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Birds are singing before the reels even load. A frog croaks somewhere near the pond at the foot of the screen, lanterns flicker on the trees framing the grid, and the whole backdrop sits inside a twilight forest that looks like it was painted for a storybook cover. Blueprint Gaming packed Wish Upon a Jackpot with enough fairy tale characters to fill a bookshelf, and once the slot settles into its rhythm, the game rarely leaves you waiting long before Rumpelstiltskin, the Fairy Godmother, or one of the other four bonus paths makes an appearance.
Landing three bonus scatter books on reels 1, 3, and 5 activates the Fairy Tale Bonus. Each book conceals a different bonus, and your choice influences the fairy tale that unfolds. With four unique outcomes, the feature offers enough variety to keep gameplay engaging.
The book you open determines the bonus that follows.
Select a Magic Bean to grow the beanstalk, revealing either Advance (which pushes you higher and increases the bonus prize) or Collect (which ends the feature and pays out wherever you’ve reached). The trail winds upward through increasing multiplier values, from small amounts near the base to larger prizes near the clouds, and reaching the very top opens a Golden Goose egg pick for a guaranteed large payout. The feature can pay up to 1,000x total bet if the beanstalk grows to its full height.
Rumpelstiltskin presents contract scrolls with attached multiplier values, and each one gives you a choice: ‘Take It’ to collect or ‘Leave It’ to move on to the next offer. With every decision, the number of remaining scrolls falls, so holding out too long can leave the round with little room left. Leave it too many times, and the offers stop altogether, ending the round with nothing.
Rumpelstiltskin’s Deal Maker Bonus puts you in the negotiating seat.
After each free spin, the three little pigs can turn random reel positions wild, and those wilds remain sticky until the Big Bad Wolf blows them away. That back-and-forth between wilds accumulating and the wolf clearing them gives the round a push-and-pull dynamic where some spins build value and others strip it back. The Pig Wizard also has a chance to retrigger free spins on the final spin of the round, extending the feature when you’d expect it to end. Free spins continue until the counter reaches zero, with extra spins awarded randomly on the last one.
Rapunzel’s round plays on enriched reels featuring a special Prince Charming scatter. Each time Prince Charming appears on reel 5, the Prince climbs one level of Rapunzel’s tower, and each level increases the free spins multiplier from x2 up through x3, x4, and eventually x5 at the top. Free spins here are unlimited in number, and the round only ends when the Prince reaches Rapunzel at the top of the tower. That means a slow climb with Prince Charming appearing infrequently can produce a long run of multiplied wins, while a fast climb ends the round quickly but at the highest multiplier.
The Fairy Godmother can appear randomly during any spin, independent of the scatter trigger. When she arrives, you pick from a set of magic orbs, each hiding a different modifier. Pinocchio Wilds can turn any position wild, Wild Reels converts entire reels, Puss in Boots infects surrounding symbols to turn them wild, the Bonus orb guarantees one of the four fairy tale features, and the Fairy Win Spin guarantees a large winning combination on that spin.
The key thing to understand about Wish Upon a Jackpot is that its bonus round is built around hidden selection rather than a single fixed feature. You get to choose the storybook, but what that choice contains is only revealed once the book is opened.
The 5×3 grid runs 20 paylines from left to right, all permanently active, with scatter wins paid on top of any line wins. The wild Frog Prince substitutes for everything except scatters and bonus symbols, and the game’s logo is super stacked across all five reels, making it the most commonly visible premium symbol in regular play.
Bets start at £0.20 and run to £100, and the demo slot gives access to every fairy tale bonus and the Fairy Godmother feature in free play.
