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Slot Review: Mad Professor

It’s ALIVE! If you have ever watched older horror movies, then you are undoubtedly familiar with the trope of the mad professor. This crackpot genius can usually be seen toiling in his lab, where the most terrifying, inhuman experiments are carried out. Dr. Frankenstein was one example of this trope, as was the bipolar Dr. Jekyll. The mad professor is very brilliant, but he is usually also criminally insane. The Mad Professor online slot is a great choice for Halloween, although we get a kick out of playing it at any time of the year!

Mad Professor is a five-reel, nine-payline online slot machine game by the design wizards at Cryptologic. Coin values start at five cents, and range up to five dollars. You can play this as a nickel slot if you wish, but then you won’t get a crack at the top jackpot of four thousand coins, or twenty thousand dollars on a maxed out bet! Max coins is set at nine, or just one per payline. That makes the highest per-spin wager one of forty-five dollars. There is also a progressive RapidFire jackpot that can be won on any spin! The more you bet, the more like you are to win! This jackpot hits every few hours on average, and starts off at five hundred dollars. It’s a tiny little jackpot, but a really amazing bonus if you win it!

The graphics of this game are singularly amazing. The background is an oozing miasma of green slime and bubbles, suggesting a nefarious potion. The graphics on the reels are all lavishly animated pictures. You’ll see a stack of books, a keg of poison, beakers and test tubes of potion, and many other sights that you would expect to see in a lab – including the demented lab assistant that helps the mad professor with his dastardly schemes!

The wild symbol for this online slot game is the professor himself. He can stand in for any other icon on the reels in a winning combination, with the exception of the monster. He is also the jackpot symbol! This icon becomes a video slot icon when activated, rubbing his hands and cackling evilly. Don’t be scared, though – this is one mad professor that you definitely don’t want to avoid, because when he’s around, there’s a good chance that big cash is not far behind! The symbol of the Monster is the scatter symbol. Get at least two of this freaky creation on the reels at any given time to bring it to life and activate the bonus game!

The Bring the Monster Alive Bonus game is activated when you get at least three more Monster scatter symbols anywhere on the reels during a single spin. This game brings you to a scary video image of the monster on an operating table, with four pumps of different colored liquid connected to him with tubes. Choose which tank to pump to shock the monster! If you can bring him to life, you will win a bonus payout – and, in this game, some of those are extremely generous!

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