Two guardians frame the reels of this January 2021 PG Soft slot, a woman of fire above the board and a woman of ice below it, and the wild shows them together, red and blue halves of one face. The base game is simple: 576 ways and a rule that doubles any win the wild takes part in. The interest sits in the free spins, which split the screen into two sets of reels with multipliers of x5 and x10. A session of 100 spins at 12.00 never got there; the best base-game spin paid 288.00.
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A diamond of 576 ways
Short reels at the edges and tall ones in the middle (two, three, four, four, three and two rows) give a fixed 576 ways, counted from the left. The two-faced guardian wild can appear on any of the four inner reels and stands in for everything but the Free Spins symbol. Whenever it is part of a win, all wins of that spin are doubled.
I played the demo's default bet of 12.00, size 0.30 at level 2 on a base bet of 20, so a paytable point was 0.60.
Three wilds and six horseshoe ways
Spin 24 put a column of three wilds on reel four. The golden horseshoes lined up from the left edge, a pair at the start and a single one on each of the next two reels, and the three wilds gave them three ways through reel four: six ways of four in total.
Four horseshoes pay 40 points per way, 240 points for the six, 144.00. Because the wilds were involved, the game then doubled the spin.
The total came to 288.00, a Mega Win of 24 stakes. Spins 36 and 14 used the same doubling for 96.00 and 76.80; without a wild in the win, the base game paid small amounts.
Chests and card suits
Payouts are per way. Seven of a kind is only possible in the free spins, when a seventh reel is added; the base game stops at six.
| Symbol | 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 | Six on one way vs stake |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure chest | 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 200 | 5x |
| Gold ingots | 30 / 50 / 60 / 90 / 150 | 4.5x |
| Golden horseshoe | 20 / 40 / 50 / 80 / 100 | 4x |
| Four-leaf clover | 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 80 | 2.5x |
| Spade, heart | 6 / 15 / 30 / 40 / 50 | 2x |
| Club, diamond | 5 / 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 | 1.5x |
The values are generous for the lower symbols, so wins are mostly decided by the number of ways and whether the wild joins them.
Two sets of reels in the bonus
Three, four, five or six Free Spins symbols give 10, 15, 20 or 25 free spins. In the feature a seventh reel is added in the middle, raising the ways to 2,304, and the screen splits into a top and a bottom set that spin at the same time. If both sets win on the same free spin, all wins of that spin are multiplied by x5, and a set whose win includes a wild gets x10 instead. Every Free Spins symbol that lands during the round adds one more spin. Spin 67 brought two Free Spins symbols next to each other, one short, so the round is described from the rules.
The same diamond of 576 ways appears in Destiny of Sun & Moon, which pays in both directions instead of adding a second set of reels.
Release and session
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | January 2021 |
| Reels | 6: 2-3-4-4-3-2 rows |
| Ways | 576 fixed; 2,304 in free spins, base bet 20 |
| Wild | Reels 2 to 5; any win with a wild x2 |
| Free spins | 10/15/20/25 for 3/4/5/6 symbols; two reel sets, x5 or x10 |
| RTP | 96.70% |
| Max win | 50,000x |
| My 100 spins at 12.00 | 720.60 back from 1,200.00 |
RTP and maximum win are PG Soft's figures. Other free demos from the studio are listed on the home page.
Fire on top, ice below
In the base game, Guardians of Ice & Fire is a 576-way slot whose results depend on the wild, which both completes ways and doubles the spin. My session lost 479.40 without the feature, and the game's 50,000x cap is clearly built around the free spins, where two sets of reels and multipliers of x5 or x10 can work on the same spin.