Wild Symbols in Video Slots Machines
October 23rd, 2009
Remember when you were growing up and you used to play with a real deck of cards? Oh those were the days! Remember that funny card called “The Joker”? Well very much like with a deck of cards, slot machine games have what they call a “Wild Symbol”. “Wild Symbols” and Joker cards have the same function which is to replace any symbol to make up a winning combination. In the case of slot games, the “Wild Symbol” will replace any other symbol on the reels to create a winning pattern.
When playing free video slots the “Wild Symbol” serves as an element of surprise to the slot machine game adding extra suspense as to what will happen when the next “Wild Symbol” makes an appearance. Often times new graphics and sounds pop up with every new combination of the wild.
“Wild Symbols” also have a feature called “Expanding Wild Symbols”. This means that the “Wild Symbol” will fill an entire reel of the slot and cover the reel as one big single symbol. Also, in many online video slots games, the wild symbol works as a multiplier. This means that if a wild symbol is used to complete a winning combination, the payout for that combination is doubled, tripled, or even quintupled and when this is combined with the Free Spins feature your winnings could skyrocket in no time. For example, in the Rival Powered game “Spy Game” if a player gets an expanding wild during the Free Spins, any win could be multiplied by up to 12 times. Needless to say, multipliers with wild symbol is a feature that is extremely popular with slot machine games.
Next time you’re scouting around for the best new game or simply a new slot experience make sure that the wild symbols are present. With wild symbols you have a guaranteed higher winning chance and you’ll be likely to hit that fun bonus round in no time.
