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Voodoo Magic (Pragmatic Play) Review

Voodoo Magic is both atmospheric and filled with interesting features, but for some reason Pragmatic has decided to mess up the math model in this game. Perhaps it’s some kind of voodoo curse, we don’t know, but it’s certainly effective. The usual “exaggerated” Pragmatic Play potential is long gone here, as they have swung completely to the other extreme.

The bulgy-eyed voodoo priestess, Mambo, on the right-hand side pretty much embodies the expression we had on our face when we first learned the facts about this game. You will find plenty of entertaining features here, but without the win guarantee you would hardly win anything at all from the bonus round most of the time. Getting the math model “right” should be the easy part, so it’s sad to see an otherwise interesting title be wasted due to “faulty stats.

Voodoo Magic Slot Pragmatic Play - Reel Screen

Voodoo Magic slot Features

The wild is the highest value symbol in this game, and it pays 12.5x your stake for 5 on a payline. It will also step in for all regular pay symbols, as wilds usually do. Other than that, you will benefit from 3 variations of the bonus round here, as well as 2 reel modifiers.

Whenever you land a scatter short of triggering the bonus round, and more precisely 2 scatters on reels 2 and/or 3, you trigger a random feature. You will pick from 2 magic potions to reveal what reel modifier you get, and they are as follows:

• Mystery Curses - gives you a random number of wilds and a new win calculation.
• Fortune Hex - removes all low-value symbols and scatters, and new high value symbols drop down to fill the gaps. This also gives you a new win calculation.

When you land 3 bonus scatters on the 3 middle reels on the same spin, you trigger the free spins bonus round. You will then be presented with 3 playing cards, and you pick 1 to determine what kind of bonus round you get. All 3 options come with 5 free spins however, but there is a win guarantee that varies as follows:

• Voodoo Free Spins – win guarantee of 10x your stake.
• Super Voodoo Free Spins – win guarantee of 25x your stake.
• Mega Voodoo Free Spins – win guarantee of 50x your stake.

You will benefit from added Mystery Symbols on every free spin. In the Voodoo and Super Voodoo feature, the Mystery Symbols will turn into any given matching symbol. However, in the highest tier Mega Voodoo feature, the Mystery Symbols will only turn into 1 of the 4 top-tier premium symbols.

If you don’t reach the minimum win limit for your given bonus round, you will get 5 extra spins until you do. Finally, non-UK players can purchase the free spins via the bonus buy option, and this will set you back 80x your stake.

The 200 Spins Voodoo Magic slot Experience

After a while of base game grinding, we caved and decided to pay for the bonus round. You can see us trigger it around 0:40 into the video, and before that we have some smaller regular wins. How the bonus round plays out however, and how much we won, we will not reveal up front. Smash that play button, and see for yourself!

Review Summary

It’s really too bad that such a neat-looking game has been ruined by pure “voodoo weirdness” in the math model. The point of a Win Guarantee is that it hardly ever should need to be triggered. It’s a fail-safe mechanism, not a “cool feature”. This is not the case when you play Voodoo Magic however, as you’re pretty much dependent on it to get anywhere most of the time.

Due to the low symbol value, 5 free spins is just not enough unless you’re really lucky with the Mystery Symbols. It borders on ridiculous when you have to trigger the win guarantee several times to escape the rather anti-climactic feature. The capped 1,000x potential is also a bit of a joke for a highly volatile game like this, but hey, at least you will never go completely empty handed from a bonus round here.

Pros

• Random wilds or symbol removal modifiers
• 3 bonus rounds with up to 50x win guarantee
• Bonus buy option for 80x (not for UK players)

Cons

• Capped 1,000x potential in total from the bonus round
• You will often need several win guarantees to escape the bonus round

If you appreciate Voodoo Magic slot you should also try:

Dragons Luck Deluxe - comes with plenty of mystery symbols, just like the game at hand, and even mega mystery symbols with a win guarantee. The volatility is high in this Deluxe version of the game, and you can win up to 3,888x your stake.

Baron Samedi - is an Yggdrasil voodoo slot, and it plays out on 5 reels with 25 win ways. It comes with 36 tarot cards that gives you super stacked and mystery symbols, as well as wilds and wild reels. It’s a game well-worth checking out if you’re into the mysterious.

Voodoo Gold - is one of the best voodoo themed games out there, and also a strong installation in ELK’s famous series about the mysterious Kane. You can increase the win ways up to 262,144 here, via the Avalanche feature that piles on new rows, and payouts up to 5,000x your stake can be landed.