Sneaky Santa Slot Demo & Review – Play for Free

Jump right into the holiday spirit with Sneaky Santa, the latest release from Realtime Gaming’s in-house studio Spinlogic Gaming. A “penny slot machine” with a low minimum bet and a decent hit frequency, this Christmas slot machine is fun to play - and not just during the holiday season. While you can’t expect life-changing wins from it, it does have some features worth exploring.

For a slot machine released in 2023, Sneaky Santa looks like one from the early 2010s. But in general, graphics seem to be RTG/Spinlogic’s weak points. The 3D animations are decent, though, and the game does have a nice festive atmosphere.

The game’s shortcomings are more than made up for by its features. It comes with an interesting bonus bet concept and a “Buy feature” function. This, along with the free spins that retrigger quite often make it a good choice for casual players, especially around the holidays. Just make sure you choose the expanding symbol wisely.

Overall, we’re happy with the way Sneaky Santa looks and feels. Its dated visuals pull our rating down just a bit. All things considered, it is a decent Christmas-themed slot machine.

Sneaky Santa Slot Demo

Follow these steps to play Sneaky Santa at one of South Africa’s real money casinos:

Sneaky Santa has a simple interface, familiar to fans of RTG slots:

1. Game information, with the pay table and the T&C on the left

2. The balance display

3. The bet amount display

4. The speed button

5. The buttons to set your bet, plus the Spin button

6. The “Max bet” button

7. The Autoplay button

8. The latest win display
   

1. Set your bet amount

First of all, set your bet amount using the (-) and (+) buttons on either side of the Spin button:

• Press (-) to decrease

• Press (+) to increase

The total bet is calculated by the formula (coin value) x (number of active lines). There are 25 fixed win lines. You can’t set the coin value, only the total bet amount - but the winnings are calculated based on the coin value, not the total bet value.

This means that:

• For a total bet of R0.25 the coin value is R0.01

• For a total bet of R125 the coin value is R5 and so on

The bet amount setting is not very granular, so the bet amount jumps a lot with each push of a button:

• Increments of R0.25 between R0.25 and R2.5

• From R2.5 it jumps to R6.25, R12.5, and R25

• From R25 it jumps to R62.5, then to R125

2. Set the speed

Push the button on the right of the bet amount display to switch between normal (⚡) and fast (⚡⚡)  speeds.

3. Play

Press the “Spin” button in the middle of the screen to spin the reels. Alternatively, you can press “Space” on your keyboard to play. Note that this has to be turned on from the game’s Settings.

Sneaky Santa Slot Bonus Features

What Sneaky Santa lacks in visuals, it makes up for with simple and self-explanatory bonus features.

Wild Scatter symbol

The only special symbol in the Sneaky Santa online slot is the “Letter to Santa” symbol that acts both as a Wild and a Scatter. It has the lowest payout associated with it, but it will stand in for any other symbol, and trigger the Free Spins feature as well.

Morphing symbols

This is one of the best features of the Sneaky Santa game. Whenever enough Morphing symbols land on the reels to trigger a win, they expand to cover the entire reel. These symbols pay in any position, not just from left to right. 

There can only be one active Morphing symbol at a time. The one you select at the beginning of the Free Spins overrides the one selected in Bonus Bet mode.

Bonus bet

The “Bonus bet” feature will apply a 10x multiplier to your bet amount. This means that the minimum bet grows from 0.25 rands to 2.5 rands, and the maximum bet grows to R1250. 

In return, you get one Morphing symbol in the base game.

Free spins

At least three Wild Scatter symbols landing on the screen at the same time trigger 12 free spins. Even if there are more of them, the number of free spins remains the same 

The free spins can be retriggered indefinitely during the bonus game by three or more Wild Scatter symbols landing on the screen. At the beginning of the spins, you’ll get to choose a Morphing symbol.

Sneaky Santa Slot Symbols & Payouts

As you might expect, all the high-paying symbols in Sneaky Santa are Christmas-related. The low-paying ones, in turn, are pretty standard, borrowed from playing cards:

Low-paying symbols

For the low-paying symbols to pay, you’ll need at least three of them on a win line, calculated from left to right.

This means that if you play with the minimum bet (R0.01 per coin, R0.25 in total), the minimum payout for three A symbols will be R0.10 (10 x R0.01), and the maximum will be R2 (200 x R0.01)

High-paying symbols

The same formula applies to high-paying symbols. The only difference is that here, for these symbols you only need two of them to pay out:

Special symbol

The only special symbol in the game is the Wild Scatter (a letter to Santa). Aside from acting as a Wild symbol and triggering the free spins, the symbol also pays winnings, as follows:

• 1x the coin value for 3 symbols

• 10x the coin value for 4 symbols

• 50x the coin value for 5 symbols

Sneaky Santa Slot RTP & Volatility

The developer didn’t publish the official RTP and volatility for the game. The volatility of the Sneaky Santa slot machine is medium to high.

Sneaky Santa Slot on Mobile

The Sneaky Santa slot looks just as crisp and sleek on smartphones as it does on computers. Its mobile user interface is easy to use and navigate both in portrait and landscape mode, making it a great game to play at South Africa’s best casinos on mobile. There’s only one unusual thing about it: in landscape mode, the Spin button is on the left instead of the usual right, and it can’t be switched. 

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