Masques of San Marco Slot

This 5-reel 40-payline slot is released by IGT and features an extended game field. You can bet any amount starting at $1 per line and win as much as x5000. A Free Fall feature, Wild symbols, a Dual Play feature and up to 300 free spins along with incredibly rich payouts and amazing imagery make the slot a jewel in a crown of any online casino. Find the rules and tips below, put on your carnival mood and a Volto masque and join the Feast of Saint Mark.

Gameplay

The slot is your VIP ticket to Venice where you join the famous carnival that amazes and entertains people for almost one thousand years. All the events and occurrences which have suppressed Venetians during a year are washed down and undone through the festivities and people can start their lives anew. This is a true celebration of life that thrives against all odds! The slot restores the genuine joyful spirit of the Venetian carnival in all details including images, sounds and animation.

A base game is played at 40 paylines that cross the extended field: there are 5 reels and 6 rows making up 30 positions in total. This extended number of positions is of an extreme importance due to a Free Fall feature that makes winning icons disappear and fill vacant positions with new random symbols falling from above. The 30-position field makes a Free Fall feature a real generator of regular and recurrent wins. The feature continues during a base game and in free spin mode until there are no more winning combinations. It actually transforms a single spin into several respins, all at a cost of one.

A spin costs you the minimum of $40 at a $1 line bet and you may increase your line bet as much as you like and as your budget allows. Having adjusted your line bet you are immediately brought to San Marco square where you join the festivities of the most extravagant kind.

Base gameplay is equipped with an autospin feature. Select between 10 and 50 spins and the slot takes care of all of them on its own. The feature stops when it exhausts all set spins or a bonus activates or you cancel the mode.

Slot symbols: Put on your masque

The slot depicts the traditional images and actions of a Venice carnival including fireworks and gondolas gliding canals and lagoons. There are 7 non-feature symbols, a Wild icon and a Bonus Scatter icon. Non-feature symbols include a Star, a Half Moon, a Sun, a Lady in a Volto masque, a Harlequin, a Colombina and a White Bauta Masque (listed in an ascending order of payout). Non-feature symbols pay from left to right when you land 3, 4 or 5 matching icons on a payline. Wins stretch from x6 to as much as x5000 a line bet or up to $5000 at the minimum forty-dollar bet. This is an extremely good reason to play it for real money.

While you enjoy the festivities, non-feature symbols earn you a cash rewards, which is greatly assisted by a Free Fall feature referred to above and a Wild symbol. A Wild icon substitutes for all symbols except for a Bonus Scatter icon. Thus a single spin may bring about multiple line wins which are paid by the following rules: All line wins earned in a spin are added to a win meter. A win triggers a Free Fall feature and if it makes up new winning combinations, the new payouts are added to the win meter. The gameplay repeats these steps as soon as there is a win and if there is none, the total amount displayed on the win meter is paid to you in full.

Dual Play: Free spins with more paylines

A Bonus Scatter is a true piece of art and your best friend in the game. A Bonus Scatter appears on reels 1, 2 and 3 only. When you land three Bonus Scatters on any payline, a Dual Play feature activates. It awards you 7 free spins and 20 extra paylines, so you play 7 free spins on a 60-payline field. This solution greatly increases chances for winning. In fact, a free spin mode in the slot is capable of earning huge wins. A Wild is also there to assist in shaping up winning combinations.

The last but not the least, a Dual Play feature is retriggerable: landing 3 Bonus Scatters on a payline on reels 1, 2 or 3 you win 7 extra free spins, up to 300 per bonus.

A free spin mode runs at a line bet you have placed for a base game. You do not need to calculate chances and winning opportunities of the slot in a free spin mode: they are clearly visible and quite high. Do not waste the chances and place higher bets in a base game to win it epic in a free spin mode with 20 extra lines crossing the extended field.

Summary

Masques of San Marco is a 5-reel 40-payline slot that revolves around the theme of the Venetian carnival. It accepts any bet amounts starting from $1 per line and offers awards of up to x5000 a line bet. Winning chances are improved by an enlarged field, a wild symbol, a Free Fall feature and retriggerable free spins that are played on a 60-payline field. The slot is highly attractive in terms of imagery and ambience and makes a perfect choice to play online on a desktop or mobile device.