Cool Wolf

About Cool Wolf slot machine

We don't think we're on thin ice if we assert that Microgaming's Cool Wolf has drawn some creative juice from the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street. The parallels are obvious—though Cool Wolf is a friendlier and less messy experience than the movie. Anyway, if you want to vibe with a world of dollar-dollar-bills, yuge cars, and femme fatales, this should do the trick.

From a technical perspective, cool Wolf is a fairly standard contemporary video slot, featuring 5 reels and 3 rows. Instead of paylines, we find ways to win here. In other words, you don't have to fret if the symbols are along a certain line. Three identical symbols anywhere on the first three reels will net you a win – it's not any more challenging than that. Because of this, you can win in 243 different ways on each individual spin.

Symbols and functions

Wild A lot of wilds have been put on the reels by Microgaming. More than 40, to be precise. This is similar to the slot game Football Star. Another similarity to Football Star is that wilds are “stacked” on reels 3, 4, and 5. Stacked wilds connect several wilds, resulting in entire reels being covered by wild symbols, which of course boosts your chances of winning considerably.

Another feature is a 'howling Wild' feature in which any of the middle three reels can be covered at random with wild symbols. As if that weren't enough, Howling Wilds guarantees a win.

Scatter Generally speaking, the scatter symbols have the property of being able to bring profit no matter where they are situated on the screen. Very simply put, three or more scatter symbols anywhere on the reels will give you a win. There's no counting, no judging their placement. And what's more, in our case, you can back up that win with 15, 20, or 25 free spins. Among the many ways to win big in this game, these are some of the surest bets.

Summary

Solidly designed and conceived, Cool Wolf is a slot that delivers. It perhaps lacks any one outstanding feature to make it as memorable as some of its sister titles; rather, it almost feels like a stealth hit that should be better known than it is. An integrated bonus round might make it seem a little bit better, but honestly, I'd keep playing it even without one.