The Shining Globe

The Shining Globe is a witchcraft slot from CT Gaming, released on 15 October 2025. It plays on a 5x3 grid with 20 fixed lines, returns 96% at medium volatility, and its advertised maximum of 1,000x needs reading carefully – it is a multiple of the line bet, not of what a spin costs you.

A Forest At Night

The reels stand in a misty purple wood, bare trunks receding into the dark on both sides. The THE SHINING GLOBE logo sits on the top rail in gold, and the frame is marked 20 LINES down the left edge and 20 FIXED down the right – so the line count is stated twice and cannot be changed.

The symbol set is a witch’s inventory: a bubbling green cauldron, a tawny owl, a black cat, a yellow money bag, a purple ink bottle and a red potion flask. The witch herself – a young woman in a purple hat – is the wild, and a banner reading IS WILD flashes above the reels when she lands.

The Paytable Is Per Line

This is the number that matters most here, so it is worth setting out precisely. The paytable values are per line bet, and our session ran at a line bet of 0.50 across 20 lines – a total bet of 10.00. For five, four and three of a kind:

Witch (wild) – 500.00 / 100.00 / 10.00
Cauldron – 100.00 / 10.00 / 2.50
Owl – 50.00 / 10.00 / 2.50
Black cat – 50.00 / 10.00 / 2.50
Money bag, Ink bottle, Potion – 25.00 / 5.00 / 1.00

Five witches pay 500.00 against a 0.50 line bet – 1,000 times the line bet, which is exactly the figure catalogues publish as the maximum win. Against the 10.00 that the spin actually cost, the same result is 50x.

Both numbers are true; they answer different questions. If you are comparing this game with one that quotes its ceiling against the total bet, the honest comparison is 50x. It is a quirk of how CT Gaming presents its figures, but it catches people out.

The Wild Is Also The Top Symbol

The witch substitutes for everything except the special symbols, and she is simultaneously the highest-paying symbol on the table – five times the cauldron and ten times a money bag.

She also stacks. One of our spins filled the first two reels with her almost completely, and the screen announced 5 OF A KIND in large letters across the grid. That is the base game’s best outcome, and it comes from the substitute rather than from any of the themed symbols.

A Board Of Globes

The feature replaces the reels with a three-by-three grid of glowing globes, each carrying a multiplier printed on its face. Ours read:

1X   1X   1X
2X   3X   3X
1X   1X   1X

Six ones, one two and two threes – and the round paid BONUS = 140.00, with WINNER PAID 140.00 in the bar below. Against the 10.00 total bet that is 14x.

The distribution is worth noticing. The good multipliers clustered in the middle row, the outer ring was all ones, and the ceiling on any single globe appears to be modest. This is a feature that pays a solid multiple reliably rather than one that occasionally explodes – which is consistent with the medium volatility rating.

An x2 Badge On Ordinary Spins

A small x2 marker appears in the bottom-left corner of the frame on some base-game wins. Two of our spins carried it: one returning 6.00 from a line of red potions, and one returning 90.00 from a screen of cauldrons and witches – 9x the total bet.

That second result is the more instructive. Nine times the stake from a board with no five-of-a-kind on it shows what 20 fixed lines plus a doubling marker can do together.

The Gamble Shows You The Last Ten Cards

CT Gaming keeps the old card gamble, and its version is more generous with information than most. After a win you are shown a face-down card and two ways to bet on it:

COLOR GAMBLE – red or black, x2
SUIT GAMBLE – hearts, diamonds, clubs or spades, x4

Above the card sits a strip labelled LAST CARD and 10 PREVIOUS CARDS, showing the suits and colours that came up recently. It changes nothing about the odds – each draw is independent – but it is the kind of transparency that costs the studio nothing and that players clearly want.

There is also a 1/2 button, which risks half your win rather than all of it. Our 180.00 win offered 180.00 on the colour and 360.00 on the suit at that half stake, and the card turned up a jack of hearts.

Three Symbols Share The Bottom

The money bag, the ink bottle and the potion flask are identical at every level – 25.00, 5.00 and 1.00 – so despite looking like three distinct items they are one tier. The owl and the black cat are likewise the same as each other at 50.00, 10.00 and 2.50.

Seven symbols therefore resolve into four ranks: the witch, the cauldron, the owl-and-cat pair, and the three objects. That is a deliberate flattening, and it changes how a board reads – the only things worth looking for are the witch and the cauldron, because everything else is interchangeable.

96% At Medium Volatility

The return is average and the medium rating is accurate to how the game behaves. Twenty fixed lines across seven symbols means something lands regularly, three of the symbols share a bottom tier, and the globe feature pays a dependable multiple rather than a lottery.

Our cash balance moved between 99,841 and 100,126 across the session – a swing of under three hundred on a 10.00 stake, which is about as gentle as slot sessions get.

What The Bet Changes

Everything scales with the line bet, and since the line count is fixed at 20 the total bet is always twenty times it. Our screenshots were taken at a 0.50 line bet for a 10.00 spin. Halve the line bet and every figure on the paytable halves; the multiples – 1,000x the line, 50x the spin – never move.

More From CT Gaming

CT Gaming builds a great many of these, usually with the line count in the title. Clover Queen and Enchanted Woods stay in the same fairy-tale register, and 20 Mega Star shows the studio’s classic side.

Who It Is For

The Shining Globe is for players who like a straightforward twenty-line machine with a bonus that actually pays. The globe board is a good piece of design – nine multipliers revealed at once, no picking, no waiting – and our round returned fourteen times the stake from a board that was mostly ones. The witch being both the wild and the top symbol keeps the base game interesting, and the gamble’s ten-card history is a nice touch. The one thing to be clear about is the ceiling: 1,000x refers to the line bet, and against what a spin costs, the top line is 50x. All six casinos we checked carry it.

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