The Shockventures amusement park in PG Soft's story has just opened its newest ride, the Wild Coaster, with 360-degree loops and a 90-degree drop. The July 2022 slot named after it puts the ride's carriages on extra reels above and below the board, and each one can carry a stack of three wilds. I played 100 demo spins at 12.00. Only 22 paid, but the free spins that arrived on spin 83 returned 602.40, and the multiplier finished them at x6.
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Six reels show four positions each. Above reels two to five runs one extra horizontal reel, and below them a second one, so those four reels each get two more symbols. Symbols can stand two or three positions tall and count once, which keeps the ways between 4,096 and 20,736 and changes them with every cascade.
Wins pay from reel one rightwards, matching symbols multiply into ways, and winners make room for new ones. The cast is fairground food and rides: a red bumper car, a Ferris wheel, a circus tent, a ticket booth, a hot dog and a soft drink, then A to 10.
Wilds that arrive three at a time
Wilds land only on the two extra reels, and each one shows "3 Wild Coaster": three wilds stacked on top of each other. Every win that uses the stack takes one off the top in the next round, so a single wild can serve three wins before it is gone.
The bigger effect needs two of them. When a wild on the top reel sits in the same column as a wild on the bottom reel, every symbol between them, scatters excepted, becomes a wild, and the column stays wild until one of the two stacks is used up.
A multiplier for every winning round
The round badge at the lower left of the board is the multiplier. A base-game spin starts at x1, and after each winning round it goes up by one, with no fixed top step. My spin 63 is a typical good one: 72.00 in the first round, 48.00 in the second and 14.40 in the third, 134.40 in all, and the badge stood at x4 when it stopped.
Spin 77 also finished at 134.40, three rounds deep, and spin 99 at 79.20. Most of my other wins were a single round of card ranks worth a coin or two. Lucky Piggy counts the same way, +1 per winning round with no ceiling, but in Wild Coaster the free spins keep the count from one spin to the next.
Ten free spins on spin 83
The feature wants four scatters and pays 10 free spins for them, with 2 more per additional scatter. Two rules change for the round: the multiplier is set to x1 only when the feature begins and keeps rising from there, and wilds that have not been used stay on the reels until they take part in a win or the round ends.
The fourth scatter dropped in during a cascade, and the trigger spin itself paid 70.80 before the feature began. The first eight free spins added just 4.80, and the badge reached only x2. With two spins left a wild stack landed at each end of the first column, turned it wild, and the next round paid 124.80 at x3.
The last free spin carried the round. It cascaded at x3 for 64.80, at x4 for 288.00 and at x5 for 120.00, and closed at 472.80 with the badge showing x6.
The ten free spins paid 602.40, 50 stakes, and almost four fifths of it came from that final spin.
Bumper car to the 10
The rides and the circus tent outrank the food stalls, and the card ranks sit at the bottom. Six of a kind on a single way is compared with the 20-point base bet in the last column:
| Symbol | 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 | Six on one way vs stake |
|---|---|---|
| Bumper car | 30 / 40 / 60 / 80 | 4x |
| Ferris wheel | 20 / 25 / 50 / 70 | 3.5x |
| Circus tent | 10 / 25 / 40 / 60 | 3x |
| Ticket booth | 8 / 15 / 20 / 30 | 1.5x |
| Hot dog, soft drink | 6 / 10 / 12 / 15 | 0.75x |
| A, K | 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 | 0.5x |
| Q, J, 10 | 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 | 0.2x |
Figures and session
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | July 2022 |
| Board | 6 x 4 plus extra reels above and below reels 2 to 5, cascades |
| Ways | 4,096 to 20,736, base bet 20 |
| Wild | On the extra reels only, stacked 3 high; top and bottom in one column turn it wild |
| Multiplier | x1, +1 per winning round; kept through free spins |
| Free spins | 10 for 4 scatters, +2 per extra; unused wilds stay |
| RTP | 96.71% |
| Max win | 50,000x |
| My 100 spins at 12.00 | 22 wins, 1,317.00 back from 1,200.00 |
RTP and maximum win are PG Soft's own figures. Every spin cost 12.00, the default made of size 0.30 and level 2, which puts a paytable point at 0.60. Other PG Soft games with free demos are listed on the home page.
Rides that start slowly
Wild Coaster pays rarely in the base game, 22 times in 100 spins, and depends on cascades that keep the badge climbing. The wild stacks help cascades last, especially when two of them meet in one column. In the free spins that climb is kept for the whole round, and my round showed how late it can pay off: eight spins with almost nothing, then two that brought in nearly 600.00.