It is almost Christmas and players at online casinos look for new Christmas themed online slots. Two have recently been launched and are drawing heavy traffic.

The Nice List is from the online casino software provider Realtime Gaming. It continues with the saga of Naughty and Nice, Santa’s female companions. This online slot game can be played at all Realtime Gaming online casinos like Club World, Silver Oak and Manhattan Slots. The reels are set amidst a picture perfect Christmas scene. The Nice List is a 1024 ways to win video slot. Santa is the wild symbol and appears stacked on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Naughty and Nice award the highest line payouts and exhibit their usual saucy win animations. The other thematic symbols are mulled wine with stockings and cookies with milk. The playing card icons appear like colorful Christmas cards. The Nice List logo is the scatter symbol. It randomly triggers one of two free spins bonus features. The Santa Spins feature awards 15 free spins at doubled payouts and can be retriggered once. The Nice List feature is the more exciting one. You start with 10 free spins. Then you pick stockings on the second screen till you get two naughty notes. Each pick will add 2 free spins, 2x multiplier, 3x multiplier, extra wilds or expanding wilds. This feature can also be retriggered once. The Lucky Feature can be triggered randomly after any spin. It awards from 5 to 10 free spins with a 10 times multiplier.

The new Microgaming online video slot Happy Holidays is live at online casinos like Platinum Play, Jackpot City and Spin Palace. The high paying symbols represent common Christmas scenes like Santa with a child, children unwrapping gifts, children making a snowman, children on a sled and a decorated Christmas tree. The low paying symbols are stocking, turkey, chocolate house and decorations. The Happy Holidays logo is the wild symbol and awards the highest line payouts. The bauble is the scatter symbol. To start with Happy Holidays is a 243 ways to win slot game. But when the free spins are triggered it changes to 1024 ways to win. During the free spins, the snowman can transform into any of the other high paying symbols so as to award the highest possible payout. Happy Holidays has an interesting Frosty Feature that can be randomly triggered in any non-winning base game spin. A frost covers all the low paying symbols and then the high paying symbols will award bonus payouts. The snowman symbol pays the highest amount.