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Microgaming Rolling Reels Online Slots Feature

Microgaming Rolling Reels Online Slots Feature

Added: August 24, 2016

Microgaming is one of the more innovative software providers to online casinos. Particularly in its online video slots, Microgaming has introduced many exciting features. One of these has been named as Rolling Reels and has been used by Microgaming in many high profile slot games. The beauty is that Microgaming has used Rolling Reels in different ways in different games. This article first explains the basic Rolling Reels feature and then illustrates how it has been incorporated.

To start with, the reels of the video slot are spun in the normal manner. As soon as you get a winning spin then the Rolling Reels feature is activated. The wins are paid and then all the symbols that make up any of the winning combinations disappear leaving empty spaces. Usually this is accompanied by some audio visual animation. Then the symbols immediately above the empty spaces fall down to take their place. Finally fresh symbols roll down and fill the newly created gaps on the top. All this happens automatically with no input required from the player. If new winning combinations are formed then the wins are paid again and the process repeats. The Rolling Reels process will keep repeating till the new arrangement of symbols does not lead to any win. The important fact is that though successive wins are paid they are all part of the original spin. No wager is deducted from your balance for the subsequent rearrangements.

In some of the online slot games, Microgaming has embellished the Rolling Reels feature with a Multiplier Trail. Each consecutive rearrangement in the same spin is paid out with increasing multipliers. The sequences of multipliers are different in different video slots, but the following one is more often used: x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 and x10. If wins continue after the sixth consecutive rearrangement then the multiplier remains at the highest designated value. Once you get a rearrangement with no winning combination then you spin afresh with the Multiplier Trail set to its initial value.

Microgaming has launched a series of sports themed online slot machines on the same slots engine. These are Break Away, Football Star, Cricket Star, Rugby Star and Basketball Star. In these video slots the Rolling Reels feature by itself is active in the base game. In the free spins the Rolling Reels feature comes with the Multiplier Trail. In another slots engine used by video slots like Immortal Romance and Thunderstruck II, Rolling Reels with a Multiplier Trail is used in one of the free spins sets.