Ninja Star

Ninja Star: A Pick Round Where Each Prize Comes With a Verdict

The Ninja Scroll feature does something more involved than revealing prizes. It is a three level pick round where each upper scroll reveals a growing prize and the matching lower scroll decides whether you continue, advance or stop.

Two reveals per level, serving completely different purposes. The upper scroll is the reward; the lower is the verdict on whether you get to keep going. That pairing means every level delivers good news and a judgement simultaneously, and a large prize revealed above means nothing if the scroll below ends the round.

Three possible verdicts rather than two is also worth noting. Continue, advance and stop are distinct outcomes, so a level can resolve by keeping you where you are rather than only by progressing or ending. That gives the round more texture than a straightforward press-your-luck structure.

The trigger is stricter than it first appears: three or more Logo symbols must land on a played line rather than anywhere on the board. On twenty-five variable paylines, that means the lines you have chosen to activate determine whether a given board qualifies.

The free games run on a completely separate symbol. Three or more scattered Ninja Stars award eight free games with every win tripled, and during the round Logo symbols switch to become extra Wild Ninjas or Ninja Stars. That conversion is neat: the symbol that drives the pick bonus becomes useful in a different way inside the free games, and turning some into scatters makes retriggers more likely.

A grouped Ninja wild appears on reels one, three and five in ordinary play, substituting for everything except the scattered Ninja Star, which pays in any position.

Minor and Major progressive jackpots, reset at $250 and $1,000, can be awarded at random on any spin regardless of denomination.

No volatility rating is listed. The listed top award is 15,000 times your bet per line, which is restrained by this catalogue's standards.

Ninja Star suits players who enjoy a pick round with a genuine stop condition and who will note that Logo symbols must land on active lines. Anyone playing a reduced set of paylines is narrowing their route to the Scroll feature as well as their winning chances, which is an easy consequence to overlook.