Values shown are line bet multipliers as displayed in the game at £1.00 total stake (£0.05 per line across 20 paylines). To find the actual payout per line win, multiply the value shown by the line bet.
| Symbol | x5 | x4 | x3 | x2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild (Frog Prince) | 500 | 400 | 100 | 2 |
| Wish Upon a Jackpot Logo (Stacked) | 400 | 200 | 50 | 2 |
| Castle | 300 | 140 | 40 | — |
| Harp | 250 | 100 | 20 | — |
| Glass Slipper | 250 | 100 | 20 | — |
| A | 200 | 40 | 10 | — |
| K | 100 | 20 | 10 | — |
| Q | 100 | 10 | 4 | — |
| J | 100 | 10 | 4 | — |
| 10 | 100 | 10 | 4 | — |
The in-game paytable shows an RTP range of 92.46% to 95.26%, with the higher end applying when the slot is connected to Blueprint’s Jackpot King progressive network. Volatility sits at medium, and the maximum win is 50,000x total bet or £250,000, whichever is reached first.
The Wish Upon a Jackpot logo symbol is super stacked on all five reels, which means full-screen hits on the second-highest paying symbol are a realistic possibility during any spin.
Wish Upon a Jackpot earns a 4/5 because it solves a problem most feature-heavy slots don't even try to address: keeping the experience unpredictable after dozens of sessions. Four distinct fairy tale bonuses, a random Fairy Godmother modifier, and a super-stacked logo symbol that can fill the screen during regular spins give the game enough moving parts that triggering the bonus never feels routine. It looks its age in places, but the design underneath is still strong enough to hold up against newer releases that offer less variety.
The first thing that registered was the soundscape. Birds singing, water lapping against the wooden ledge, a frog croaking intermittently near the pond. Most slots load with a jingle; this one loaded with an environment. Blueprint clearly invested more time in the backdrop and audio here than in most of their catalogue, and the result is a game that feels lived-in before you’ve placed a bet.
Around spin 40, the Fairy Godmother appeared and offered the magic orb selection. The Fairy Win Spin landed, tied to the game’s ‘Wish Upon A Star’ tagline. The resulting spin paid well, pushing our balance up noticeably.
Select a magic orb to reveal a prize.
Three spins later, three bonus books landed on reels 1, 3, and 5, and the storybook pick opened to reveal Rumpelstiltskin. His first contract offered x18 the bet. We left it. The next offered x15, lower than the first, which felt like the game punishing the refusal. We left that too, and the third scroll landed on x30 for a £30 payout. Satisfying enough, though knowing he could stop offering contracts made the choice feel more significant than it first looked.
Rumpelstiltskin’s third scroll landed on x30.
The Fairy Godmother appeared several more times after that, but most appearances came and went without opening the orb selection. Seeing her arrive and then simply leave is a minor frustration that the game leans into repeatedly, and it dilutes the impact of her appearances over time. When the orbs did appear, the outcomes were always visible on the reels, but the false starts outnumbered the real triggers by a noticeable margin.
Two more Fairy Tale Bonuses triggered across the session, and both times resulted in Rumpelstiltskin. The first time, we pushed too far, and he stopped offering contracts after we rejected several in a row. The second time, we settled on a x20 offer. That range of outcomes from the same bonus selection is exactly what keeps the game from flattening out across repeated plays.
The pacing never really stalled. Even during the stretches between triggers, the super-stacked logo symbol landed often enough to produce small and mid-range wins, and the constant possibility of the Fairy Godmother meant that every spin carried a secondary layer of anticipation beyond just the paylines. The slot didn’t produce any single enormous win during our session, but it also never went quiet for more than a handful of spins at a time, which is a pacing profile that suits longer sessions well.
For a 2013 release, Wish Upon a Jackpot has aged with more grace than most slots from that era. The graphics hold up partly because the fairy tale aesthetic doesn’t depend on the kind of hyper-detailed rendering that dates quickly, and the bonus variety is still wider than what many modern five-reel slots offer. The reel jingle is the one element that shows its age most clearly. But this is a review of the complete package, and it still delivers a session with more variety and fewer dead stretches than most of its newer competitors.
