Wild 7s Slot – Free Demo

A fruit machine with the red 7 kept off reel one

The studio's slot is a tale of fruit and lucky numbers. It is a dated game still buzzing away beneath the surface of modern slot design, and Wild 7s is a 5x3 slot played across ten fixed paylines, driven by Enrich Gaming. The lines are set for you, so a spin always covers all ten of them. Wins are made by matching symbols from left to right starting on the leftmost reel, and only the highest win counts on each line. A blank leftmost reel ends a line before it has started. Wins on separate lines are added together. A spin's payout is therefore the sum of up to ten separate line wins. The entire thing runs off a dynamic paytable.

Cherries, dice and a star worth 500x

The game is pared back rather than crammed to the brim. The help panel documents two features and nothing else. It gives a lone modifier feature during gameplay, namely the expanding wild, and you'll also get the choice of a gamble on the wins you land.

Wild 7s is presented with the attention to detail you'd anticipate of a fruit machine homage, and symbols on the reels include cherries, grapes, plums, lemons, oranges, watermelons, dice, bells and stars. All nine of those pay on the lines, and the red 7 is not among them. The latter are the most rewarding, granting you 500x for a 5 of a kind combination, and the wild is depicted by the red 7. Five of a kind still has to begin on the leftmost reel, which is the one place the red 7 cannot help.

The expanding wild and the red-or-black ladder

Wild 7s is as feature-light as slots come nowadays. There's no need to hold on to your hat as I plunge right into them all, and one of the first things you will notice is the red 7. It cannot appear on the leftmost reel. Land one anywhere on reels 2, 3, 4 or 5 and every symbol on that reel becomes wild, so the entire reel goes wild, and the wild stands in for all symbols. Every payline crosses that reel, so a single red 7 is working on all ten at once.

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Lastly, there is the Gamble. I took it up on a few spins captured outside the 250 logged below. It comes into play when you land a win under 1400 times the bet, so choose red or black: a correct pick doubles the win, and a wrong one loses it and ends the gamble. A win of 1400 times the bet or more is simply paid out instead. The screen shows you how many gambling attempts are left. What sets that starting number is not stated anywhere in the rules.

Minty’s Closing Thought: Wild 7s hands you one modifier and one decision, and my 250 spins at a 1.00 stake came back at 92.6%, with the single best spin paying 43 times the stake.

250 spins at a 1.00 stake

This is no doubt a basic slot and one where you scarcely need the paytable to know what's going on, and if you do want an active decision, don't worry. The star heads that paytable and the grapes sit at the bottom of it. Wild 7s still asks you whether to gamble a win or not, as basic as it is. Spin 2 of my session paid 16.00 at a 1.00 stake, a win small enough to gamble. Beyond that all you truly have to do is to press the spin button and hope for the best. Three of my five biggest wins landed inside thirty spins of each other, between spin 77 and spin 107.

I granted the game 250 spins of my attention at a stake of 1.00, and I watched 231.40 come back off 250.00 wagered, a return of 92.6%. The lowest the balance dropped in that time was 468.00. A hundred of those spins paid something, though 67 of them paid less than the stake. That leaves 33 spins in the whole run that paid back the stake or more. The balance never strayed far, peaking at 539.90 before ending at 481.40, and the best single spin returned 43 times the stake. The longest I went without a win was eight spins, ending on spin 37. Even so, Wild 7s is a slot that demonstrates Enrich Gaming doing the basic thing well, and undoubtedly, some will dismiss it due to its dated design.