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Slot Review: Mardi Gras Fever

Last Tuesday, life as usual throughout the entire city of New Orleans all but screeched to a grinding halt for the celebration of Mardi Gras. The French translation of “Fat Tuesday” is the name given to the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of the Catholic observation of Lent. Mardi Gras was historically celebrated as a way to get all the yummy food, meat, and drink out of the house and generally live it up before the forty-day period of fasting, sobriety, and self-denial began for churchgoers. Nowadays, Mardi Gras has taken on more of a secular air – but it is still celebrated as an absolute bacchanal. New Orleans, Louisiana, is the center of Mardi Gras Fever. Bourbon Street, nestled in the heart of the French Quarter, becomes an absolute melee as masked partygoers compete for beads tossed from parade floats, and the atmosphere becomes one of absolute revelry. The Mardi Gras online slot game by Microgaming is a fitting tribute to this celebration, one that we think all players will enjoy year-round! There will be twelve long months before we again break out the king cake, purple and gold clothes, and feathered masks for Fat Tuesday. But you can load up this game anytime you want to bust out your party mood, and have some fun!

Mardi Gras Fever is a five-reel, twenty-payline online slot machine game. Coin values range from one cent to fifty cents, with max coins of two hundred, or ten coins per payline playable at any given time. You can bet one cent, two cents, or multiples of five cents up to the maximum coin size. That makes the highest per-spin wager one of one hundred dollars. It’s a little rich, but still within the bankrolls of many who will enjoy this festive title. The jackpot top out at two thousand coins, or one hundred thousand dollars! Certainly enough to buy a first-class plane ticket to what the locals call “N’awlins,” and put yourself up in style for the next celebration of the titular holiday! As the Cajuns say, lassez les bons temps rouler – or, let the good times (and reels!) roll!

One of the biggest selling points of this online slot is that the reels are filled with graphics that are the most beautiful of practically any that we have seen. Images of delicious seafood dinners share reel space with decadent cocktails, jazz musicians singing jazzy soul music, and images of lovely women wearing masks! There are wild and scatter symbols, as well as a bonus game in which players must open a few of twelve windows to find the prizes hidden behind them. You can win as many as twelve thousand coins (six thousand dollars!) on this fun and suspenseful bonus game. There are two scatter symbols in this online slot, the Bourbon Street symbol and the jester symbol. Get three or more of these special slot game symbols anywhere on the reels during a single given spin to activate a special feature within the game! The former activates the Mardi Gras Bonus Game, and the latter will activate free spins.

The free spin round allows you five free spins, during which all winnings are multiplied by a value of TEN! You cannot activate any of the scatter round during the free spin feature (non-retriggerable), but you will win a special monetary cash prize for scatter awards during this time, instead.

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