Wild Bazaar Slot Machine
Welcome to the Wild Bazaar, a vibrant place filled with the scent of spices, colorful fabrics, bric-a-brac, as well as traders and buyers haggling for the best price. Score treasure chests on the reels to activate four different wild reel modifiers, and take home huge wins well in excess of 1,000x bet in a Wild Spins bonus feature. Scoring a win with any of the chest symbols will trigger one of four bonus features, each with its own reel modifier or a win multiplier.
The Bazaar Reels
The game window resembles one of the countless mobile merchant booths attached as a sidecar to a motorcycle, typically found at an oriental market. Carpets and pillows invite visitors to sit down for a good bargain, while oriental music plays from the radio. A fan blows a much-needed fresh breeze on a hot market day. A canopy awning, providing shade and protection from the sun, holds up the counters for the four reel modifiers.
Wild Bazaar has eight pay symbols and one wild symbol, all of which can appear stacked. At the low end, they are four price-tagged pieces of jewelry in blue, purple, green and red. The four premium symbols are four treasure chests mirroring the colors of the jewelry. The wild symbol is a “W” on a flying carpet, substituting for all symbols and appearing only during the bonus feature. There are no scatters or bonus symbols on this slot, as the wild modifier features are triggered by hitting a minimum of three matching chests on a payline.
The Wild Stats and Numbers
Wild Bazaar is a video slot with five reels, four rows and 26 fixed paylines. It features wild substitutions and four wild reel modifiers, each hidden in a colored treasure chest. The RTP of this low-to-medium-variance game is set at 96.15%. The slot is naturally designed in the latest HTML5 standard, making it available for play on tablet, mobile and desktop across all OS platforms. AutoPlay allows players to choose from 10 to 1,000 consecutive spins, with a range of options as to when the run should stop.
The bargaining at the bazaar starts at 0.20 coins and can go as high as 400 coins. A five-of-a-kind of the low-value symbols pays 2x your bet, while the premium and wild symbols pay 7.5x the bet. The maximum win in a single spin peaks at 390x the stake for a full screen of wild symbols. However, that can grow well past 1,000x bet in a free spins round when multiple reel modifiers are active simultaneously.
The Wild Spins Bonus Feature
Hitting a winning combination with matching chests during a spin will activate the Wild Spins bonus feature on Wild Bazaar. Each colored chest will trigger a specific reel modifier for the duration of the free spins. The amount of triggering chests in the winning combination will determine the number of free spins awarded for the round.
The Red Chests will activate stacked wilds that are added four symbols high to the reels throughout the free spins. The Blue Chests will add 2×2 colossal wilds to the reels on every free spin. The Purple Chests will trigger linked wilds, where the leftmost and rightmost wilds appearing on the same horizontal row transform all symbols between them into wilds. The Green Chests can be triggered only once in the bonus feature, and it will award a 2x multiplier for the remainder of the free spins.
While the Wild Spins are in progress, the activated feature can be retriggered and additional modifiers are activated. Each retrigger adds a number of Wild Spins equal to the number of chests that land on a payline. Any winning combo of different colored chests or in combination with wild symbols will trigger an additional modifier.
The number of spins is again determined by how many of the matching chests were part of the winning combination. For example, if only one chest appears in combination with two wilds, then only one spin with the respective feature will be awarded. It is possible to have all four modifiers active at the same time.
Other Wild Modifier Reels
Time and again, reel modifiers provide suspenseful moments on any slot since they can lead to super mega wins. If you’re after the same level of adrenaline of Wild Bazaar, you could give Jungle Books from Yggdrasil Gaming, or even Dragon’s Fire from Red Tiger Gaming, a few spins.
The Bargaining Verdict
Do you visit the Wild Bazaar for the bargain of a lifetime, or does it normally turn out to be just cheap bric-a-brac? We’re not really sure where to put this game, to be honest. The slot certainly gives you some good vibes once you load it – after all, we do like a bit of bargaining at the market. But will it be desirable enough when the maximum win peaks at less than 400x the bet? Sure, you can activate multiple modifiers in one spin to see that go past the 1,000x your bet, but that seems like an awfully hard thing to achieve.
We would have wished for a little more action on the reels – perhaps the chance to bargain for additional modifiers by risking the activated ones, or a free spins round with multiple modifiers which remain active throughout the feature. Overall, though, it is a well-designed game which is fun to play. Ready for your bargaining tour? Then make sure to spin the reels of Wild Bazaar during your next slot-playing session.
