3 Magic Pots: Slot Overview

Seemingly aiming to satisfy an ever-broader range of player tastes, developer Push Gaming has spotted the strong demand for ‘3 pots games’ and decided to jump in. The result is 3 Magic Pots, an online slot that ties multiple free spins features to collection pots, alongside collectable Instant Prizes and Jackpot Prizes. It’s not the most groundbreaking concept for a studio of this standing, but Push Gaming has surprised us before, so let’s see if it can do it again.

3 Magic Pots’ three official theme words are alchemy, magic, and fun. We’ll get to the fun part later, hopefully, but first there’s the alchemical-mystical presentation: the action unfolds in a witchy/wizardy chamber filled with books, candles, and shifting light. Three pots hover above the reels with a life of their own, reinforcing the spellbound vibe, while a sparkly soundtrack adds the finishing touch. Visually, it almost feels like a collaboration between Push Gaming and Fantasma Games – just an observation.

When the Magic Reels feature activates, the grid grows, though most of the time 3 Magic Pots runs on a 5×4 gaming area with 4,096 ways to win. Stakes range from 10 c to $/€100 per spin, and notably there’s no Push Bet or bonus buys on offer. In this low-medium volatile slot, the highest avail.

Standard playing card ranks J to A appear first, followed by blue, green, purple, and orange gems, with green, blue, and red potion bottles rounding out the pay symbols in 3 Magic Pots. Landing 6 matching symbols pays 1 to 5 times their bet. A wild symbol substitutes for all regular paying symbols on the paytable to help form wins, and wilds can land on every reel except the leftmost.

3 Magic Pots: Slot Features

Gathering Instant Prize symbols and Jackpot symbols is a core part of 3 Magic Pots, and the game also delivers several free spins bonus rounds whose features can be combined.

Collector Symbol

Collector symbols appear on the leftmost and rightmost reels. When one lands, the Collector symbol collects all Instant Prize symbols or Jackpot symbols currently visible. Instant Prize symbols carry values of 0.1x to 90x the bet, while Jackpot symbols award the 15x Mini, the 50x Minor, the 100x Major, and the 1,000x Mega. Both Instant Prize symbols and Jackpot symbols can land in the base game and during free spins.

Sticky Prizes

Instant Prize symbols and Jackpot symbols may randomly become sticky. If they do, they stay on the grid until a Collector symbol comes along and collects them.

Token and Super Token Symbols

The 3 Pots are linked to 3 Token symbols. If a Token symbol is collected by its matching Magic Pot, the related free spins feature has a chance of triggering. When a Super Token lands, it gets collected by all 3 Magic Pots simultaneously.

Free Spins Features

Whenever a Token symbol is collected by its Magic Pot, there is a chance to trigger the corresponding free spins feature. Each feature awards 7 free spins.

• Magic Reel Free Spins – the reels expand to 6 rows high, and the number of ways to win goes up to 46,656.
• Enchanted Collector Free Spins – when a Collector symbol hits, it nudges down 1 row for each free spin.
• Cash Frenzy Free Spins – extra Instant Prize symbols are added to the reels.

Max Magic Free Spins

When all 3 Magic Pots are triggered simultaneously in the base game, the player receives 10 free spins, and all free spins features run together at the same time.

Retriggering and Upgrading Free Spins

Collecting a matching Token symbol during free spins and retriggering the bonus can award +3 free spins. In addition, collecting a Token symbol tied to a different Magic Pot can activate the corresponding free spins feature alongside the current one and also grant +3 free spins.

3 Magic Pots: Slot Verdict

There was a time when a Push Gaming release felt almost guaranteed to be a mind-blower, but lately the studio has also seemed happy to hop on popular trends to broaden its mainstream appeal. 3 Magic Pots fits that mould: it may be a crowd-pleaser, yet it could also slightly dilute the Push Gaming name – at least for a certain segment of players. One takeaway from the review is that it feels like the game is trying to compete with, or sit alongside, Games Global’s Power Combo slots. That’s fine if that’s your thing, but it doesn’t exactly make for must-see action, and 3 Magic Pots doesn’t come across as a Push Gaming title destined for anything close to greatness.

Putting that mini-rant aside, there are clear positives here, and it’s easy to imagine the warm response the game could get in the right circles. If you enjoy collecting money symbols, chasing jackpot symbols, and triggering free spins with stackable features – all within a low-medium volatile math model – you’ll find exactly that in a good-looking slot from a reliable creator. The win potential isn’t huge, though it’s not tiny either, with the highest observed payout reaching 5,992.1 times the bet. For the right audience, it’s a neat, well-contained package.

Conversely, players who prefer the heavy hitters in Push Gaming’s catalogue may see 3 Magic Pots as a fairly forgettable small fry – another sign of the increasingly conformist streak that’s been creeping into the studio’s output for some time (even if there are flashes of Push flair), and one that doesn’t appear to be slowing. Business is business, but still.