Three Reel Fortune Wilds Slot Review
Cherry blossom hangs over the pagodas, a lantern swings in the leaves, and somewhere in this peaceful garden a tiger is worth more than every fruit on the board combined. That’s the argument of Tiptop’s Three Reel Fortune Wilds in a single sentence: a three-reel game where the paytable barely matters and one symbol carries the whole thing. Strip the tiger out and you’d have a fruit machine that mostly returns your stake. Leave it in and the same grid can pay 2,500x the bet.
It runs at 96% RTP on a compact 3×3 grid with three paylines, and there’s no free spins round to break things up. What you get instead is a set of wild-driven modifiers, in keeping with studio stablemates like Lucky Pay Reels. Players who know Stack Wild Attack will recognise the register: small grids, big symbols, no frills.
Base Game & Features
This is classic stepper territory. Three reels, three rows, three straight paylines, and wins formed the traditional way: three matching symbols across a line. Only the highest combination per line counts, and a single spin can pay on more than one line at once. There’s no scatter, no cascade and no second screen. Every spin is the same spin, which is rather the point of a game like this.
The symbol set is pure fruit machine: watermelon, blackberry, plum, orange, lemon and cherry, stacked over the blossom-and-pagoda backdrop. All values are multiples of the total bet rather than the line bet, which matters on a three-line game. A win that looks small against the line stake is often a fair chunk of the total stake.
The wild is a tiger-emblazoned WILD symbol that substitutes for any fruit. It’s also the richest symbol on the board by a wide distance, paying 50x the total bet for three across a line. The watermelon, at 10x, is the best any fruit manages, so a wild line is worth five watermelon lines.
Every symbol pays as a multiple of the total bet for three of a kind:
- Wild: 50x
- Watermelon: 10x
- Blackberry: 5x
- Plum: 2x
- Orange: 1x
- Lemon: 0.6x
- Cherry: 0.4x
That ladder is thin at the bottom. A lemon three-of-a-kind returns less than the stake, and a cherry line barely dents it. An orange line is a straight refund of the bet.
The gaps between the top three are where the real money sits: a blackberry line pays two and a half plums, and a watermelon line pays two blackberries. The lower fruits exist mostly to miss, which pushes the game’s whole weight onto the wild and the modifiers wrapped around it.
Because the wild substitutes for everything, any two wilds on a payline are already a paying combination: they pair with whatever fruit sits in the third position and pay that fruit’s rate. Two wilds and a watermelon is a 10x line. Two wilds and a lemon still pays 0.6x, so even the cheapest line has a floor.
Three wilds on their own, of course, pay the full 50x. That’s the line every other outcome on this grid is reaching for.
Three Reel Fortune Wilds Bonus Features
There’s no bonus round to buy or trigger here. In its place sit three base-game modifiers, and all three of them revolve around the wild. It’s a compact package, but the pays step up sharply when the pieces line up.
What triggers each one, and what it pays:
- Cherry to Wild: any cherry on screen may randomly convert into a wild
- Triple Line multiplier: wins on lines 1, 2 and 3 in the same spin trigger a 10x multiplier
- Full screen of wilds: all nine positions filled with wilds pays 2,500x the total bet
Cherry to Wild Conversion
Cherry symbols may randomly turn into wilds on any spin. It works without a trigger or a meter: the cherries land, and any of them can flip. This is the modifier doing the daily work: it takes the weakest symbol on the paytable, the one worth 0.4x, and hands it the tiger’s job.
A single conversion can complete a line the fruits alone couldn’t finish. Two or three conversions at once can turn a dead screen into a triple-line spin, which is where the next modifier takes over.
Triple Line 10x Multiplier
Land a winning combination on lines one, two and three simultaneously and a 10x multiplier kicks in. It applies to the combined result of the spin, not to each line separately, which is the detail that decides how big the payout gets. Three orange lines, the cheapest possible triple, would return 3x the bet before the multiplier and 30x after it.
Swap those oranges for richer symbols and the same multiplier scales the whole way up. This is where the middle-sized wins live, and on a grid this small, filling all three lines in one spin is a genuine event.
Full Screen of Wilds
Nine wilds across the grid pay 2,500x the total bet. That’s the biggest prize in the game, and it isn’t a line payout at all: it’s a flat award for the whole screen. The cherry conversion is the mechanic most likely to build towards it, since every cherry on screen is a candidate wild.
A spin that lands four or five cherries and then converts most of them is the closest this game comes to a bonus round, and the full screen is where that relationship pays off.
Put together, the three modifiers form one system rather than three separate ideas. Cherries feed the wilds, wilds fill the lines, and filled lines chase either the multiplier or the full screen. A spin that misses all three is a very quiet spin indeed.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
This is a game you play with the sound of the garden in your head and one eye on the tiger. Every spin asks the same question, and the honest answer is that most spins answer it with nothing. The reason to sit down here at all is that rare screen where the cherries start flipping and the whole grid turns striped in a single breath. Nothing else on a 3×3 pays like that moment.
The cherry conversion is the best thing in the game, because it makes the weakest symbol the most interesting one on every spin. The weakness is just as clear: with four of the seven symbols returning less than the stake, the long stretches between conversions are genuinely lean, and there’s no bonus round to rescue the pace.
It suits anyone who likes a classic stepper with one modern idea and the patience to wait out the lean patches. Anyone chasing free spins, layered features or constant action will find this garden too quiet. But the build here is careful, and when the tiger finally shows up, the wait was the whole point of sitting in the garden.
Three Reel Fortune Wilds FAQs
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What is the RTP of Three Reel Fortune Wilds?
The RTP is 96%. -
How many paylines does Three Reel Fortune Wilds have?
It has three paylines: lines one, two and three, each running straight across the 3×3 grid. -
What is the grid size of Three Reel Fortune Wilds?
The game uses a 3×3 grid with three reels and three rows. -
Who makes Three Reel Fortune Wilds?
It’s made by Tiptop. -
What does a full screen of wilds pay in Three Reel Fortune Wilds?
Filling all nine positions with wild symbols pays 2,500x the total bet, the biggest prize in the game. -
How does the Triple Line 10x multiplier work?
Land winning combinations on lines one, two and three in the same spin and a 10x multiplier applies to the result. -
What does the cherry symbol do in Three Reel Fortune Wilds?
Cherry symbols may randomly convert into wild symbols on any spin, which matters because cherries are otherwise the weakest paying symbol. -
What is the wild symbol worth in Three Reel Fortune Wilds?
The tiger wild substitutes for all fruit symbols and pays 50x the total bet for three across a line, making it the game’s richest symbol. -
Are symbol values based on the line bet or the total bet in Three Reel Fortune Wilds?
They’re multiples of the total bet, not the line bet. Three watermelons, for example, pay 10x whatever the total stake is for that spin. -
Can two wild symbols complete a winning line in Three Reel Fortune Wilds?
Yes. The wild substitutes for any fruit, so two wilds plus a third symbol pay that symbol’s rate. Three wilds alone pay the full 50x.
