Wild Pixies Slot – Free Demo

Four pixies on twenty fixed lines

Wild Pixies originates from the inventive minds at Pragmatic Play, and more significantly, I encounter four pixies. It's the gambler's job to collect more than these fellows can. I played 460 spins at a stake of 240.00, starting from a balance of 100,000.00. This is a slot dishing up free spins, Roaming Wilds and a Scatter Nudge mechanism. Wild Depths is another slot from Pragmatic Play.

The activity happens on a 5x3 grid. It is beginning each base game spin with 20 fixed paylines. Wins pay for 3 or more matching symbols on a payline, starting from the leftmost reel.

Wagers from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin may be placed to get in on some pixie fun. All prizes are paid as multiples of the total bet.

Royals 9 to A fill up the lower end of the paytable. Five Aces return 7.5x the stake, while five 9s or five 10s return 5x. Top pay symbols include four pixies, and here is located the blue male pixie, the pink female pixie, the green male pixie, and the blue female pixie. The blue male pixie heads the group at 2.5x the stake for three on a line and 7.5x for four. Values-wise, you're looking at a payout of 7.5 to 12.5 times the stake for a string of five top-tier symbols, which is not astounding. Three blue female pixies return 0.75x the stake, less than the bet on a single spin.

Butterflies that fill empty pairs above the reels

Wild butterflies are accompanied by the Scatter Nudge and free spin rounds. Wild symbols substitute for everything except the Scatter. 5 of them return 25x. That is double the 12.5x paid for five blue male pixies.

Diamond gem Scatter symbols appear on reels 1, 3, and 5. Scatters pay nothing themselves. 3 of them in sight trigger 8 Roaming Wilds Free Spins, and if 2 Scatters have appeared and a third is just off-screen, the Scatter Nudge can activate at random. It pushes that Scatter into sight and unlocks the bonus. My one round came on spin 261, where two completed sets turned 8 free spins into 12.

Any Wild that arrives during free spins occupies one of 3 two-position groups above the reels, and there are no Scatters and no retrigger in the feature. Each Wild fills one space, so a group needs two Wilds before it is complete.

A collection mechanism operates in free spins also, and for every complete group, its Wilds transform into Roaming Wilds and grant +2 spins. Completing all three groups lifts the round from 8 free spins to 14. Roaming Wilds leap to random spots every spin. They remain until the finish, up to 6 of them. That round paid 7,200.00, or 30x the stake, and moved my balance from 82,096.00 to 89,056.00.

Our Minty Verdict: A 96.50% RTP on the label, and my 460 spins handed back 67.7% of what went in, with the single free spins round covering a tenth of all winnings. The pixies spend most of their time paying less than the stake, and a 261x ceiling leaves little room for one hit to rescue a bad run.

Is 261x a pilot episode?

The gameplay is busy. Only 117 of my 460 spins paid anything, and 70 of those paid less than the stake. The Roaming Wilds mechanic contributes a means of cramming more Wilds onto the reels. In my one free spins round, the two completed groups put 4 Roaming Wilds on the reels. Curiously, though, you do sort of get the sense Wild Pixies might be a test run for something even larger, and one hint is max win, as the top win number is 261x the wager. My best win, 11,520.00 on spin 41, was 48x the stake, less than a fifth of that figure.

Wild Pixies might not present as a showpiece slot as such. Over the session I wagered 110,400.00 and won back 74,688.00, a return of 67.7%. But its ingenuity in terms of features make it a source of novelty.