Swirly Spin: from exploding chains to free spins
Every winning combination in Swirly Spin explodes, and a Wild takes the place of the symbols that made it. The slot has a 25-cell screen. In Morocco it sits in 1xBet's 1xGames catalogue, and every stake and payout there is in dirhams (MAD).
The cells fill up the same way on each spin: symbols come in at the bottom left corner of the screen and wind their way round in a spiral until no cell is left empty.
Chains and what they pay
A chain of three, four or five matching symbols is a win, and the payout is the stake multiplied by the odds in the paytable. Its six symbols line up like this, from the cheapest pair upwards:
two symbols at x0.1 for three, x0.5 for four and x1 for five;
two symbols at x0.5, x1 and x2;
one symbol at x1, x3 and x10;
one symbol at x3, x10 and x25.
At the bottom end, a three-long chain of a cheap symbol returns a tenth of the stake. Several winning combinations on one spin are paid together, their winnings added up. A Wild can stand in for any symbol except a crystal to complete a win, and when it becomes part of a winning combination, it explodes and destroys all the symbols next to it.
From the last symbol to free spins
The crystal follows its own route on the screen:
Stage | What happens |
|---|---|
Arrival | The crystal is the last symbol to appear on the screen |
Each winning combination | It moves a little closer to the central cell |
Central cell reached | Free spins are triggered |
Choice | One of four modes, provided you hold enough crystals to unlock it |
The modes differ in what they require and what they give. Star Bar asks for just 1 crystal and gives 7 Starfall Wilds free spins, which add at least two Wilds to randomly selected cells. Lava Lair needs 4 crystals for 3 Lava Destroy free spins, plus a Sticky Wild in place of a crystal symbol: it acts as a Wild, does not explode and moves around the screen as winning combinations form. With 9 crystals, Lucky Mug opens 3 Lucky Shaman free spins, and 16 crystals unlock Golden Pot with 2 Magic Drum free spins. How many crystals you hold shows up in a dedicated box near the foot of the screen.
Features that fire at random
Between a base spin and the payment of its winnings, one of four features may be activated at random. Starfall Wilds is described above; the other three work as follows. Lava Destroy clears some symbols off the screen after a losing spin so that others can take their place. Lucky Shaman, after a spin with no win, fills a vertical or horizontal row with one and the same symbol, landing you a win. Magic Drum turns all the low-paying symbols into symbols with higher odds.
The control panel
The biggest control is a round red button with a dark triangle, set in the middle of the panel below the cells. To one side of it sits a button marked with the letter A between two curved arrows, and at the far edge a button shows a stack of coins.
Other parts of 1xBet
Beyond these 25 cells, 1xBet also runs a casino section, and fixtures set for later dates are open in pre-match betting. Signing up on the registration page creates a dirham account; Attijari (L'bankalik) works for deposits into it.