Andvari: The Magic Ring Slot Review

The Andvari: The Magic Ring Slot Game

When I first loaded Andvari: The Magic Ring, the backstory grabbed me straight away. Andvari is a dwarf from Norse mythology who lives behind a waterfall, hoarding gold with a cursed magic ring. Foxium leans into that with a lush green valley, misty falls in the distance and a wooden transparent reel set. The chilled soundtrack, running water and birds, plus Andvari randomly turning up with a surfboard, give it a quirky tone.

Under the scenery sits a 5x4 grid with 1,024 ways to win and bets from 0.20 up to 20 per spin. You get wilds, scatters and bonus coins driving most of the action. Features revolve around a LockNWin respins round, a Magic Wheel, free spins and a Bonus Buy menu where allowed. Overall max potential reaches 13,500x your stake, with the LockNWin feature itself capable of pushing up to 10,000x.

Symbols and Payouts in Andvari: The Magic Ring

Andvari: The Magic Ring uses eight regular symbols and three special icons. Low-win symbols are J, Q, K and A card ranks. Landing five of a kind pays 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x or 1.75x your total bet, respectively. All values in the paytable are based on the full stake, which keeps the maths easy to follow when you tweak your bet size up or down.

Premium symbols are themed around the story. You have the scroll, horned log, potion bottle and the magic ring itself. Hitting five matching premiums awards 3x, 4x, 5x or 10x your stake. The golden W symbol works as a wild, stepping in for regular pay icons to complete or improve combinations. On top of that you get the Andvari scatter and shiny gold coin bonus symbol driving the features.

The real heavy hitters sit in the Magic Prize tier rather than the basic paytable. During LockNWin, special jackpot symbols can land as Mini, Minor, Major, Grand or Epic prizes. These are worth 50x, 100x, 250x, 1,000x or 5,000x your stake. They drop alongside standard cash coins worth 1x to 25x, so a good bonus screen mixes several jackpots with decent fixed values.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x10
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.75
	5	x5
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.6
	5	x4
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x3
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x1.75
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.35
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.3
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x1
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	Scatter
	Wild

Andvari: The Magic Ring Slot Bonus Features

LockNWin is the star in Andvari: The Magic Ring. You need six or more bonus coins in view to trigger it. The triggering coins lock, the rest of the grid clears, and you start with three respins. Any new coin symbol that lands also locks in place and resets the counter back to three. Regular coins carry 1x to 25x stake, while Magic Prize symbols can land any of the five jackpots.

Two power-up icons spice up LockNWin. The multiplier upgrade raises all cash coin values on the screen by up to 10x, and the magic prize upgrade moves any visible jackpots one tier higher. Outside that mode, every bonus coin in the base game fills a progress bar tied to your current bet. When full, the Magic Wheel spins and can award instant cash, a Magic Prize or entry to the free spins feature. Free spins usually come from landing three scatters on reels one, three and five, giving a spin on the free spins wheel for 10 to 30 rounds, plus a gamble option and a Bonus Buy shortcut where regulations allow.

How to Win at Andvari: The Magic Ring Slot

Winning in Andvari: The Magic Ring follows a standard ways-to-win structure. The 5x4 grid offers 1,024 payways, paying for three or more matching symbols on adjacent reels from the leftmost side. I normally pick a comfortable stake between 0.20 and 20, hit spin or set up a batch of autoplays, then let the ways maths do its thing. The real swings arrive when coins cluster, progress the bar and drop you into LockNWin or free spins.

Andvari: The Magic Ring Slot RTP & Volatility

On paper Andvari: The Magic Ring runs with a 96.05% RTP, but it sits in an adjustable range, so some operators use lower settings. Volatility is high, backed up by a hit frequency around 27.57%. In practice I saw plenty of small hits from low and mid symbols, with base game stretches where not much happened. Most meaningful payouts came from LockNWin, especially when a multiplier upgrade landed early in the respin sequence.

The Final Thoughts on Andvari: The Magic Ring

I like that Foxium dug up a lesser-known Norse character rather than leaning on the usual gods. I had not come across Andvari before, so the cursed ring, waterfall lair and tongue-in-cheek surfboard made the slot stand out visually. From a gameplay point of view, though, the structure feels familiar if you have played many modern hold-and-win style titles from the same network of studios.

LockNWin does have a nice twist with both cash and jackpot upgrades, and that 5,000x Epic prize is always tempting when the screen fills with coins. The free spins round mainly works as a way to trigger LockNWin more often, helped by the gamble wheel paying 10x to 100x if you miss. For me Andvari: The Magic Ring is worth a session if you enjoy Norse themes and respin chases, but it is not the most original Foxium release.

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