Masquerade Ball

Released as part of the Bonus Pack 7 at Cryptologic casinos, Masquerade Ball is a five reel, twenty line video slot with a huge top jackpot of 25,000 credits. The name is a good indication of the game theme with symbol such as dancers, pianos, roses, jesters, crackers and top hats on the reels.

Maximum bet is 20 credits per spin and you can choose from a range of credit sizes. The smallest size is one cent and the biggest is five dollars. This means you can be spinning for the jackpot on Masquerade Ball for as little as twenty cents per spin or as much as one hundred per game.

The game has a really high hit rate due to a few things. First by having so many lines the hit rate always gets a boost. The second reason is the wild symbols which makes getting wins that little bit easier and finally the game pays wins from left to right and right to left - in effect doubling the winning chances.

Masquerade Ball offers one of the biggest jackpots we have seen online. Lining up five of the wild jester symbols awards a massive 25,000 coins. At the penny size this pays $250 and at the five dollar size it hits for a huge $125,000. The wins don't stop with the top jackpot, there are a lot of good pays. These include 10,000 credits for five slippers and 7,500 for four wilds.

Like most video slots Masquerade Ball features a bonus game. The scattered Cracker symbols appear on reels 1, 3 and 5 and are the ticket to the feature. Get all three on the reels at the same time and you are then taken to the bonus round where there is a game similar to the Cups game. (View The Bonus).

The bonus game shows four masks and a ring under one. All masks are then shuffled and you have to decide which mask the ring is under. The way they are shuffled makes it impossible to track the ring so it is really a one in four shot based purely on luck. If you pick the mask with the ring you get a big prize and if you pick one of the others you get a smaller consolation pay.

Masquerade Ball is a very high quality slot game in all aspects. The graphics and sounds make it an enjoyable game, add to that the big jackpots on offer and the bonus game and you have a winner.