Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood Slot Review
An autumn wood at dusk, all rust and ember light, with a girl in a red hood and a wicker basket standing watch at the left of the reels. NetEnt‘s Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood is built on a promise most slots never make: a losing spin here can be unpicked in front of you, symbols rewriting themselves until a win exists. Where other games make you earn everything, this one would rather manufacture a result than leave the reels quiet.
It runs on a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed bet lines, an RTP of 96.33%, a hit frequency of 20%, and a top prize of 800x the bet. Bets run from 0.20 to 200 per spin. It’s a gentler proposition than fairytale stablemates like Jack and The Beanstalk or the board-game flourishes of Jumanji, built around small interventions rather than one loud payoff.
Stacks, Wilds and Sticky Re-Spins
Wins pay left to right across the 20 fixed lines, with only the highest combination on each line counting. The wild lands on reels 2, 3 and 4 in the main game. It substitutes for everything except the Bonus symbol, and always completes the best available line.
The reels also carry stacked medium win symbols. Every reel holds a run of adjacent positions that, on each new spin, is randomly filled with one of those symbols. A single symbol type can therefore arrive in stacks across several reels at once, which is the engine behind most of the bigger base game wins.
Sticky Wild Re-Spins
Land two or more wilds in the main game and they turn sticky, locking in place for a free re-spin. Any new visible sticky wild during that re-spin awards another one, and the chain only stops when no fresh wild appears. Wins stack up across the run.
There are limits. No random or bonus features can trigger during a re-spin, and if 3 Bonus symbols and 2 wilds land together, the bonus plays out first. Wilds hiding behind sticky ones don’t count as visible.
The Three Random Features
The fairy is this game’s signature. Three random features can fire without warning in the main game, none of them available during re-spins, free spins, or another feature:
- Fairy Magic Spin – a cluster of five to nine medium win symbols appears as an overlay for one spin
- Fairy Surprise – on a losing spin, symbols transform one by one into a chosen medium win symbol until a win forms
- Fairy Wild Spin – 3 or 4 wilds drop onto reels 2, 3 and 4, then a Sticky Wild Re-Spin follows
Fairy Surprise can’t pick the Bonus or wild symbols, and the Magic Spin’s cluster never includes the game logo. The Surprise is the safety net of the three: it only arrives when the spin has already lost, and it guarantees the loss doesn’t stand.
The Wild Spin is the aggressive one. Because the wilds arrive in a block on the middle three reels, the follow-up re-spin starts from an already strong position, and any further wilds extend it in the same way as a naturally landed pair.
The Chest Bonus
Three Bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 open the bonus, and the choice is literal: three chests, one pick. If Autoplay is running, a chest is chosen for you after seven seconds. Whichever you open awards one of the following:
- Beware the Wolf Bonus – a board game round
- Free Spins – 10 free spins with sticky wilds on all reels
- Coin Win – an instant 15x the bet
Beware the Wolf Bonus
The board game is the most involved of the three. You spin a whirligig by clicking the screen and move around a track from position zero, collecting coin wins as multipliers of your bet, from x1 up to x20 per landing. Five location types drive the round:
- Coin Win – pays the current bet multiplied by the multiplier shown
- Double – doubles every multiplier on the board, including the jackpot’s
- Arrow – moves you along the arrow on the next turn
- Jackpot Coin Win – ends the round and pays 100x the bet, or 200x if Double landed first
- Collect – ends the round and pays everything collected so far
Double doesn’t retroactively boost coins already banked, so timing matters: landing it early inflates the whole board, including that 200x jackpot. The round otherwise runs until you hit Jackpot Coin Win or Collect, so the tension is in deciding when the board has been doubled enough.
Free Spins
The free spins round awards 10 spins at the triggering bet, with wilds now able to land on all five reels. Any two or more act as sticky wilds and trigger a re-spin, exactly as in the main game but with far more coverage.
Bonus symbols appear only on reels 1, 3 and 5 here, and they extend the round rather than retrigger a chest pick:
- 1 Bonus symbol awards 2 additional free spins
- 2 Bonus symbols award 4 additional free spins
- 3 Bonus symbols award 10 additional free spins
Bonus symbols can’t appear during the sticky re-spins inside the round, so the extensions arrive on clean spins only. The Total Win meter folds everything from the round into the triggering spin’s result.
Coin Win
The simplest chest: a flat payout of 15x the current bet, added to the triggering spin. Against a board game that can reach 200x and a free spins round that compounds, it’s the quiet chest of the three.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.8/10
Playing this is like being walked through the woods by a very attentive guide: something is always happening to keep you moving, and the fairy’s interventions mean the reels rarely go quiet for long. If you pick it up at all, it’s for that constant, cosseting motion rather than any single headline moment.
The free spins round is the best thing here, and by a distance: sticky wilds across all five reels compound beautifully, and the retrigger ladder can stretch ten spins into something substantial. The problem is what sits above it. An 800x ceiling means even the best session stays politely sized, and the Coin Win chest is a chest you’ll be sorry you opened.
It’s for players who like their slots charming and steady, who’d take a fairytale told well over a jackpot chased hard. Anyone hunting a big multiple won’t find it in this forest; anyone after a beautifully kept one will.
Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood FAQs
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What is the RTP of Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood?
The RTP is 96.33%. -
How do you trigger the bonus in Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood?
Three Bonus symbols landing on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the main game open the chest pick, where you choose one of three chests to reveal either the Beware the Wolf board game, 10 free spins, or an instant coin win. -
How do Sticky Wild Re-Spins work?
When two or more wilds land together in the main game, they lock in place and a free re-spin follows. The chain keeps going as long as each re-spin adds a fresh visible wild, and all wins along the way are added together. -
Can free spins be extended in Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood?
Yes. During free spins, 1 Bonus symbol adds 2 spins, 2 add 4, and 3 add 10. Bonus symbols only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5 and never during sticky re-spins. -
Can the random features trigger during free spins?
No. The three random features only work in the main game, and they can’t fire during sticky re-spins or at the same time as a bonus feature. -
What does the Double location do in Beware the Wolf?
It doubles every multiplier on the board, including the Jackpot Coin Win multiplier, pushing the jackpot from 100x to 200x the bet. It doesn’t apply to coin wins already collected. -
What is the maximum win on Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood?
The maximum win is 800x the bet. -
Who makes Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood?
NetEnt. It’s one of their Fairytale Legends titles, built on a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed bet lines and bets from 0.20 to 200 per spin.
