Spellbinding Mystery

Pragmatic Play takes you into an enchanted forest where a wizard lives in his little house, and he’s busy doing his magic in the garden. He’s summoned a 7×7 Cluster Pays grid filled with potions, runes, scrolls, and spellbooks, and he’ll wave his magic wand to transform mystery symbols on a highly regular basis in this game. You get plenty of them in all stages, and on more rare occasions you will also land wilds and multiplier wilds up to x5 in the base game.

The wizard casts his spell verbally as well, and everything is taken up several notches when the bonus round triggers. Not only will all wilds be multiplier wilds between x2 and x10, but the mystery symbols highlight all positions they land on. All marked positions turn into mystery symbols per spin for the duration of the bonus round, and this combined with multiplying multiplier wilds can do damage to the tune of 10,000x your stake.

Spellbinding Mystery Slot Features

You win by landing 7 to 49 matching symbols in a cluster anywhere on the grid, and a 7 symbols win awards between 0.5 and 1.5 x your stake. A 49 symbols win pays between 100 and 500 x your stake in comparison, and Wild symbols step in for any pay symbol to help complete and/or improve cluster wins. Wilds can come with random multipliers up to x5 as well, and it will boost any cluster the wild partakes in. The wild multipliers multiply together if more than one wild is part of the same win.

The Mystery Symbols come in the form of stars, and all instances in view will turn into a randomly chosen matching pay symbol. The transformation happens at the end of spins, and the mystery symbols abound in all stages of the game. The mystery symbols cannot turn into wilds or scatters, just to be clear.

The Bonus Round triggers from landing 3 scatters on reels 2, 4, and 6, and this gives you 10 free spins. All mystery symbols that land in the bonus round will highlight their respective positions. All highlighted positions are persistent for as long as the bonus round lasts, and each highlighted position turns into a mystery symbol per free spin.

Mystery symbols that land on unmarked positions can sometimes award +1 extra spin, and wilds always come with multiplier values of x2, x4, x6, x8, or x10 when they land. Non-UK players, and anyone living in an eligible jurisdiction, can purchase the bonus round for 100x the stake. This will increase the top-tier RTP up to 96.1 %. The organic bonus round hit rate is 1 in 200 spins, which is fairly average.

The 200 Spins Spellbinding Mystery Slot Experience

You get a brief taste of the base game, before we purchase and trigger the bonus round at 0:35 into the 2:31-minute highlights video. We managed to highlight a fair amount of positions towards the end, which gave us decent back to back payouts, and you can check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

Spellbinding Mystery didn’t exactly spellbind us from the get-go, but this is a game that will most likely grow on you as you get deeper into your session. The visuals are solid, as is usually the case with Pragmatic Play, and you get some spellcasting action commentary from the wizard as well. It felt a bit strange to not get the cascading wins mechanic, at least initially, but the abundance of mystery symbols can make a dent also in the base game. This is not least the case if a multiplier wild or two is thrown into the mix.

You don’t get wilds, nor multiplier wilds, all that often in the main game though, but they will liven things up once in a while. The bonus round triggers on a regular basis, around every 200 spins on average, and this is where the magic can happen. All wilds come with multipliers, and up to x10 at that, and enough highlighted positions can lead to back to back wins. You will most likely need multiplier wilds to truly do damage though, and up to 10,000x your stake is possible. The max win comes with a decent 1 in 5.1m spins hit rate, and Spellbinding Mystery is a pretty solid grid slot all things considered.