Golden Wolf Mega Reel Slot by Genii

Three different scatters do three different things here, which is the first thing to wrap your head around. Free Spins scatters land only on reels 1, 3 and 5 (positional, not anywhere), and three of them award a fixed 8 spins. Feature scatters trigger the Hold-and-Respin round and land anywhere. Extra Spins scatters extend whichever bonus you're already in. Three triggers, three behaviours, no overlap.

The Free Spins round is where the franchise hook shows up. Reels 2, 3 and 4 fuse into a single block, and after every spin the centre symbol on reel 3 expands into a 3x3 MEGA tile covering all three middle reels. So every free spin guarantees a synced three-reel match through the heart of the grid - any payline cutting through that block hits the same symbol three columns wide. There's no Free Spins retrigger, but Extra Spins scatters on reels 1 or 5 add three spins each time they land. Hit two of them, that's six more spins on top of the eight.

The Hold-and-Respin round runs on different rules. Three or more Feature symbols anywhere starts you with three respins, and only Feature symbols matter from that point - everything else is dead air. Each new Feature lands sticky, the counter resets to three, and Extra Spins symbols bump the counter further. When the spins finally run out, every held Feature reveals a cash prize or one of the three jackpot tiers on the cabinet header: MINI at $250, MAJOR at $1,000, MEGA at $5,000 (at base bet, scaling with stake). No MINOR tier here, which trims the structure compared to other games in the line.

Visually it's a moonlit wilderness piece. The reels sit inside a heavy wooden surround with a pine-cone-textured interior, and the background behind the cabinet shows a burnt-orange sunset over snowy mountains with pine forest crowding the edges. Premium symbols are a golden-crowned wolf as the Wild plus brown grizzly, moose and bison for the mid-pays. Royals A/K/Q/J get coloured-letter treatment with little gold crowns sitting on top - more effort than most games bother with for the low pays. Cap is a flat 1,000x stake, capped by the paytable rather than any volatile multiplier stack, so the ceiling is what it is.

Part of Genii's Mega Reel line alongside Mega Cats, Eagle Eye and Mega Deep, all of which share the centre-reel expansion mechanic but reskin everything else.