Le Vampire slot: clusters, cascades and bonuses

Symbols and clusters

Two families of symbols share the grid. The card ranks J, Q, K and A pay identically for any number of matches. The themed set is fangs, garlic, skull and pistol, and the skull and pistol sit higher in the paytable than fangs and garlic do. Inside bonus modes those same four types can turn into Epic versions with boosted multipliers.

Any cluster is priced from the paytable, where each symbol type carries values for 5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13 and 14+ matches. There is no separate Wild column in the base part of the table: Wild substitutes for any symbol listed there, but never for FS, Rainbow or Epic Rainbow.

The spread inside a single row is easy to miss. Card symbols pay 0.2× the stake for five matches and 50× for fourteen or more. Epic skull and Epic pistol turn that same fourteen-symbol cluster into 200×. Cluster length moves the result harder than symbol type does, although type sets the starting price of a match.

Cascades and how the grid refills

Super Cascades keeps a round going after it has already paid. Winning symbols vanish, fresh symbols drop into the gaps, and the hunt for combinations starts again. The cycle runs until no new combination appears, and every payout along the chain ends up in the round total.

The mechanic operates in the base game and inside bonus modes alike, so one paid spin can unfold into a series of calculations without any extra stake. The rules state no multiplier for the cascade number itself: each step is priced by how many matching symbols it holds and how good they are.

The side effect of cascades matters as much as the payouts. The cells under winning symbols turn into Golden Squares and stay highlighted until Rainbow triggers. Every basic win quietly prepares a future reveal of special symbols.

Special symbols and what they do

Rainbow is an ordinary symbol doing an unusual job. It lands once all wins have resolved, then activates every Golden Square accumulated on the grid. The opened cells can hold one of eight special icons: Bronze Coin, Silver Coin, Gold Coin, Diamond Coin, Green Clover, Gold Clover, Bag of Gold or Pot of Gold.

Epic Rainbow is the upgraded version. It turns every position on the grid into a Golden Square and reveals special symbols across the whole field, following the same reveal order as a normal Rainbow. On top of that it may trigger Blood Rain, though that remains a chance-based effect rather than a promise, and the rules give no numeric probability for it.

Blood Rain turns all cells into Blood Squares. They work on the same terms as Golden Squares with one exception: they never reveal Bronze Coins, so during a blood rain the smallest values (0.2× to 4×) drop out of the pool.

FS (Scatter) exists purely to launch bonus games. Three FS bring Coffin Break, four trigger Love at First Bite, five unlock the hidden Do Your Fang. FS symbols do not appear during the bonuses themselves, so no new bonus can be won inside a bonus. That same rule explains why Rainbow, Epic Rainbow and FS never share the grid: the slot keeps them on separate scenarios.

Symbol upgrades

Symbol upgrades live in the bonus modes and work like this: when a high-paying symbol takes part in a winning combination, the win is calculated and paid first, and then every symbol of that type turns into an Epic Symbol for the rest of the bonus. The switch covers icons already on the grid as well as ones that arrive later. If a round holds several winning combinations of the same type, the conversion happens after the first of them is processed, and wins are handled from left to right.

Four types qualify: fangs, garlic, skull and pistol. Their Epic versions pay more in the paytable. Epic fangs reach 150× at 14+ matches against 75× for the standard version, and Epic skull and Epic pistol reach 200× against 100×.

Upgrades and highlighting are linked. When an Epic Symbol joins a winning combination, the cell beneath it becomes a Blood Square, so the growing symbol value prepares a cell for a reveal at the same time. Progress shows on the Symbol Bar, a scale outside the grid: each newly converted type raises it a level. Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 each add 2 free spins, and Level 4 adds 2 more plus a guaranteed Rainbow or Epic Rainbow on the next spin. A bar filled to the end adds 8 free spins in total.

Coffin Break

Coffin Break launches on three FS and immediately adds two things to the base game: the conversion of high-paying symbols into Epic Symbols, and the Symbol Bar outside the grid. The starting reward is 10 free spins.

The mode's signature is the behaviour of the highlighted cells. Every Golden Square and Blood Square stays lit until Rainbow activates it, and only then do the cells reveal. The reserve of cells built up before that moment is spent in full inside Coffin Break.

The Symbol Bar follows the shared rule: each type converted to Epic raises the bar by one level, and each level is worth 2 extra spins. A series can stretch to 18 spins if the bar is carried all the way. In practice the road to Level 4 depends on how many different high-paying types manage to land inside winning combinations.

Love at First Bite and extra spins

Love at First Bite starts on four FS and opens with the same 10 free spins. It inherits the Coffin Break mechanics wholesale: Epic Symbols, the Symbol Bar, and 2 additional free spins for every level the bar reaches.

There is one difference, and it is a substantial one. In Coffin Break the highlight lives only until Rainbow activates it, while in Love at First Bite the Golden Squares and Blood Squares stay lit even afterwards. The reserve of cells waiting to be revealed never gets spent, it accumulates, so by the time a Rainbow lands the grid can hold a much larger pile of highlighted positions.

Epic Rainbow comes with a catch. After a full reveal, only the highlights that already existed before that activation are kept. Cells lit purely because of the current Epic Rainbow do not carry over on their own.

The extra spins here are a direct consequence of the Symbol Bar rather than a loyalty reward. Session length depends on how many different symbol types pass through winning combinations, not on a number fixed in advance.

How to read the payouts

Reading the paytable takes three steps. Identify the symbol type, count how many identical symbols are joined into the winning group, and only then find the column for that quantity. The ranges are grouped on purpose: 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13 and 14+ pay the same within each interval.

The money value comes from multiplying that multiplier by the current stake. A run of 12 skulls at a €1 bet pays 20×, so €20, and 15 Epic skulls at the same stake pay 200×, so €200. At €10 those two combinations become €200 and €2,000. The multiplier never changes; only the base it multiplies does.

Coins follow a similar logic with an extra step. The coin value is multiplied by the stake, and clover multipliers and value collectors can then act on the result. Green Clover touches neighbouring cells only, Gold Clover the entire grid. Bag of Gold gathers coin values plus already activated bags and pots in a neighbouring 3×3 area, while Pot of Gold works across the whole field. Activation runs from top to bottom and left to right, and a bag or pot that has already been activated never collects a second time.

Once every reveal and activation has finished, the coin, bag and pot values are added together, multiplied by the stake, and that total becomes the payout from the special symbols. Afterwards the special symbols and the Golden Squares are cleared from the grid before the next spin.

Checking your bet and balance

Before the first round, read two numbers on the bottom bar: the current stake in the Bet field and what is left in the Balance field. Both stay visible at all times, and the arrows change the stake up until you press spin. Shift + ↑ and Shift + ↓ adjust it too, which is handy when the interface does not have focus.

A sensible order for getting to know the game is to start from a minimum level that feels comfortable, then watch how often clusters of five or more actually land before raising the bar. The demo mode suits that better than real play: it lets you learn the control panel, work through the Bonus Buy menu and see how cascades look without spending a balance.

For session control, the Autoplay settings let you set a total loss limit and a single win limit, and autoplay stops the moment either one is exceeded. Turbo Play speeds the rounds up, though at that pace it is easier to lose track of how many spins have gone by, so it makes sense in short bursts. If you do decide to move over to real money play, check the Real Money conditions first.