Finn and the Swirly Spin Slot

Finn and the Swirly Spin

If you love your slots and you can’t get enough of the Emerald Isle and all things Irish, then NetEnt’s magical Finn and the Swirly Spin slot is a must-play game.

This game has some great innovations – it’s not another “me-too” Irish game and is one of NetEnt’s most popular slots.  So much so that they have launched a follow up game called Finn and the Candy Spin slot. We still prefer the original though.

This game is bursting with extras in the base game. Let’s see if this game is a good craic or if it’s an Irish Stew.

You can play Finn and the Swirly Spin at Wombat Casino or anywhere that stocks NetEnt games.

Free Finn and the Swirly Spin Demo

Play the free demo game below.

Look and Feel

If you like a game that is a bit different from the likes of the Legend of Cleopatra slot with asymmetric reels, then you will love this game because it takes the reel innovation to the next level. The Finn and the Swirly Spin slot is a slick looking game. The graphics are sharp and themed on the Celtic myths of Leprechauns.

Finn is the cheeky chap of the game’s title and he sits to the left of the reels playing his pipe, which fills in the background sounds of the slot. The reel grid is designed as a giant stone monolith. The background to this rock formation is an idyllic scene of green countryside with the mandatory rainbow.

Well, it rains in Ireland and there are pots of gold to be found!

Gameplay

Finn and the Swirly Spin is a five-by-five grid game with a Cluster Wins mechanic of three or more matching symbols in a row. So, different from more traditional NetEnt games like the Fruit Spin slot and even Guns ‘n Roses.

The standard icons of this creative slot are a ruby, a golden acorn, a lucky horseshoe, a shamrock leaf and a wooden heart and club from the card deck.

The Wild is a golden star with blue eyes (Irish eyes are smiling after all) and this subs for all icons, except for the Free spins icon which is a Celtic key in a crystal cube.

Let it Swirl

This slot has a brilliantly creative idea at its core: the Swirly mechanic. Instead of spinning reels, here the reels move in a swirling shape, a 5-by-5 grid. To win you need to get three or more symbols in a row, either vertically or horizontally. I did say that this is different!

If you want to go back to straight pay-lines, we suggest you head over to games like the Poltava slot machine or something similar.

Finn and the Swirly Spin also delivers another popular feature with “Avalanches.” When you form a winning combo, those icons that made up the win will disappear from the grid and new icons will take their place.

This cascading effect means that you can make consecutive wins on the same turn.

Base Game Party

Apart from having all the creative concepts, it’s the side games that take place at random in the base game that steal the show. There are four of them.

First there’s Starfalls Wilds, where a generous two Wilds are added onto the grid. These appear at random so if they don’t help to make a win, they stick around until they start to.

Then there’s Irish Luck, a side game that adds substitute icons to the reels to help bring about a win.

Dragon Destroy is also great fun; non-winning combos are destroyed by a dragon creating a new cascade of symbols and allowing a win to take place.

And then there’s Magic Transform. Here the club and heart icons are transformed into new higher value icons.

Spinning a Magical Yarn

After a win, if the special Free Spin icon (the key), is on the middle reel then the free spins feature is activated, and this means that you will trigger one of four original side games with free spins to boot.

The first time the key is in position you will get a single free spin but as it lands repeatedly and you collect keys, you can enter the different side games this mode offers.

• One key gets you Star Bar Wins: a free spin and the “Starfalls Wilds” side game.
• With four keys you get the Lava Lair Spins: three free spins, the Dragon Destroy feature and a sticky Wild instead of the Free Spin icon.
• Nine keys will take you to the Lucky Mug game, where you get four freebie spins and the Irish Luck game.
• And with 16 bonus keys, you trigger the Golden Pot, which is two spins and the Magic Transform side game.

Pros and Cons

Conclusion

I love the originality of the Finn and the Swirly Spin slot, but I found it hard to move through the different stages of collecting the keys. Persistence pays here.

But the Finn slot is a game with plenty of fun in the base game, and features that stand out from the crowd. It´s worth a spin.

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