Wild Wild Pearls – Overview
Pragmatic Play has already released a couple of slot games with the “Wild Wild” in the title. Wild Wild Riches back in 2020 and Wild Wild Bananas in 2023. And now it’s time for Wild Wild Pearls. Which does add an extra reel and even multipliers.
As the name might suggest, the theme features an underwater scene with pearls, octopuses and fish. Reels set deep under water.
The game uses 6 reels that are each 3, 3, 4, 4, 4 and 4 symbols high and comes with 2304 ways.
Besides low paying suits symbols you will also find medium and high paying underwater creatures. Then on reels 1 and 2, wild symbols can appear, which seem to be a Poseidon type person. Pearls, which are money symbols, can appear on reels 3, 4, 5 and 6. And lastly we have Bonus symbols, that only appear on reel 3 and which can be a normal bonus symbol or a super bonus symbol.
Wild Wild Bananas comes with a very nice maximum payout of 12.000 times bet.
Features
Money Collect Feature
Money symbols, which are the pearls, can land on reels 3, 4, 5 and 6 and come with a cash value of between 0,5 and 10 times bet. But there are also golden pearls, which only appear on reel 6 and can have one of the 4 jackpots on them.
When both wild symbols land on reels 1 and 2, all money symbols on adjacent reels will be collected. So the symbols must start on reel 3 and appear on reel 4, 5 and/or 6 also, to be collected, just like normal paying symbols to count.
Multipliers
On top of reels 3, 4, 5 and 6 you will find multipliers of x2 and x4.
These multipliers only apply to Money Collect wins and only if a full stack of Money Collect symbols on a reel are also collected.
Free Spins Feature
Get both wild symbols on reels 1 and 2 and a bonus symbol on reel 3 to trigger 10 free spins.
During free spins more Money Symbols appear.
If you trigger Super Free spins, with the golden bonus symbol, the multipliers above the reels become x3 and x5.
When the feature re-triggers, you will either get 5 more extra free spins, or the multipliers on top of the reels are doubled. You can only get 2 re-triggers.
Bonus Buy
You are able to buy Free Spins for 75 times bet and Super Free Spins for 150 times bet.
Verdict
Not a lot of the base mechanisms have changed. You need 2 wilds on reels 1 and 2, to collect money symbols on the other reels, as long as they are on consecutive reels.
What has changed is the fact that this game comes with an added reel, so not the 576 ways the other games had, but now 2304 ways. And those multipliers on top of the reels. I do however think that’s a bit of a gimmick, because you do need full stacks to even activate those multipliers.
Jackpot amounts on this game are a lot lower, but seem to be collected a lot more often. So it’s more what you prefer, more low amounts, more often, or a small chance on a big rewards.
Overall it’s a fine game. It’s nothing really new, nothing really special. But I enjoyed the game nonetheless.
Play Wild Wild Pearls at any trusted Pragmatic Play casino and let me know what you think in the comments below.