King of Africa Slot by Light & Wonder

Land 2 Bonus scatters anywhere on the reels and the Hot Hot Penny Re-Spin kicks in. Line pays settle first, then every reel carrying a Bonus locks in place (any full-reel Wilds lock too), and the remaining reels spin one more time. The respin doesn't re-evaluate paylines. It exists for one reason only: to see if more Bonus tablets land. Hit a third and the round flips straight into the King of Africa Bonus. That's why the bet line at the bottom reads LINES + per-line + 0.10 FEATURE BET. The mandatory 10 cent slice on every total stake funds this respin chance, and there's no opt-out box anywhere in the menu.

The bonus itself opens with a pick screen before any reels spin. You get 8 base free spins plus extra picks scaled to how you triggered: 3 picks for 3 Bonuses, 4 picks for 4, 5 picks for 5. Each tile reveals additional spins. Then the free spins begin, and at the start of every single one the game chooses one of the 5 reels at random and turns it fully Wild for that spin only. A random middle reel hits the 3,000x line stake LION premium and the math gets ugly fast. The Wild substitutes for everything except Bonus, and 3 more Bonuses during the round retrigger another 8 spins and another pick. The Lion is also unusual on the base game: it pays from just 2 of a kind (15x), which almost no slot bothers doing for its top symbol.

King of Africa belongs to the WMS Hot Hot Penny family from 2008, the same cabinet lineage as Stinkin' Rich Hot Hot Penny and Reel 'em In Hot Hot Penny. The mandatory feature wager and the lock-and-respin trick are the series fingerprint. Light & Wonder (then Scientific Games) brought it to HTML5 in 2018 without messing with the math. Visually it sits in dusk-lit Serengeti country: silhouetted acacia trees, rocky outcrops, painted lion and leopard and zebra portraits sharing reel space with beaded tribal necklaces and a ceremonial mask. The turquoise jade KING OF AFRICA tablet wild reads almost like a museum piece against the copper-orange UI frame, and the respin overlay drops a translucent flame banner over the spinning reels and a teal wash over the locked ones so you always see which reels are still in play.