5 Witch Pots

5 Witch Pots is a Halloween slot from Endorphina with a crowded graveyard on screen and five bubbling cauldrons hanging above the reels. It plays on 5 reels and 4 rows with 25 fixed paylines, the RTP is 96.01% and the top prize is 3,700x the bet. Instead of a single bonus round, the game has five of them: one free games round, two Hold and Spin rounds and two pick-and-click games, each linked to a coloured pot.

A Night Among The Tombstones

The reels stand on a cobbled path between crooked crosses, wooden crypts and spider webs, with carved pumpkins glowing in the dark. A red-haired witch on a broomstick greets you on the intro screen, and above the reel frame the five pots are labelled Witch Games, Pumpkin Hold, Spider Hold, Creepy Pick’em and Spooky Pick’em, so you always see what can be triggered.

Symbols And Their Values

All prizes are for combinations of a kind on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win is paid on each line. The red witch is the best symbol and pays 80x the bet for five of a kind, 16x for four and 3.2x for three. The purple witch hat pays 40x for five, the crystal ball 8x and the green candles 4x. The lower part of the paytable is made of mushrooms, spiders, blue feathers and frogs, all worth 0.8x the bet for five.

The black cat is the Wild. It lands on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the base game and in the free games, and it replaces every symbol except the Bonus and Token symbols.

Elixirs And The Lucky Time Feature

The real story of the game is the Token symbols: green, red, purple, blue and orange elixir bottles. They appear in the main game and in the free games, sitting on top of other symbols. When a token flies off the reels into its pot, the symbol it was covering is revealed, and that symbol can still complete a winning combination. This is the Lucky Time Feature: each pot attracts elixirs of its own colour, and when an elixir mixes with the boiling potion, it may randomly trigger the matching bonus game.

• the green elixir can start Witch Games (free games);
• the red one can start Pumpkin Hold (Hold and Win);
• the blue one can start Spider Hold (Hold and Win);
• the purple and orange ones lead to the two pick games.

Witch Games

The green pot gives 24 free games, played with the same bet as the spin that triggered them. During this round the elixirs keep coming, so additional free games can be won, and the Hold and Win and Pick Me bonus games can also be triggered from inside the free games.

Pumpkin Hold

When the red elixir triggers Pumpkin Hold, five Bonus symbols appear and move to the bonus grid with their prizes. The reels turn into a 5x4 grid of single positions, and this Hold and Spin round starts with 3 attempts. Every Bonus pumpkin that lands stays in place and resets the counter to three. A pumpkin can show a regular prize of 1x to 30x the bet, or one of three jackpots: Min 50x, Mid 100x and Max 300x. If all 20 positions are filled, the Ultra Jackpot of 1,000x is added on top.

Spider Hold

Spider Hold works on a 19-position grid. Coins land on every reel except the central one and carry prizes of 1x to 25x or the Min 50x, Mid 100x and Max 250x jackpots. The central reel is reserved for the spider Collector: when it lands, it gathers the prizes of all coins on the screen and pays them immediately, while the coins keep their values for later spins. The round also starts with 3 attempts, and collecting 18 coins unlocks the 1,000x Ultra Jackpot.

The Two Pick Games

Spooky Pick’em (purple) shows 16 bats. Behind each bat is a coloured award or a regular prize of 5x to 10x the bet. The round continues until you find three awards of the same colour: red is worth 500x, purple 200x, blue 50x and green 20x, and regular prizes found along the way are paid as well.

Creepy Pick’em (orange) puts 18 tombs on the screen and gives 10 attempts. A tomb hides either a golden skull, the Royal symbol, or a regular prize from 2x to 50x. Each skull adds one more attempt, and three skulls win the Royal Award of 1,000x the bet.

Risk Game

After a win you can try the classic Endorphina card gamble. Four cards are dealt face down next to the dealer’s open card; if your chosen card beats it, the win is doubled, up to 10 times in a row. The rules give the risk round an average return of 84%, so it is for players who enjoy a gamble.

RTP, Volatility And Max Win

The RTP of 5 Witch Pots is 96.01%. Endorphina rates the volatility as high, which fits the structure: the base game pays small line wins quite often, and the big amounts come from the jackpots in the bonus games. The maximum win is 3,700x the bet, and bets start at 0.25 per spin with all 25 lines always active.

Our Verdict

5 Witch Pots is a good choice for players who like variety more than one long free spins round. The pots above the reels make every elixir exciting, the two Hold and Spin games bring fixed jackpots up to 1,000x, and the pick games are short and easy to follow.

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