Wolf Gold is a popular online video slot developed by Pragmatic Play. Released in 2017, the game takes players into a rugged American wilderness, featuring wolves, buffalo, eagles, cougars, desert landscapes and full moons.
The game uses a traditional five-reel slot format with 25 paylines and two bonus features:
- Blazing Reels Free Spins: A free-spins feature in which the middle three reels combine to form a giant symbol.
- Money Respin: A special respin feature involving cash-value moon symbols and three jackpot prizes.
Wolf Gold RTP
The standard RTP is 96.01%, although this can vary by casino.
Gameplay and Paytable
Wolf Gold features a standard 5-reel, 3-row layout with 25 fixed paylines that pay out in the standard left-to-right way, with a minimum of three symbols to win.
There are eleven symbols in total consisting of eight regular symbols and three special symbols:
Regular Symbols
The regular symbols are split into four higher paying animals (Buffalo, Eagle, Cougar and Lion) as well as four lower value playing card symbols (Ace, King, Queen and Jack).
Special Symbols
There are three special symbols which trigger various features in the game:
- Wild – represented by a wolf’s head and can substitute for any other regular symbol.
- Scatter – three or more scatters trigger the Free Spins feature.
- Money Symbol – represented by a moon and used to activate Money Respins.
As these symbols are so important to the game, we’ll go into them in more detail in the next sections.
The Wild Symbol
The Wolf Wild is one of the most important symbols in the game. Its primary function is to substitute for regular symbols to help complete winning combinations.
For example, if a player lands two buffalo symbols and a Wolf Wild in the correct positions, the Wild can complete a buffalo combination.
Important things to note include:
- The Wild can substitute for regular paying symbols.
- It cannot substitute for Scatter or Money symbols.
- It can appear in stacked formations.
- It is possible to receive Stacked Wilds for wins across multiple paylines.
The wild symbol has it’s own payout value as well, although only the highest payout on the payline will be awarded. For example, if you had three Wolf Wild’s and a Buffalo on a single payline, you would receive the payout for four Buffalo.
Blazing Reels Free Spins Feature
The Blazing Reels Free Spins feature is one of the game’s two main bonus rounds and is activated by landing three Scatter symbols. The scatter symbols only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5.
How The Free Spins Bonus Game Works
- Three Scatter symbols trigger the bonus.
- The player receives five initial Free Spins in the standard game.
- During the feature, reels 2, 3 and 4 combine and spin together.
- These three reels operate as one giant symbol position, covering nine positions on the grid.
- The giant symbol can create multiple winning combinations when it matches the symbols on the outside reels.
Retriggering Free Spins
If you land another three Scatter symbols during the bonus round, then the free spins will be retriggered. Each qualifying retrigger awards three additional Free Spins, with no fixed limit on the number of retriggers.
Money Respin Feature
The Money Respin feature is arguably the most distinctive part of Wolf Gold and possibly considered to be “the main event”. It gives players the opportunity to collect cash payouts or even win one of three jackpots.
The feature activates when six or more Money symbols land anywhere on the reels during a single spin. They do not need to be on a payline and act the in same way as a scatter symbol, although unlike the scatters they appear on all reels.
Once the feature has been triggered, the normal symbols disappear and the Money Respin feature begins.
How the Money Respins Work
When the feature starts all symbols other than the money symbols fall away, leaving only the existing money symbols. During the bonus round, only money symbols can land in the free spaces.
The bonus starts with three respins and the counter resets to three every time a new money symbol lands on the screen. If you reach the end of the free spins without landing a new money symbol, then the bonus round ends.
At the end of the feature, the cash values of the collected Money symbols are added together and awarded to the player.
Winning the Jackpots
The Money Respin Feature is also where the Mega Jackpot lives, and to win it, all you have to do is completely fill all 15 slots with money symbols. Sounds so easy, doesn’t it!