Gift Rap is an insane take on the most wonderful time of the year. Cute little symbols of children's toys are met with rebellious elves to make for a video slot filled with goodies. We invite you to try it out in play mode for as long as you would like, but if Santa's little rappers are kind to you, feel free to play for real money at any Microgaming casino.
To start playing Gift Rap, use the plus and minus symbols in the bottom-left side to choose your coin denomination. These range from 0.01 to 0.50. Always pick a reasonable coin size for your bankroll. Use the Select Coins button to change the number of coins being bet per line. While the default number of active paylines is the full 25, you can use the Select Lines button to change this to a lower number. Finally, push Spin to start playing at your settings. Alternatively, push Bet Max to play 10 coins per line at all 25 lines.
While these angsty elves can pay out nicely, the big prize in Gift Rap is the Rappin' Jack Frost bonus round. Get three or more of these cool dudes to enter a spectacular bonus round where Santa might be waiting with up to 32,250 coins! Being naughty definitely has its benefits.
Game Play
-/+: Adjust your coin size.
Select Lines: Choose how many active paylines to play on.
Select Coins: Select how many coins to bet per line.
Bet Max: Spin with all 25 lines active at 10 coins bet per line.
Spin: Spin with the selected lines active at the selected coins per line.
When I first saw the game's title, it read Giftrap in the game but it showed Gift Rap elsewhere. The way I see it, it could also read as Gif trap, or as shown in the game itself, 'Giftrap'. Now which is which? Hmm, yet again, only Microgaming knows! The game isn't a new one, it hasn't got nice graphics, the icons used for the game could use some cheering up instead of looking dreary or even menacing. Nope, those iconic symbols simply do not appear pleasing at all. For a special festive occasion game, those icons suck!
The Bauble is the Wild symbol and pays 6000x the line bet for 5 of them. It is a dumb Wild symbol that doesn't pay for itself, that doesn't double any wins, that doesn't come stacked or expanded, and only knows how to substitute. The Spray is the Scatter symbol, paying 80x the total bet for 5 of them. Why suddenly 80x and not the usual 100x? Hmm. Only you-know-who knows. What's more, the Spray Scatter symbols do not award any Free Spins game, simply because there aren't any Free Spins game in Giftrap. The Rappin' Jack Frosts is the Bonus symbol, getting 3, 4 or 5 of these Bonus symbols trigger the Giftrap Bonus Game, whereby you get to pick items to win coins, until Rappin' Jack Frosts appear to end the picking. All the other symbols in the game pay from 1000x down to 50x the line bet for 5 of them. Below average paytable table, more on the low side.
With only the Bauble Wild symbols to provide any good nice big wins, playing the game and getting small insignificant wins much too often soon became a bore for me. I lost my focus and concentration quite quickly, becoming sleepy even! No doubt there were a few decent wins of between 40x to 60x the total bet amount, but the pick and win feature has never been a favourite of mine and has hardly given any good wins for me either. I would definitely prefer the Free Spins feature game than the pick and win kind.