Wishwood Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
IGT
Poa climbs a tree on a wheel of branch counts, and where he stops decides between 10x the bet and three different free spins rounds. Four climbs in 450 spins at 0.20 got him as far as the Enchanted Wilds Bonus once, where three Wisps turned the Owl wild.
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Four Rows, Twenty Lines and a Wisp
I was a touch more excited than normal. This was when booting up Wishwood for my assessment. Over 450 spins I wagered 90.00 credits and won 79.88 credits back, finishing on 99,989.88 from a starting balance of 100,000.00.
Wishwood is a 5-reel, 4-row, 20-line video slot. It boasts a Mystery Picker and a Bonus Climb with three Free Spins bonuses, and the wager amount I used for this slot was 0.20. IGT, the studio behind Wishwood, also makes Siberian Storm and White Orchid.
Bells, Owls and a Wild
The paytable is fairly uncomplicated. I'm grateful for that on a sweltering summers day like this, when the mind is roasting. Betting is fixed at 20 paylines, and every line win is multiplied by the line bet. There are 9 standard symbols contained in the game. Wins pay left to right on consecutive reels starting from the far left reel, and only the highest win on each payline is paid. 5 low-paying symbols are depicted by A, K, Q, J and 10, and 4 high-paying symbols are composed out of bells, owls, squirrels and butterflies. In my session 91 of the 450 spins paid something, 40 of those paid less than the stake, and the longest run without a win lasted 18 spins.
The bell is of the greatest value after the Wild. It fetches 50 times the stake for 5 across a complete payline. Four bells on a payline pay 12.5 times the stake, and three pay 5 times the stake.
Aside from the standard symbols, you'll likewise discover a Bonus scatter symbol. When only 2 Bonus symbols land, Poa, the wisp character who climbs the tree, may kick the reels to make a third one appear. There is also a Wild. The Wild substitutes for every symbol except the Bonus symbol in the base game and also pays on its own.
Three Wisps in Front of the Reels
When 3 wisps appear in front of the reels on a base spin, this mechanic is triggered randomly, and choosing one reveals Wispy Wilds or Magic Multipliers or heads directly to the Bonus Climb. In the Magic Multipliers feature, 3 or 4 multipliers from 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x appear between the reels, and a line win is multiplied by the product of every multiplier touching its symbols.
The Minty Summary: The Bonus Climb paid 45.00 of the 79.88 credits I won, 56% of the total, across four climbs on spins 68, 107, 208 and 225, and not one of them got past branch 10.
Poa and the Wheel
3 Bonus scatter symbols landing anywhere on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the base game trigger the Bonus Climb. The wheel then drives the climb: a value of 1 to 3 moves Poa up that many branches, the double chevron advances to the first branch of the next section of the tree, and the check mark ends it. There, the branch Poa reaches awards 10x the total bet, the Amber Wilds Bonus with 7 Free Spins, the Enchanted Wilds Bonus with 5 Free Spins or the Top of the Tree Bonus with 8 Free Spins. The 10x award covers branches 0 to 2, Amber Wilds covers branches 3 to 6, Enchanted Wilds covers branches 7 to 10, and reaching or passing branch 11 gives the Top of the Tree Bonus. Wild symbols not in a win lock in place during the Amber Wilds Bonus, and every 3 Wisps in the Enchanted Wilds Bonus will award 5 additional Free Spins, up to a maximum of 25. My session brought four Bonus Climbs, on spins 68, 107, 208 and 225, with three ending in the Amber Wilds Bonus and the one on spin 107 ending in the Enchanted Wilds Bonus, where three Wisps turned the Owl wild and took the total to 10 free spins.