The Snake Charmer

The Snake Charmer Slot Review

It must be a strange life being a snake. There you are in a basket and the next minute some Indian bloke tries to tempt you out of your basket. Well that’s the theme of this slot from Nextgen Gaming who keep on producing some entertaining and profitable slot games.

The backdrop to the game is a colourful sight with a couple of trees on either side of the reels. The snake is wrapped around one of the trees and a funny looking chap he is.

The game has five reels, three rows of symbols and you can play between one and 25 paylines. Your decision on each and every spin is to work out how many of the paylines to activate and how much to stake on the spin. Just work out a financial budget and then place an appropriate stake. Playing the game can cost between £0.01 and £300 so high rollers can have some fun here.

Symbols include the snake basket, an elephant, a dancing girl and the Snake Charmer’s musical pipe. There’s also the nine to Ace playing card symbols which is a bit of overkill, did they just run out of ideas for theme-related symbols?

The wild symbol is the snake and if you can get five of him on an active payline, that gets you 5000x your line stake. It also helps you by substituting for other symbols to get you winning combinations. It can’t sub for the scatter symbol which is the Charmer.

It's always important to find out as much about a game before you start playing it for real. Have some free games and take a good look through the paytable. This is full of information about how the game is played and should really help you.

Bonus Games

In order to win ten free spins you need to get at least three of the snake charmer symbols to land on the reels. They don’t have to be on an activated payline just anywhere in view. During the free spins round look out for the wild snake symbol because when that appears it can expand to cover the whole reel. Sadly, it’s not possible to re-trigger the free spins in this bonus round.

When you are lucky enough to get a win in the base game there’s an opportunity to gamble it. It’s not compulsory to do so but if you go ahead with the gamble it’s back to trying to correctly guess the colour or suit of the next card. Get the colour right to double a win, choose the correct suit to quadruple it. Five correct guesses are allowed but just one slip-up and you lose all your win so be careful with this.

Conclusion

A good little game from Nextgen Gaming. The theme is a good laugh and the soundtrack isn’t too bad though it might remind you of the background music played in your local Indian restaurant. The bonus game is a good one too with the expanding reels helpful. Just be careful with that gamble feature though.