3 Devils Pinball Slot Review
Flames curl up from under a varnished orange-wood frame, flipper paddles glow along the side walls, and three devils invite you to play their table. Plenty of slots borrow an arcade cabinet and stop at the paint; 3 Devils Pinball doesn’t, because its headline feature physically rebuilds the reels mid-session, doubling the rows and the paylines in one move. The cabinet is the game.
It’s a Crazy Tooth Studio build, a studio whose catalogue runs from 777 Rainbow Respins to Lucky Clucks and Tower of Ra. The numbers are steady rather than spectacular:
- 96% RTP
- Medium volatility
- 6×4 grid, expanding to 6×8 in the Pinball Feature
- 50 paylines in total
- Hit frequency of 24.39%
- Stakes from 0.20 to 50 per spin
Chrome rails, glowing flipper paddles and an enamel badge reading Power Path set the scene. The question is whether the devils can actually play.
Base Game & Features
The base game runs on six reels with four symbol rows and 25 active paylines. Wins follow the Any Adjacent Pays rule: three or more matching symbols on a payline, sitting on adjacent reels, form a winning combination. Symbols don’t need to start from the leftmost reel, which changes where you find yourself looking on every spin.
Only the highest win per payline is paid, so stacked matches don’t double up. Matching symbols must sit next to each other on the payline, and payouts scale with your bet multiplier, which is the credits played divided by 0.20. A 0.40 bet, for instance, carries a multiplier of 2.
When a spin connects, the winning combinations are highlighted on the reels, so a multi-line win reads clearly against the busy cabinet artwork. If a spin doesn’t produce a winning combination, that game is over and the next one starts fresh. There’s no carry-over, no respin, no second chance on a near miss.
The bet multiplier matters more here than in most slots, because it’s the single dial every payout turns on:
- Bet multiplier = credits played / 0.20
- 0.40 per spin = a bet multiplier of 2
- 1.00 per spin = a bet multiplier of 5
- Paytable values show credits won at the current multiplier
- Payline wins are multiplied by the bet multiplier of the winning game
In practice that means every payout you see is quoted for the multiplier you’re playing at, and a stake change rewrites the whole table rather than nudging it. The maximum bet of 50 per spin carries a bet multiplier of 250, twenty-five times the values a minimum-stake player sees for the same combinations.
Wild Symbol
The wild is a blue spiral that substitutes for all paying symbols except the 2X wild multiplier and the scatter, and it forms its own combinations too. So a line of four devils broken by a spiral still pays as five, and the spiral pays as a five-spiral line if five land. It sits out the 3 Devils Bonus entirely.
2X Wild Multiplier Symbol
The 2X wild multiplier is the more interesting of the two. It substitutes for all paying symbols, doesn’t cover scatters, and appears only on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Each one included in a winning combination doubles the pay for that win, and stacking two in a single win multiplies it fourfold. Like the regular wild, it also creates its own combination, and it takes no part in the 3 Devils Bonus.
The reel restriction is the interesting part. Because the symbol never lands on reels 1 or 6, it can only ever sit in the middle of a combination, never at either end. Every doubled win is a win that spans the middle four reels, which keeps the biggest multiplier pays tied to the widest combinations rather than scattered anywhere on the board.
Scatter Symbol
The scatter is an orange chevron. It pays wherever it lands, and it’s the one symbol neither wild will substitute for, which makes it the only piece of the paytable the substitution machinery can’t touch. Bonus symbols also appear on the reels during play, marking the route into the round below.
3 Devils Pinball Bonus Features
The Pinball Feature
The Pinball Feature is the game’s centrepiece. When it arrives, the table changes shape around you:
- Four symbol rows added to every reel
- Grid expands from 6×4 to 6×8
- 25 additional paylines come into play
- Total active paylines double from 25 to 50
That’s a doubling of the ways in, and it’s the moment the table stops being scenery. With the extra rows in play, the Any Adjacent Pays rule stretches across a much taller field. Wins that would have needed a left-to-right run on 25 lines suddenly have 50 to work with, and the devils’ vertical clusters on the reels start to look deliberate rather than decorative.
Because wins only need adjacent reels rather than a run from the left, the taller grid rewards clusters anywhere on the board. A stack of devils sitting on reels 1 and 2 counts just as much as one spread across the middle, and the added height gives those stacks more room to build. An eight-row reel can hold a stack the base game couldn’t physically fit.
The expansion also changes what a near miss looks like. On a four-row grid, a combination missing by one symbol has four chances per reel to complete; on eight rows it has eight. More rows mean more symbols per spin, and more symbols mean the adjacent-reels condition gets satisfied more often across the doubled payline set.
The 3 Devils Bonus
The named bonus round strips the game back. Regular symbols and both wilds are unavailable during the 3 Devils Bonus, so everything the base game taught you about substitution and multipliers is switched off for its duration:
- Regular symbols don’t appear
- Wild symbol doesn’t appear
- 2X wild multiplier doesn’t appear
- Triggered by the bonus symbols that land on the reels
What remains is the round’s own ruleset, played out on the cabinet without the familiar pieces on the board. It’s a leaner proposition than the feature set above it suggests, and the contrast between the two bonus modes is the most distinctive thing about the game. One mode adds; the other takes away.
Medium volatility and a hit frequency of 24.39% mean roughly one spin in four connects with something. Wins are frequent enough to keep the flippers busy between bonuses, and the doubled grid gives the bigger moments room to land. As with any machine, a malfunction voids all pays and plays.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
You spend most of a session watching a modest 6×4 table, roughly one spin in four connecting, and then the devils fling the machine open and it’s suddenly a different, taller game. That reshape is the whole reason to be here. No other reason quite matches it.
The Pinball Feature is genuinely the best thing in the game, because doubling rows and paylines changes how every spin reads, not just how much it pays. The flip side is the 3 Devils Bonus: it strips out both wilds and the regular symbols, and what’s left never feels as generous as the name on the cabinet promised.
This one suits players who care about a machine that looks like the thing it’s pretending to be, and whose bonus genuinely changes the shape of the board. If you want relentless features or a fierce top-end chase, the devils will leave you cold. For everyone else, this table plays a warm enough game.
3 Devils Pinball FAQs
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What is the RTP of 3 Devils Pinball?
3 Devils Pinball runs at 96% RTP, which sits right on the industry average. -
Is 3 Devils Pinball high volatility?
No, it’s a medium volatility slot. Wins are sized and spaced between the extremes of low and high variance games. -
How many paylines does 3 Devils Pinball have?
The game has 50 paylines in total. The base game runs 25 of them, and the Pinball Feature adds the other 25 when it triggers. -
What does the Pinball Feature do in 3 Devils Pinball?
It adds four symbol rows to each reel, expanding the grid from 6×4 to 6×8, and brings 25 additional paylines into play at the same time. -
How does the 2X wild multiplier work in 3 Devils Pinball?
The 2X wild multiplier substitutes for all paying symbols and appears only on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Each one included in a winning combination doubles the pay for that win, so two in the same win pay four times the base amount. -
Can wilds appear during the 3 Devils Bonus?
No. Both the regular wild and the 2X wild multiplier are unavailable during the 3 Devils Bonus, along with the regular symbols. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on 3 Devils Pinball?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 50 per spin. Your bet multiplier equals the credits played divided by 0.20, and all paytable values scale with it. -
Who makes 3 Devils Pinball?
3 Devils Pinball is made by Crazy Tooth Studio. Its release date is 18 February 2021.
