Spooks & Ladders Slot

Are you brave enough to enter into the haunted house of this Microgaming slot machine? Spooks & Ladders is a 3-reel classic which offers some novelty AWP style gameplay, making it an ideal option for punters who are after a simple game that offers something a little bit out of the ordinary.

And when we say out of the ordinary, we truly mean it. Because this game features a whole graveyard worth of ghouls, skeletons and zombies! This spooky game may not be for the squirrelly, but it will reward bravery by offering a jackpot multiplier of 2,000x in a special snakes and ladders style bonus game.

A slot that goes bump in the night

This AWP style slot machine by Microgaming is ideal for punters who aren’t afraid to dabble in the dark arts. The theme is macabre and not for the feint of heart, with a game screen that is set with a graveyard at night time during a full moon while a crooked and rickety old haunted house sits atop the hill overlooking the scene.

Oh, and there is also a zombie just casually walking around looking for some tasty brains to cook up for his dinner. How could it possibly get any worse!? Well, upon the reels, spinners will find a series of other tropes from the slasher horror genre with icons that depict pickled eyeballs, tombstones, spiders, bats, vampires and ghouls. It truly is a monster mash!

Unfortunately for your scaredy-cats out there, this slot machine has been designed to a very high standard, meaning that every gory detail is clear to see. That said, the game does take on a novelty vibe with its two dimensional cartoon artwork and caricatured creepy characters. So, in reality, players shouldn’t need to worry too much about sleepless nights after they have a spin or two of this game.

Frighteningly different gameplay

One thing that might frighten spinners when it comes to playing this slot machine is the fact that they won’t actually win any prizes when they match up the different symbols in the 3-reels of the base game. Sound pretty terrifying, right? Well, it’s not all that bad, because finding combinations of identical symbols in the base game will actually trigger the Spooks and Ladders bonus game which, as you can probably guess, is based on the board game of Snakes and Ladders.

The amount of dice throws awarded depends on which sequence of matching symbols appear on the base game’s 1 payline. 3 dice rolls will be awarded if three eyeballs appear, 4 if three tombstones appear and 5 if three spider icons appear. If three bats align on the payline then 6 dice rolls will be given while 7 will be rewarded for three vampire symbols and 8 for three ghouls. The most dice rolls that a player can win is 9 and that is awarded when three of the slot machine’s logo symbols appear on the win line.

Spooks & Ladders bonus

Once players have won some rolls of the dice, they will be taken to a new game screen which shows a Snakes and Ladders style playing surface which features a series of spooky icons in place of the customary snakes. As if snakes weren’t unpleasant enough!

However, the pleasant thing about this game is that punters are guaranteed to get a winning prize, no matter how many rolls of the dice they have at their disposal. All they have to do is land on the “+Cash” squares for a small sized win. Or, alternatively, players can highlight three matching icons on the squares to receive the following multiplier values which will be applied to the bets that activated the bonus game. If three ladder icons are lit up, then a 10x prize will be won.

If three ghouls are highlighted, then a prize of 20x will be awarded. If three skull symbols are hit, then a win of 50x will be applied. If three jack-o’-lanterns are highlighted, then a prize of 100x will be given. That’s not the biggest win of all, however, because if players manage to make it to the end of the board to hit the star jackpot symbol, they will be presented with the game’s jackpot multiplier of 2,000x.

Give it a nudge

Not only does this slot machine offer something different on the bonus gameplay front, but it will also allow punters to try out some special AWP style nudge features, such as “Nudge Now”, “Nudge Repeat”, “Gamble Nudge”, and “Nudge Bank Held”. These extra options are given to spinners at random, meaning that you will need to be attentive at all times to make the most of them.

Frightfully good or terribly bad?

For all of the ghouls and gore, Spooks and Ladders is actually quite an enjoyable 3-reel slot machine to have a spin of. The AWP gameplay features and frequent bonus round with guaranteed prizes means that even video slot machine fans will enjoy what this game has to offer. Just be sure to keep a pillow nearby for hiding behind in case you get too frightened!