Get up close and personal with Mr. “Bah, humbug!” himself in Scrooge. This 50-line video slot from Microgaming incorporates all of the elements of Charles’ Dickens “A Christmas Carol”, as well as two unique bonus features. Give this famous holiday slot a try today on this page, or visit any of our Microgaming casinos to play Scrooge for real money.
Begin a game of Scrooge by choosing your wager. The - and + buttons under the coin icon will allow you to set your coin size. Push “Coins” to add one coin per line, up to the maximum of 10. If you do not want to play all 50 lines, push “Lines” to add them 1 line at a time. Hit “Spin” to begin, or use “Bet Max” to spin with the maximum possible bet of 500 coins.
After spinning, you’ll win amounts shown in the paytable for getting a set of matching symbols from left-to-right along any of the active paylines. The Scrooge Wreath symbol is wild and will double any winning combination it appears in.
If you get a line win, click on one of the symbols to add 1 to either the Calendar or the Free Spins Counter. Once the Calendar reaches 25 December, the Free Spins feature will start with the number of free spins you accumulated.
If you successfully get 3 or more Scattered Gold Doorknockers, Scrooge’s heart will be warmed enough to invite some friends over for dinner. In the Christmas Dinner Bonus, you get to predict what meal each guest wants. The guest that finishes their meal first will award you an instant cash prize of up to 15x your total bet.
Game Play
-/+: Set your coin size.
Coins: Increase the number of coins per line.
Lines: Change the number of active paylines.
Spin: Begin the game at the selected wager.
Bet Max: Spin the game with 50 lines, 10 coins per line.
For a scrooge game, I'm not surprised that the quality of graphics has been partly squeezed. Generally, the graphics are still nice, but could be nicer. Nah, I'm just being picky, that's all. The overall appearance of this Scrooge game is nice enough, much better than some others of about the same age. As the game title suggests, playing it may squeeze your wallet and pockets, or our scrooge friend here may suddenly turn generous and give you some cash instead. Well, I wish he could do that for me, but apparently not. That scrooge guy is still a scrooge to me.
The logo 'Scrooge' is the Wild symbol, 5 of which pays a nice 6000x the line bet. It substitutes for other symbols except for the Scatter symbol. Nope, no doubling of wins, no stacking, no expanding and no good. A dumb Wild symbol. The Door Knocker is the Bonus symbol, 5 of which pays 200x the total bet, and getting 3 or more of them triggers the Xmas Dinner Bonus game. There's nothing complicated about this bonus game. There are 5 diners and there are 5 dishes. Allocate one meal to each diner, then watch the highlighted marker moves from one diner to the next. Where it stops, that's the prize that you'll win, with a maximum prize of 20x the total bet amount. Not really that much to get, and worse still, there are no Scatters in the game either. They probably got scattered in the snow along the way. But not to worry, the Free Spins game is still around, triggered when the date reaches December 25, and is reset to December 1 again after every free Spins game. As for the symbols in the game, they pay from 600x to 60x the line bet for 5 of each kind. The paytable is somewhere between good and average.
Each time a winning combination occurs, pick one of the winning symbols to reveal either 'Plus One Day' or 'Plus One Free Spin', or just let the autoplay reveal it automatically for you. Plus One Day adds one day to the December counter, and Plus One Free Spins adds one more free spins to its counter. When the counter reaches December 25, the number of free spins collected is then awarded. I've reached up to about 29 free spins, but most of the free spins were rather useless, turning up empty or paying out very poorly. Only about 8 or 9 out of the 29 free spins paid something, and that it very disappointing indeed. It isn't a one off thing either, most of the other Free Spins games that I've had were all like that.
Well, whenever the paytable looks encouraging, the gameplay wouldn't be. Scrooge plays more like a low to medium variance game, going yo-yo most of the time, with the credits balance going up and down, but hardly seeing any good wins, only mediocre ones. I find the Free Spins game very disappointing with very low payouts. My best score so far? Would you believe 25x my bet amount? Yep, that's the best that I could get from Scrooge. I had expected a lot more from the game, but it didn't come, not for me anyway.