Pragmatic Play Launches Holiday-Themed Online Slot Santa Xmas Rush

The premier software developer Pragmatic Play made an early contribution to the Christmas slot basket with Santa’s Xmas Rush launched on November 28^th. The slot delivers symbol win delights in a cluster-pays format on a 6x6 matrix. The Xmas Rush feature is the star of the show, escalating direct money rewards up to 2,500x the bet. Overall, the game has the potential to unlock payouts of up to 10,000x the wager when free spins come into play.

Christmas All-Around

Visually, Santa Xmas Rush is everything one would expect of a traditional white Christmas theme. Red-clad Santa spreads cheer on the right of the 6x6 grid with a grand display of the Borealis behind the holly-decorated reels. He only heads inside during the free spins round, warming up from the snow and cold weather for potentially massive wins.

The slot theme is generic down to its symbols, including red, green, purple, and blue Christmas décor balls as low pays. The premiums appear as a stocking, gingerbread man, and rocking reindeer toy. Symbols trigger wins in clusters, awarding up to 25x the bet.

A Familiar Math Model

Santa Xmas Rush scores a high volatility rating, which is on brand for a Pragmatic Play slot. The accompanying RTP rate is adjustable and has three settings: 96.51%, 95.58%, and 94.48%.

Acceptable bets range between $0.20 and $240 on regular spins. The slot offers two ante bets to speed up the bonus-triggering process. The first ante bet increases the odds of landing free spins threefold for 50% of the bet. The second one makes it 8x more likely to trigger the freebies for 3x the bet.

Festive Delights

Santa Xmas Rush has bonus features as light-hearted as its theme but with a high winning potential of up to 10,000x:

• Tumbling Reels: Symbols that are part of winning clusters are removed from the grid, leaving room for others to tumble down and potentially create new winning combinations.
• Xmas Rush: A snowflake appears on three to eight random spots during the main game. Once the tumbling feature ends with at least one Santa icon in view, all the highlighted positions grant a respin or direct money award.
• Free Spins: Four to seven scatters trigger 10 to 22 free spins. The Xmas Rush feature does not place snowflakes on random spots during the freebies. Instead, each valuable combination can add a snowflake to one of the vacant positions. The snowflakes remain in view until the free spins end, activating when Santa icons appear.

Santa Xmas Rush does not cause much of a rush like Vampy Party, but it is a fully formed festive slot that provokes adequate excitement.