Santa Pokies At Australian Online Casinos

If you are not already in the Christmas mood, here are two online pokies that will start the ball rolling. Both have Santa Claus as a central character. Santa Surprise is from Playtech and Santa’s Wild Ride is from Microgaming.

Santa Surprise has all the usual Christmas symbols. Santa is the wild symbol and also awards the highest line payouts. Five Santa’s on an active payline pay 10,000 coins and four Santa’s pay 2,000 coins. You can tell that Santa Surprise is a high variance pokie and you will have to persist to get rewards. The other symbols are bell, stocking and gift. The playing card icons are adorned with Christmas decorations. In keeping with the festive nature of the theme there is Noel background music and peppy win animations. Santa Surprise has two special symbols. Santa’s North Pole cottage is the scatter symbol. It awards scatter payouts and triggers the free spins feature. Three or more cottage symbols anywhere on the reels will fetch you 10 free spins at tripled payouts. The free spins can be retriggered infinite times. The Christmas tree is the bonus symbol. Three or more of these on consecutive reels trigger the bonus game on the second screen. There are a number of gifts left by Santa. You pick as many gifts as there were bonus symbols in the triggering spin to win bonuses.

Santa’s Wild Ride is actually the online pokie that throws a surprise because Santa appears in an avatar never seen before. Santa’s wild ride is a motor cycle. He has a female assistant and devours a jumbo sandwich with plenty of beer. There are some traditional symbols as well such as roly poly pudding, cookies and Santa’s North Pole home. The scatter symbol is the motor cycle key. The game logo is the wild symbol and it also multiplies payouts by up to four times. The free spins feature is triggered by hitting three or more scatter symbols. You can select from three options, all of which award 25 free spins with doubled payouts. Each option includes a different type of wild symbol such as Stacked Wild, Expanding Wild and Trailing Wild. The Free Gift Bonus is a feature on the reels. In any spin a gift box may appear on reels 2 or 4. The gift box then opens to reveal the bonus credits won. Santa’s Wild Ride is a 243 ways to win slot game.