Do you know the tale about Ebenezer Scrooge written by Charles Dickens? About a person who has no place in his life for kindness or compassion but only for money, and his life changed after the visit of 3 ghosts: past, present and the future. Would you like to know this story? Play “Ghosts of Christmas” slot from Playtech and become familiar with this tale. ...

Ghosts of Christmas is a 5-reel video slot based upon the classic Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol. Gameplay happens over a maximum of 20 pay lines that include wilds, scatters and the chance to win via free bonus spins. ...

game ReviewThe games game can be found at Playtech casinos. Playtech are one of the market leaders as a casino software provider, catering to many of the biggest names in gambling and have now started providing slots RTP/house edge information in their game help files. The house edge of Ghosts of Christmas is 7.67%.“If you please sir, why open the office tomorrow? Other businesses will be closed; there’ll be no one to do business with. It’ll waste a lot of expensive coal for the fire!” – Kermit the Frog.The Ghosts of Christmas game had 5 reels, 20 paylines and you can bet one coin per payline.The ‘Scrooge’ symbol is Wild. There are two bonus features when playing Ghosts of Christmas. The first bonus feature is activated when you receive 3 or more of the ‘Marley’s Ghost’ scatter symbol anywhere on the reels. When this happens you will be asked to select one of the Marley’s Ghost symbols which will reveal between 5 and 15 complimentary spins. During the complimentary spins all wins are multiplied by 3.The second bonus feature is activated when you receive 3 or more of the ‘Clock’ bonus symbol in a row on an active payline starting from the left side of the reels. When this happens you will be taken to a new screen showing a picture from Scrooge’s past, present or future. Select between 3 and 5 of the items, depending on how many Clock bonus symbols you received, ...

youts are possibly not large, but are somewhat offset by a good hitting average during the base game. Special features in this slot are Ghosts of Marley's Christmas Bonus and Free Games.

- Ghost of Christmas Bonus: this figure is triggered by the occurrence of 3 or more clock symbols consecutively on some active payline from left to right, starting at the reel 1; the wild symbol is not eligible to participate in the activation of this feature. Once triggered this round, the screen makes transition to a scenario where you may see any of the three ghosts, past, present, or future, who present 5 books, gifts, or headstones, for you to choose; all elections have a prize, some larger than others. Activating these bonus rounds did not seem an extremely difficult task for me, and the best rewards I got here were approximately 5 times the value of my total stake, fair award just considering the frequency this feature is activated with.

- Marley's Free Games: this feature is activated by the appearance of 3 or more scatters in any position, identified with the image of a man in chains, which apparently is the ghost of Marley, the truth at this point is I do not remember that part of the story. After activated, you must do pick on any of the scatters to find out if you qualify for 5, 10, or 15 free spins, whose profits will all be multiplied by 3x. To be frank, considering how difficult it has seemed to trigger this characteristic to me, I think it should give 15 spins instantly, since I could spin the reels over 400 turns to access this instance and I got only five free spins and have only 2 small winnings on them; a disappointing detail in a game that I still consider quite fun.

Anyway, it's impossible not recommending this game and even more so close to this important holiday.

What I have noticed in this game is that it reminds me of Bet on Soft 3D games. I have nothing against that because I'm a big fan Bet on Soft 3D games. But I'm a bit disappointed that the Playtech here copied another software provider.

Otherwise I have no other criticisms on this game. The short film that you see when you start the game is very interesting. The game has simple rules and that is the only difference with the already mentioned Bet on Soft 3D games, which in most cases have little more complicated rules. Playtech offered two bonus features here. There is a free spins bonus where you can get up to 15 free spins. Then there is one more bonus you can come, if on one of the pay-lines you have at least 3 symbols with a clock. I was a bit disappointed when I discovered that in fact this is a classic pick up bonus. Ever since I discovered Ghosts of Christmas I played it in several casinos. I've had a few wins greater than 100 x bet. My biggest win so far has been about 150 x bet. Not bad but then I played with a bet of only 0.2 euros so I cashed only 30 euros from these wins. This is a game with slight variations so that you will not quickly lose money here. This allows you that sometimes you can try with bigger bet.

All in all it seems to me like one very charming game. But I think it lacks originality and seems to me like a cheap copy of Bet on Soft 3D games. However for Ghosts of Christmas I give a passing grade with 6 stars.

The game plays with the same 20 paylines, uses the same symbols values, the Bonus game now comes in 3 different screens, all with the same pick-and-win concept, but the Free Spins game has been changed from the old 10 free spins with a 3x multiplier, to 5 up to 15 free spins with a 3x multiplier. Personally, I would prefer the old fixed 10 free spins option, because getting only 5 free spins much too often can be very depressing indeed, to say the very least.

Scrooge is the Wild symbol, paying 10,000x the line bet for 5 of him, substitutes for other symbols except the Scatter and the Bonus symbols, but is a dumb Wild symbol nonetheless. The Green Ghost is the Scatter symbol, paying a nice 500x the total bet for 5 of them, and getting 3 or more of these symbols trigger Marley's Free Games. Pick one of the symbols to reveal the free spins number, from 5 up to 15 free spins, with all wins tripled. The Clock is the Bonus symbol, it doesn't pay anything for itself, but getting 3 or more consecutive symbols on any active payline triggers the Ghosts of Christmas Bonus game. As for the symbols, they pay from 500x to 50x the line bet for 5 of each kind, but still maintaining a good paytable.

There are 3 separate screens randomly selected for the Bonus game - in a classroom, in a living room, and at the graveyard, but all playing in the same way, by picking 3, 4 or 5 items to win cash prizes, depending on the number of Bonus symbols triggering the Bonus game. Prizes here are hardly ever big. The most that I could get was only 10x my total bet amount, the most common being 2x to 7x. Very low payouts indeed, not exciting at all, but the Bonus games do tend to come regularly, thereby providing some extended play time.