Fortunes of the Fox Slot by Playtech

The fox is the hero of the story and the one symbol on the board that pays you nothing. Penned in a rustic wooden border, it works as a pure wild, standing in for every paying symbol except the grapes scatter, yet its own five-across never returns a line prize. The grumpy, cigar-chewing hunter in the wide white hat gets that honour instead, sitting at the top of the paytable while the clever fox he's chasing does all the substituting. It's a fitting joke for a cartoon countryside fox-hunt where the fox always comes out ahead.

The basket of purple grapes pulls double duty. It pays scattered from anywhere on the grid, and three or more of them open the Lucky Grapes free spins. During that round every win is tripled, a flat x3 that holds the whole way through rather than climbing, and the grapes keep landing while you spin, so a fresh cluster retriggers the round with no cap on how many times it can chain. That tripling carries the game, because the base reels pay honestly but modestly.

A separate Lucky Grapes bonus sits alongside it, though there's no buy button, no ante and no jackpot, which fits an older in-house Playtech build. The art is pure storybook: five tall glass panels standing over rolling green hills, a lone tree and scattered wildflowers under a bright blue sky dabbed with cloud. The premiums all lean into the gag, the hunter, his droopy-eyed brown-and-white hound dog, a sooty black cauldron steaming over embers and a canvas ridge tent, above big soft card royals in pink, purple, green and yellow. Winning lines trace out in bright green across the meadow.