FairyTale Legends: Hansel & Gretel

Win Both Ways

Just like the good old Starburst, the Hansel & Gretel slot pays both ways. Better yet, it also pays for the 3 reels in the middle, if you have a pay-line win! And right off the bat we already have one feature that we don’t have in the Red Riding Hood version.

However, instead of 20 lines, the slot has 10, which also include stacked low and high symbols, like before. Nevertheless, each spin is still worth 20 coins (10 each way). And just like the first release, it’s played at a very low 19.9% hit frequency.

This leads us to the second difference.

Stacked Wild Re-spin Bonus – 1x Free Re-spin For Every Wild

For each fully stacked Wild, you’ll get 1 free re-spin.

It’s unbelievable, but NetEnt made the “Sticky Wild Re-spins” in the Little Red Riding Hood video slot even better. That’s because Hansel & Gretel Wilds can also appear stacked. And when they do, on the entire reel, you’ll also win a free re-spin. This will continue for as long as you no longer get any extra Stacked Wilds.

What about the random base game bonuses?

Three Random Features – Win 1 of 3 Bonuses on Any Spin

This is something we’ve already seen in the first game, but with some modifications.

As you play, Fairy can randomly award you 1 of 3 features, to boost your wins even further. Here they are, one by one.

1 of 3 Random Bonuses — Fairy Wonder Spin for Up to 9 Medium Symbols and Guaranteed Prize

Fairy Wonder bonus creates up to 9 medium overlay symbols for a guaranteed win.

One of the three possible random awards is called Fairy Wonder Spin. The bonus is named “Fairy Magic Spin” in the first episode of the Fairytale Legends slots and works the same way. What it does is award 5 – 9 medium win symbols (except the logo), and randomly places them as overlay symbols across the 5 reels. This creates a nice cluster, which is hopefully enough for a Big Win, at least.

2 of 3 Random Bonuses — Fairy Wild Spin for Multiple Wild Reels

Fairy Wild bonus creates a random number of Wild Reels.

Unlike the Red Riding Hood slot, which awards 3-4 Wild symbols, this time Fairy is more generous and creates full wild reels instead. It’s unknown what’s the maximum possible win for this one, but the video shows that you can easily get 2 wild reels.

3 of 3 Random Bonuses — Fairy Surprise Feature Transforms Low Symbols for High Rewards

Fairy Surprise feature turns random clusters of low symbols into medium ones, like this.

Like the original, the Fairy Surprise Feature is likely to be awarded in case of a no-win situation too. The fairy will choose one medium pay symbol to then pick clusters of low paying symbols and turn them all into the selected one, for a guaranteed win.

This may sound more complicated than it is, but it certainly won’t produce the same winning chances as you get with its main bonuses, which go as follows.

Three Hansel & Gretel Bonus Features – Get 3x Scatter to Reveal 1 of 3 Chest Prizes

Get 3 Scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5 to reveal three Chests with bonuses.

To get through to the big bonuses, you need exactly 3x Scatters, on reels 1, 3 and 5. Simply pick a chest to reveal your prize, which can either be a coin win, Candy House Bonus or Free Spins. In the Riding Hood slot, the maximum coin award is capped at only 15x the total bet. This is likely to be the case here too.

Candy House Bonus – Win Up to 120x Total Bet

There’s no wolf to beware of and no board game-type bonus. This time it’s about the cannibalistic witch living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and sweets. In other words, a pick-and-win type of bonus. Your mission is to collect sweets that award win multipliers. There are 15 candies, which are worth between 1.2x and 120x your total bet each.

Choose the guaranteed prize on left or risk for a bigger win by picking a sweet on the right.

You’ll have 3 choices at first, after which Hansel and Gretel will remove the rest and present you with a tough decision: to choose the guaranteed prize (chosen randomly) or select 1 of 3 last candies for the final award. The guaranteed win will always be somewhere between the maximum and minimum value of the 3 last sweets to the right (see image above). So if you don’t want to risk, you can always take the sure coin prize.

Free Spins Bonus – Win 10+ Free Games with Wild Re-spins

Win 10 Free Spins with Wild Re-spins and ways to win more freebies.

If one of the red chests reveals the free spins bonus, then you’re in for 10 free rounds. While it’s unclear just yet, the bonus is likely to follow the same steps as in the October 2016 release. This means, for every 1x Bonus symbol, you’ll win 2 extra free spins, while for 2x or 3x Bonuses, you’ll get 4 or 10 additional free games, respectively. Without limits.

Unfortunately, the 4 base game features won’t be there to help you. However, this feature will still have Wild Re-spins, which will make the journey from start to finish even longer. If you’re chasing free spins, then you can pick from 5 different ones in Net Entertainment’s majestic Jungle Spirit slot.

So what’s the verdict?