Visually Beautiful Bones is nicely done - the circus style A to J playing cards are joined by 2 male and 3 female characters, each of whom has their face painted in the style of a skull. The trio of females land on the middle 3 reels only and can appear fully stacked. There’s also a wild that replaces everything bar the scatter. Beautiful Bones comes with 2 main extras:
Wild Spin Again feature - this is triggered by landing a 3-of-a-kind win, either vertically or horizontally. The middle position in the triggering win will become wild and you’ll be awarded a re-spin with the wild locked in place.
Free Spins feature - every time a sugar skull scatter lands on reels 1 or 5, it will be collected in a meter. Once you’ve collected 10 sugar skulls, you can opt to activate 10 free spins with a 3x multiplier. Alternatively, you can carry on collecting sugar skull scatters until you reach the next milestone - that is triggered once you reach 20 sugar skulls and awards 15 free spins with a 4x multiplier. Once again, you can carry on collecting until you reach the final milestone - collect 30 sugar skulls and you’ll get 18 free spins with a 5x multiplier.
The theme on show here is death - Beautiful Bones shouldn’t be fatal for your bankroll though as the variance is in the medium range. Expect a balance between frequency and size of payouts. However, there is maximum wins of 1,000 times your stake per free spin (with the 5x multiplier).
As you’d expect from a Microgaming slot game, the design here is classy. The wild re-spins certainly spice up the base game and the free spins round offers some decent winning potential thanks to the multipliers. We recommend holding on and trying to trigger the top level of bonus with the 18 free spins and the 5x multiplier.
The theme may be a little unusual to Anglo eyes but if you get lucky with the multipliers, Beautiful Bones is one fiesta you won’t want to miss. Alternatively, Grim Muerto by Play ‘N Go has a similar theme but is much more volatile.