Santa Paws is 5 reels and 20 pay-lines video slot powered by Microgaming software provider. This slot is inspired Christmas holidays. Graphics is nothing special, in fact maybe even slightly outdated, but it will keep your focus right where it needs to be – on the spinning reels. Give this festive slot a spin for free on this page or visit Microgaming Casinos to play for real money.
Before you enter the world of Santa, you should set your bets. When you click on "+/-" you can set coins size which ranges from 0.01 to 1, and "Coins" is used to set the number of coins per line that you wish to bet. "Lines" will set the number of lines you wish to bet, and "Spin" will set the reels in motion. "Autoplay" option is used to turn the reels without interruption for a chosen number of times. "Gamble/Collect" will either collect the win or start a gamble feature.
Polar Bear is the Wild symbol and it can substitute for all symbols except for the scatter, and it can form winning combos on its own if you land more than 2 on a winning pay line. Whale Rudolph Wild will substitute for all symbols during the Free Spins feature, except for the Scatter.
When you hit 3 or more Penguin Scatter symbols on the reels you will trigger free spins. Also Scatter symbols can make scatter wins if you land 2 or more of these on the reels, and they are multiplied by total bet staked. You can win 12 Spins at up to x7 multiplier. Feature can be retriggered.
Every time you land a winning combo you can choose to double the win, quadruple it, or simple collect it. Should you decided to gamble it and try to double it, you will have to make a correct guess of the color of the card next to be drawn. In case that you won’t to quadruple it, than you need to guess the suit of the card next to be drawn. You can make five correct guesses in a row, or you can collect the wins at any point.
Gameplay
+/-: Set the coins size.
Coins: Set the number of coins per line.
Lines: Set the number of lines you wish to bet.
Spin: Set the reels in motion.
Gamble/Collect: Collect the win or start a gamble feature.
Autoplay: Turn the reels without interruption for a chosen number of times.
If there's Santa Claus for humans, then there's probably Santa Paws for Polar Bears, at least where Microgaming is concerned. They've created one for all the polar bears in the Arctic and Antarctic areas, so those bears get to celebrate Christmas in their own way too. Wonder if Santa Paws has a reindeer-driven sleigh too. Hmm, whatever. Anyway, Christmas is only one month away from now, so let's see how this Santa Paws play and pay.
Santa Paws is the Wild symbol of course, 5 of which pays 4000x the line bet, which is not that much, and substitutes for other symbols except for the Scatter symbol. The Penguin is the Scatter symbol, 5 of which pays the usual 100x total bet amount, and getting 3 or more of the Scatter symbols trigger 12 free spins with up to 7x multiplier. The Free Spins game can be retriggered. In the free spins, the Rudolf symbol becomes an Extra Wild symbol, substituting for other symbols except for the Scatter symbol. 5 of Rudolf pays 1000x the line bet. All the other symbols pay from 750x to 150x the line bet for 5 of them. An average paytable.
I really hate it when my first ever play on any game starts cold. Santa Paws was yet another one of such games. It took 426 spins to get the first Free Spins game, but luckily enough, it paid a nice 73x my bet amount. Still way short to recover back the credits that it has eaten, but at least, it kept me playing on for a little longer. As if that wasn't bad enough, the second Free Spins game came only after 270 spins more, and with a slightly lower payout of 53x my bet amount. The third Free Spins game needed another 172 spins, and with an even lower payout of just 25x. I was getting very disappointed by then and decided to quit the game altogether. No more Santa Paws for me, thank you.