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The theme here is classic magic show; the black hat, the white dove and the glamorous assistant. Accompanied by some funky art deco fonts and design elements, this is a simple, uncomplicated theme that anyone can enjoy. The backdrop to the reels is an old fashioned stage, with the game taking centre stage, looking out across empty audience seats. Perhaps easier for the artist, we can’t help wondering why the seats at a magic show would be empty?

We’re also disappointed at the lack of a rabbit, or one of those boxes where you can saw people in half. What’s a magic show without seemingly dismembered limbs? The random expanding wilds here all feature the magician himself in various poses and the other symbols consist of a classic black hat, a white dove, a blonde magician’s assistant and a set of standard characters. The music is suitably mysterious and atmospheric but sounds more suitable for someone like David Blaine, at odds with the era the design appears to be suited to.

The potential of 1024 winning paylines sounds impressive but bear in mind that this consists of the symbols appearing anywhere on the reels, which is what makes the potential combinations so high in number. This also includes an additional 800 generated using the additional symbols of the feature rounds we’ll come to later. Coin values range from .25 to 250.00.

Most confusing by far is the unusual approach to payouts. From Cayetano’s pay table, we can see that the prizes are not fixed coin amounts but rather multipliers of the stake amount. To make this more straightforward to understand, we set the coin value to 1.0 and have shown in our pay table the amount by which your stake will be multiplied when hitting that particular combination. This ranges from 0.2x for 3 of a low value character to 8x for 5 of a high value character such as the Wild.

The only real feature on offer here is the expanding magician wild, which expands both horizontally and vertically to increase your chance of a win. There is no Scatter and no bonus games, making the gaming experience here a little flat.

The main excitement comes in the sheer quantity of winning paylines available, it’s just unfortunate that the payout amounts are so low.

We like the choice of theme for this game but we have to say we’re a little disappointed with the execution; a traditional magic show is something which would have wide player appeal but Cayetano Gaming have really missed some tricks here (literally).

There is plenty of material for bonus games and features but unfortunately we’re left unsatisfied. With the quality of video slots constantly improving and hundreds being released each year, we’re just not sure Magic Money can compete with some of the more advanced options out there.