Wild Cauldron is a Quickspin powered video slot which features 5 reels and 4096 paylines. This is one of those colorful and cheerful themes filled with details. Beautifully designed game that will let you meet the most powerful withy out there, and hang out with the monsters while you learn how to cook the potions in the golden cauldron. Learn how to make some of the most powerful magic concoctions here for fun or at any Quickspin Casino for real.
How to Play Wild Cauldron Slot
Tiptoe into this witch’s lair to see how it all looks like, but not before you set your bets.
- The Total Bet arrows will let you either decrease or increase your bets.
- Autoplay is there to spin the reels for you automatically once you get fed up by spinning the reels yourself.
- Once you choose the bet, you can get the reels to a flying start by hitting the Spin button.
Slot Features
We’ve got used to Quickspin’s entertaining games filled with features, and Wild Cauldron is no different. You will make wins from features such as Tumbling symbols, Expanding Ways, Win Multiplier and the inevitable bonus Free Spins round.
Locking Symbol Tumble
A win line will trigger the feature that will lock any winning combo, tumble them down towards the bottom of the reels and then accumulate them down there. All non-winning symbols will be removed from the reels and swiftly replaced by new symbols that will tumble down onto the reels to fill the empty spaces. Each new win will increase the number of paylines which can reach a maximum of 262144 paylines.
Expanding Ways
Each tumble that creates a win combo will increase the number of lines in the tumble sequence. You will get an additional row of symbols added after each tumble, and it can go up to 8 rows extension. This will naturally increase the grid from 4x6 to up a maximum of 8x6.
After each tumble sequence ends, and there are no more winning combos to form, the reel grid will reset back to its regular size.
Win Multiplier
Landing a Wild symbol on the reels during the tumble sequence will increase the Win Multiplier by x1 which will be applied to the first win combo you land, and reset when the tumble sequence ends with no wins created. Multiplier value can go up to x7 on a single spin.
Free Spins
Landing 4 or more Scatters in one tumble sequence will trigger the Free Spins bonus round, and award some spins for the round. The number of spins will depend on the number of triggering Scatters, but the maximum number of spins awarded can reach 12.
During the round, landing 2 additional Scatters in a spin will award 2 additional spins. The Expanded Ways and Win Multipliers are going to be available throughout the entire feature.
Summary
Wild Cauldron is a beautifully designed game that will leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling with each spin. With the 96.09% RTP and maximum win capped at x21120 it surely adds a dash of magic to all of it. Features seem to be nicely designed and well thought out, which we really liked. We believe that this game is going to appeal to a wide range of players and would urge you to give it a couple of spins and let us know what you think.
A number of recent games use Big Time Gaming’s (BTG) Megaways platform to create their own versions of the same game, but some others try to make their own similar versions, without needing to use that Megaways Trade Mark. For better or for worse, I still do not like any of them, simply because such games tend to use misleading information to attract players to play their games. BTG’s 117649 ways to win is a complete rubbish (not possible to get any win on that many lines), but this Wild Cauldron game by Quickspin has up to 4096 ways to win, which is more sensible and probable, but I still don’t like it.
You may be wondering why? Firstly, the game plays with 6 reels and 4 rows, but can expand up to 8 rows, to provide that 4096 ways to win. Nonetheless, it would still be impossible to get any single win on all 4096 lines, which would require getting all same 48 symbols on the reels. All the symbols in the game are not that highly stacked to provide such a win! Secondly, a look at the win values of all the symbols would show just how incredibly low the wins would be! The top and highest paying symbol (not the Wild symbol, which is non-paying), would only pay a dreadful win of 3.5x the bet amount for any 6 of them, and that is simply at seabed bottom level! The lowest symbol would pay an unbelievable 0.4x, so imagine getting 6 winning symbols and getting paid 40 cents on a $1 bet! That’s how dreadful all the wins can be!
Basically, each win would increase the number of rows by +1, and each win with a Wild symbol during free spins play would increase the multiplier by 1x, up to a maximum of 7x. Not really good and high win multipliers, to be very honest, and they can’t really boost up the wins by much either. Getting 4, 5 or 6 Bonus symbols, which are also non-paying symbols, would award 8, 10 or 12 free spins. Getting 2 Bonus symbols during the free spins play would add +2 more free spins, but it’s best not to expect to get many of the additional free spins either. They simply do not come often!
After a short while of playing this Wild Cauldron game, my eyes began to droop off in boredom! Yes, the game play and the miserable wins simply couldn’t keep my interest and my eyes going, but during the better times in the game, some decent wins of between 100x to 200x can be achieved. My best was a 173x win, but I had already lost interest in the game by then and quit playing the game, and that’s for good, not just for the moment!