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Getting your fortune told can be a lot of fun. Whether you believe what the reader says or not is up to you, but the experience itself is fun. Vegas technology has captured that excitement and mixed it up with the excitement of one of their new online slots games, Tarot Treasure.

Tarot Treasure is a five reel online slots game with twenty five paylines for slots players to play on. Like any other Vegas Technology slots game, this one also features the same 9, 10, J, Q, K and A that are not blended into the rest of the mystical theme of this game. This lack of blending detracts from the overall appeal of the theme, and Vegas Technology should think about addressing this in future slots games.

Thankfully there are symbols that do belong to the mystical fortune telling theme. They include Gems, Tarot Deck, an Owl and a Gypsy Wagon. The special play symbols are the Wheel and the Gypsy.

The Wheel is the Scatter but it is also the trigger for the free spins. Landing three or more Wheels will grant ten free spins in the very near future of the slots player. These ten free spins also have a 3x multiplier, up from Vegas Technology’s usual 2x. Bravo!

The Gypsy also has a dual purpose. On the surface she is the Wild. She only appears on reels two, three and four though, so her ability to truly boost the slots player’s winnings is more limited than usual Wilds. But if the slots player can land her anywhere on those three reels then she will reveal the Tarot bonus game.

In this bonus game players are shown six tarot cards in a second screen. They must choose three of them. The revealed prizes are their bonus winnings.

Regular game play tends to be a little on the low side, but it does appear to do better than most Vegas Technology online slots games. As for the free spins or bonus game, I was not able to trigger either. And that is after losing $10 to the game.

The other point of contention I have with this online slots game is that it very greatly resembles the Gypsy Queen online slots game from Microgaming. Both have the gypsy/tarot theme. The set up of the bonus game is the same—six tarot cards to choose from to reveal the bonus prize. The only difference is that the graphics on the Microgaming version are richer. But the themes basis is still the same.

Because of the slower game play and the inability to trigger the bonus game or free spins while still losing $10 makes me put this one down for playing for fun.

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Slip into the exotic and the enchantment of Gypsy Queen. This is a boldly colored five reel online slots game from Microgaming with twenty paylines.

The feel of the dark and the mysterious fills this game. To be found lurking on the reels is a Dragon, Tarot Cards, a Gypsy Musician, a Palm, a Black Kitten, the Gypsy’s Wagon, a Dagger, a Tambourine and a Gold Candle. And ruling over all of those symbols is the Gypsy Queen and her Crystal Ball.

An interesting feature on this slots game is the Gypsy Queen and the Logo. While each symbol will payout when combined with duplicates of itself like in any normal online slots game, it is possible here for the Gypsy Queen and the Logo to work together to form winning combinations. So you can have a winning combination made up of both the Gypsy Queen and the Logo in the same combination.

This combination of symbols feature will only work if there are three, four or five symbols in the winning combination. I suspect that this feature is in lieu of a Wild symbol. It is interesting to play without a Wild but with this combination of symbols feature.

Granted a Wild is more advantageous since it can substitute for all symbols but bonuses and Scatters, but the idea of combining two distinct symbols does provide enjoyable play.

The other intriguing feature in Gypsy Queen is the Crystal Ball symbol. Both free spins and a bonus game come from this Scatter symbols. Crystal Balls can trigger a bonus game OR free spins—you just do not know which feature you will get until you land some Crystal Balls. Twelve, fifteen, twenty or thirty free spins are awarded for two, three, four or five Crystal Balls respectively. This feeling of not knowing which feature you are going to win lends itself to the excitement of this online slots game.

The bonus game lays out six tarot cards for a slots player to pick from. Each card has a coin amount on it. Players will pick a card, which the gypsy then flips over. Players are awarded the bonus amount and are allowed to pick again if their fortune is good and the card says that another pick has been won.

In one bonus game, wagering $0.01 per line for a $0.20 spin, I won 760 coins. In light of that amount and that many symbols payout for only having symbols present, this bonus feature is worth the spins to play it.

Finally, players can win 100x their wager per line on a Scatter win of 5 Scatter symbols. Five Logos will award 2,000 coins. As for the bonus features, 60,000 coins can be won in the free spins and 30,000 in the bonus game.

To discover you’re the future of your slots fortune drop by the gypsy queen’s wagon and see what she has in store for you.

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