Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe Slot by Playtech

The barrel Wild is the only thing that changes a spin here. Land one on reel 2, 3 or 4 and it bursts into a column of flame, stretching to cover all three positions on that reel and standing in for every fruit at once. Catch two expanded reels on the same spin and the lines stack up fast, which is the only real route to the roughly 1,385x ceiling. It subs for everything except the bells and never pays on its own.

Those golden bells are the odd part. They're the Scatter, but they don't open free spins or any bonus. They just pay wherever they land, no need to line anything up: three, four or five anywhere on the screen return 5x, 25x or 100x your total bet. That's the full list of special symbols.

Everything else is straight classic fruit machine. Glossy oversized fruit on jet-black reels ringed by a spinning loop of fire, all sitting over a churning lava-red backdrop in hot orange and gold. A green four-leaf clover pays the most, then bananas and purple grapes, red cherries, an orange and a blue gum-drop plum, with sliced watermelon, strawberry and lemon at the bottom. Highest win per line only, left to right.

No free spins, no bonus round, no jackpots, no buy button, no ante bet. Just fruit, fire and a barrel that explodes.