Fire Hot 40

This fruit slot from the Fire Hot family centres on a single idea: the expanding wild. It runs on a classic reel set with a generous block of fixed paylines, and the symbols are the familiar cherries, plums, bells and sevens in a hot-coloured design.

When a wild lands on any reel, it stretches to cover the whole reel, turning every position there into a substitute for that spin. Since the expanded reel crosses nearly every payline, one wild can complete several combinations at once, and more than one expanded reel in the same spin brings far more activity. There is no free-spin round and no scatter bonus, so everything happens in the base game.

It may suit players who like expanding wilds without bonus screens, and who want a little more going on than in the plainest fruit games. Operators sometimes offer different volatility versions, so check the info screen. The published RTP is 96.43%. The free demo uses play credits, and results are random.