Book Of Wolves Full Moon Slot Review
Bare branches against a hazy orange glow, golden specks drifting through a dark, misty forest, everything framed in ornate gold. Book Of Wolves Full Moon commits hard to its night-forest setting, and the commitment pays: this is one of the better-looking entries the Book formula has produced.
It’s also a leaner game than the formula usually allows. Spinomenal have run the classic single-symbol setup – one Book working as wild and scatter at once – on a 5×4 grid with just 5 paylines, which makes every line win count for more and every dead spin sting a little harder. The RTP is 96.18%, and the top prize on the board is 10,000 times the bet per line.
It sits in a crowded corner of the studio’s catalogue, alongside Book Of The Night Wolf, Wolf Fang Eclipse and Book Of Rebirth Extreme, and the full moon overhead suggests the pack is out hunting.
Reels, Lines and the Paytable
Five reels, four rows, five fixed lines. All symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel, only the highest win on each line counts, and every win is multiplied by the bet per line. It’s a lean setup by modern standards, and it shapes how the game feels: wins are few, but a single line of premium symbols carries real weight.
That “bet per line” detail is worth pausing on. The paytable figures below are multiples of the line bet, not the total stake, and with five lines the total stake is five times the line bet. A five-White-Wolf line at 10,000 times the line bet works out to 2,000 times the total spin cost, which is the honest way to size that top prize.
The paytable is built around the forest’s inhabitants, with the White Wolf out in front by some distance. Values below are per symbol combination, multiplied by the bet per line.
- White Wolf – 10 for two, 100 for three, 1,000 for four, 10,000 for five
- Bear – 5 for two, 50 for three, 500 for four, 5,000 for five
- Moose – 5 for two, 10 for three, 100 for four, 1,000 for five
- Owl – 5 for two, 10 for three, 100 for four, 1,000 for five
- A / K – 5 for three, 40 for four, 150 for five
- Q / J / 10 – 5 for three, 25 for four, 100 for five
The animals split into two tiers. The Wolf and the Bear pay from two of a kind, which matters on a five-line game where partial combinations are the difference between a dead spin and a small return. The Moose and Owl share a row, as do A and K, and Q, J and 10 below them.
That top rung matters more than it usually would. With only five lines in play, five White Wolves on a line is the prize the whole game tilts towards. The gap between the Wolf and everything below the Bear is steep, and the royals are the filler they always are.
The Book: Wild and Scatter in One
The Book symbol does everything here. It substitutes for any symbol, it pays scattered anywhere on the reels, and three or more of it starts the free spins round. That triple duty is the whole engine of the game, and it’s the reason the base game has any tension at all: every Book that lands is simultaneously a wild on a line and a step towards the bonus.
As a wild, the Book slots into line wins the usual way, standing in for whatever premium symbol completes the best combination on each of the five lines. It doesn’t pay as a line symbol itself, so its value as a wild is entirely borrowed from the paytable around it.
Scattered Books pay on their own, on top of anything else the spin produces. The scatter pays are:
- 3 Books anywhere – pays 2x
- 4 Books anywhere – pays 25x
- 5 Books anywhere – pays 250x
Any of those combinations also awards 10 free spins, with the bet per line carried over from the triggering spin. Note how steeply the scatter pays scale: four Books is more than twelve times the value of three, and five is ten times four again. Five Books at 250x before the round even begins doesn’t come around often, but it’s there in the maths.
Free Spins: The Wheel and the Expanding Symbol
Triggering the round doesn’t drop you straight onto the reels. Instead, a wheel appears, stocked only with the game’s medium symbols, and one spin of it decides which of those symbols becomes the expanding symbol for the whole free spins round. It’s a small piece of theatre, and it does something the standard Book formula doesn’t: it puts a visible element of chance into how the bonus is shaped before a single free spin plays out.
The chosen symbol then works like this. After each free spin’s result is settled, the expanding symbol grows to cover its positions and forms new paylines on top of the ones already in play.
- The symbol only expands when the expansion creates a win – it never grows for nothing
- Once expanded, it pays on all active lines regardless of whether the winning symbols are consecutive
- Expanded wins count separately from the original spin result, so both can land on the same spin
Walk through a single free spin and the order is: the reels stop, line wins are settled and paid, then the expanding symbol takes its turn. If growing it would create a win, it grows; if not, the spin simply ends. Two payouts from one board is the round’s whole trick.
The non-consecutive rule is the one that matters. A screen full of one symbol paying across five lines, in any arrangement, is where this round produces its biggest moments, and because the expansion only fires when it wins, there’s no dead weight in the animation.
Free spins can also retrigger, awarding an extra 10 spins on top of whatever remains, and the bet per line stays exactly as it was on the triggering spin. A lucky round can therefore run well past its original length, with the same expanding symbol throughout.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
This is a quiet forest to sit in, and deliberately so. The one reason to choose it over the dozen other Book games on the shelf is that wheel: it hands the bonus’s shape to chance before a spin plays out, which is more than most entries in this formula ever attempt.
That wheel is the strength, and so is what it feeds. An expanding symbol that pays on all five lines without needing consecutive positions turns a good board into a proper payday, and the retrigger is a clean ten spins with no strings.
The weakness is the flip side of the lean setup: between Books, very little happens, and the five-line grid gives the long stretches nothing to fill them with. For players who like the Book formula pared back and painted well, this moonlit corner of Spinomenal’s catalogue earns its place. Anyone who wants more moving parts will find the forest empty.
Book Of Wolves Full Moon FAQs
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What is the RTP of Book Of Wolves Full Moon?
The RTP is 96.18%. -
How many paylines does Book Of Wolves Full Moon have?
The game has 5 paylines on a 5×4 grid, with all symbols paying left to right from the leftmost reel. -
What does the Book symbol do in Book Of Wolves Full Moon?
The Book is both wild and scatter. It substitutes for any symbol, pays scattered anywhere on the reels (2x for three, 25x for four, 250x for five), and three or more Books trigger 10 free spins. -
How does the expanding symbol work in the free spins round?
When free spins trigger, a wheel of medium symbols is spun to decide the expanding symbol for the round. After each spin’s result, that symbol expands to form new paylines, but only when the expansion results in a win, and it pays on all active lines whether or not the winning symbols are consecutive. -
Can free spins retrigger in Book Of Wolves Full Moon?
Yes. Free spins may retrigger, awarding an additional 10 free spins on top of those remaining. -
Can you buy the bonus on Book Of Wolves Full Moon?
Yes, there’s a Buy Feature button in the interface, which takes you straight into the free spins round. -
When is Book Of Wolves Full Moon released?
Book Of Wolves Full Moon’s release date is 28 April 2022. -
Who makes Book Of Wolves Full Moon?
Spinomenal.
