The Naughty List is a progressive video slot powered by Real Time Gaming software with 5 reels and 50 pay-lines. This video slot is inspired by Christmas, and Santa’s gifts list. This one is all about who didn’t make the cut. The backdrop is Christmassy, which is expected of Christmas-themed slot. The sounds playing in the background are theme-appropriate. Give this holiday slot a spin here for free or you can visit any of the Real Time Gaming Casinos to play for real money.
Before you join Santa’s little helpers, you should set your bets. "Bet" arrows are used to set the coins size which ranges from 0.50 to 250. "Lines" will set the number of lines you wish to bet. "Spin" will set the reels in motion, and you use "Autoplay" option when you wish to turn the reels automatically without any interruption. "Speed" will turn the reels faster than usual.
Santa is the Wild symbol in the game, and it appears as a grouped Wild on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5, and it can substitute all symbols except for the scatter. The Scatter is the Naughty List symbol and it can form scatter wins which are multiplied by total bet. If you land 3 or more Scatters anywhere on the reels you will trigger the pick feature.
Once triggered you will get to pick from 20 wrapped presents until you pick 2 naughty notes. Each pick awards higher bonus prize or increases your free spin prize multiplier.
The Santastic Free Spins are awarded after the pick feature ends. You will be awarded with 5 free spins during which extra Santas and Naughty Lists will be added to reels. Any re-trigger will award you a new pick feature.
The game has a random Lucky feature which can be triggered at the end of any normal game. Here, you can get between 5 and 10 free spins with up to x10 multiplier. The Naughty List feature can be triggered within the Lucky feature.
Progressive Jackpots can be won at the conclusion of any game, and they are triggered at random. Progressive Jackpots wins are added to other wins.
Game Play
Bet: Set the coins size.
Lines: Set the number of lines.
Autoplay: Turn the reels automatically without any interruption.
Spin: Set the reels in motion.
Speed: Turn the reels faster.
I made the mistake to close the slot exactly after the last round of Free Games when I won about 51 dollars. But I managed “to catch” the win and I will show it above. And yet ... this RTG slot has not convinced me. And if it was not for this nice win of 51 dollars after about 200 games here, this slot would probably received just from generosity an appreciation of 5 out of 10 possible. As it is now (I am playing it again) I will give it a 6. But as I said, though it still does not deserve this good appreciation.
Two things are good here at “The Naughty List”. The first is the particularly good music (symphonic) which changes depending on the winning. Please forgive my lack of musical culture if I am wrong: this is like Tchaikovsky's music. Again please forgive me if I am wrong. Then the second good thing are the 50 paylines for a 5x4 slot. The two girls and Santa in this game are nicer made here than in the other “Naughty or Nice ...” from RTG, although they could be better. If RTG would choose its designers more carefully, they could only win.
There would be a couple of other elements in this game neither good nor weak, namely Santa that is Wild and Stacked (if you have 2 complete reels with Santa you win a few tens of dollars) and the Free Spins that sometimes pay pretty well, although in the “good” RTG tradition often you win 1-3 dollars. But this slot has also many weaknesses and therefore as I said, in my opinion it deserves just an average appreciation.
You pay for 50 paylines of course 50 cents. From paytable you learn that all symbols pay at minimum 2-10 cents, and just 5 major symbols pay a few dollars. In the entire game here (about 30 minutes) I have won only 2 times nice (one time 51 dollars as I said in the beginning) and the other winnings had a value of 2-10 cents. To keep waiting for these big wins to come you get bored quickly.