For most of my Hawaiian Tiki session the demo balance drifted down a few coins at a time. Then three volcano scatters landed near the end, and the free spins that followed filled the two middle reels with wilds again and again: 2,530.80 at 12.00 a spin, more than 200 stakes. PG Soft released it in February 2023. Apart from the volcano scatter, its one feature is a wild that grows a cell at a time, and in the bonus that growth carries over between spins.
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Same game, real money
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A diamond-shaped board
The six reels are three, four, five, five, four and three symbols tall, which gives a fixed 3,600 ways. Wins pay from the left and cascade. The wild, a golden tiki tile, appears on the two middle reels only.
| Symbol | 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 per way |
|---|---|
| Red tiki mask | 10 / 50 / 60 / 80 |
| Totem, blue shield mask | 5 / 30 / 40 / 50 |
| Coconut drink, pineapple | 3 / 20 / 30 / 40 |
| Hibiscus, frangipani | 2 / 10 / 20 / 30 |
| Card suits | 1 / 5 / 8 / 20 |
My 12.00 bet made each point worth 0.60. The jump from three to four of a kind is steep: three red masks on a way pay 6.00, four pay 30.00.
Growing wilds
The wild follows three rules:
- After any winning round, every wild on reels three and four stays, and one more wild is added below the lowest, or above the highest if there is no room below.
- When a reel holds five wilds, the next round clears them and no new one is added.
- In the free spins, a reel that ends a spin with one to four wilds keeps them for the next free spin and gains one more.
In the base game a cascade usually stops before the wild gets far, and my two best base spins, 84.00 and 75.00, were short ones.
Volcanoes on the last stretch
A trio of volcano scatters is worth 12 free spins and each extra volcano two more; inside the round, any two volcanoes landing together add four. Mine landed on reels one, four and five.
Early in the round two scatters came down together and the counter jumped by four, and more scatters followed later, so the round ran well past its first twelve.
Because the wilds now carry over, single wilds on the middle reels soon became columns. With 13 spins left, reel four was wild from top to bottom, reel three held four wilds, and the round total passed 800.00.
A few spins later both middle reels were wild from top to bottom at once, and a single cascade paid 360.00. That free spin as a whole was worth 684.00.
| Free spin | Paid |
|---|---|
| Both middle reels wild | 684.00 |
| Next largest | 601.00 |
| Third largest | 459.00 |
| Fourth largest | 258.00 |
| Two late spins | 156.00 and 150.00 |
| All other free spins | 222.80 |
The bonus closed at 2,530.80, 211 stakes.
Sixty-one spins
On this game my recording script often pressed the spin button while a cascade was still counting, and the game ignored those presses. Going by the balance, 61 spins actually ran, and this review covers those: 732.00 staked, 2,833.20 returned, 102,101.20 at the end. Only 21 spins paid. The balance sank as low as 99,541.60, eleven spins before the bonus, and twelve spins in a row paid nothing in the middle of the session. Apart from the bonus, the 84.00 and the 75.00, no win reached 40.00.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | February 2023 |
| Board | 6 reels, 3-4-5-5-4-3 rows, 3,600 ways, cascades |
| Bet | 0.60 to 180.00, base bet 20 |
| Expanding wild | Reels 3 and 4; +1 wild after each winning round, clears at 5 |
| Free spins | 12 for 3 scatters, +2 per extra, +4 for 2 in the round; wilds carried over |
| RTP | 96.76% (PG Soft) |
| Max win | 2,500x the bet |
Hawaiian Tiki FAQ
How does the wild grow in Hawaiian Tiki?
Do wilds stay between free spins?
How many free spins does the bonus give?
What did the bonus pay in the test?
Legendary Monkey King also grows its reels during a spin, but there a staff adds rows, not wilds.
The home page has my other PG Soft demo write-ups.