About Black Widow
Black Widow is a High 5 Games slot. These are the people that bought you such Las Vegas smash hits as Golden Goddess, Da Vinci Diamonds and Pixies of the Forest. They’re the side of the IGT business that seems to have all the ideas and ingenuity when it comes to top slot machine concepts. This is well reflected in this online slot machine’s clever bonus game mechanism – the Web Capture feature.
Black Widow slot was created by IGT, and the main theme of it is the man hunt, literally.Poor guys don’t know yet that the lady is not as nice as she looks. Theme aside, the game looks nice: a cobwebbed background, pretty graphics, and classy mysterious music.
The graphics on Black Widow have a distinctly strange feeling to them. You’ve got a very kitsch wallpaper motif forming the background to the reels, which is suggestive of some old school, high class hotel where our femme fatale might be staying. In addition to the standard card symbols on the reels that are adorned with Cluedo-style murder weapons there’s four main character symbols that form the basis of the story-line behind the slot.
Musically, Black Widow has a very low keep feel. The soundtrack is dominated by a heavy bass thud that comes accompanied by a skiffle beat, giving the game a suitable gravitas that sits behind every spin. When the reels rotate, they do so with a dull, low metallic hum that gives the action a surreal, edgy feel. Like all of the High Five Games productions, this is a very well put together slot that blends all the elements of the theme in together perfectly with the visual and sonic experience.
Getting down to business – the base game in Black Widow plays across forty pay-lines on five reels. There’s a special reel mechanism at work here similar to the one in Golden Goddess where a number of super stacks are added to the reels before every spin – this increases the player’s chances of hitting a massive multiple combination across all the pay-lines available on the grid. However, it does mean that the wins on offer have been trimmed down to accommodate this mechanism, and you’re looking at a fixed pay-line structure.
Bonus Features
You’ll need to stop in nine bonus symbols on the middle three reels of Black Widow in order to activate the free spin round. This takes you onto a special second set of reels with seven free spins under your belt. During this round any of the three male character symbols you land on the grid will add to an incremental jackpot specific to each character. Then if you’re lucky enough to stop that male characters symbol in the middle stop space of the middle reel – you’ll be awarded the jackpot appropriate for the character. This is known as the Web Capture feature, and if you can stop the Black Widow herself in this space then you’ll win all three male character jackpots.
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Playing the Black Widow Slot
Like many other online slots, you’ll find five reels, each reel showing three symbols. There are 40 win lines, this number set in stone, so you’ll not be able to customize and play fewer. You’ll choose your line bet size and be ready to go.
You’ll notice immediately that each spin sees one particular symbol dominating the reels. This is due to the ‘Super Stacks’ feature, where there are a stack of symbols which will transform into one random symbol each time – interestingly these can be both the wild and the bonus symbols.
Wins come when you land three or more consecutive symbols on a win line from left to right. The highest payingsymbol of all is the ‘black widow’ title symbol, which pays 1,000 coins when landing five in a row. However, this symbol is just as valuable as the wild, where it will substitute for any other at the slot apart from the bonus symbol. You’ll also gain a win when landing just two wilds in a row and the same applies for the lady Black Widow character symbol. You’ll win 50 coins for landing her five times in a row, with 25 coin wins for landing five of the male symbols in a row. These wins may seem on the small side, but when you consider these or the wild symbols will be stacked on the reels, there will be many occasions when the wins will come in large clusters.
Aside from the Super Stacks feature, perhaps the most interesting part of the game is the bonus feature. This is activated in a slightly unusual way, as you’ll need to land the ‘poison bottle’ bonus symbol nine times on the reels – this only possible when this symbol is picked as the random super stacked symbol, harder still seeing as it only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4.
Having activated the feature you’ll find a meter showing the three male characters with a credit amount under each one. The symbol in the centre of the slot has a frame around it and every time one of the male characters appears in it and is consequently captured, you’ll win the amount showing on the meter, causing a new, higher amount to appear. Best of all, should you land the lady Black Widow character in this spot, you’ll win all of the meter prizes. This round starts with 7 free spins, but these can be re-triggered (up to a maximum of 98).