Magic Boxes

What at first sight may appear to be just an ordinary game is a surprisingly generous and genuine action-packed title. We’re talking about Microgaming’s “Magic Boxes” here, a highly amusing video slot whose colorful reels will not only brighten your day, but also boost your balance - just give it a try, stirr in a pinch of patience and watch the magic happening!

“Magic Boxes” Characteristics

The graphics in this 5-reel, 25-payline video slot are simple and straightforward, yet of superb quality, thanks to which it will surely have its followers. The theme combines a range of entertainment types - from toys, playing cards, magicians’ tricks with magic boxes, to billiards, creating a shindig on the color-filled reels that keep spinning in your favor.

It’s interesting, really, that the base game gives such good payouts - they come pretty regularly, and they usually equal or exceed your bet amount. Hence, you’ll be able to enjoy this game free of stress that you may spend too much. One of the reasons for such a favorable payout rate are the special features - three wilds (which get different functions only in free spins), a scatter and free spins with an interesting twist applied to their multipliers.

Another thing that makes this slot great for everyone is the range of coin denominations and bet amounts it offers. To start with coins, their value ranges from as little as 1 cent and moves up to 20 cents. In addition, “Magic Boxes” allows you to place up to 20 coins per payline, thus making the range of possible bet amounts huge and capable of fitting everyone’s taste!

Special Features

At first sight, the special features in this slot seem ordinary, because they comprise all the most common ones - wilds, scatters, free spins and multipliers. However, they come with a twist, and here’s what the catch is about:

While wilds have their regular substitutive role in the base game, they get an additional role during free spins, which are triggered whenever 3, 4, or 5 black billiard balls appear anywhere (in return, you’ll get 8, 16 or 24 free spins, respectively). Namely, during the free spins, the red, green and blue magic boxes not only act as wilds, but as multipliers as well. Each of them has a multiplier value of their own: red is a 2x, green a 3x and blue a 4x multiplier. They appear only on reels 2, 3, and 4 (in the base game as well) and in case more than one color of them appears at the same time, the one with a lower multiplier will turn into the one with the higher one.

An additional bonus of the free spins feature is that it’s retriggerable.

Also, those who seek an extra bit of thrill may want to try the Double Up feature which is available after each win. In it they can double or quadruple their winnings if they choose the right color or suit of the next card, respectively. They can also half the stake, or take the risk of losing it all if they bet the whole sum and make wrong guess.

Conclusion

The most amazing thing about “Magic Boxes” is definitely its generosity in base game and especially during the free spins. And if you have in mind that it’s also an entertaining title accompanied by theme-specific sounds and interesting special features, there’s really not much more you could ask for!