Ariana Slot

Ariana Slot Review

– Welcome to the Ariana slot! This is a five-reel, three-row Games Global (ex Microgaming) slot machine with 25 pay-lines, a maximum win of 240x your stake and a Return to Player (RTP) of 95.48%.

– This online slot machine was launched in May 2015 and features Expanding Symbols, a Free Spins round (win up to 30,000 coins), Scatters (the Starfish symbol), Expanding Symbols, and Wilds.

– The theme is Mermaids (Ariana is one, she’s called the Heroine of the High Seas), so you’ll see plenty of underwater stuff like starfish, sunken treasure and other watery stuff, plus all of the usual card symbols. This is a Medium Variance game.

Free Demo Game

Some people call this game the newer Mermaids Millions. It sports an underwater theme and uses newer technology on the graphics and sound. 

We still love the original Mermaids Millions game (we like a retro game), but once you’ve played this newer mermaid slot from Microgaming (the people behind the Lucky Leprechaun slot), you’ll see just how far the games moved on from the original.

Many of the later games in the Microgaming slots range are 243 Ways to Win (like the Bust the Bank slot for example, not to mention the ever popular Thunderstruck slot – the second one, not the original) – Ariana is a 25 pay-line game which is easy to understand- but at the same time it does have some innovative features that you might not have seen elsewhere.

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Ariana Slot: How to Play It.

The first thing you’ll notice about this mermaids slot from Gems Global is that it’s a 25-line game (Mermaids Millions is a 15-line game). And the second thing you’ll notice is that the graphics are more sophisticated! This is a smooth, Las Vegas-style slot with all the bells and whistles.

Unlike their original Mermaids game, you can’t select the amount of lines you want to play- this one is fixed with 25 (we always play the maximum amount of lines anyway, as if and when you get into the free spins round, you will generally get the same amount of pay-lines as the game that triggered the bonus).

On this slot, in the spirit of simplicity, you just need to select your overall bet level. Just remember though, if you are playing £/$/€25 in total, that equals  £/$/€1 per line- it helps to understand the pay table.

If you click the Pay Table button, you’ll see that the payout amounts change when you change the bet level.

Pros and Cons

Expanding Symbols

One of our favourite features in the Ariana slot machine is the Expanding Symbols mechanic. Reel 1 can fill up with a symbol that stacks across the whole reel- and this also expand any other matching symbol on the other reels- not only is this good to watch, but it also boosts your winning chances!

The symbols only expand when they make up a winning combination, so when this feature kicks in, you know your bankroll is going to start ticking up.

You will also see this in the free spins bonus, and it’s even better. Any fullly expanding symbol on reel one will expand matching high symbols PLUS wilds on the other reels.

All the picture symbols can expand- so the Mermaid Ariana (who looks like she’s just had her hair done), the sunken branch, the treasure chest and the coral garden symbols. They can all stack on reel 1.

Free Spins

So how do you get in to the free spins round? Well, there’s nothing too unusual here- you’ll need three , four or five scatter symbols which are the starfish symbols.

Here’s the cool bit- just like Mermaids Millions, free spins can be retriggered from within the free spins bonus. That just happens to be our favourite feature in a slot game and you won’t see it everywhere.

Wild Symbol

The Ariana logo is wild and will stand in for other symbols to make up wins. It won’t substitute for scatters though.

Summary

We were quite cynical when we first tested the Ariana slot game as Mermaids Millions is one of those classic games that we enjoy from time to time, and I guess we were just being loyal (if you can be loyal to a slot game?)

But we ended up enjoying it- especially the Expanding Symbols.

Also, it has our favourite feature on a slot: when you can retrigger free spins from within the bonus round, as we love it when you hit a run  and the free spins pile up.

And the Ariana Slot delivers on that front!

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