Magic Mushrooms Pokie Machine
While many people may associate Magic Mushrooms with a hallucinogenic fungus, the Yggdrasil Gaming pokie may change their perception of reality by making them think of a colourful game that has rich bonus rounds like Spreading Wilds and free spins.
It also has some of the strangest looking symbols I've ever seen, and a design that may be very colourful and impressive, but makes you wonder what they put in the coffee at the developers' studios.
Take A Trip To A World Of Magic
A wild design sets the game in a dark woodland scene, and it’s immediately obvious that the layout is a little different to the normal type, with a diamond shaped pattern to the reels. The outermost columns are three symbols high, moving in are columns of four symbols, and the middle one is five symbols high, while 20 paylines where wins can be created from the left or right hand reels equal lots of chances for three or more of the same symbol to line up.
And those symbols are really quite a sight, with four strange insects encased in red, purple, orange and yellow sap making up the lower-paying ones, and four equally strange creatures making up the higher-paying ones. Looking like kids toys may appear on a bad trip, the blue and yellow scorpion, a green thing that’s probably some kind of frog, dark blue hummingbird/bee hybrid and a pink thing that looks like a monkey, all make Magic Mushrooms a visually stunning game.
Prizes go from five coins for landing three of some of the insect symbols on a line, through to 1000 coins for the pink monkey symbol landing on all five reels across a line.
Magic Mushrooms
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Like many of the pokies from Yggdrasil Gaming, players don’t have the option to bet on just a few lines, so all 20 are active, which has its’ pros and cons. It makes the minimum wager 0.20, but also ensures that no-one has to see a big win land on a line that they haven’t got a bet on. So all the players need to do is select a coin size, which can be from 0.01 to 0.50, and click to spin the reels.
Once the game gets going, players will start to see the Magic Mushroom Wilds appear, with three distinct flavours that bring three distinct rewards. On the two outer reels, the Purple Mushroom works as a standard wild symbol, substituting for others when it will help to complete winning lines. Move to the next reels inwards to see the blue Multiplier Wilds which augment wins by anything from 2x to 10x when completing lines.
On the centre reel, a special Spreading Wild will appear, and when it does, it will live up to its name by creating up to four additional Wilds, with the chance that some of these can be further Spreading ones that will in turn spawn even more richly paying symbols.
A pink spiral shellfish-type creature is a free spins symbol, and once this is triggered by getting just two or more after a spin, players should be on a high, with additional Wilds added to the reels throughout. While two shellfish will start off just two free spins, getting three at once will result in ten spins, four of them trigger twenty of them and with five at once, a huge seventy-five free games will be triggered.
To add to the joy of this round, the free spins can be re-triggered by getting more of the shellfish at any point throughout.
An Emotional High, Or A Real Downer?
You wouldn’t expect Yggdrasil Gaming to produce a poor game, and they haven’t disappointed with this one, which even for them, is a quality Poker machine, filled with nice features. The theme and design are a pleasure in themselves, with some far-out but rewarding symbols, while the Magic Mushroom Wilds and free spins round are particular treats.