Introduction to Tarot Treasures
Tarot Treasures is a casino slot from Push Gaming, letting you explore a mysterious yet playful world of magic, where fate is written on powerful cards. Enveloped in a lighthearted, spooky package, the game combines the appeal of Hot Zones, a symbol-splitting mechanism known from releases like Big Bite Push Ways and Fire Pig Push Ways, with an engaging cascade meter packed with four different features. If you line up at least three consecutive wins, you'll unleash the power of Tarot Cards, which may grace you with additional Wild symbols, more Hot Zones, lucrative multipliers, or an instant entry to the bonus round. If it's the latter, you'll experience the magic woven into the cards explode with even more powerful versions of those modifiers.
Tarot Cards operated by inexperienced hands may prove to be an unpredictable tool, so if you feel like practicing before you start revealing your fate for real, try out the demo to play without any risks.
Theme, Gameplay & Payouts
Tarot Treasures is a video slot from Push Gaming with 6 reels, 4 rows, and a range of 4,096 - 262,144 ways to win. Within the bet selection panel, you can pick your stake from a range of options, starting from a Min.bet of 0.1 up to a Max.bet of 100. The game comes with a default RTP of 96.39%, although two lower variants of 94.33% and 85.27% are also available to operators, so make sure to verify your version before playing. Due to the game's medium volatility, you should expect a steady balance between the frequency and value of wins. It's possible to win up to 10,000x the bet in any single game round.
Usually, you'd expect a mysterious man or a woman to lead a seance of reading Tarot Cards, but the land of Tarot Treasures is governed by an owl that does such honors. It lives in a crooked manor standing in the middle of a dark fairytale forest studded with twisted trees and permeated by a purple mist. The game's cartoony design adds a layer of softness to the otherwise spooky atmosphere, making it a pleasant, casual Halloween scene with a fast-paced orchestral soundtrack that completes the mysterious vibe. As befits a modern online game, it's available on a wide range of devices, from desktops to smartphones and tablets.
The paytable splits into three groups of distinct symbols, which award wins when at least 3 matching instances (or 2, in the case of the top symbol) land on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost one. Among the low-value ones, you'll see gemstones in different colors: blue, green, purple, and red, awarding 0.4x the bet for matching 6 of a kind. The mid-value group contains images of three potions, blue, green, and red, with payouts ranging from 1x to 1.5x the bet for complete ways of 6. Premium symbols comprise images of a ram's skull, an owl voodoo doll, and the magician owl, paying from 2.5x to 20x the bet for 6-of-a-kind combinations. Alongside the regular symbols, you'll find a bunch of special ones, like Wilds represented by a letter 'W' made of bones and Scatters appearing as a boiling cauldron.
Special Features & Slot Mechanics
What is the max win in the slot Tarot Treasures?
You can win up to 10,000x the bet.
What features are available in the slot Tarot Treasures?
The features are Cascading, Wild Symbol, Hot Zones, Cascade Meter, Free Spins, and Feature Buy & Push Bet.
Cascading
Whenever you score a winning combination, it will mark the beginning of a cascading sequence, where participating symbols disappear from the grid, making all others drop down. Then, new instances are added to complete the view and potentially award more hits. The process will continue until there's no room for creating new combinations.
Wild Symbol
In Tarot Treasures, Wilds perform the usual role of a substituting symbol that stands in for any regular ones from the paytable when a winning way is evaluated. They appear only on reels 2 through 6.
Hot Zones
Hot Zones are purple-highlighted areas that may appear in 4-cell stacks on all reels, overlaying the symbols. Whenever they land, they stick to the grid and nudge one position down per spin. Every icon appearing inside the Hot Zone position will be split into 2 instances, thus increasing the total number of ways to win up to a maximum of 262,144 if the entire grid is covered with Hot Zones.
Cascade Meter
Above the reels, you'll notice a Cascade Meter comprising 3 segments (5 during free spins). Every consecutive cascade scored within the same round fills one part. Once all 3 are highlighted and all wins are calculated, one of four features will be triggered.
Extra Wilds = adds 3, 5, 7, or 10 Wild symbols in random positions of the grid.
Extra Hot Zones = adds 2, 3, or 4 Hot Zone stacks to consecutive reels from left to right.
Win Multiplier = awards a multiplier of x3, x5, x10, or x25 that multiplies the total win from the round.
Free Spins Trigger = adds between 1 and 6 Scatters to form or improve the triggering sequence of Free Spins.
Free Spins
When 3 or more Scatters appear simultaneously on the grid, you're guaranteed to receive 8 free spins. Each additional Scatter in the triggering combination adds 1 extra spin to the tally. At the beginning of the round, reels 2 and 5 will be entirely covered with Hot Zones to give you a head start. You'll notice that the Cascade Meter now holds 5 positions, which requires an equal number of consecutive cascades to occur for it to activate. However, with a higher requirement comes the advantage of it being persistent between spins and with better potential rewards, as the features available in the base game are now enhanced.
Extra Wilds = adds 5, 7, 15, or 20 Wild symbols.
Extra Hot Zones = adds between 2 and 6 Hot Zones from left to right.
Win Multiplier = activates a multiplier of x3, x5, x10, x50, or x100.
Free Spins Trigger = adds between 1 and 6 Scatters to retrigger the round with extra spins.
Feature Buy & Push Bet
In Tarot Treasures, you can use two options to enhance your base game spins or activate the bonus round instantly for a set buy-in that scales with your current bet.
2x = Push Bet with increased chances of triggering the bonus round.
70 x = Free Spins triggered with a random number of Scatters.
Final Thoughts on Tarot Treasures
Ever since Push Gaming announced its official split of the roadmap into Push Originals and Push Action games, it's much clearer what to expect from each following game hitting the shelves. Some may say it's the supplier's excuse to camouflage more straightforward mechanics that arguably sell better as an official roadmap branch, but we're trying not to be as cynical. Tarot Treasures, however, belongs to the Push Action category beyond any doubt, being a mix of elements that appeared in the provider's productions before and features generally considered common. But, in all fairness, Hot Zones, allowing for having two symbols in every affected position, thus increasing the potential maximum number of ways to 262,144, blend with the Cascading Meter quite well. Although during our testing, hitting those magical 3 consecutive cascades proved more elusive than could have been expected, making the triggering of any of those four helpful features quite rare. Luckily, the bonus round fixes that problem by adding persistence to the meter, so it doesn't reset with every new round. Thanks to that, you don't even feel the fact that the meter now comprises 5 segments instead of 3, and you can count on at least 2 or 3 triggers even on a relatively low free spin count. Features themselves are not too sophisticated, but getting up to 20 Wilds simultaneously or a x100 multiplier boost to a win can make a splash.
Wrapping up with a word on the audiovisual side, it's unlikely for a bad-looking slot to roll out from Push Gaming's factory, and Tarot Treasure is another testament to that. They may be more complex or plainer, but they always carry the top-of-the-line design quality, amplified with vivid colors, high polish, and buttery smooth gameplay. For a soft, Halloween theme, the owl-governed mystical realm accomplishes precisely what it set out to do.
Tarot Treasures focuses on a reliable match of Hot Zones and cascades to empower the gameplay with several common features.
