3 Buzzing Wilds Slot Review

A wild with side effects

The base game pays on 20 lines, left to right, across five reels and four rows. Wilds help build those wins, as in most slots. The difference is that, according to the studio, they can set off game-altering effects. Two are named: a wild can create a wild reel, or it can transform every adjacent symbol into a wild.

Both effects increase the number of wilds on the board in a single spin, which is where the stated aim of greater winning potential comes from. The rules we hold do not say how often these effects occur or how they are chosen, so we cannot go further.

Beehives and the choice of three modes

At least three beehive scatters open the bonus round. Before it begins you pick one of three alternatives. The rules name the first as Sticky Random Wild, but the text that follows is cut off, so we cannot name or describe the other two.

What the studio does say is that during the bonus the wilds transform and continually provide one of the base game mechanics, such as a wild reel. The studio presents the pick as a matter of replayability: the same slot, played in the way you prefer.

Buying the bonus: a mismatch

The official rules include a purchase option: before any base spin the player can buy the free games for 100x the bet and receives three scatters. They also mention a Bonus Boost tied to the activation of the free spins, which gives three, four or five scatters.

Our catalogue, however, does not list a bonus buy for this game. The two sources disagree, so treat the purchase as something that may or may not be offered by the operator you use, and check in the demo.

What the numbers say

There is a single RTP on record: 96.03%, which gives a house edge of 3.97%. That equals about $39.70 lost per $1,000 wagered. For 100 spins, the average cost is $0.79 at a $0.20 bet, $3.97 at $1 and $19.85 at $5, a total of $500 wagered.

Because neither a max win nor a volatility label is published, the house edge is the only measure of cost we can give. It says nothing about how uneven the results from one session to the next will be.

Nearby games

Several Pragmatic Play slots from 2023 land within a hundredth of a point of this one: Cash Chips at 96.03% with a 10,000x cap, African Elephant at 96.04% and Cash Box at 96.02% with 5,000x. Big Bass Halloween lists 96.04% and 2,100x, and 8 Golden Dragon Challenge 96.02% with 8,800x.