Wheels of Flame Slot by Playtech

Wheels of Flame sets its 5x4, 30-line reels in a fiery phoenix realm, three ornate golden wheels arcing across the top above a carved-blue board. The symbols are a blue wild shield, a flaming phoenix, a golden goddess, jewelled crowns and gem rings over Egyptian-styled royals. It's a Playtech game from the ASH studio, and the whole thing is built around one clever trigger.

Any symbol on the reels can turn up as a Flame symbol, and what matters is how many land next to each other on a row. Three adjacent flames spin the green wheel, four the blue, and five the red, and the bigger the wheel the bigger the rewards on it. Spinning a wheel is what opens the feature, so you're always hoping a row lights up.

Each wheel is loaded with three kinds of prize: free games, from a handful up to a full 50; extra wilds, anywhere from 4 to 12, added into those free games; and a win multiplier that climbs from x15 all the way to x500 on the red wheel. So the wheel doesn't just start the free games, it stocks them, more wilds and a bigger multiplier feeding into every spin of the round. Land the red wheel with a high multiplier and that's the game at its best.

There's also a Double Chance Feature Bet, which doubles your stake to improve the odds of the flames appearing, handy if you don't want to wait but pricier per spin. This base version has no jackpot, and the max win is a moderate 1,541x your stake, with one source quoting a lower 500x. The default RTP is a fair 95.56%, though operators can run it as low as 87.97%, which would be poor, so always check the paytable. As a fire-themed demo from Playtech, the flame-and-wheel mechanic makes it a lively one.