How to Play Haunted Crypt
Six steps from your first spin to the 10,000x cap. Pick a mode, read the multiplier wilds, and grow the electrified frames.
Set Your Bet
Open Haunted Crypt and pick a stake — the game runs from $0.20 to $240.00 per spin across all 20 Lines. Most of the payout potential sits in free spins rather than the base game, so starting low buys you more chances to get there.
Choose Value or Speed
Pragmatic gives you two base-game profiles. Value is the default. Speed increases how often free spins trigger, and in exchange those free spins pay less on average. Cost per spin and paytable are identical either way, and both are published at 96.51%.
Spin the 5×3 Grid
Wins pay left to right from reel 1 across 20 Lines. The four horror characters are the top tier at 9x to 20x for five of a kind, the book and chalice sit at 4x to 5x, and the card royals run 1.25x to 2.5x. Watch reels 2, 3 and 4 — that's where wilds land.
Read the Multiplier Wilds
Wilds substitute for everything but the scatter and appear only on the middle three reels. In the base game each carries a value from x2 to x10, applied to any winning line running through it. Two multipliers in the same win are added together, not multiplied — x4 and x6 give x10.
Build Electrified Frames
Three scatters award 10 free spins. From then on, every wild leaves an electrified frame at its position, and each subsequent spin adds +1x to every frame on the board. A wild landing inside a frame adds another +1x. A wild landing anywhere else turns every framed position wild for that spin. Three scatters retrigger for five more.
Decide on the Buy Options
Free spins cost 100x your bet at 96.52% RTP; Super Free Spins cost 500x at 96.50% and add a random general multiplier per spin. Two base-game options also exist: Super Spin 1 at 20x guarantees three framed positions, Super Spin 2 at 100x guarantees four plus a x2–x10 general multiplier — though free spins can't trigger while either runs. Buy features are blocked in the UK and several other regulated markets.
Symbol Paytable
Pragmatic Play doesn’t publish symbol names in text, so these are the pay tiers straight from the game’s own paytable, quoted as multiples of the total bet across 20 Lines. Wilds land on reels 2 to 4 and carry x2 to x10 in the base game.
Bonus Features Explained
Want the full mechanic breakdown? The Haunted Crypt bonus features guide covers triggers and multipliers.
Each feature plays differently. Here's what actually happens — no marketing fluff.
Multiplier Wilds
Wilds appear on reels 2, 3 and 4 only, and substitute for everything except the scatter. In the base game they carry values from x2 up to x10. Where two multipliers touch the same win, Pragmatic adds them together rather than multiplying — the maths is gentler than it first looks.
Electrified Frames
During free spins every wild leaves an electrified frame at its position. Each following spin adds +1x to every frame on the board. A wild landing inside an existing frame adds another +1x to that one. This is the only thing in the game that accumulates.
Value & Speed Modes
Two base-game profiles, same cost per spin and same paytable. Value is the default. Speed raises how often free spins trigger, and pays less per feature on average in return. Both are published at 96.51% RTP.
Free Spins
Three scatters award 10 free spins. When a wild lands anywhere on the grid, every framed position converts to a wild for that spin and the frame multipliers apply to any win running through them. Three scatters during the round add five more spins.
Quick Strategy Tips
Bankroll first. High volatility means long stretches between free spins triggers, and Pragmatic publishes no trigger rate for either mode. Budget for at least 500 spins at your chosen bet level — at $0.20 a spin that's a $100 session. A run without a feature trades close to a flat loss.
Know the RTP. At 96.51% (top version), this slot returns above industry average. Some casinos use the 95.51% or 94.51% versions — always check the info panel before you spin. The 1% gap between top and bottom variant is significant for long sessions.
Wilds add, they don't compound. Pragmatic states it plainly: where several multipliers take part in one combination, the values are added together. A x5 and a x10 wild give x15, not x50. Plan around that — the ceiling is reached by stacking a lot of frames, not by two lucky wilds.
The cap is real but rare. The game data puts 10,000x at 1 in 10,245,902, and the bonus round ends the moment it is reached. Getting there needs a free spins run where several frames have been growing for a while and a wild lands to convert them all at once. Nothing you choose changes those odds.
Ready to Try It?
Test Haunted Crypt in demo before risking real money — compare Value against Speed, watch the multiplier wilds land on reels 2 to 4, and see how far the electrified frames grow across a free spins round.
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