Happy Holidays is a Christmas themed online pokie from Microgaming. To start with, it features 243 ways to win. All the traditional elements of a white Christmas are depicted as symbols on the reels. The high paying symbols are crafted in detail. They include Santa reading the wish list with a child, children unwrapping Christmas presents, children building a snowman, children sledding in the snow and a huge decorated Christmas tree. The low paying symbols are also thematic. They are stocking, turkey, gingerbread house and Christmas decorations.
The features in Happy Holidays online pokie are as attractive as the visual appeal. The Happy Holidays logo is the wild symbol and it also awards the highest line payouts. The bauble is the scatter symbol and it awards scatter payouts, which are multiplied by the total bet. Three or more baubles anywhere on the reels trigger the free spins feature. You are awarded 10 free spins and these come with two very attractive add-ons. Another row is added to the reels. Therefore with the same bet you get 1024 ways to win instead of 243. During the free spins the snowman becomes an additional wild symbol. It substitutes only for one of the other high paying symbols in an interesting way. It transforms into the symbol that would award the highest payout.
The Frosty Feature is a unique Microgaming innovation that can be randomly triggered in the base game in any non-winning spin. All the low paying symbols are covered by frost. The high paying symbols remaining in the reels award a bonus payout. The snowman awards the largest payout. The other big attraction of the Frosty Feature is that you require only one bauble on the reels to trigger the free spins. Non-winning spins need not always be disappointing. Happy Holidays also has the Achievements Unlocked feature. This does not award any payouts, but highlights a payout in the payout table once you achieve it. This enables you to keep track of which payouts you are yet to achieve.
Because Happy Holidays has an all ways to win paylines structure there are no defined paylines. Symbols appearing from left to right starting from the first reel can occupy any position on the reels in order to count as a part of the winning combination. You can wager up to 10 coins per payline and select the coin size from between AU$0.01 to AU$0.50. The maximum line bet is therefore AU$5.00. The total bet is the line bet multiplied by only 30, which is a real Christmas treat on account of the numerous attractive features offered. The highest possible total bet is AU$150.00, which will allow high roller players to wager with gusto. The line payouts are larger than in other 243 ways to win online pokies. The maximum line payout, for the wild symbol, is 1500 times the line bet. The top scatter payout is 100 times the total bet. The maximum win per spin is AU$440,000. The online pokie has medium variance.