The Festival Queens slots game can be found at Microgaming casinos. Microgaming as a standard now publish the slots house edge information of all their games at any online casino that holds a UKGC license (this is a requirement for all UKGC licensed casinos. As such we can say that the House Edge of Festival Queens is 4.98%. When playing at any venue that does not hold a UKGC license and does not specifically publish the Return to Player information for their game, this information should be used as a guideline only as we cannot confirm whether or not this game is configurable.
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This game is a 5 reel game which has 40 paylines. You can bet up to 20 coins on each payline.
The ‘Wild’ symbol is Wild and appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5.
There are 3 bonus features when playing Festival Queens. The first bonus feature is activated randomly. When this happens a red mask will appear at the top of a random reel and be banked. When you have collected all 5 red masks you will be asked to select one of the masks. The mask can reveal a cash prize, a multiplier with an additional pick or it can award all available prizes.
The second bonus feature is activated whenever you receive a ‘White Mask’ symbol anywhere on the reels. When this happens, at the end of the spin, the White Mask will randomly change into any other symbol excluding the Wild and ‘Carnival’ symbols.
The third bonus feature is activated when you receive 3 or more of the Carnival scatter symbol anywhere on the reels. When this happens you will be awarded between 10 and 20 complimentary spins depending on the number of Carnival symbols you received. Before the spins star you will be asked to select one of 4 ‘?’s which will reveal one of the four dancer symbols. The revealed symbol has all wins doubled for the duration of the complimentary spins.
Conclusion
Festival Queens has a few bonus features, but we’ve seen them all before and at a 5% House Edge they don’t come cheap.