The slot has some great graphics, and the reels which are set against the night sky over a castle backdrop are framed in gold. Go looking for the ring and conquer the castle by spinning the reels of this slot here for fun or at any Wazdan Casino for real.
How to Play Magic of the Ring Slot
Before you put the ring on and begin reckoning with the dark forces, you should set your betting range, and here’s how it can be done.
- Coin Value +/- buttons are used to set the betting range which you can increase or decrease at any point.
- By clicking on the Start button you will set the reels in motion after you set your bets.
- Play button is the autoplay option and it will spin the reels for a preset number of times without interruption.
- Max Bet is used to set the maximum bet allowed.
- Stickman button will get the reels spinning faster or slower, depending on your preference.
Slot Features
Magic Ring is both the Wild symbol and the Scatter in the game, and besides the fact it can trigger free spins feature, it can also form scatter wins. When the Ring can substitute for any other symbol in the game that is currently on the reels if it will form a win line, and if you hit 5 of these anywhere on the reels you will get awarded with 8000 coins.
If you land 3 or more of the Magic Ring symbols anywhere on the reels you will trigger Free Spins feature. Once triggered you will be awarded with 10 Free Spins. Before the feature begins, the Bonus symbol will be chosen at random which will expand to cover the entire reel on which it lands. Should you land another 3 or more Scatters, the feature will be re-triggered.
Summary
Magic of the Ring is a fairly regular and simple slot with low variance. There’s no many features here that will surprise you but the Free Spin feature can get retriggered indefinitely. Sound effects are pretty great but since they play in a loop, they can get tedious at some point. Even though the gameplay is not something we would call action packed, the slot is still worth a spin, especially if you are a fan of the movies or books.
Magic of the Ring is the second slot that I play in a row in these Wazdan casinos. I guess that the designers of this slot started from the stories “The Fellowship of the Ring” and “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” because all major symbols of the slot are drawn from these movies: Gandalf the wizard, the castle, the dragon and the battle ax. I say here (as in the review for the previous Wazdan slot) that I do not really notice the need of this particular player that should bring great graphics because if I do not count the stars above the castle, other impressive graphics I have not seen here. With or without this player this slot is still nice “drawn” and impresses at the first sight.
But the earnings are not like this, and no matter how benevolent I would be, the disappointment produced by the game play is great. The same disappointment I had when playing at “Tetri”. First, it was difficult to observe that (at least in my case) I started playing here with a bet 10 cents and only one single line activated. It’s been 50 spins without any win until to notice this and it was quite hard to find the “button” to increase the number of paylines. Then I thought that maybe these first 50 spins without a win would not be so important, because in paytable for 10 cents bet (10 lines) “5 Gandalf Wizards” pay 500 Euro! Exactly the same was while playing Tetri, where the maximum payout for “5 major symbols” was also great! But like I said, the disappointment was bigger. Playing here you have “3 of a kind” about once every 3-5 spins and “4 of a kind” about every 30 spins. You will never (and “jamais”) have “5 of a kind” or “3 scatters” (the ring)! For what good are these payouts of 500 Euro/spin if on the average more than 30-50 cents you will never win? And so, like when playing “Tetri” slowly but surely the amount available for the game will decrease. After 100 spins you lose 5 euros (for 10 cents/game) and losses continue to increase.
I played a lot, and like at “Tetri” I never had that extraordinary win that I was waiting for. This is too bad for slot so nice made and for a story so beautiful.
10 paylines is too little. The payouts for “3 of a kind” are equal to the bet, but wins are too rare. Aaaah! I almost forgot about this: here after a win you must click on “collect”, although there is no opportunity to gamble the win here. Why is it necessary this collect button?