The Magician Plus (Play8oy): how a full stack turns a reel wild

The Magician Plus is an IGT slot in the Play8oy lobby with a fairy-tale look and one clever wild mechanic. Everything else is a familiar setup, which is no bad thing: the game gets straight to the part that matters.

The Magician Plus reel layout

There are five reels, each four symbols tall, with 50 paylines running across them from left to right. That is a format IGT and plenty of other studios have used many times, and it gives you a lot of lines to land on without making the screen hard to read.

The higher-value symbols are the storybook cast: a girl, a spell book, a treasure box, a magic ball, a cat, a monkey and a fox. The lower tier is made up of the card ranks 10, J, Q, K and A.

Stacked symbols that become wild reels

Here is the feature that makes the game. Symbols can land in stacks. When a single symbol fills every position on a reel, that reel turns completely wild on the next spin.

A wild reel stands in for every symbol except the game's logo, which is the bonus symbol. With 50 lines crossing each reel, one full wild reel touches a lot of them at once, so the spin after a full stack is the one to watch.

Staking for 50 lines

With 50 lines in play, a small change to your line bet makes a big change to the cost per spin. Work out the total before you press spin. Keep it at a level you can repeat for a good number of rounds, because full stacks don't arrive on command.

When you're set, play The Magician Plus on Play8oy. New to the app? The Play8oy install guide walks you through setting it up.