Golden Potion Scratch Card
Stir the cauldron to create your own Golden Potion in this cute new scratch card game from PlayPearls. This is a great alternative to the regular slots games and instead of spinning the reels, players need to buy a ticket to begin the game.
There are 9 spaces in the grid each with a potion bottle to scratch to reveal various cash prizes. The gentle music and sound effects create an almost ethereal atmosphere while the witchy graphics give the game a Halloween feel.
Starting to Scratch
Golden Potion will be a departure for traditional slot machine fans and this is a simpler alternative game giving fast wins. To place your bet, you have to buy a ticket which opens up a new scratch card with a 3x3 grid featuring potions bottles. You must scratch the spaces on the grid to remove the potion bottles and reveal cash amounts. You can scratch the spaces individually or select ‘scratch all’ to scratch all the spaces at once. When you have revealed 3 matching amounts, you win that cash prize.
You can alter your bet by clicking on the plus and minus buttons to move from a ticket costing €0.50 to a ticket costing the maximum of €10.00. The higher the ticket cost, the bigger the cash prizes available. Be careful though because sometimes there are no matching cash amounts at all and you will simply receive a massage telling you to ‘try again’.
The Shimmering Witchy Theme
The background to the game is deep purple with a cartoon witch sitting to the left of the screen stirring a bubbling cauldron. In the background a gentle tune plays on a piano, violin and harp with shimmering sound effects to give the game an atmospheric and ghostly effect. This music goes hand in hand with the mysterious witch and magic potion theme.
Whenever you scratch your ticket a shimmering and crackling sound effect can be heard, which sounds like a fizzing sparkler at Halloween. If you hit a winning match, another sound effect is heard which sounds like twinkling and jingling bells, while if you reveal no matching cash prizes on the scratch card, you will hear the sound of smashing glass.
1 Million Tickets Available with Varied Prizes
When you click the paytable button in the bottom left you find a pop up box explaining how the game works. There are 1,000,000 tickets in total and many cash prizes waiting to be won. For example, there are 300,000 winning tickets of €0.50, which falls to 90,000 when you can win €1.00.
The number of winning tickets keeps falling the higher the cash prizes on offer and when you get to the highest paying tickets you will find that there are only 50 winning tickets paying €125, with 10 winning tickets paying €250 and just 1 winning ticket paying the highest prize of €500.
This paytable information might be off-putting to some players when they see the likelihood of hitting a big win. However the transparency of the game is commendable and this makes it easy to see exactly what is going on with the game.
Simple Fun from the Bubbling Cauldron
Scratch cards are not competing with slot machines, they just offer an alternative game which is far simpler and gives immediate results. Golden Potion is ideal for players who enjoy a quick game with a strong theme which gives them a result in super-fast time. You just need to buy your ticket and select ‘scratch all’ to find a prize – or try again.
This kind of game is suitable for playing as a side game alongside another activity or another more complex slot machine, as the action here is not involving enough to carry a longer gaming session on its own.
The mysterious Halloween theme works well and there is a gentle, other-worldly atmosphere to Golden Potion which will please fans of witchy brews. With some decent cash prizes available this can be a fast earner for the luckiest scratchers, while if the ticket doesn’t fall your way you could feel your bankroll diminishes too quickly. Overall, Golden Potion is perfect for scratch card fans wanting fast-paced fun with good potential returns and a Halloween theme.
