The purist may not classify Beautiful Bones as a Halloween themed video slot, but for most online casino players such fine distinctions are irrelevant. Beautiful Bones celebrates the Day of the Dead, an eerie Mexican festival. It venerates the deceased and rejoices in their spiritual transcending to heaven. People come out wearing macabre costumes that depict skeletons. There is the usual plenty of eating, drinking and song. Hence the title Beautiful Bones of this Microgaming online slot game is very appropriate. It is live at online casinos like Lucky Nugget, Spin Palace and Royal Vegas.

Beautiful Bones has the standard 5x3 reels structure with 243 ways to win. The total bet is 30 times the line bet, which is par for this structure. The high paying symbols are five male and female revellers. Their faces are painted white to look like skulls and the win animations make the festival come alive. The payouts start from combinations of two like symbols. The top line payout is 300 times the line bet. Therefore you can expect variance that is on the lower side. The low paying symbols are the usual playing card icons from A to 9. The heart is the wild symbol.

Microgaming has introduced an exciting feature in Beautiful Bones called the Wild Spin Again. It is triggered in an unusual manner. Three, and only three, like symbols have to appear next to each other in a horizontal or vertical line. Then the symbol in the middle transforms into a wild heart, which is held fixed and the reels spin once again. Even if you get more than one triggering combination in a spin, you will be awarded only one respin. But if you get the required alignment in the respin then you will get another respin.

Beautiful Bones has a regular free spins feature, which is again not triggered in the usual manner. Whenever the skull symbol appears anywhere on reel 1 or reel 5 it adds to the count in the sugar skull meter. When the count reaches 10 skulls you can claim 10 free spins with tripled payouts or you can continue playing. On reaching 20 skulls you can claim 15 free spins with payouts multiplied 4 times or you can continue playing. When you reach 30 skulls the feature is activated by default. It awards 18 free spins with payouts multiplied 5 times.