Adventures in Wonderland Deluxe Slot by Playtech

Three separate bonus features hang off this board, which is a lot for a game this old. The Free Spins round is the one to aim for: a scatter starts it, and it holds up to five sticky wilds in place, each Alice staying locked across the spins that follow. Alice is the wild throughout, the same character clutching her "Drink Me" bottle, and she substitutes for everything while paying more than any other symbol, up to 10,000x your line bet for five along a line. Fill the whole screen with her and you hit the game's ceiling.

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party is the second feature, and it's the one with real money behind it. A Bonus symbol, the Hatter grinning over his teacup, opens a pick round at the table, and this is the only place the progressive jackpot can land. That jackpot seeds at around 20,000. It reads as "not active" in the free demo, so the tea party will still hand out its picks in fun mode but never the progressive, which only exists once you're playing for real.

The third feature is the White Rabbit. He turns up mid-spin in his gold waistcoat and pocket watch and drops random wilds onto the reels on his own. There's no bonus buy and no ante bet to force any of this, so all three features have to arrive naturally.

The art is plain storybook Alice: a walled English garden with a low brick wall, an arched wooden door and butterflies drifting past, the reels set on flat white so the hand-drawn Wonderland cast stays legible. The blue Caterpillar puffs a golden hookah, the Cheshire Cat lounges as a fat grey tabby, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee stand shoulder to shoulder as two identical pot-bellied twins, with ornate A-K-Q-J-10 court cards down at the low end. It's a 2015 build and it plays like one. And be honest about the return here: this pays back noticeably less over time than almost any modern slot, well under what a newer title gives you, so a lot rides on the sticky wilds and the tea party actually landing.