Heroic Spins: expanding Wilds and wheel-led free spins
Heroic Spins puts two layers of multiplication into one fantasy slot: expanding Wilds boost individual paylines, then a wheel multiplier boosts each free spin's total win.
Pragmatic Play's 5-reel, 3-row game with 20 paylines is a good fit if you enjoy following how a bonus win builds, with a dragon, princess and monsters around the reels.
Pragmatic Play released Heroic Spins on 23 May 2024. The feature begins with three or more Scatters. A wheel chooses the spin count and a round multiplier before the free spins start. Wild multipliers become larger during that round, so the line calculation and the wheel calculation both matter. Its 10,000x total-bet win cap is a ceiling, not a typical result.
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A winning line starts on the left
A normal symbol win needs matching symbols on consecutive reels, beginning on reel 1 and following an active payline. Three, four or five matches pay the corresponding amount. The matching symbols can sit in different rows as long as they follow that line's path. A pair on reels 4 and 5 does not become a line win by itself.
Each result uses the line bet, which is one twentieth of the total bet across 20 lines. A paytable value of 100 therefore means 100 times the line bet. At a hypothetical total bet of 1 currency unit, the line bet is 0.05 units and an unmultiplied five-Princess line pays 5 units. Reading the same value as 100 times the total bet would overstate it twentyfold.
Only the highest qualifying combination pays on each line. Separate winning lines add together. An expanded Wild reel can consequently help several lines on the same spin, but its multiplier belongs to each winning combination that actually passes through it.
All ordinary symbol payouts
The three columns show line-bet multipliers for three, four and five matching symbols. Wild substitution and its multipliers are calculated after the qualifying combination is identified.
Princess
- 3 matches
- 30x
- 4 matches
- 50x
- 5 matches
- 100x
Red dragon
- 3 matches
- 20x
- 4 matches
- 40x
- 5 matches
- 50x
Treasure chest
- 3 matches
- 15x
- 4 matches
- 25x
- 5 matches
- 40x
One-eyed monster
- 3 matches
- 10x
- 4 matches
- 20x
- 5 matches
- 30x
Owl
- 3 matches
- 10x
- 4 matches
- 15x
- 5 matches
- 20x
Red shield-shaped suit
- 3 matches
- 10x
- 4 matches
- 15x
- 5 matches
- 20x
Blue spade
- 3 matches
- 8x
- 4 matches
- 12x
- 5 matches
- 15x
Purple heart
- 3 matches
- 8x
- 4 matches
- 12x
- 5 matches
- 15x
Green club
- 3 matches
- 5x
- 4 matches
- 10x
- 5 matches
- 12x
Green diamond
- 3 matches
- 5x
- 4 matches
- 8x
- 5 matches
- 10x
The princess has the largest ordinary five-symbol payout. The lower symbols still take part in the Wild calculation; a high reel multiplier does not require a princess line. The green club and green diamond share a three-symbol value, but separate at four and five symbols.
The paths of the 20 lines
Read each path from reel 1 to reel 5. Top, middle and bottom refer to the three visible rows. These are fixed paths, so count a match along the selected line rather than adding matching symbols anywhere on the grid.
- Line 1
- Middle, middle, middle, middle, middle
- Line 2
- Top, top, top, top, top
- Line 3
- Bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom
- Line 4
- Top, middle, bottom, middle, top
- Line 5
- Bottom, middle, top, middle, bottom
- Line 6
- Top, top, middle, top, top
- Line 7
- Bottom, bottom, middle, top, top
- Line 8
- Middle, bottom, bottom, bottom, middle
- Line 9
- Middle, top, top, top, middle
- Line 10
- Middle, top, middle, top, middle
- Line 11
- Middle, bottom, middle, bottom, middle
- Line 12
- Top, middle, top, middle, top
- Line 13
- Bottom, middle, bottom, middle, bottom
- Line 14
- Middle, top, middle, bottom, middle
- Line 15
- Middle, bottom, middle, top, middle
- Line 16
- Top, bottom, top, bottom, top
- Line 17
- Bottom, top, bottom, top, bottom
- Line 18
- Top, middle, middle, middle, top
- Line 19
- Bottom, middle, middle, middle, bottom
- Line 20
- Top, bottom, bottom, bottom, top
Line 7 rises from two bottom positions to the middle and then two top positions. That particular path is easy to miss if you assume every line is symmetrical.
