How To Play Wishwood Mobile Slot
This will no doubt be an unpopular opinion, but here it is: this Wishwood mobile slot didn’t grant any of our wishes, so we’re sulking.
Wishwood is a strange IGT slot game. For one, it’s prettier and lovelier to look at than many other IGT mobile games, namely because it’s from a newer generation of games.
For two, it’s got lots of bonus features; sticky wins, multipliers, extra wilds, 3 free bonus games… my god, what action! Right?
Wrong. The Wishwood slot is slow paced, slow to pay out, and slow to heat up. It probably shares, in DNA, more in common with the likes of the ol’ Pixies of the Forest slot or even Kitty Glitter, than it does with more modern fares.
And that, in short, is kind of our problem.
A very high variance 20 payline slot machine
Look, we are the first to fall in love with big numbers; how Gem Rocks by Yggdrasil has a top win of 9,000 times your bet, for example.
But big wins aren’t always enough, and maybe it’s because we don’t have the patience to play for half an hour and not hit the free spins.
Or worse; trigger the bonus climb feature, where the little pixie on the side of the reels starts climbing the bonus tree… to not get to any of the free spins again, and again, and again.
It’s frustrating, it’s annoying, and all the sticky wins in the base game and the odd multiplier here and there, can’t vent our frustrations.
Win 10,000 times your bet in this Wishwood slot game
That’s pretty huge – it’s the kind of number that will make some gamblers out there ignore our frustrations and start playing on this game immediately.
And good for you; maybe you have that patience. Maybe you are ok playing on an all or nothing slot; with a big emphasis on the nothing most of the time.
We found Wishwood just a little too volatile and too dangerous for our taste; after all whats the point if you don’t feel like you don’t at least have half a chance?
That said, if you ever do manage to climb all the way to the top… well, friend, you’ll be next Fairy King/Queen, that’s for sure.
Wishwood Slot Stats
| Mobile Slot Released | February 2018 |
| Slot Type | Video Slot |
| Software Provider | IGT |
| Slot Reels / Paylines | 3 Reels / 20 Paylines |
| House Edge / RTP | 3.7% / 96.3% |
| Slot Volatility | High |
| Min/Max Bet | 0.20 / 400 |
| Max Win | 200,000 times the line bet |
| Free Spins | 5 to 8 Free Spins / Multiple Bonus Features |
| Bonus Rounds | Sricky Wins, Multipliers, Free Spins, Expanding Symbols, Extra Wilds |
Wishwood Bonus Features
Stacked Wild: The Wishwood slot logo is wild and comes stacked 4 high. It can be used to replace any other symbol on the paylines to create a win, except the bonus symbol.
Mystery Picker: Any base game spin that doesn't produce a win can trigger a mystery choice bonus, where you'll win:
- Wispy Wilds Ffeature: Up to 4 wild symbols can appear on each reel
- Magic Multipliers feature: 3 or 4 multipliers can appear on any symbol on the reel, so if you win using that symbol you'll be rewarded with 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, or 10x the symbol wins.
- The Bonus Climb: you get fast-tracked to climb the tree for a chance at the free spins.
Tangled Symbols Feature: Randomly, any win, the reels may choose to lock into position any winning symbols and give you free re-spins of the reels. These will continue until no more winning symbols can be found.
This sticky win feature was made famous by the likes of Jack Hammer by NetEnt.
Bonus Climb: Trigger this feature via the Mystery picker, or get three bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5.
You will then spin a wheel to see how high Poa (the pixie) climbs up this magical tree.
The higher up the tree you go, the better the rewards, but many times you don't even get to the rewards, so don't get your hopes up.
You keep spinning until the wheel lands on a tick mark or Poa reaches the top of the tree.
- Branch 0-2: 10x your bet
- Level 1: 7 free spins where any wild symbol not part of a win will lock on the reel until they are part of a win.
- Level 2: 5 free spins where you collect wisp symbols on reel 5 and turn up to 3 of the high paying animal symbols into wilds. You get a further 5 free spins for every animal you turn wild.
- Level 3: 8 free spins where you get one symbol that expands vertically to fill the reel and horizontally to fill every reel between expanding symbols.
