ENCHANTED UNICORN

ENCHANTED UNICORN
The enchanted unicorn video slot was one of the first multi line games that went out from 9 lines to 20 lines on the casino floor. My wife played the game in the Tropicana in Las Vegas and did well playing one coin, 20 nickel bets. Myself, being used to and happy with the 9 line 45 coin max bet games, decided to give it a try, but naturally at 40 or 60 coins per spin. Well, the results were disastrous and I left the game quickly with a bad feeling and did not return for a long time. In fact, it was one evening when my wife and I were playing at Trump Marina a couple of years later that I was sitting down in the main section when she came running down the aisle telling me to come quick. Still, she was playing the 20 nickels on a Unicorn and had hit 5 Loins with the wild unicorn for a $1,000 payoff, fantastic for nickels. I changed my mind somewhat about this game and decided to give it another chance or two. That, coupled with the fact that I had witnessed some extraordinary number of credits collected on this game by various patrons at all different casinos, made me realize that this game may indeed have something magical to it.
Of course, I endured a few absolutely horrific sessions, dropping many dollars before I was able to experience some of the magic. The treasure chest bonus game is a bit tough to come by, and if you do get the bonus, it can go 3 ways; you do well and pick all safe choices and get the extra bonus, you get a couple unicorn symbols and have nice line sweeps wins, a unicorn picked on a line awards you every value in the line, and even though you do not make it to the top you still have a hefty bonus, or you plain out have a horrendous choice of picks and crap out with a few hundred credits as you pick a loser on the third line.
However, it appears that the real bonus here is when you get lucky enough to land a series of 3 Unicorns across reels 2, 3, and 4. It is possible, but not too likely to occur, when it does you often will need to do a double take at your win amount, Being that the 20 lines has configurations that I have still yet to figure out, all the wild symbols go all different ways. When even one Unicorn is landed, all symbols in that row turn wild, similar to the Munsters game or the Martians Family reunion game. The base game offers frequent hits but they are often below your bet. The game has no real feel as the hot and cold cycles appear to not exist, this seems to be truly random, the bonus may not come for 30 minutes of play, or it may come back to back.
While I did post a review of this game before, I have played the game more often of late. Since the Trump Marina has a 95% version of this game, the play has been more rewarding and I am not scared of losing too fast. In fact, I play 60 credits most of the time, while a $100 will not guarantee a big hit, I have been able to rack up some nice fast sessions where I have accumulated about 4000-5000 credits. I rate this version of the game with 4 cherries.