Witch Pickings Slot by Light & Wonder

The thing that sets this one apart is how much of the bonus you choose yourself. Land three or more of the Three Witches scatter and you get 5 free games, but first a screen of three witches appears, Blue, Red and Green, each offering three options. You pick one from each row, so nine possible modifiers collapse into a personal three-feature loadout that runs across all the spins at once. Pick again next time for a different build, or pull a past combo back from the History panel.

The Blue Witch handles symbols: make all four premiums turn into one chosen symbol, stack that symbol on the reels, or have each copy of it pay a cash prize from 25 up to 500 times the bet. The Red Witch handles wilds: any wild expands to fill its whole reel, extra wilds get seeded across every reel, or any wild win gets a x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10 boost. The Green Witch handles wins themselves: a flat x2 to x5 on everything, or wins paying both left-to-right and right-to-left, or just 5 more free games tacked on. So a greedy run might stack Symbol Prizes plus Expanding Wilds plus the all-wins multiplier and watch the screen pay in several directions at once.

The base game is plainer by comparison. It is 25 lines on a 5x3 board, and the purple WILD orb is the standout because it pays on its own from just two of a kind, which is rare and quietly props up the smaller hits. The scatter chips in too, paying from two anywhere and adding its win on top of the lines. Visually it skips the dark-and-gothic route most witch slots take. The reels sit in an ornate gold frame over a sunlit forest meadow, a pink-spired fairy-tale castle on the horizon, with a bubbling green cauldron, a jewelled potion bottle and a constellation-furred black cat among the symbols. If you like the player-driven pick bonus idea, What's Up? Witches takes a brighter, cartoonier swing at the same coven theme.