The Snake Charmer is 5 reels video slot with 25 pay-lines and it runs on NextGen Gaming software. This slot has a snake tempting showman for a theme. The reels are set against the backdrop of landscape in India and by the looks of everything the reels seem as if they are positioned on 5 snake baskets. The symbols featured in this slot include the charmer’s pipe, an elephant, a dancing girl, a snake basket, and high card symbols. Give this slot a spin here for free or visit NextGen Casinos to play for real money.
Before you let yourself be charmed with this hypnotically music you need to adjust your bets. By clicking on "Lines +/-" you can set the number of lines. With "Bet +/-" you can set coins size that ranges from 0.02 to 4. "Gamble" activates the gamble feature, and "Autoplay" and it is used to set the reels in motion without interruption for a desired number of times. "Spin" button is used to spin the reels.
Special symbols that can be found in this video slot are the Wild and a Scatter, and as far as special features go you will encounter Free Spins feature and a Gamble feature.
The Wild symbol in the game is a hypnotized snake with great animation once you hit it on the reels. The Wild symbol can substitute for any symbol in the game except for the scatter. If you land 5 Wilds on an active pay-line you will win your line stake multiplied by 5000.
The Scatter symbol is the Snake Charmer himself. If you land 3 or more scatters you will activate Free Spins feature and 10 free spins will be yours for the taking. You do not have multipliers here but if you land the Wild symbol it will expand and fill up the whole reel. This feature cannot be re-activated while the feature lasts.
The Gamble feature can be activated each time you land a winning combo by clicking on the "Gamble" button. Here you stand to double or quadruple your winnings. If you guess the color of the card you will double the winnings, and if you guess the suit your winnings will be quadrupled. If you make a wrong guess you will lose everything and you will be taken back to the base game. You are limited to 5 correct picks.
Game Play
Lines +/-: Set the number of lines.
Bet +/-: Set the coins size.
Gamble: Activate the gamble feature.
Spin: Start the reels.
Autoplay: Set the reels in motion without interruption for a chosen number of times.
The snake charmer is slot game made by Nextgen. I tried this game couple of times, and unfortunately it is not my favorite game made by Nextgen, and generally this game is very brutal. One of the most brutal games made by Nextgen, and it is very strange, because at first look everything not seems so hard in this game.
Game looks in same style as other Nextgen games, can't say that it looks better. But everything is enough good, even I can call it cute, because snake symbol looks funny.
There is 25 paylines in this game. I am usually playing this slot game from 0.25 to 0.50 bets, because betting higher it is not very good idea, it is not working for me. Each time I tried 1$ bets or higher I am quickly lost my balance chasing freespins and do not hit anything. Payouts is good for best paying symbol and 5 wilds, others is quite low, but if you want you can use gamble option to increase winnings from line hits. But I do not suggest to use it often, because you can find that you losing money pretty fast when you unlucky in gamble.
Freespins feature can be triggered when 3 or more scatters apppear anywhere on the reels. You will then have freegames with wild reels. By random from one to five reels will be turned wild each freespins. But the thing is that during freegames it does not work. It just appear most times on reel 4 or 5, and sometimes on other reels. Once I had 3 wild reels, and won about 50 bets only because there was low paying symbols.
So I never any wins more than 100 bets in this game. Potential is very solid, but it seems that this potential is released on super rare occasions, and if you not have any huge win - you will just keep losing money on this game.
I rate this game with 7 stars.
Payouts are quite low in this game.
Freespins feature just did not work good for me. No good wilds appearing.