Golden Crown Halloween Slot by Fazi

Fazi took its royal Golden Crown fruit machine and dressed it for Halloween night, and the makeover is the whole reason this version exists. The reels sit under a bruised purple-and-red sky with a black haunted house lurking on the horizon, spiderwebs strung across the corners, and a pair of grinning jack-o-lanterns flanking the grid. The symbols are the usual classic-fruit lineup given a faint spooky tint: flaming red sevens, golden bells, watermelons, purple grapes, oranges, lemons and cherries. So it's a classic fruit board at heart, just with the lights turned down and a graveyard chill over it.

The win driver is the crown. A jewelled golden crown can only land on reels 2, 3 and 4, and when it does it stretches to fill the entire reel and turns every position wild, standing in for everything except the two pumpkins. With only 10 fixed lines all running through the middle of the reels, one fully wild center reel touches most of them at once, so a single expanding crown usually pays across several lines in one go. The red 7 backs it up as the top regular symbol, paying from just 2 of a kind and up to 500x for five. That 500x ceiling is on the modest side, honestly, but on a 10-line board the wild does a lot of the lifting.

Two pumpkins handle the scatter pays, and they don't trigger anything beyond their own value. The blue-dark pumpkin pays from anywhere on screen and pays the most; the orange one only counts on reels 1, 3 and 5. There's no free-spins round and no pick bonus hiding behind them, so don't expect the pumpkins to open a second screen. They just pay.

Underneath the reels run three mystery progressive jackpots, Gold, Diamond and Platinum, each fed by a slice of every bet and dropping at a random hidden point, with bigger stakes shortening the odds. And after any win you can send it to a red-or-black gamble, doubling up until you miss or hit the 50,000 cap.