Santa vs Rudolf

NetEnt spins Santa vs Rudolf around a reel-based scuffle between Father Christmas and his wayward reindeer, played out across a 5-reel, 3-row grid with 20 fixed paylines that pay both left-to-right and right-to-left. Ten-to-A royals styled as candy canes fill the lower paytable, while wish-list scrolls, reindeer snowglobes, Rudolf's collar and wrapped presents lead into the top symbol — Santa's sleigh — which returns 25x the stake for five in a row on a payline.

Two wild symbols drive the base game: a Rudolf wild that can appear on reel one and steps one position to the right before each respin until it moves off the grid, and a Santa wild that does the same starting from reel five and travelling left. Both trigger a respin each time they shift, and either one substitutes for any paying symbol along the way.

Free spins begin when a Santa wild and a Rudolf wild land on the same row, an event framed in-game as the pair colliding. The round opens with 10 spins and can be extended in the same way, up to a total of 30, with wilds appearing more often throughout and each collision adding four further spins. Two meters track progress during the bonus — one for Santa, one for Rudolf — each filling by one space every time its wild completes a full walk across the reels. Filling all eight spaces on either meter before the round ends unlocks that character's encore bonus: Santa's version is a pick-a-prize round split into three sets, revealing cash prizes and multiplier boosts of up to 4x applied to the total win, while Rudolf's version hands out three spins with five Rudolf wilds seeded onto the reels for each one.

Santa vs Rudolf pays out at 96.35% RTP with medium-to-high volatility, a 29% hit frequency, and bets from 0.20 up to 100 per spin. The maximum win is capped at 1,000x the stake, reached most readily through the Rudolf Spins encore bonus rather than the base free spins round alone.