Sparks Slot Review

NetEnt Sparks Slot Overview
Sparks is a delightful online slot from NetEnt that’s a real feast for the eyes. The slot has an assortment of colourful electric wisps appearing on the reels and comes with a special wild that expands and clones entire reels!


How To Play The Sparks Slot
Once you’ve got the slot up on your screen, there are two things you need to do: choose a bet level and coin value. The bet level options range from 1 to 10 and for the coin value, the options are 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.50, 1 and 2. The slot’s played with 20 fixed paylines. The lowest amount of money you’re able to bet with per spin is 0.20, while the highest is 400. 

After deciding on a bet value, think about whether you want to play with paylines running from left to right or both ways. While you have more chances of winning when the paylines run both ways, bear in mind that the payout values are halved. Hit the circular arrow button directly beneath the central reel to play and spin the reels. The ‘AUTOPLAY’ button to the left can be turned on if you want the slot to spin the reels for you. Pick a number of autospins and choose advanced settings that have the spins stop if, for example, you trigger a bonus feature or win or lose a certain amount of money.


Sparks Slot Features

• Electric Theme. The slot’s theming has a sort of electric/neon look to it. All of the symbols are presented in this same style. Brightly coloured wisps and swirls feature prominently and the two backgrounds that are used look like stylised shots of outer space.
   
• 20 Paylines. Sparks is played on a standard grid with three rows and five reels. There are 20 paylines that you’re able to form winning combinations on. There are two different modes, Win One Way and Win Both Ways, that affect how many ways you can win. Both modes are played with the same bet amounts and have backgrounds featuring swirls and wisps. The Win One Way mode is played against a darker background, while the Win Both Ways mode is played on a brighter background.
   
• Win One Way. If you choose Win One Way, the slot’s paylines run from left to right only. Landing three or more matching symbols on a payline on consecutive reels starting with the leftmost reel gives you win. You can win on more than one payline, but for every payline only the highest win is paid. 
   
• Win Both Ways. If you choose Win Both Ways, the slot’s paylines run both from left to right and from right to left. Landing three or more matching symbols on a payline on consecutive reels starting with the leftmost or rightmost reel gives you a win. You can win on more than one payline and for each payline the highest win from both directions is paid. The symbols’ payouts are twice as high in the Win Both Ways mode compared with the Win One Way mode.
   
• Symbols. The slot’s low-paying symbols are five card ranks (A, K, Q, J and 10), each one of which is represented as a different-coloured wisp. The high-paying symbols are five wisps of different shapes and colours. The most valuable one is the red wisp, which gives you a payout worth 20x your bet should you fill a payline with five in the Win One Way mode. If you’re playing in the Win Both Ways mode, the red wisp symbol’s payout for five on a payline is 10x your bet. The slot’s other symbol is the wild, which is a red letter ‘W’ against an electric background. As usual, the wild can fill in for any standard symbol to help you win.
   

Sparks Bonus Features

• Expanding Cloning Wilds. Special wilds can appear on reels 2 and 4. These display the letter ‘W’ in dark red and have a burning orange background resembling the sun. Whenever this wild appears, it will do one of four things: expand up, expand down, expand in both ways or not expand at all. Then, each wild will clone the symbol directly to the left of it and add it to the position directly to the right. If a reel is fully wild, the entire reel to the left will be cloned. If both reels 2 and 4 end up containing nothing but wilds, the symbols on reel 1 will be cloned onto reel 3, then again onto reel 5, giving you quite a large payout.

Play Sparks For Real Money
Sparks looks great and is lots of fun to play thanks to its special wilds that can expand and clone other symbols. Play for free to see for yourself how the Expanding Cloning Wilds feature works, then have a go for real money and hopefully you’ll bring in some wins.