Illogicool Slot – Free Demo

The Cool reel does the feeding

Swedish supplier Elk Studios has released Illogicool. I played 620 spins of it at a flat 1.00 stake. It may conceivably be one of its most ambitious games to date, and the hunt for large wins occurs on a 6-reel, 6-row, 46,656 ways to win reel set. It runs in two modes, Normal play and Bonus mode with free drops. The upper row operates as the Cool reel above a 5-row main grid. Wins are read from left to right, and only the highest win on each active line is paid. With the team by your side, the female and male figures can emerge as ordinary symbols, or as 1x2 symbols that pay as two stacked singles.

This is a high volatility slot, playable from 0.20 to 100. Only 101 of my 620 spins paid anything, and 49 of those returned less than the stake. In it, players will find free drops and three distinct symbols: the Locked Wild, the Monster Wild and Troubles.

A grid crowded with feature symbols

The paying symbols are accompanied by the female and male team. The count of feature symbols on top of them renders the grid a bit more cluttered than I would have liked, and the character symbols can land as a 1x2 symbol. When they fall in from the Cool reel, they stretch upwards if there is space.

The game arrives with distinct symbols as well - the Bonus symbol, the Super Bonus symbol and the wild. Paying symbols sitting on the Cool reel, Wild and Locked Wild included, are active while they are up there. The wild stands in for everything except the Wild feature symbols, Troubles and the two Bonus scatters. A line made up of nothing but Wilds pays as the highest paying symbol. Up on the Cool reel Monster Wild and Troubles are dormant, and they only wake up once they descend into the main grid.

Avalanche, Troubles and two kinds of Wild

Core to the game is the Avalanche. It applies to the main grid and the Cool reel alike. Every winning combination in the entire grid is paid and its symbols are cleared, the main grid falls down and the Cool reel replenishes from the right. Unspent Locked Wilds are the exception and are left where they stand, and the refill pushes the remaining Cool reel symbols to the left. The cycle recurs until there are no more wins. Only then do symbols drop from the Cool reel into the empty cells below, and a feature symbol that arrives in the main grid becomes active. Travelling on it are the 3 distinct symbols:

Locked Wild - a Wild loaded to endure for 3 wins. It is cleared after the final one. A Locked Wild is also the one thing carried over from Normal mode when the Bonus game deals its new set of symbols.

Monster Wild - a green gooey Wild, live only in the main grid and activated by a win, and it stretches vertically up and down until halted by a winning line or a non-sticky Troubles, Bonus or Super Bonus symbol.

Troubles - a blue furry symbol. It counts only while it is in the main grid. Two Troubles side by side get shoved to the top right corner of the cell. That works whether the neighbour is already sticky or not. They turn sticky and leave the cell vacant for fresh symbols, and on subsequent wins the sticky mini Troubles multiply and propagate to neighbouring cells. Once every main grid cell holds a sticky Troubles the spreading stops. At the first non-win, every paying symbol sharing a cell with a sticky Troubles converts into one and the same random pay or Wild symbol. Wild, Locked Wild, Monster Wild and Super Bonus symbols are left alone, and the sticky mini Troubles are consumed afterwards. Bonus symbols promote to Super Bonus. A Troubles landing on a cell that already holds a sticky mini Troubles is removed and sets off an extra reproduction and spread.

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Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Four bonus rounds out of 620 spins carried 87% of the 1,483.40 this session won back, and one of them accounted for 1,160 times the stake by itself. Everything else was 619 spins of a grid that pays 101 times and keeps 49 of those under the stake.

Free drops and a multiplier that keeps climbing

The free drops will launch correspondingly with 3 or more Bonus or Super Bonus symbols anywhere in the main grid:

3 symbols - 10 free drops.

4 symbols - 15 free drops.

5 symbols - 20 free drops.

6 symbols - 25 free drops.

Super Bonus symbols establish the initial Win Multiplier, from x5 for one of them up to x30 for six, and the round can run longer than it started. Extra Drops adds 1, 2 or 5 drops to the counter, while the Win Multiplier symbol adds x1, x2 or x3 to the multiplier already running. There is not much more to the free spin feature than this, beyond the Extra Drops and Win Multiplier symbols the Cool reel bears inside it, unless I missed out on some crucial details such as upgraded reels or whatever. There is also an X-iter menu that sells rounds outright from the base game - Super Bonus at 500x the bet, Buy Bonus at 100x, Troubles at 25x, Locked Wilds at 10x and a Guaranteed Win at 5x, all of them stated to run at the same theoretical return as ordinary play.

Where the 1,483.40 came from

In motion, Illogicool presents itself as a high volatility slot with a lot of frills. The longest run without a win lasted 27 spins and ended on spin 446. In truth, 620 spins wagered 620.00 and won 1,483.40. The balance moved from 4,500.00 to 5,363.40, a session return of 239.3%, by way of a low of 4,214.00 and a peak of 5,373.20. Only 101 of them paid anything at all, and the four bonus rounds delivered 87% of everything won. They arrived on spins 165, 234, 492 and 608, awarding 15, 15, 10 and 15 free drops and paying 1,287.00 between them. The one on spin 608 ran long and paid 1,160 times the stake on its own. Two other Elk Studios games, Nitropolis 3 from April 2022 and Buffalo Toro from August 2022, run 4,096 ways apiece and cap at 50,000x the bet.

There is a max win potential of 10,000 times the stake concerned here, however, as declared by the supplier.