Happiest Christmas Tree

The holiday season always comes around towards the end of each year, and Habanero Systems has some games that play into this season. Their Happiest Christmas Tree video slots is one of those games, and it's one of the better-looking holiday-themed titles that you'll find anywhere.

This slot uses a classic style of graphics that avoids looking dated and that instead draws you in with lots of ornaments, holiday symbols, buildings and snow slowly falling in the background.

Layout and Betting

The format used here has five reels with three rows, but there are 40 static paylines. That's somewhat surprising since most 40-line games are 5x4, but it's not unheard of to go with a 5x3 grid instead. These lines are locked in place with no way to change how many are active.

You can bet as little as $0.40 per spin with $0.01 coin sizes and one coin used on each payline. However, you can also wager with up to 10 coins and with coin sizes worth as much as $10 apiece to allow for some much larger wins. With that having been said, most casinos will limit your maximum wager to something in the range of $100 to $200 per turn.

Wild Christmas Tree Symbols

The most easily recognizable symbol behind Christmas is the Christmas tree, and it's the wild symbol in this slot. This tree shows up on every one of the five reels to give players some great chances to pick up extra payouts. Like the payouts for all symbols in this game, we'll describe them as a multiple of your total bet, which starts with 125x for five of a kind.

You can also win 6.25x for four of a kind of this wild or 0.625x for three of a kind. It's important to note that this symbol can also help you to trigger a bonus feature, which we'll look at down below.

Prize Pot Collection Feature

There are four Christmas ornament symbols that make up the lower side of the pay table. Whenever you get a winning combination with one of them, it adds one to the respective Prize Pot collection feature. Three of a kind of each of them triggers this bonus round, and you get what amounts to a random chance to win one of the four Prize Pot jackpots. These are worth 10,000x, 2,500x, 1,000x or 500x with the lower payouts having a greater chance of being won.

Free Spins Bonus Round

Three or more of the Christmas tree wild symbols anywhere on the game board will trigger the free spins mode. You'll get 15 free spins no matter how many wilds are used to trigger the round, and it cannot be re-triggered. However, this is still a solid bonus feature that offers quite a bit of value.

Other Prizes and Wins

Five of a kind of the teddy bear symbol gives you the same win as the wilds with 125x. A 50x prize is yours for the wooden nutcracker for five of a kind combinations, and you can pick up 25x for five of the green and red toy train. The drum set gets you 12.5x for five as well.

The winnings drop down a bit for the Christmas ornament symbols. The golden bell earns 5x for five, and five of the pink star symbol is worth 3.25x. You can also earn 2.5x for five of the blu emoon or 1.25x for five of the purple ball.

In Summary

The Happiest Christmas Tree slot is a title by Habanero Systems that centers primarily around the 10,000x top jackpot that you can win through the Prize Pot Collection feature. We love how this feature essentially adds value to the bottom end of the pay table while rewarding players for sticking to this game over the long run.

Keep this in mind whenever you choose your bet size for this game since you'll only have your collections for the same size bets, and they will reset whenever you switch to another total wager amount.