Count Wilds before the reel expands
The ram-headed Wild appears on reels 2, 3 and 4. It substitutes for ordinary symbols and cannot replace a Scatter. When one or more Wilds land on a reel, they expand vertically to cover its three positions.
The count that sets the multiplier is the number of Wilds on that reel before expansion. A reel filled by one expanding Wild does not count as three landed Wilds. In the base game, one landed Wild produces ordinary substitution; two give that expanded reel a 2x multiplier and three give it 3x.
- 1 landed Wild
- Base: 1x
Free spins: 2x
- 2 landed Wilds
- Base: 2x
Free spins: 4x
- 3 landed Wilds
- Base: 3x
Free spins: 6x
When a winning combination crosses more than one multiplied Wild reel, multiply their values together. A 2x reel and a 3x reel give that combination 6x. Use only the Wild multipliers participating in that combination; a multiplied reel elsewhere on the screen cannot boost a line that ends before it.
A base-game calculation
Hypothetical example: the total bet is 1 currency unit, a five-symbol Princess combination crosses a 2x Wild reel and a 3x Wild reel, and its paytable value is 100 times the line bet.
Line bet: 1 / 20 = 0.05 units.
Unmultiplied line win: 100 x 0.05 = 5 units.
Participating Wild multiplier: 2 x 3 = 6.
That line pays: 5 x 6 = 30 currency units.
Other winning lines would be calculated separately and added. This is arithmetic for an imagined combination, not a recorded spin or a forecast of how often the reels will produce it.
The wheel sets the free-spins round
The prince Scatter can land on all five reels. Three or more trigger the free-spins round without needing to follow one payline. Before the round, the wheel selects a combination of free spins and a multiplier. The multiplier applies to the total win of each free spin throughout that round.
The possible spin counts are 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 50. The possible multiplier values are 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 10x, 20x, 50x and 100x. Those lists describe the available outcomes; they do not make every spin-count and multiplier pairing equally likely.
Free spins use special reels and the larger Wild values in the comparison above: 2x for one Wild, 4x for two and 6x for three on the same reel before expansion. The whole reel still expands vertically. The wheel multiplier is a separate calculation applied after the paylines have been worked out and added. Free-spin winnings are awarded at the end of the round, and its win history covers the complete cycle.
Two multiplier layers, in the right order
Hypothetical example: keep a total bet of 1 currency unit. A five-Princess line crosses a 4x Wild reel and a 6x Wild reel during free spins. Assume the wheel selected 10x and that this is the only winning line on that free spin.
The line bet is 0.05 units, so its ordinary value is 100 x 0.05 = 5 units. The Wild reels multiply it by 4 x 6 = 24, producing 120 units before the wheel. With no other winning lines to add, the wheel then multiplies 120 by 10, producing 1,200 units for that free spin.
The sequence is paytable value, participating Wild multipliers, total of winning lines, then the wheel multiplier. The imagined spin has one winning line and stays below the 10,000x cap.
If another line won, you would include that line's own Wild-adjusted value in the spin total before applying the wheel multiplier. You do not multiply the number of spins by the wheel multiplier to decide how many spins are awarded.
What the 100x buy and 10,000x cap mean
The Bonus Buy option costs 100 times the current total bet and starts a free-spins round from the base game. Its triggering spin can land three, four or five Scatters. The wheel then supplies the feature's spin count and multiplier. The purchase buys access to that round, without promising a particular wheel outcome or a positive return.
