Alchemy Ways Demo Slot - Review for Canadians, Demo Play & Payout Info

Introduction

Even if you’ve played the excellent Red Rake's Fruits n Jars slot, it won’t have prepared you for Alchemy Ways. You know when you see 6 reels spread across 10 rows that its something different, and having a million ways to win is frankly astonishing. That’s even before you get to the many bonus features with their free spins and multipliers.

Theme, Graphics & Soundtrack

Before we had modern chemistry and medicine, we had alchemy, an Ancient Greek form of natural philosophy that laid the seeds for what would become scientific inquiry. Some of the great goals of alchemy were purification and perfection, with alchemists particularly famous for their quest to turn regular metals into gold. You can see how that could inspire a slot.

Alchemy Ways combines early science with the magic themed slot for an atmospheric game. In a dark and secretive lab you’ll find intriguing tomes and vials of mysterious liquids, along with skulls and candles and everything you need to make a place strange and unsettling. There’s also a mix of standard slot sounds and slightly eerie mystical laboratory noises during spins and wins, though it’s a bit of a shame it’s not present when the reels are still.

Alchemy Ways RTP and Variance

With a million ways to win, you might think you’re guaranteed to score highly when you play Alchemy Ways, but as we always say, there are no guarantees in slots. That’s clear when you see the slightly low RTP of 95.3%, and the medium to high volatility that makes wins a little rarer and therefore play a little riskier, even if the wins you do find may be higher.

How to Play Alchemy Ways

Here’s the potion you need to mix:

1. There is a help page in game that breaks down every aspect of gameplay and features. You can find it by going to the menu button, which at the bottommost left corner of the screen. It also reveals links to your game history and a leave option.
2. Down in this bottom corner there are also a mute button for sound, a full screen button, and a replay. This is like game history, but allows you to watch previous spins again.
3. Above these little buttons is the main game, where everything gets prettier in terms of graphics. The first button you’ll see going up up is a link to the paytable.
4. At the top right of the screen you’ll see your current bet, which can be adjusted with the plus and minus symbols. It’s also visible under the reels, with your balance and most recent win, everything you need to know to keep a budget.
5. Also on the right of the screen you’ll find the autoplay button. It lets you choose a number of automatic spins, but you can’t incorporate your win and loss limits. If you want that, spin one turn at a time using the main spin button. Taking breaks every so often is still a good idea. 

We also recommend, as with all Red Rake demo slots, that you play the free version before risking real money.

Bet & Win Sizes

Scrolling through the bet adjustor will take you from 0.20 to 25.00, which admittedly isn’t the biggest range in the world.

Starting at the minimum bet, the paytable will show the following values for matching between three and six of each symbol (the Alchemist can also pay from two):

9 - 0.02, 0.04, 0.08, 0.16

10 - 0.03, 0.05, 0.1, 0.18

J - 0.03, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2

Q - 0.04, 0.05, 0.12, 0.2

K, A - 0.04, 0.08, 0.12, 0.35

Skull - 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.4

Book - 0.05, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4

Mysterious liquid - 0.2, 0.4, 0.5, 1.5

Alchemist - 0.03, 0.5, 1, 2.5, 5    

In addition, the Silver Ingot Scatter pays an increasing multiplier from 1x for 3 to 100x for 12. The Gold Scatter also comes with increasing multipliers depending on 3, 4, 5 or 6 symbols: x2, x10, x50, x200.

Max-win 8,000x

Volatility Medium to High Volatility

RTP 95.30%

Alchemy Ways Bonus Features

Hand of Alchemy

Should the flaming Hand of Alchemy symbol randomly appear, it will move backwards to the previous reel. This means one of the symbols from the previous reel will need to be copied to replace its now empty position.

Mystery Blocks

There are mystery symbols hidden inside these blocks and they may burst out at random on any spin.

Alchemist Minigame

You may have noticed the tall still just to the right of the reels. Don’t despair when you have a losing spin, because your losing symbols will add to the percentage in this blue liquid. Once it’s full the Alchemist Wheel will appear.

Alchemist Wheel

The wheel is full of multipliers and even double multipliers. Try to accumulate as much as you can.

Free Spins

These are triggered by ten or more Emerald Elixir symbols. An Alchemist symbol with a green background will also have a number that can be added to your number of Elixirs. During the free spins round, an additional reel containing only multipliers will appear to increase any wins. Four extra spins are available for a prize less than x12.

Alchemy Ways Review

With a million ways to win, do we really need to say much else? Alchemy Ways has an extraordinary format that pretty much everyone will want to give a try. It has its weak spots, like the lowish RTP, but free spins and multipliers mean this slot is even bigger than its giant layout.

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