Wild features in slots

This type of wild symbol got its name from stacking one symbol on top of another. The appearance of stacks may cover a part or the entire reel. They are easy to notice as they come as bundles of 2 or more icons.

Getting stacked wilds on your screen could result in multiple winning combinations on more than one payline. Stacked wilds could either appear on every or specific reel only.

Wild stacked symbols that appear on specific reels only usually do this during the free spins rounds and often go together with multipliers so as to enlarge your potential winnings.

Shifting wilds are symbols that can remain on your screen for a few rounds once they appear. Besides, they have the ability to move from one side of the reels to another. Following their appearance, each new round will push them to another location of a reel.

After several rounds, shifting wilds will eventually disappear. Apart from automatically occupying positions on certain reels, there are shifting symbols whose position can be determined by players, too.

Since they can appear in various places and remain for multiple rounds, you can expect lots of possible combinations with other symbols. This further means that such combinations can result in winnings.

Expanding wilds slots games are the ones that include similar symbols to standard wilds in the sense that they can replace other symbols that cannot combine with other symbols to make combinations.

Still, there are some symbols in expanding wilds slots games that cannot be replaced. Some of them are bonus and scatter symbols. On the other hand, expanding symbols, as their name implies, can appear as one symbol and later on expand to cover the entire reel.

These wild features can appear on reels during random rounds, as well as during rounds of free spins. Their design is often visually appealing as they follow the theme of a given slot game.

Just like other slot features, sticky wilds slots can fill in the places of different symbols, which can create combinations and winnings. Most of the time, they appear randomly.

The main difference between sticky wilds slots games and other slots with wild symbols is that sticky wilds remain for a certain amount of rounds once they appear. Their name symbolises their nature, which means that sticky wilds don’t change their positions across reels.

The removal of sticky symbols usually depends on the appearance of other important symbols on the screen. In general, it is when a bonus symbol shows up that such a wild feature is removed.

This variant of wild symbols in slots tends to also appear randomly. Yet, once they appear and a combination has been created, this type of symbol moves either one step to the left or right.

Quite often, the appearance of such a symbol on a reel also provides you with a chance to use a free spin. The walking wild feature continues to shift to the left or right until it gets removed from a reel.

In addition, some slots can include walking symbols that can move in both directions. There can also be free spin rounds of different duration depending on the type of slot game you play.

Transferring wilds are all about their specific types of movements across reels. Generally speaking, this type of wild symbol serves the same purpose as other wild features. This is, of course, helping you create a combination with other symbols by appearing in places of other irrelevant symbols.

What makes them different from other symbol variants is how they move across reels. More specifically, this version of symbols appears on slots that feature the first two reels larger than the rest.

When a transferring symbol shows up on one of the first two reels, it gets transferred to the lower reels and creates additional symbols that can be used to create new combinations in the rounds to come.

Yet another type of wild feature in slots pertains to multiplier wilds. These symbols not only take the position of other symbols but can multiply as well. So, the potential winnings can be different depending on whether these symbols appear in one line only or multiple lines.

This type of wild symbol in slots is known for its ability to increase users’ potential winnings by multiplying it many times. These symbols can show up during regular rounds. But they can also appear during bonus rounds. It is up to users to check whether these wild features boost their entire bet or their line only.

Interestingly, some ordinary symbols in a slot game can also become wilds. Mostly, regular icons turn into wilds during bonus rounds of a slot game. The symbols that become wilds are chosen randomly.

Of course, the point of such random wild features in slots is to provide users with a chance to enhance their potential winnings. These wild symbols in slots are also known as duplicating wilds.

Cascading wilds are very interesting symbol variants. This is because they can make users’ gaming experience more interesting with the way they appear and function. In other words, cascading wilds appear randomly as sort of explosions on some reels.

Needless to say, once they appear, they create combinations that can boost your potential winnings. It is also important to note that after these wild symbols disappear, they give you an opportunity to have even more winnings because they can be replaced by additional wild cascading symbols.

This sort of symbol is pretty similar to stacked wilds. This is because they can layer one on top of another. The difference between overlay and stacked wilds is that the former symbols do not have a particular shape.

A good thing about this symbol variant is that it can sometimes spread after stacking. This means that they will create additional combinations that result in your potential winnings.

Contagious wilds have the ability to appear randomly and replace symbols that cannot create combinations, just like any other wild symbols. Furthermore, they got their name from exploding and making other surrounding symbols become wilds, too.