Black Widow
If you’re scared of spiders, don’t be afraid because the Black Widow online slot from IGT isn’t about insects at all! Instead, the game is based on a cold and calculating woman who lures unsuspecting men into her web to use them for their wealth before dispatching them by means of poison.
It’s a dark tale indeed, so if you prefer to play online slot games with sombre themes like Universal Monsters Dracula, then Black Widow should be right up your street. It’s made by IGT in conjunction with High 5 Games, which also happen to be the co-creators of popular online slot games like Da Vinci Diamonds and Pixies of the Forest.
As an expert games manufacturer, IGT has made sure to offer players some interesting and innovative special features. For starters, you get forty paylines to maximise your winning potential, and the minimum bet-per-spin is a modest 40p.
You also get a randomly chosen symbol which is used as a stacked symbol at the start of each spin, which again, can assist you in creating more winning combinations.
But, it’s the Free Spins Bonus where Black Widow really comes into its own. Instead of just offering you a handful of free games, you receive seven free spins and a mini-game called the Web Capture Feature. By capturing the woman or one of the male characters in the centre spot of the reels, you can score extra cash prizes. And, the Widow is the best character to catch as she pays you all three of the characters’ cash pots.
The biggest prize that you’ll be playing for in this IGT online slot is a mouth-watering one thousand times your total stake.
Design
Black Widow uses an intricate lilac-beige wallpaper that’s covered with spiders’ webs as its background, and the reel set is made to look as though it’s a picture frame hanging on the wall.
There are five reels, forty fixed paylines, and three rows of symbols, and wins must appear on an active payline on consecutive reels, beginning with Reel 1.
There are ten different symbols that can appear when you take a spin. There’s the moody-looking widow in a brown fur coat, three middle-aged men, the game logo, a bottle of poison, and five playing card symbols (A, K, Q, J, and 10).
Underneath the reel set, you can adjust the line bet using the plus and minus buttons to give you a total bet per spin of between 40p and £200. The Spin button sits next to it, and the current win amount is shown in the red-and-gold “WIN” box.
The link to the paytable is provided at the bottom of the screen, and the white question mark symbol next to it loads the game rules. There’s also a speaker symbol which toggles the music and sound effects on and off.
Wild Symbol
In the Black Widow online slot, the Black Widow game logo represents the wild symbol, and it can help you win more frequently by replacing all symbols except the bonus symbol.
Scatter Symbol
The scatter/bonus symbol in the Black Widow online slot is the green vial of poison which is cunningly disguised as a perfume bottle. If it lands in the right places on the reel set, the scatter unlocks the Free Spins Bonus.
Bonus Round
One of the main attractions of Black Widow is the Super Stacks Feature, which you may have come across before if you’ve ever played IGT’s Golden Goddess slot.
At the beginning of each spin, the reels contain stacks of symbols which can automatically transform into one of the main paytable symbols, including the wild and the scatter symbol. This means that there’s the potential to create gigantic winning combinations every time that you spin the reels!
The game’s second special feature is the Free Spins Bonus, and it’s triggered when the scatter/bonus symbol (which only appears on Reels 2, 3, and 4) lands on all three reels on the same spin. It awards seven free games, but you can gain another set of seven each time that the scatter lands on the middle three reels simultaneously, up to a maximum of ninety-eight spins.
Unlike any other online slot, the Free Spins Bonus in Black Widow is accompanied by a Web Capture Feature. At the bottom of the reels, you’ll see the three male characters, underneath which is a cash amount. Every time that one of the men lands in the middle position of the third reel, you receive the value of their respective cash pot. Each pot can be worth as much as one thousand times your total bet. If the Widow lands in the Web Capture position on Reel 3, she gives you the total of all three cash pots while also increasing the value of those pots.
Reels: 5
Paylines: 40
Min Bet: 0.40p
Max Bet: £200
Progressive JP: No
RTP: 91.99% to 96.00%
