San Quentin xWays showcases some of NLC’s best features, including xWays, expanding reels, splitting cells and free spins with huge multipliers.
Enhancer Cells
The Enhancer Cells are rows of cells that sit above the below the main ones. They aren’t always open, but when they are the position revealed will display any of the premium symbols, or a Wild, a Razor Split, or an xWays.
A Razor Split causes all positions on the reel it sits above or below to split into two. If the Razor Split appears in Enhancer Cells above and below the reel, positions split twice. This give you many more win ways.
All xWays on the reels at the same time reveal the same pay symbol, stacked FOUR high. And, if you see xWays in Enhancer Cells above and below the reel, then the reel turns totally wild.
Enhancer Cells open up on reel 2Two Types of Wilds
Remember the Gold Sheriff Wilds? These come in two types – Regular, and Split.
Regular Wilds just substitute for pay symbols to complete win ways. Split Wilds can land on ANY reel in the main game. They cause all other symbols on their reel to split in two.
Enhancer Cells
The caged Enhancer Cells run along the top and bottom of the reels. When randomly triggered, they can reveal high-paying symbols, Wilds, Razor Split or xWays symbols. The Razor Split splits all the symbols into 2, while landing Razor Split symbols at the top and bottom of the reels will split them twice. The xWays symbol will create Stacked Symbols for more ways to win.
BONUS Symbols
The BONUS symbol is a guard tower with the word BONUS written across it. These can drop onto any reel in the base game, but only onto those with unopened Enhancer Cells during free spins.
During the main game, if you land 1 or 2 BONUS symbols on a reel, then the BONUS will turn wild AND open up the Enhancer cells on its reel.
But if you can land 3 or more BONUS symbols anywhere across the reels then you will trigger the Lockdown Free Spins.
Lockdown Spins With Multipliers and Jumping Wilds
When 3, 4 or 5 BONUS symbols land on one spin during the base game. The reels on which your BONUS symbols land will have open Enhancer Cells for the duration of Lockdown Spins. But before the round starts, a number (1, 2 or 3) will be displayed in the open Enhancer Cells. Add those numbers up and you find out how many spins you get.
Lockdown Free Spins will trigger once in 230 spins on average according to NLC’s own site.
Before your spins start, another spin takes place to reveal Inmate Mystery Symbols or Non-Inmate Mystery Symbols. The first award multipliers to a randomly chosen pay symbol or the Jumping Wilds.
Those Jumping Wilds move between positions on the reels with each Lockdown Spin. Their multiplier will be doubled – up to 512x max – if landing on a reel with a Razor Split enhancer. These wild multipliers are different to standard one though. Instead of being applied to a win, they indicate the number of wilds in the position they sit on. So, a 3x multiplier wild indicates 3 wilds on that position on the reels.
Finally, if you land a BONUS symbol during Lockdown Spins you will get an extra Jumping Wild – up to 3 max – and the number of free spins will increase.
