Miss Wildfire Slot – Free Demo

ELK's flammable six-by-four

The ELK Studios output rate is nothing like the sector's busiest studios, with a few planned releases per year rather than per month. Miss Wildfire itself dates from 2 February 2021. There have been a few bumps in the road, of course.

Miss Wildfire is one game that displays more potential, and for this release ELK Studios has chosen to go with a configuration of 6 reels and 4 rows. My session ran to 390 spins on that grid. Winning combinations can be created on one or more of the 466 ways, paying from the leftmost reel rightwards on adjacent reels. With the aid of its Wildfire wilds, this wildfire-inspired slot is capable of delivering large wins; those wilds spread through the Log symbols in the main game. There's also a focus on the walking wilds in the free spins round. Two bonus rounds came up across my 390 spins, on spin 18 and on spin 221. The max win is 5,000 times your stake, with 4,660 times the bet as the highest single-spin payout. From just 20 cents up to 100€ per spin, you can play Miss Wildfire at any stake in between. I set mine at 6.00, in the middle of that range.

The flame lands and the Logs catch

Aside from executing its usual substituting duties, the flame wild spreads Wildfire, transforming Log symbols into wilds. On an ordinary paying base spin that is all it takes: the flame lands, the Logs it reaches light up as wilds, and the ways are counted with those extra wilds in place. The spread carries through Logs adjacent to a Wild or a Miss Wildfire symbol. Logs are the fuel of the game, and they are also the symbols collected during the free spins. This can result in considerable wins in the main game. Spin 61 and spin 133 were both that kind of hit, each worth 12 times the stake.

The walk that paid 163 times the stake

Miss Wildfire herself is a walking wild that can land on any spin, and she walks one step to the left at a time while the reels respin, setting fire to the Log symbols she passes and rendering them wild, until she departs the grid. Each step is a respin, so a single landing can run over several screens. Super Miss Wildfire is the stronger version. She spreads Wildfire the same way, and additionally holds all unlit Log symbols sticky for the entirety of her walk. Spin 149 was the plainer version of the two: she landed, walked, lit the Logs she met and paid 16 times the stake. In my 390 spins the largest hit of the session was precisely that: 163 times the stake on spin 355. That one spin returned 978.00 against the 6.00 stake. The unlit Logs held sticky across every respin until she stepped off the leftmost reel. Spin 2 gave a much shorter walk, starting from reel 5 and worth 8.6 times the stake.

Minty’s Closing Thought: Two bonus rounds across 390 spins gave back 57.60 between them, about 3% of everything I won, so almost all of the money came from the base game and most of that from one walk on spin 355. If the free spins are the reason you are here, my sample says the walking wild got there first.

Collecting Logs into the gauge

When you land 3 or more bonus symbols anywhere in view on the same spin, it becomes more interesting, and the round begins with up to 4 Miss Wildfire symbols walking in from the rightmost reel, starting with 7 free spins. Seven is the minimum the bonus awards. The goal is to collect Logs into the meter. Each time it fills, one low-value symbol is promoted to Log and one or more new Miss Wildfire symbols emerge, keeping the bonus going. A fill therefore does two things at once: it puts fresh walking wilds on the reels and makes Logs more common for the rest of the round. Both of the rounds I triggered granted 7 free spins. They fell 203 spins apart. Neither was generous: the first filled the meter once and paid 8 times the stake, and the second never filled it at all and gave back 1.6 times the stake. Between them the two rounds returned 57.60, about 3% of everything the session won.

390 spins at 86.9%

Miss Wildfire is a medium volatility slot, 4 of 6 on the meter and 6 of 10 on ELK's own scale. That renders it less of an all or nothing slot than the studio's harsher releases. The longest run I had without a win was 19 spins, ending on spin 168. The hit frequency of roughly one paying spin in every 4.5 held up in my testing, with 96 of 390 spins paying something. The balance peaked at 5,039.60 on spin 2 and reached its lowest point at 3,809.60. Half of those paid less than the stake, though, and the session finished at 86.9% return. In money that was 2,340.00 wagered against 2,034.00 won, taking 5,000.00 down to 4,694.00.

Just a word of caution - the maths can be borderline ruthless nonetheless, though it's not as insanely volatile as some other slots I've tested.