Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas

Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas Slot Review

Tinsel hangs between the reels like streamers, a log cabin glows across a frozen lake, and two reindeer stand on the far shore small enough to miss. That’s Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas, and its Christmas dressing is doing less work than it appears to: this is really a collection game, built so that nearly every prize worth having has to be gathered by something rather than simply won on a line.

It’s an arguable way to build a festive slot, and Skywind commits to it fully across two separate free games rounds, each with its own scatter, its own grid and its own way of hoovering up Money Symbols worth up to 5,000x the base bet on a 5×3, 10-payline grid.

The red scatter’s round does the collecting slowly, in batches; the green scatter’s round does it on a rolling conveyor of symbols that reshapes itself every spin. The difference between the two is where this game is decided.

Symbols, Paylines and the Collect Feature

Ten fixed paylines carry the base game on a 5×3 grid, with wins paid on those lines. The paytable below shows the values exactly as printed on the game’s information screens.

• Moose – 0.50 for two, 5.00 for three, 20.00 for four, 200.00 for five
• Backpack – 3.00 for three, 15.00 for four, 100.00 for five
• Map and Binoculars – 2.00 for three, 10.00 for four, 50.00 for five
• Money Symbol – 1.00 for three, 5.00 for four, 20.00 for five
• Campfire and A – 0.50 for three, 2.50 for four, 10.00 for five

The Santa wild stands in for everything except the two scatters and sits alongside the moose at the top of the table. Unusually, it also hoovers up the prize shown on any Money Symbol on screen. That collection is the game’s engine, and it runs through everything else.

Money Symbols display a prize value that the wild can collect whenever one lands. The possible values during the base game and the Wild Feeding Free Games are:

• 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 200x, 500x or 5,000x the base bet

The Collect Feature

During the base game and the Wild Feeding Free Games, Money Symbols can land accompanied by the collecting icon. When they do, any line wins are paid first, and then the Collect Feature triggers and gathers the prizes on show.

It’s a small mechanic with a big footprint: it’s the only way those Money Symbol values ever become cash.

All amounts on screen update in relation to the base bet, so the figures move with your stake rather than sitting still. Two scatters govern the bonus rounds: a red scatter that appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5, and a green scatter that appears only on reels 2, 3 and 4. Three of either triggers its own round.

Wild Feeding Free Games

Three red scatters award 10 free games. A bar across the top of the grid counts the collecting icons that land during the feature, and that bar is the whole game within the game: fill it in stages and the free games escalate hard.

• 3 collected icons – retrigger, 10 more free games, x2 multiplier on collected Money Symbol prizes
• 7 collected icons – second retrigger, 10 more free games, x3 multiplier
• 12 collected icons – third retrigger, 10 more free games, x10 multiplier

Retriggered games are played after the current batch finishes, so the count keeps ticking even while an earlier set of spins runs out. The multiplier applies only to the retriggered games and only to prizes collected from Money Symbols, so line wins in those rounds don’t benefit.

After the third retrigger, the feature can’t be triggered again – three retriggers is the full ladder. In practice the first ten games are played at the base level, the next ten at x2, then ten at x3 and ten at x10. Forty free games in total if you fill the bar completely.

The x10 batch does the heavy lifting on any big Money Symbol that lands alongside the collecting icon.

Bigger Moose Free Games

Three green scatters award a different beast entirely: 10 free games played on a 3×5 main grid with an extra bottom row bolted on. Only Money Symbols and retrigger symbols can appear in that bottom row, and the round is built around it.

Starting from the leftmost Money Symbol, each one on the row is worth more than the one before it. Every moose icon on the main grid collects the symbol displayed on the same reel in the bottom row, and a moose can appear with a x2, x3 or x10 multiplier applied to the prize it collects.

A moose carrying a multiplier can’t appear on the same reel as a retrigger symbol, which forces the two to trade places rather than stack.

When a symbol is collected it disappears, the remaining symbols shift right to left, and new symbols are added to the row on the next spin. The row keeps rolling, so a single spin’s collection reshapes what the next spin can pay.

A cluster of moose icons across several reels can clear most of the row in one go, and each one banks its own reel’s prize on the way through.

Bonus Buy and Double Chance

A Buy In Feature option sits in the left-hand interface, letting you skip the scatter hunt and jump straight into the feature round. It’s a straightforward shortcut for anyone who’d rather not grind the base game waiting for three scatters to line up.

Alongside it is a Double Chance to Win Feature toggle, switched off by default at the 1.50 bet.

It’s a familiar arrangement, and worth a look if the base game’s scatter hunting wears thin.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

This is a slow burn in a Christmas coat. Most of a session is ten quiet paylines and a scatter hunt across the snow, and the reason you’d sit through it is the Bigger Moose round, which rearranges its own grid every single spin and never plays the same way twice.

That round is the game’s strength by a distance: the escalating bottom row means one good spin keeps paying into the next, which is more than the Wild Feeding ladder manages with its flat batches. The weakness is everything before the scatters arrive – the base game pays modestly, so the wait can feel long.

It suits patient players who like a mechanic with moving parts more than they like steady small wins. Anyone after non-stop action from the first spin will find the snow deep here – but for those happy to wait by the cabin lights for the moose to gather, it’s a rewarding fireside kind of game.

Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas FAQs

• How many paylines does Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas have?

  Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas is played on 10 fixed paylines.
• What is the grid size of Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas?

  The base game uses a 5×3 grid. The Bigger Moose Free Games round changes this to a 3×5 main grid with an extra bottom row for Money Symbols and retrigger symbols.
• How do you trigger Wild Feeding Free Games?

  Land three red scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5 during the base game. This awards 10 free games, with retriggers available at 3, 7 and 12 collected icons.
• What is the most a Money Symbol can be worth in Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas?

  During the base game and Wild Feeding Free Games, Money Symbols can display values from 2x up to 5,000x the base bet.
• Can free spins retrigger in Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas?

  Yes. In Wild Feeding Free Games, collecting 3, 7 and then 12 icons retriggers the round three times, adding 10 free games each time with x2, x3 and x10 multipliers on collected Money Symbol prizes. After the third retrigger, no further retriggers are possible.
• What does the wild do in Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas?

  As well as completing line wins in place of other symbols, the Santa wild gathers the prize shown on any Money Symbol on screen. It doesn’t substitute for the two scatters.
• Can you buy the bonus on Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas?

  Yes, a Buy In Feature option lets you skip straight to the feature round from the game’s interface.
• Who makes Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas?

  Wild Moose Bonanza Xmas is made by Skywind.