Mr Null’s Wicked Wares

Mr Null's Wicked Wares: Slot Overview

While some people are content accepting life at face value as a sort of Hobbesian mechanical process of matter in motion and humans as machines, others feel compelled to peel back the layers to uncover what metaphysical realities may lie behind the veil. One traveller of the forbidden plays the headline role in developer Pragmatic Play's supernaturally inclined online slot Mr Null's Wicked Wares. This mysteriously themed game relies on mystery symbols as one of its principal features, which not only reveal pay symbols but are also connected to a multiplying multiplier mechanic.

Mr Null is a peculiar gentleman with skin a shade of light blue, perhaps as a result of his dabbling in a hidden side of life which is probably best left alone. Some people, though, have to push the limits of human knowledge to the very boundary and beyond. It certainly looks like Mr Null is the type of chap who would be keen to blast past any limitation, no matter the consequence to either themself or the very fabric of reality. What he's come back with is a lair full of peculiar artefacts; evil plushies, possessed television sets, and various other miscellaneous items of malevolence, all designed in a sort of chunky, bright, Borderlands graphical style, where copious voiceover effects go with them.

Mr Null's Wicked Wares is played in a 5-reel slot played out on a 3-4-4-4-3 grid, with 576 ways for evaluating combinations of matching symbols. It is possible to stake from $/€0.20 to $/€240 per spin to attempt getting your hands on the sort of wares that Mr Null is touting. On the math side of the bargain, this is a highly volatile slot, with 96.49% as the highest of the three possible RTPs.

Flickering 9-A card royals are the lower paying symbols, awarding 1.5x to 2.5x when landing a 5 OAK winning combination. Up from them are four thematic symbols in the form of plants, teddy bears, TVs, and skulls in jar premiums, worth 5x to 10x the bet for 5-of-a-kind.

Mr Null's Wicked Wares: Slot Features

Bubbling away in Mr Null's cauldron of features are mystery symbols, multipliers, free spins, special bets, and feature buys.

Mystery Symbol

Mystery symbols land on reels 2, 3, and 4. All mystery symbols in view reveal matching pay symbols. When a mystery symbol hits in the base game, it has a numeric value of 2 to 10, which is used to multiply winning combinations formed with the mystery symbol.

Free Spins

When 3 scatters hit, players win 7 free spins. During the free spins round, a win multiplier starting at 2 appears above each of the three middle reels. Each mystery symbol that hits gets the win multiplier from above the respective reel. The win multiplier increases by +1 for the next spin each time a mystery symbol lands on that reel. Each time a scatter hits, +1free spin is awarded.

Special Bets & Feature Buys

Activating the Ante Bet increases the stake to 3x the base bet to make the chance of triggering free spins 5 times higher. Super Spin 1 costs 20x to guarantee at least 2 mystery symbols land, while Super Spin 2 costs 250x to land at least 3 mystery symbols with multipliers of x5 to x10. However, free spins cannot trigger from either Super Spin option. By paying 100x, players can trigger the free spins feature, or 300x buys super free spins where multiplier values above the reels begin at 5 instead of 2.

Mr Null's Wicked Wares: Slot Verdict

Mr Null's Wicked Wares is a quirky, eccentric addition to Pragmatic Play's sizable line-up of slots. The 'mad scientist', Frankensteinian, sorcerer genre is a fairly common one, but the studio has used a graphical style that helps Mr Null's Wicked Wares stand out. It's not the most striking piece of magic slot eye candy ever invented, but the stylised dark cartoonish appearance, vaguely Tome of Madness, Tome of Insanity vibe and bright colours give the game a touch of personality. As does Mr Null himself, though his constant nattering might get on your nerves.

It seems fitting that such a mysterious slot would contain mystery symbols somewhere along the line. In Mr Null's Wicked Wares, mystery symbols aren't just the side feature they often are, but one of the game's main planks. Wilds might not be part of the action, but mystery symbols can be potent in a game with hundreds of ways to win. Just as juicy, if not more, is that multiplier values multiply each other instead of adding to each other, making them capable of skyrocketing when two or more multipliers find themselves part of the same win. Free spins provide the final icing on the cake by adding a persistent, growable power to the multiplier values rather than letting them roam with total randomness.

Completing the wicked picture is a win cap that taps out when hitting 5,000x the stake, which theoretically might have been higher given the number of ways and multiplying multis, but anyhow. All in all, Mr Null's Wicked Wares is a pretty decent game, not one of Pragmatic Play's big hitters, but another one of the studio's tightly packaged productions that sits comfortably in the middle zone of the slot spectrum being neither outstanding nor poor, and should entertain players who like a dab of high-volatility with a side of esoteric weirdness and a sprinkle of philosophical dread.