Wolf Strike Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Iron Dog Studio
Five Free Spins rounds in 460 spins, none retriggered, and together they paid only 18% of what Wolf Strike returned to me. The Iron Dog Studio game keeps volatility low, parks its Wolf wild off reel 4 and hides the real action in nuggets: two beside a Wild expand it, six start Hold and Win.
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Four hundred and sixty spins among the wolves
In this Iron Dog Studio launch, I got to roam with wolves, and the slot itself is really fairly recognisable. Wolf Gold 4 Pack from Pragmatic Play is another wolf-themed slot. But the volatility here has been held low. My session ran 460 spins at 5.00 each and returned 85.4%, taking the balance from 5,000.00 to 4,664.00. The max win peaks out at 5,100 times the stake. My biggest result, 130.00 on spin 432, was 26x the stake and came from a Free Spins round. Employing 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 paylines, Wolf Strike runs on Expanding Wilds that can collect the prize values of Golden Nuggets on the same reel, as well as Strike Nuggets. The Wild substitutes for all paying symbols except the Scatter, Golden Nugget and Strike Nugget. Those, in turn, can award the Mini, Minor or Major prize. Strike Nuggets show no value of their own and pay a fixed prize instead. The centrepiece is the Free Spins mechanic. It triggered five times in my session, once for 8 free spins and four times for 12. In it, Scatters turn into Golden Nuggets, so Hold and Win can fire during free spins, and bets run from 0.20 to 50.00 per spin. The first round, on spin 22, paid 9.4x the stake and lifted the balance to its session peak of 5,059.50.
Buffalo, Deer, Cougar, and no Wolf on reel 4
Symbols comprise lower-paying A to 9, and more lucrative are the Buffalo, Deer and Cougar, paying 18 to 25 times the stake for 5. The low-value symbols need 3 of a kind to pay and return 1.5 to 10 times the stake for 5, while the high-value symbols pay from 2 of a kind. The Wolf is the wild. Of my 460 spins, 204 paid something, and 129 of those paid less than the stake. It lands on reels 1, 2, 3 and 5 and is also the most valuable of all symbols, paying 50 times the stake for 5 of a kind. The longest run without any win in my session lasted 15 spins and ended on spin 288.
Two Golden Nuggets on the Wolf’s reel
Core to the slot is the Expanding Wild mechanic, and on any spin, a Wild on the same reel as 2 Golden Nuggets grows and collects both prize values. When it does, the Wild fills the entire reel it landed on.
The Hold and Win mechanic is triggered if 6 or more nuggets land, and once activated, the nuggets lock in place for 3 respins. Scarab Temple from Booongo is another slot built around a Hold and Win feature. Each new nugget resets the respins to 3. Only nuggets land during the respins, and the feature ends when none are left or all 15 positions are filled. Independently, 3, 4 or 5 Strike Nuggets award the Mini (50x), Minor (250x) or Major (1,000x) prize. During Hold and Win, Wilds still expand but do not collect nugget values.
Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Lastly, there is the Free Spins mechanic. Scatters can land only once per reel. It enters into play when 3, 4 or 5 Scatter symbols land, awarding 8, 12 or 20 free spins. The gaps between my five triggers ran 164, 157, 5 and 84 spins. A retrigger gives 4, 6 or 10 extra. None of my five rounds retriggered, and together they paid 357.00, or 18% of everything won. Once in, Scatters turn into Golden Nuggets, so Hold and Win can fire during free spins, and furthermore, filling all 15 positions in Hold and Win doubles the total win.