Wild Wheel

Push Gaming’s Wild Wheel slot has the feel of a game show: players can spin the wheel for the chance to win large prizes. With nudging wilds, locked reels during free spins, and a massive Wild Wheel bonus feature, there’s a great deal for players to look forward to.

Theme

With its bank vault-like, diamond-encrusted background, this game’s world is filled with signs of wealth. Gaming symbols include a golden safe, piggy banks, briefcases filled with cash, gold bars, stacks of bills, coins, and the playing card symbols ace through jack. The wild wheel symbol acts as wild, always appearing in stacks of three. As is usually the case with Push Gaming’s titles, game controls are somewhat clunky in their layout, albeit easy to understand.

Betting Options and Functions

Any good game show has rules that are well-constructed and easy to understand, and that is the case with this slot as well. There are 20 fixed paylines, each paying from left to right, with total per-spin bet set simply from 0.20–100.00 times the betting currency. Autospins are available for up to 100 spins at a time, with optional stops built in for adjustable total loss or single win limits. Payable information, sound options, and detailed game rules are available on separate screens, and turbo spins are available for those who prefer a quick game pace. The overall theoretical return to player ratio is outstanding at 96.98%.

Features

The Push Gaming design team offers two bonus features here, both of which are potentially lucrative. The nudging wilds feature takes place when one or two wild symbols appear on a reel. After the reels have stopped spinning and payouts are awarded, wild reel “nudges” so that the full three-reel stack appears on the screen. An automatic re-spin follows.

When the three-reel wild symbol appears on all three middle reels, the Wild Wheel feature is triggered. The three symbols lock into place together to form a massive wheel, which then spins and lands on one of three types of award: free spins, instant wins, and wheel upgrades. Free spins award a number of freebies equal to the number shown on the wheel; instant wins award an instant cash prize; and the wheel upgrade, which takes players to the next level of wheel (there are three total levels), which offers larger potential payouts. It’s during this feature that the rarest of commodities in online slots is available: choice. When a prize is awarded, players have the option either to accept it, or to spin again to try for a better outcome.

If free spins are awarded during the Wild Wheel Feature, the three middle reels will all spin together throughout the set of freebies. This increases the chances of very large payouts, though it slightly diminishes the odds for smaller ones.

Our Take

Wild Wheel won’t win any points for visual beauty, but its abundant bonuses and extraordinarily friendly RTP make it a slot worthy of attention. Push Gaming has done fine work here, and the element of player choice thrown into the Wild Wheel bonus feature is especially impressive.