Woolly Wilds

Woolly Wilds: Slot Overview

Woolly Wilds is an online slot from Games Global partner All For One Studios, which is set in a time when being woolly was a distinct advantage. The game is set back when the world was a lot colder than it is now, minus industrialisation, global warming and all that. Back then, the woollier you were, the better off you were. Or maybe not, because the fleece of a woolly animal must have been a highly covetous prize for all those pesky homo sapiens running around with their sharpened weapons, big brains, and penchant for technological advancement, not to mention conquering tendencies. Where were we? That's right, Woolly Wilds is a game playable in two modes, with static jackpots, free spins, and a feature buy.

Depending on the active mode, Woolly Wilds will either be bathed in cool blue-purple tones when in the Base Mode or the warm golden tones of Golden Mode. Either way, your eyes will be able to take in an ancient, untamed world inhabited by the beasts of a far earlier era. Despite the Mammoth character sparking memories of Manny from the movie Ice Age, All For One has used a realistic style to create Woolly Wilds rather than a jolly carton one. Nice, the gaming panel is transparent, too, as there is a lot of on-screen information, meaning there would be much of the Ice Age world to take in otherwise.

Woolly Wilds is a highly volatile online slot created with four return to player configurations. The default value is 96.2%, and at this level, the hit rate comes in at 26.33% in both modes. The woolly antics are held on a 5-reel game grid, each grid holding 3 rows. The panel is crossed by 20 paylines, paying out on winning combinations that land left to right from the leftmost reel onwards. In Base Mode, players can stake 20 c to $/€3. In Gold Mode, the options are $/€1 to $/€5.

The symbols vary slightly between the two modes, as well. Values remain the same – players get 1.75x to 2.25x when landing 5 10-A card royals or 6.5x to 9x for landing a winning line of 5 moose, wolves, big cats, bears, or mammoths. However, Gold Mode also has a gold mammoth symbol, which is worth 15x the bet for a 5-symbol win. An eagle or hawk appears on the game's wild symbol, substitutive for any normal pay symbol, though it only lands on reels 4 and 5.

Woolly Wilds: Slot Features

One of Woolly Wilds' star attractions is its collection of jackpots, potentially winnable when a 5 OAK winning line hits. This process gets a helping hand in free spins because reels 4 and 5 are perpetual wild stacks, so every win occurring in free spins is a 5-symbol hit.

Jackpots

Woolly Wilds has five jackpots possessing static values. They are the Mini, Minor, Major, and Grand, paying €5, €15, €150 or €1,000 in Base Mode, or €25, €75, €750, or €5,000 in Gold Mode. In addition, Gold Mode has a Super Jackpot worth €25,000. Landing a 5-of-a-kind win activates the jackpot container. The larger the bet, the more positions on the container are populated with a letter. Each letter represents a jackpot. When activated, an arrow moves, and if it stops on a letter, the corresponding prize is awarded. If the arrow stops on an empty position, tough luck buster, no jackpot this time. When more than 5 OAK win occurs, and the arrow stops on a letter, then the same prize is given for each 5 OAK combination.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols in the base game means players get a payout of 5x, 20x, or 100x the bet plus 10, 15, or 25 free spins, respectively. During the round, landing 2 scatters adds +5 free spins or 3 scatters in view give +10 free spins. What's good about free spins is that reels 4 and 5 are stacked with wilds on each spin.

Buy Feature

Going straight into free spins is possible by spending 50 times the bet on the feature buy.

Woolly Wilds: Slot Verdict

Woolly Wilds was a slightly unusual jackpot slot of ins, outs, twists, and turns. Its jackpots are fixed values rather than prizes that change with the size of the bet. This presents a very different way of perceiving the game and the way a gambler might go about tackling it. First of all, Base Mode feels a little bit pointless. The main reason is that its jackpots are on the low side, unless when minimum betting, then the actual multiple of the bet might be more favourable. The dilemma, though, is that fewer letters show up on the jackpot container, making it theoretically tougher to win anything. On the other flipside, when max betting in the Base Mode, the jackpot container is completely filled with letters, meaning you will always win something when the jackpot feature triggers. Not so in Gold Mode. When max betting there, a third of the jackpot container is blank, so dud hits are possible. Confused yet? Yeah, it seems a little fiddly on paper.

Still, it's not hard to wrap your head around Woolly Wilds once you're a few spins deep. The point is to hit five symbol-winning combinations to have a crack at winning a jackpot. Simple in theory and extra tempting to buy the free spins round since it doesn't cost a titanic amount as a multiple of the bet and because every single win in free spins is guaranteed to be a 5 OAK hit. This is on account of reels 4 and 5 being stacked with wilds during the feature. This latter point is one of Woolly Wilds' main saving graces and can actually be quite an encouragement to have just one more crack at it. More so in Gold Mode, since, you know, the prizes are greatly increased.

But having options is nice, and cautiously minded gamblers, let's say, may prefer the relative safety blanket available in Base Mode compared to Gold Mode – others are likely to lean to the other mode's greater winning potential. While not exactly headline stuff, Woolly Wilds is a fairly interesting game that gives players more than usual influence on what they might possibly win and, to an extent, how they might win it.