Megaways Jack Frost: Slot Overview
If you like things that are cold, or snow, or ice, or
winter in general, then 🏀 maybe you'd be best buds with Jack Frost, who is/was said to be
the personification of all those things, and 🏀 more. He's also the star in Megaways Jack
Frost, an online slot from developer Iron Dog Studio. It's funny… Megaways 🏀 Jack Frost
sounds very close to Megaways Jack, one of Iron Dog Studios' early Megaways slots, and
given the developer's 🏀 track record, imagine our surprise to realise this wasn't a clone
of that game. Hol' up though, after inspecting the 🏀 next candidate on the list, yep,
Megaways Jack Frost is indeed a reskin of another Jack and the Beanstalk slot 🏀 from Iron
Dog, namely, Megaways Jack And The Magic Beans.
Where the previous Jack game was held
in a fecund green 🏀 field with a massive beanstalk reaching up to the sky, Megaways Jack
Frost takes place in an icy land of 🏀 falling snow, snow-covered trees, mountains,
clouds, and a snow-covered house. In other words, there's a lot of snow about the
🏀 place. Like Megaways Jack And The Magic Beans, this game's got a charming feel to it,
and according to Wikipedia, 🏀 Jack Frost may have roots in Anglo-Saxon and Norse customs
of winter. He was named in literature in 'Round About 🏀 Our Coal Fire', published in
1734, and from then… oh, sorry, there won't be a test on this later. It's 🏀 just that
some games encourage deeper investigation. At times, it's because the topic is so
fascinating. Other times, it's because 🏀 there's not much else to say. In the case of
Megaways Jack Frost, it was a little bit of both.
If 🏀 you can handle the on-screen cold
temperatures, taking part in Megaways Jack Frost means picking a stake of 10 c 🏀 toR$/€20
per paid game round. Like its predecessor, this is a highly volatile gambling machine,
producing an RTP of 96.14% 🏀 by default, rising up to as high as 96.5% when buying free
spins. Run by Megaways under licence from Big 🏀 Time Gaming, Megaways Jack Frost's grid
lands 2 to 7 symbols on each of its 6 reels, translating to win 🏀 ways of up to
117,649.
Whenever a way win pays out, the winning symbols are destroyed, and other
symbols drop down 🏀 to replace them. Consecutive tumbles continue as long as wins appear
on the reels. Cracking open the paytable, ten Jack 🏀 Frost-inspired symbols make up the
regular pays. They are 10 through A card ranks as the lows, then a snowflake, 🏀 frozen
fruit, a bird with a bowtie, reindeer, and a boy as the high pays. Filling the grid
from one 🏀 side to the other with a 6 OAK winning way pays 0.6 to 1 times the bet when
achieved by 🏀 the low pays or 2 to 25 times the bet for the picture symbols. In the base
game, wilds appear 🏀 on reels 2-5, while in the bonus game, they land on reels 2-6. The
wild's job is to substitute for 🏀 any of the regular pay symbols to help create
wins.
Megaways Jack Frost: Slot Features
Going hand in hand with Megaways is 🏀 a tumble
feature, as well as a special Jack Frost symbol, Jack Frost features, free spins, and
buy options.
Special Jack 🏀 Frost Symbol
The special Jack Frost symbol can trigger
features in the base game and in free spins. In the base 🏀 game, it guarantees a win by
creating a winline made of low pays, high pays, or wilds. In free spins, 🏀 it can trigger
a random feature from the Jack Frost Feature list.
Jack Frost Features
The possible
features from the Jack Frost 🏀 Features list are these, triggered per symbol if it lands
on the reels:
Additional free spins are awarded.
are awarded. An additional 🏀 multiplier
is awarded.
is awarded. An additional locked reel is awarded.
is awarded. An additional
reel for the Jack Frost symbol to 🏀 land on is awarded, progressing left to right from
reels 2 to 5.
to land on is awarded, progressing left to 🏀 right from reels 2 to 5.
Awards high pay symbols on the reels.
on the reels. Awards high pay symbols in 🏀 place of
low pay symbols on the reels.
After the feature has occurred, any special Jack Frost
symbols still on the 🏀 reels are turned into wilds.
Free Spins
Landing 4 scatter symbols
triggers the free spins feature. Scatters are present on reels 2 🏀 to 5 and only once per
reel. When the round triggers, the number of free spins, the multiplier, the amount 🏀 of
locked reels, and the Jack Frost frequency are chosen at random. Getting 4 consecutive
tumbles awards +2 free spins, 🏀 and each winning tumble increases the multiplier by
+1.
Buy Free Spins
The three choices here are 100x the bet (RTP 96.5%) 🏀 to buy free
spins with a random number of spins, multipliers, locked reels, and Jack Frost
frequency, or 160x the 🏀 bet (RTP 96.3%) for at least 8 free spins with random
multipliers, locked reels, and Jack Frost frequency, or 200x 🏀 the bet adding at least an
x4 multiplier on top of the previous buy option.
Megaways Jack Frost: Slot
Verdict
Studios are 🏀 in some ways like regular individual people, each one with its own
personality, ways, habits, wants, and dreams. While some 🏀 studios would rather slide
down a rusty razor blade using their crotch as a braking system than release the same
🏀 thing twice, others have no qualms recycling, recycling, and recycling some more.
Obviously, Iron Dog Studio is one of those 🏀 developers that has no issues using the same
stuff again and again. Not saying one method is inherently better than 🏀 the other, but
you know, how many firsts in life are as good the second time around?
Actually, maybe
good isn't 🏀 the right word, but there's something special about a first that can be
missing the second time. So it threatens 🏀 to be with Megaways Jack Frost, which was a
repeat performance of Megaways Jack And The Magic Beans, just with 🏀 snow and stuff.
Magic Beans zealots might be grinning ear to ear with the knowledge, but we'd have to
say 🏀 Megaways Jack Frost was no better the second time around. Don't get us wrong, there
is decent enough Megaways gaming 🏀 to be had here if being cold is your thing. One
standout in these games, for example, is the random 🏀 way free spins components are
awarded at the start of a bonus round. Likely just as neat here as it 🏀 was in the Magic
Beans game.
Naturally, the more free spins components awarded, the neater it may be, as
they might 🏀 well come in handy for getting within striking distance of Megaways Jack
Frost's substantial 25,000x the bet max win. It 🏀 feels a bit bad admitting this, but
Megaways Jack Frost pretty much ended up the way it was suspected to 🏀 at the beginning
of the review. Not a bad game, but it was another Iron Dog Studio reskin that didn't
🏀 make a major impression when the curtains had closed.
