Naughty Nick’s Book

Naughty Nick’s Book Review

The Holidays season of 2022 has seen several highly playable and hilarious bad Santa installments, and we’re happy to see that Play’n Go adds another one to the Xmas pile. They have decided to reskin Scroll of Dead for their Christmas contribution this year, and Naughty Nick’s Book comes with a funny intro where a drunk Santa crashes on the couch after dumping down the chimney.

He smashes his bottle right “in your face” before falling fast asleep, and his elves seem to be fond of alcoholic beverages as well. The base game offers nothing special in terms of features, and the 6th reel is locked until you trigger the bonus round. The feature comes with a chosen expanding symbol, which is hardly unusual for a book slot, but the 7,500x potential is a bit higher than the standard 5,000x you get in most ‘book of’ installments.

Naughty Nick’s Book Slot - Reels Screen

Naughty Nick’s Book Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 50 and 500 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins. When the 6th reel is opened up you can land 5-oak premium symbol wins between 100 and 750 x your stake, however. The Book Wild steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins, and it serves double duty as a scatter symbol as well.

You need 3 Book Scatters anywhere in view to trigger the Bonus Round, and this gives you 8 free spins. The 6th reel is unlocked and active in the bonus round only, and a pay symbol is randomly chosen up front to become the special expanding scatter pay symbol in the bonus round.

The chosen symbol does not need to land adjacent to generate a win, and all instances of it expands to cover the full reel as long as you land enough in view to create a win. This gives you a new win calculation at the end of the spin across all paylines. All wins, both in the base game and the total from the bonus round, can be gambled in a double or nothing card guessing game.

The 200 Spins Naughty Nick’s Book Slot Experience

You get to see a few smaller wins in the base game, before we trigger the bonus round at 0:40 into the 2-minute highlights video. We got ‘A’ as the chosen expanding symbol for the feature, and you can see for yourself how it all went by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

There are more exciting ‘book slots’ in Play’n Go’s back catalog that could've been chosen for the seasonal Xmas reskin, and it’s a bit hard to understand why they decided to go with Scroll of Dead. It’s arguably better than the original Book of Dead, at least if you judge it purely from the math model point of view, but it doesn’t really come with any revolutionary twists or extras.

We do like the bad Santa angle, however, and the intro is hilarious. It competes with Saint Nicked and Cash Truck Xmas Delivery in that regard, but it cannot really match either in terms of the badass factor. The extra reel you get in the bonus round gives you a 7,500x single spin max win, and this is also the game’s win cap. At least you have a solid ‘book slot’ Xmas alternative with this release, even if it’s not the most exciting installment in the range.

If you appreciate Naughty Nick’s Book Slot you should also try:

Scroll of Dead - is the original release from Play’n Go, and it comes with a classic ancient Egypt presentation that’s so typical for the ‘book of’ genre. You get the 6th reel activated in the chosen expanding symbol bonus round, and it can lead to payouts up to 7,500x your stake.

Saint Nicked - is the hilarious bad Santa release from Lucksome, and you get to follow the tattooed, muscular Santa and his famous reindeer on a pub crawl that lands them in jail (bonus round). The Advent Calendar feature is innovative and fun, and you can win up to 5,000x your stake.

Cash Truck Xmas Delivery - is Quickpin’s excellent reskin of their highly capable original Money Train 2-inspired release. Join Santa and his evil elves in their effort to stop Christmas by robbing the delivery truck, and benefit from 6 special symbols in the bonus round. The max win is still 25,000x your stake.