The Red Queen Slot Review

The Red Queen Slot Overview

The Red Queen slot from Pragmatic Play takes its cue from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, with the monarch herself driving the action rather than Alice. You play on a 5x3 grid with 243 ways to win in the base game, and an extra sixth reel can come into play via scatters. The slot mixes Mystery Symbols, splitting symbols, Queen Respins and a clock-based free spins feature that can pile on extra spins.

From the first spin I found The Red Queen slot felt familiar yet slightly skewed, much like the source material. Fluorescent mushrooms, drifting butterflies and a tense, quirky soundtrack set the tone, while the maths model sits in the medium to high range. The game goes from fairly calm to quite spiky once the sixth reel opens, and that contrast keeps the base game from feeling flat.

The Red Queen Slot Information

The Red Queen slot layout sticks to 5 reels and 3 rows initially, using ways to win rather than fixed lines, so matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left pay out. Stakes range from 0.20 up to 100 per spin, with the locked sixth reel above the grid teasing what can happen once scatters land. The presentation works well on desktop and mobile, and the constant use of split symbols means wins can stretch right across the screen.

The Red Queen Slot Features

The feature set in The Red Queen slot looks busy on paper but falls into place once you have a few sessions. Wilds land on reels 2 to 5 and substitute for regular pays, and these wilds can gain multipliers during the Queen Respin. Symbols can randomly split into 2 or 4 of the same kind in a single cell, which cranks up the effective number of ways and lets even modest symbol values stack into decent hits.

Mystery Symbols are everywhere in The Red Queen, dropping in as question marks that later transform into matching pay symbols. They can also reveal split stacks, so one position might count as four symbols. Scatters are the key to the locked sixth reel: landing 2 or 3 scatters in the base game opens it for that spin, and only blanks, scatters or Queen symbols land there, which keeps things focused on feature triggers.

If a Queen lands on the sixth reel, the Queen Respin begins. All scatters that triggered it turn into sticky wilds with x2, x3 or x4 multipliers, and you get one respin with those locked in place. Multiple multiplier wilds in the same win multiply together, so some wild lines can jump quickly. Hitting a scatter on the sixth reel instead sends you into free spins, where a clock selects the spin count and can retrigger extra batches when it stops in the green zone.

The Red Queen Symbols and Paytable

The Red Queen slot symbols follow the usual split between low cards and themed premiums. The low pays are 10, J, Q, K and A, worth up to around 1.25x your bet for six of a kind with the sixth reel open, less if you only manage five. Premiums show a rabbit with a cup, the Kooky Hatter, a grinning cat, the White Rabbit and the Red Queen herself, who tops the table at roughly 5x for a six-symbol way.

Those figures sound modest until you factor in splits. Because one position can count as up to four matching icons, even a five-of-a-kind on paper can cover most of the grid. Mystery Symbols can flip into any regular pay symbol, and wilds substitute for everything except scatters, with multipliers applied during Queen Respins or when awarded from the top reel in free spins. Scatters have no cash value but drive the sixth reel and bonus round.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	6	x5
	5	x2.5
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.75
	6	x3.75
	5	x2
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.5
	6	x3
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	6	x2
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	6	x1.5
	5	x1
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.25
	6	x1.25
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x1.25
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	6	x1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	6	x0.5
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.15
	3	x0.1
	Mystery
	Multiplier
	Scatter
	Wild

The Red Queen Slot Stats: RTP, Volatility & Max Win

On the numbers side, The Red Queen slot advertises a 96.06% RTP in the best version, though some casinos use lower settings of 95.06% or 94.05%, so I always check the info screen first. Volatility sits in the medium to high bracket, and my own sessions backed that up: a hit rate near one in three spins on smaller wins, with bonus rounds dropping about once every 300 to 350 spins. Max win is capped at 5,000x your stake.

The Red Queen: Slot Verdict

After plenty of spins on The Red Queen slot, I see it as a solid fantasy release rather than an instant classic. Mystery Symbols show up often, which can slow the rhythm as they spin and transform, and they do miss more times than I would like. That said, when they combine with splits and the sixth reel is active, the board lights up and even medium symbols start to matter in a big way.

The highlight for me is the free spins with the soldier modifiers above the reels. +Ways can create absurd stacks, +Wild drops multipliers of up to x5, and +1 Spin stretches good bonuses further. Queen Respins feel rarer but can make a proper dent when two or three multiplier wilds line up. If you enjoy high variance fairytale slots and do not mind some dead patches, The Red Queen is well worth a proper session.

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