Esmeralda Online Slot by Playtech Review

The Esmeralda Slot Free Spins & Features

The game provides an opportunity to activate one of the two bonuses that let you win more. They become available once certain special symbols land on the reels. A picture of a red-haired girl is the Wild symbol. Its main function is to complete the winning combos. It substitutes for any symbol except for the Scatter, and it does substitute for the Scatter during the free spins. Also, the Wild symbol forms winning combos of its own, which pay the highest reward featured in the game. The Scatter symbol is depicted as a red rose. It pays regardless of its position on the reels and can cover 3 boxes on the reels at once and win you free spins for 8 or more Scatters landed on the reels simultaneously. The Scatter symbol pays the following rewards:

• 5, 6 or 7 Scatters - 2 times your total bet
• 8 Scatters - 16 times your total bet and 15 free spins
• 9 - 18 times your total bet and 17 free spins
• 10 - 20 times your total bet and 19 free spins
• 11 - 22 times your total bet and 20 free spins
• 12 - 24 times your total bet and 22 free spins
• 13 - 26 times your total bet and 25 free spins
• 14 - 28 times your total bet and 35 free spins
• 15 - 30 times your total bet and 70 free spins

Symbols and multipliers featured in Esmeralda

You need to land 3, 4 or 5 identical pictures on a payline to form a winning combination in Esmeralda slot themed to music. These combinations must start with the leftmost reel. You will come across 12 symbols, which are playing cards, pictures and special symbols.

Playing cards will land frequently but pay low rewards. Winning combinations will multiply your bet per line this number of times: J, Q, K and A - 5, 15 or 100 times your bet per line for 3, 4 or 5 pictures respectively. These pictures land less frequently but pay much more than the playing cards:

• Earrings and a necklace - 10, 120 and 700 times your bet per line
• A tambourine or a guitar - 25, 200 and 875
• Pictures of young lads - 30, 350 and 1,000

The game features 2 special symbols. They may earn you some substantial advantages, and the Wild symbol forms its own combos: x200, x2,000 or x15,000 for 3, 4 or 5 symbols respectively.

Gambling Round

After each successful spin, you have a chance to double your winnings in the gambling round. You can launch it by clicking Double on the control panel. You will see 5 face-down cards instead of the reels and a new control panel. Click on the Double button to reveal the first card. Your objective is to pick one card which has the higher value than the revealed one. A right guess will double your win, otherwise your win will be lost. If you do not want to risk your entire reward, you can bet only a half of your winnings by clicking on the Double Half button. You can see the following info sections in the lower part of the screen:

• Bet - your bet in the doubling round
• Double To / Double Half To - the reward in case you win when betting the whole/half the win
• Bank - your current win

To stop the gambling round and collect your winnings, click the Collect button.

How to Play the Esmeralda Slot

To let players try out the Esmeralda slot for free by Playtech, the developers will give you 2,000 credits at the beginning of the game to place your bets. You can view your balance in credits in the bottom left corner. You can adjust the number of active paylines between 1–25 by using the +/- buttons under the Lines section. Use the same buttons in the Line Bet section to set your bet per line between 0.01 and 1 credit.

You will see your total bet in the Total Bet section. These two values mentioned above will determine the size of your total bet, which can vary between 0.25 and 25 credits when all paylines are active. You can see your winnings in the Win section right above. Click on the red Spin button to launch the reels. You can click on it again to stop the reels instantly. You have two more ways of launching the reels:

• Bet Max - to set the maximum number of paylines and makes one spin
• Auto Play - to make 10, 25, 50 or 99 continuous autospins or to use the Until Feature (manual stop)

The Double button lets you access the gambling round after each successful spin. To view the paytable, click on the Info button.

Auxiliary buttons

The game comes with some extra controls besides the main ones. The Turbo Mode button enables the accelerated mode. To set the number of paylines, you can use the multicoloured cubes to the sides of the reels, not only in the Lines section. You will see two more switches in the upper right corner:

• The speaker icon - to change the volume
• A wrench icon - to view the history of the winnings (unavailable in the trial version), to make custom changes to the game and the sound effects and open the guidelines on running the slot

You will also see a narrow line between the control panel and the reels where you can read some useful tips and bits of additional information. The advantages featured in the Esmeralda free slot are the Scatter and the Wild. The Scatter symbol lets you launch a series of free spins. You can double your winnings in the gambling round or launch the autospins. You can win the progressive jackpot in the full version, which is unavailable in the free one.

Although the Esmeralda slot game was developed by Casino Technology, the online software platforms will show the slot belonging to the group of games powered by Playtech. The reason for this is that the developers have adapted this slot for playing online, this is why the slot is listed under both brand names at the same time.