At a hypothetical total bet of 1 currency unit, one buy costs 100 units. A total bet of 2 units makes the price 200 units. Compare the displayed purchase price with the total bet; confusing it with the much smaller line bet changes the cost completely. This describes the game's buy option wherever that option is offered, rather than promising it on every casino version.
The maximum total win is 10,000 times the total bet, covering the base game and free spins. Once the round reaches the cap, it ends immediately, pays up to that limit and forfeits the remaining free spins and special-feature opportunities. A large wheel multiplier does not lift the cap.
At a 1-unit total bet, the cap is 10,000 units. It is a maximum permitted payout, not the expected value of the 100-unit purchase. The bonus can finish far below that amount.
RTP and stakes belong to a configuration
Pragmatic Play lists 96% RTP for Heroic Spins. The Romanian game configuration distinguishes 96.00% for normal play and 96.07% for Bonus Buy, with total bets from RON 0.20 to RON 400. Keep those RON limits attached to that configuration; they are not EUR, PLN or USD stake limits.
RTP describes a theoretical return across very large amounts of play. It does not give the chance of winning a particular spin, receiving 50 free spins or hitting the maximum. A 96% setting cannot predict what happens to your next bet. The 96.07% buy figure describes that purchase mode's long-run calculation, not a promise to receive 96.07 units from an individual 100-unit buy.
Heroic Spins carries a high-volatility label, shown with five lightning bolts in the game rules. Expect the value of individual outcomes to vary substantially; that label does not supply a numerical hit rate or a probability for the best wheel combination. The extra multiplication is easy to calculate once the symbols land, while the result of the next spin remains uncertain.
For the version you open, the game information panel is the place to read its RTP and currency-specific bet range before choosing a stake. Keep the basic bet, line bet, buy price and current account currency separate. In the Romanian version, the Credit and Bet fields switch the displayed values between cash and coins. The paytable still uses line-bet multipliers.
Use the game RTP settings guide to find the percentage shown in the version you have opened.
Try the demo, then compare the casino account
The provider's Heroic Spins demo entry lets you examine the game separately from a real-money casino account. Start by identifying the total bet, open the information panel, then follow a line that crosses an expanded Wild reel. The useful detail to watch is the count before expansion and where the wheel multiplier is applied during free spins. A demo balance or win is not a cashout balance.
For the casino account itself, compare the game catalogue, bonus choices and payout conditions in the Vavada casino review. That review is a next step for choosing an account; it does not establish Heroic Spins availability or a particular configuration there. Casino bonuses also have their own eligibility and wagering rules, which are separate from this game's in-game free spins.
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If multiplying Wild reels is the part you enjoy, Heroic Spins gives you a clear line calculation followed by a separate round multiplier. Cleocatra uses a different approach with additive sticky Wilds, so carry neither its addition rule nor its sticky behaviour into this game. Choose Heroic Spins for the expanding reels and wheel-led bonus, and read the version's displayed buy price before purchasing the round.
Compare the Cleocatra Wild rules with Heroic Spins before switching between the two games.
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Questions and answers
How do the Wild and wheel multipliers combine in Heroic Spins free spins?
Wild reels use 2x, 4x or 6x for one, two or three landed Wilds, counted before expansion. Multiply the participating Wild-reel values for each winning line, add the line wins, then apply the wheel multiplier to that free spin's total. The wheel does not multiply the number of awarded spins.
What does the 100x Bonus Buy purchase in Heroic Spins?
Where offered, it costs 100 times the current total bet and starts a free-spins round; the wheel sets its spin count and multiplier. The purchase guarantees neither a particular wheel result nor a positive return. The 10,000x total-bet cap covers the base game and free spins, ending the round when reached.
Are normal play and Bonus Buy assigned the same RTP in Heroic Spins?
Pragmatic Play lists 96% for Heroic Spins. The Romanian configuration specifies 96.00% for normal play and 96.07% for Bonus Buy. Those are theoretical long-run returns; the buy percentage does not promise 96.07 units back from an individual 100-unit purchase.
