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Come on, we’re off to see the Wizard! He is The Wizard of Bingo and he will work his magic to bring big wins home, and as we all know there’s no place like home. Especially true when big gifts and jackpot incentives are offered. Forget following the yellow brick road anywhere, we have an invite straight into an online casino of your choice and onto the Emerald City play area with a screen of green.

The middle part of the area is where the bingo magic happens with the ball generator. It has a window that will show what the last ball extracted was and it also displays ball prices when extra balls are activated. Alongside that is the jackpot window. Some online bingo games will say ‘cards’ but the Wizard deals with bingo ‘tickets’. Punters can choose 1, 2, 3 or 4 tickets to play positioned in each corner.

There is an incentive to play all 4 tickets with the chance of winning the jackpot. Bets also have to be over 3 credits each ticket too for this to happen, but at 12 credits for a round of 3 credits each ticket, it is a reasonable bet. Of course players can bet anyway they like and for The Wizard of Bingo, this is between 1 and 120 credits.

We’re Not in Kansas Anymore

Each ticket has 15 numbers on them and these are set out in 3 rows with 5 columns. If players wish to, they can change tickets as little or as often to suit their taste. It is a 90 ball game so the numbers appearing will be from anywhere within the range of 1 to 90. When the play button is pressed, 30 balls will be randomly released and their number will be marked off any of the tickets that match the number.

The Wizard has declared there will be 10 ways to win with patterns formed when numbers are crossed off. These are shown in a pay table that is just under where the balls are collected. All of them have great payouts. To give you an idea, the high paying pattern of the game is the bingo full house which will pay out 1500 coins with a 1 coin bet and 45,000 for a bet of 120. All wins on tickets are highlighted in green just as they are on the pay table and whichever ticket has won, the amount will show at the top of it.

Emeralds for Free

For the near misses the Wizard can help. He may have given the scarecrow a brain, the lion some courage and the tin man a heart, but he can give you balls; extra ones and up to 10 of them. As with many of the bingo for fun games, these extra balls have varying prices and some are very costly. It is easy to run up a credit bill for them which can work out more than the actual prize. Keeping a watch on the total bet meter along the bottom of the screen is a good thing as it shows the total of the main bet, plus the cost of the balls on top. However, the Wizard isn't without a heart and occasionally allows emeralds balls for free.

For any players who are new to playing online bingo, there is a help section that can be found in the settings at the bottom right corner of the screen. Also in the setting is the option to go into turbo mode. This will speed up the release of the balls for those who don’t like to wait, and it's easy to switch back to normal mode again when you fancy a change.

From One Wizard to Another

The free Wizard Bingo by Novomatic has a super jackpot and a great bonus round to play. The Wizard likes to wield his magic over the bingo cards. These can be selected by using the on/off button, but for the jackpot all 4 will be needed. The cards are in the same format as The Wizard of Bingo with 15 numbers and layout. There is a new tickets button to click on that will either change all the cards, or for those wishing to change numbers on just one card, clicking on the card itself will change them.

The Wizard's crystal ball is the extractor point for releasing 30 play balls from a 90 ball machine. There is also 10 extra balls possible to play when trying to match a winning pattern. The bonus game is a ‘pick and win’ mini game to select the Wizards potions to take the prize that is revealed underneath.

Magic Is in the Air

The Wizard of Bingo is a great game that will take you over the rainbow, and follow solid wins with the diversity of low or high roller action. It may not have as good theme graphics as some of the other titles available to play in casinos online, but what it lacks on visuals, it makes up with good gameplay. It's not the best bingo game we've played online.

However, if looking to play for free or decide on spending a little real cash, it's a good way to pass some time to gamble with decent wins thrown in. Overall, The Wizard of Bingo has just enough magic to make it memorable.