Playtech Online Pokies For World Book Day

Added: April 20, 2017

April 23 is World Book Day. With the ever new forms of entertainment coming up, this day assumes added importance. The main objective is to foster the reading habit. Online pokies can also encourage players to take to reading. There are some fabulous titles based on classics, which push curious players to learn more about the characters on the reels. This article reviews some of the best from Playtech. You can play these online pokies at Omni Casino and Mansion Casino.

The novel A Christmas Carol is a masterpiece from Charles Dickens. The Playtech online pokie portrays the essence of the Christmas spirit. Players not familiar with the story can get an idea from the introductory clip. One Christmas Eve the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by the Ghosts of Christmas. They left him full of cheer and the spirit of giving. The characters from the novel appear as symbols on the reels with the win animations displaying their nature. The first bonus feature awards free spins in which all payouts are multiplied three times. The second bonus feature is a pick an object type of game on the second screen. You get to play one of three randomly determined games based on one of the three Ghosts of Christmas.

Cervantes wrote a classic about the bumbling Don Quixote. The online pokie titled The Riches of Don Quixote is based on this classic novel. The high paying symbols are Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza. There is also Dulcinea del Toboso, the lady Quixote secretly wooed in his daydreams. The infamous windmill that Quixote mistakes for the enemy is the wild symbol. It also awards the highest line payouts. The book is the scatter symbol and it triggers the La Mancha free spins. You will be awarded 10 free spins with features like increasing win multipliers and a wild symbol permanently locked on the reels.

The Three Musketeers and the Queen’s Diamonds online pokie is based on the characters of Alexander Dumas’ classic. The comic antics of the musketeers on the reels are not from the story. There are plenty of payout opportunities. The wild symbol appears stacked on the reels. The free spins feature awards three free spins for each scatter symbol in the triggering spin. Then each musketeer had his own feature with re-spins or bonus credits. The best is the Queen’s Diamond multi-stage bonus game on the second screen. Every time you make a correct pick, you move to the next stage with a chance to win more. A wrong pick will end the feature prematurely.