Playing Wild Yield is an interesting experience. The game ticks over at a nice pace throughout the base game and bonus rounds. All of the time whilst you are playing you will be looking for wilds and weather symbols to land because these CAN boost your chance of landing significant wins.
But before we get to that, central to the gameplay is the Win Cascades feature.
These occur after EVERY winning spin. Normally, just winning symbols are removed from a grid in a win cascade. However, in Wild Yield, weather symbols AND bonus symbols are ALL removed from the reels as well. BUT … WILDS remain in place, and if they have a multiplier attached then it decreases by 1x. After these symbols are removed, new ones are dropped onto the reels to fill the gaps left behind. If more wins are created, then the process repeats … and so on until no more wins occur.
That’s all fine but the really ingenious part of Wild Yield is the way Weather Symbols impact the reels. They perform a unique function for a slot game in adding wilds and multipliers to existing wilds in specific patterns.
There are FIVE types – Tornado, Rain, Frost, Earthquake and Fire. Of these, the Fire symbols only appears in the bonus round. Each weather symbol has its own pattern that can be overlaid on the grid. When the weather symbol hits, ALL symbols within the pattern are transformed into Wilds AND any wild already within the pattern area is given a 1x multiplier booster. Tornado, Rain and Lightning add 3 Wilds each to the reels, whilst Earthquake and Frost and four, and Fire up to 10 Wilds!
On the other hand, wild multipliers are also depleted by 1x every time they form part of a win.
Earthquakes and Lightening Weather Symbols in Wild Yield SlotWith 259 paylines to score wins on, we found in testing that every time a weather pattern landed we always scored a win of some kind. There are no guarantees of course, but the chances are high. The caveat is that weather symbols were relatively rare. They come maybe once in 20 spins at most.
Of course, there is also a free spins round. Now, being a high variance slot, Relax Gaming have weighted things so that the chances of hitting big wins are greater at this point thanks to a unique Wild Board feature.
The first free spins round is triggered by landing 3 scatters. That gets you SIX free spins, and one additional free spin for every extra scatter more than the three.
Now, the Wild Board to the left of the reels comes into play. Each time a position on the grid turns wild, the corresponding position is marked on the board. Then, if a Weather Symbol lands ANYWHERE on the grid, those positions shown in the grid all take an extra Wild (with multiplier) in their corresponding positions on the reels.
But that’s not all. In an effort to keep things fair, if you fail to hit 10 Weather Symbols in your free spins round, Relax Gaming give you the chance to BUY one more spin to get more. If you do so, then the status of wilds on the grid and positions on the board are carried over and you can keep buying spins until 10 Weather Symbols have landed.