Triple Wild

Triple Wild Slot Review

Violet light bleeds in from the edges of a dark field of glowing dots, the reels recessed into a black frame like the back wall of a late-night arcade. Triple Wild bets everything on one idea, and it’s a better bet than it first looks: strip this game down and there’s a single expanding symbol doing the work that a bonus round would do anywhere else. Amatic has kept the trimmings classic, from the sevens to the BARs, while running maths that’s unusually kind for the format.

The 5×3 grid carries 10 fixed paylines at an RTP of 97.12%, comfortably above the norm, and it sits alongside Amatic’s Burning Bells 10 and Hot Seven Deluxe in the studio’s familiar bell-and-seven company. The question is whether one good idea is enough to carry a whole game.

Symbols, Stacked Reels and Scatter Pays

The paytable is classic through and through: lucky sevens, dollar signs, double BARs, single BARs and the four royals. Symbols arrive stacked, which is where most of the game’s larger line wins come from, since a full stack of matching symbols can cover several paylines at once. Line wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, and only the highest combination counts on each line.

The stacking is the whole rhythm of the base game. Reels one and two landing covered in the same symbol is the sight to watch for, because from there any matching symbol on reel three completes a run across a cluster of lines at once.

Stacked BAR BARs in particular turn the left half of the grid into a block of near-identical outcomes, and because line wins from different lines are added together, those clusters pay far more than a single run would. A winning spin is announced with a bold WINNER banner across the reels, which suits a game with so few moving parts.

The rest of the win logic follows the same straight lines:

• All wins occur on active lines, except scatter wins
• Line wins are a multiple of the line bet; wins from different lines are added together
• Only the highest line win is paid on each line played
• Scatter wins are a multiple of the total bet, not the line bet
• Only the highest scatter combination is paid, and scatter wins are added to line wins
• Paytable values update automatically when the bet level changes

Symbol values are multiples of the line bet:

• 7 – 10x for two, 50x for three, 200x for four, 3,000x for five
• $ and BAR BAR – 40x for three, 100x for four, 500x for five
• BAR – 20x for three, 50x for four, 200x for five
• A, K, Q, J – 10x for three, 30x for four, 100x for five

The seven is the only symbol that pays for two of a kind, which matters more than it sounds on a 10-line game. A pair of sevens at the left edge of the reels already returns several times the line bet, so a partial stack there isn’t a dead spin. From there the ladder climbs steeply, and the top of it is where the game’s biggest line wins live.

Scatter wins work differently. They pay on any position, they’re a multiple of the total bet rather than the line bet, and they’re added on top of any line wins:

• Bell scatter – 30x for three, 200x for four, 1,000x for five
• Star scatter – 200x for three

The Expanding Wild

The wild is the game’s namesake and its one real trick. Whenever a WILD symbol lands on a reel it expands, replacing any symbol on that same reel and stacking across all three positions. It substitutes for everything, so it completes royal runs as readily as it completes a row of sevens.

The maths of a full wild stack is what makes it count. Every one of the 10 paylines passes through each reel, so an expanded wild on any of them contributes to every line in the game at once. When stacks of regular symbols sit on the neighbouring reels, several of those lines win at the same time, and the totals add together under the standard rule.

Stacked regular symbols do similar work on their own. A reel pair covered in BAR BARs already puts multiple winning lines in play, and the wild simply widens the door. That’s the engine of the whole game: stacks build the lines, the wild completes them.

Star on Reels 1, 3 and 5

The Star scatter is the more restricted of the two scatters but the punchier one. It only appears on reels 1, 3 and 5, so landing three of them requires all three of those reels to cooperate at once. Reels 2 and 4 never carry it, which is worth remembering when one lands early.

When it happens, the pay is 200x the total bet, a serious hit for a game of this shape. That total-bet multiplier is worth pausing on. On a 10-line game the total bet is ten times the line bet, so a three-star hit comfortably outranks even five sevens on a single line. It’s the one moment where Triple Wild stops behaving like a modest fruit machine and pays like something bigger.

The Bell scatter is the steadier sibling. It can land anywhere on the grid and pays from three of a kind, climbing steeply to 1,000x the total bet for five. Neither scatter triggers a bonus round, a retrigger or a modifier; they are pure pays, and the game doesn’t dress them up as anything else.

Between the two, the Bell shows up in more places by design, while the Star saves its punch for the reels it’s allowed on. That’s the full feature list, and it fits on a napkin.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

Playing Triple Wild feels like a night in a quiet arcade: same three walls, same glow, and every so often the lights go properly purple and the whole board pays at once. Those moments, when an expanded wild lands beside stacked BAR BARs and the lines stack up, are the reason to sit down at this machine rather than any other.

Its strength is honesty. A 97.12% RTP on a classic format is genuinely rare, and every pay is visible on the ladder before you spin, so you always know what you’re playing for. Its weakness is that there’s nothing underneath the neon to discover. No free spins, no pick round, nothing to build towards, and a long session starts repeating itself well before it ends.

For players who like their slots fast, transparent and generous on the maths, this is easy company. Anyone who measures a game by its features will run out of things to do in ten minutes. The purple glow is worth a session, and the numbers are worth more than that.

Triple Wild FAQs

• What is the RTP of Triple Wild?

  The RTP is 97.12%, comfortably above the industry average.
• Who makes Triple Wild?

  Triple Wild is made by Amatic, the Austrian studio behind a long line of classic-style fruit slots.
• How many paylines does Triple Wild have?

  Triple Wild is played with 10 fixed paylines, so every line is active on every spin.
• What does the Expanding Wild do in Triple Wild?

  The WILD symbol expands to fill all three positions of the reel it lands on, substituting for every other symbol in the game. Because every payline passes through that reel, one expansion can contribute to all 10 lines at once.
• Where does the Star symbol appear in Triple Wild?

  The Star scatter only appears on reels 1, 3 and 5, and it pays 200x the total bet when three of them land.
• Does Triple Wild have a free spins round?

  No. Triple Wild has no free spins or bonus round; its features are the Expanding Wild and two scatter pays, the Bell and the Star.
• What is the biggest win in Triple Wild?

  The largest single paytable award is 3,000x the line bet for five 7s. Five Bell scatters pay 1,000x the total bet, and three Star scatters pay 200x the total bet, a multiple of the total stake rather than a single line.
• When is Triple Wild released?

  Triple Wild’s release date is 26 January 2021.