Magicous is a spectacular 5 reels and 10 pay-lines video slot powered by Thunderkick software which features a magic show with bunch of magic tricks and sparkling wands which can conjure up many different prizes for you. Illucious and Magicia stand beside the reels, while the symbols on the reels include levitating magic boxes, stars and magic balls. Give this slot a go here for free or pay a visit to any of the Thunderkick listed casinos to play for real money.
Before you join the show and start conjuring up your prizes you should set the betting range that will suit you best. By clicking on "bet", a black screen will open across the screen with the wagers that range from 0.10 to 100. When you choose your bet you should simply click on "spin" to start the reels or on "auto-play" to start the reels spinning without interruption for as many times as you choose them to.
This flamboyant and simple slot allows you to win decent prizes mainly because of its two special features: Win Two Ways and Expanding Wilds.
Expanding Wilds is a feature with a wild symbol which expands across all three rows, and it includes a re-spin. This wild can substitute any symbol and can appear on reels 2, 3 and 4. This expanding wild is in the form of bright pink sphere, and if it forms a winning combo, it will be locked in place, and automatically start re-spinning the remaining 4 reels. Maximum number of re-spins is 3.
Win Two Ways feature implies that all pay-lines are active both ways. This means that the winning combination can start either from left to right or other way around. When you hit a combo, either Magicia or Illucios will whisk their magic wand and turn this combo into appropriate cash prizes.
Game Play
Bet: Choose the bet you wish to make.
Spin: Start the game.
Auto Play: Turn the reels without interruption for a preset number of times.
Okay, something very strange is going on just here... I was just playing another Thunderkick game "Toki Time", eventually closing it after realizing it was very close to being a clone of NetEnt's "Starburst" which is a game I thoroughly dislike. I decide to try another Thunderkick game, and after fifty spins or so become a little suspicious... this game seems EXACTLY like Starburst!! Arrgggh, what has happened? Have I stepped into a parallel dimension where only bad slots exist? Because I'm thoroughly not liking this whole situation at all!
By the time I'd got through a hundred spins I was all but convinced that Magicious is an absolute carbon copy of NetEnt's travesty of a "popular" game, however after checking the paytable it turns out that I was infact wrong - whilst Magicious shares pretty much it's entire feature set with Starburst it does actually have a slightly improved paytable and the maximum five of a kind win returns 40x your stake rather than 25x in NetEnt's game. With the stacked wilds and pay both ways feature that gives this game a slightly better maximum win of 800x your bet, although I have to assume that actually seeing it in this game will be just as hard as it is in the game it copies. Which, by the way, is "near-enough-impossible-hard", as I have yet to see a screenshot of a full jackpot win in Starburst to this day.
I don't know if I prefer this theme or not, it's pretty enough I suppose but then so are all Thunderkick games - the win animations definitely go on too long though and it bugs the hell out of me that the game often greys out the spin button preventing you from spinning the reels again until such time as it decides you are allowed to. I can't understand why Thunderkick have made not one but two games that are borrow ideas so heavily from Starburst and I pray that the next game I load will be something much more interesting... PLEASE!!!