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Very Hot 5 Christmas Booster is a festive fruit machine from Fazi, released on 6 November 2025. It plays on a 5x3 grid with 5 fixed lines, returns 96.44% at medium volatility and tops out at 1,222x the bet. The Booster in the title is a switch, and the game shows you exactly what it costs. Fruit Outside A Lit HouseThe reels stand in a snowy street at night, a house on either side with warm light in the windows and a string of fairy lights draped across the top of the frame. Behind the symbols the reel strips glow orange, so the whole thing reads warm rather than cold. The symbols are Fazi’s standard fruit: a plum, grapes, a watermelon, an orange, a lemon, cherries, a golden bell and a red 7. A gold star marked SCATTER sits among them, and a green four-leaf clover is the wild. Five Lines, And A Very Steep TopThe line count is fixed at 5 – printed down both edges of the frame and repeated in a box at the bottom right. At a line bet of 100.00, that makes a base total bet of 500.00, and the paytable reads: Red 7 – 300,000 / 20,000 / 5,000 / 1,000 Against that 500.00 base the seven is worth 600x for five, and the next symbol down is worth 100x. A gap of six to one, with everything below the grapes squeezed into a band between 20x and 40x. The seven also pays for a pair, at 1,000 – twice the line bet. On a five-line game that small consolation matters more than it sounds, because there are so few chances for anything else to land. The Booster Is Fivefold, AgainThe Wild Booster panel sits on the left edge with a slider under it, and the arithmetic is visible on the bottom bar. With the Booster switched on, our line bet still read 100.00 and the line count still read 5 – but TOTAL BET read 2,500.00 rather than 500.00. That is a straight five times the cost of every spin. It is the third Fazi Booster title we have measured and the third to charge exactly five times: Money 5 Booster went from 80 to 400, Golden Crown Christmas Booster from 100 to 500, and this one from 500 to 2,500. The rate is a house standard rather than a per-game setting, which is useful to know before you switch it on anywhere in the range. The Clover Works On Three Reels OnlyThe wild rule is printed beside the clover and is identical to the one in the studio’s Golden Crown games: “On 2nd, 3rd and 4th reels substitutes for all symbols on the same reel except the star and the scatter.” So the clover never lands on the first or fifth reel, and when it does land it works on the same reel – covering the column rather than sitting in one cell. With only five lines running across the board, a clover filling the middle reel is on every one of them at once. That is exactly what our screenshots show. One spin had clovers covering the second and third reels with grapes and a lemon around them, returning 8,000.00. Another had clovers on the second and third with bells and cherries on the first, paying 7,000.00. A third, with lemons filling the first three reels and clovers on the fourth, returned 9,000.00. Against the boosted 2,500.00 stake those are 3.2x, 2.8x and 3.6x. Against what the same spins would have cost unboosted, they are 16x, 14x and 18x – but the clovers would not have been there. A Ceiling Shared With Money 5 BoosterThe published maximum here is 1,222x, which is precisely the figure Fazi quotes for Money 5 Booster. Two games in the same Booster line sharing a ceiling to the digit is a strong hint that the Booster mechanic itself sets the limit rather than the paytable underneath it. It also puts the seven in perspective. Five sevens are 600x, roughly half the ceiling, so the maximum is reachable from a boosted board with the top symbol on it rather than from a hidden feature. There is no jackpot ladder and no coin round. A Network Jackpot In The CornerA plaque at the bottom-left shows Fazi’s shared DIAMOND JACKPOT, which was sitting a little over 42,000 while we played – the same pool that appears in the studio’s other network titles. These pools are fed by play across the whole network rather than being multiples of your stake, so the pot is worth proportionally far more at a small bet. Most progressive games require a full stake to qualify, so check your casino’s rules first. 96.44% At Medium VolatilityThe return is above average, which is generous for a game carrying a network pool. The medium rating is fair for the base game: five lines and a compressed fruit tier mean small, frequent movement, with the seven providing the only real top end. Switch the Booster on and the character changes entirely. You are paying five times the stake for a feature that fills the middle reels with clovers, so the swings are five times larger in both directions. The published return covers both modes; they do not feel like the same game. What The Bet ChangesEverything on the paytable scales with the line bet. Our screenshots were taken at 100.00 a line – 500.00 a spin, or 2,500.00 boosted. The multiples, 600x on the seven down to 20x on the cherries, hold at every stake. The Diamond pool does not, being fixed cash. A Note On AvailabilityAs of 16 September 2026 none of the six casinos we link to has this one in its lobby, and in September that is not especially surprising. Operators tend to switch seasonal titles off out of season and bring them back in the weeks before the holiday – Christmas, Halloween and Easter releases all move on that cycle. It is a tendency rather than a rule, and plenty of festive games do stay in the lobby year-round. There may also be a second reason here: Fazi’s Booster line as a whole reaches these six patchily. The demo above runs on Fazi’s own promotional server and works all year. More From FaziGolden Crown Christmas Booster is the ten-line companion to this game, with the same wild rule and the same fivefold Booster. Money 5 Booster shares its exact 1,222x ceiling, and Christmas Presents 2025 is Fazi’s other recent festive release. Who It Is ForVery Hot 5 Christmas Booster is for players who want a five-line classic with one decision attached. The base game is deliberately small – eight symbols, five lines, a seven worth 600x and very little between it and the fruit – and the Booster is the whole proposition: five times the price for clovers filling the middle three reels, which on five lines means every line at once. Fazi states the cost plainly in the total bet, states the wild rule in full beside the symbol, and does not hide the credit denomination. At 96.44% the return is good for a title carrying a network pool. Just be clear that switching the Booster on is a different game at a different price. This game was not available at any of our six partner casinos when we checked on 18 September 2026. You can still play at AztecParadise Online Casino. There’s a unique casino bonus offer of 300% up to £2000 for a limited time. |