Goldilocks and the Wild Bears

Developed by Quickspin back in 2012, and available in Microgaming casinos from January 2015, Goldilocks and the Wild Bears is a five reel, twenty-five slot game based on a classic folk tale, which comes with a familiar storyline, but also houses some innovative features. The game supports a wide array of coin values and houses a very good Free Spins round that sees three bear symbols turn Wild and award extra free games.

Goldilocks video slot is played at conventional paylines rather than featuring a 243 way wins scheme like the latest Microgaming titles, meaning that three or more identical icons need to appear on an active line starting from the left before a payout is awarded. Scatter is the only symbol that pays regardless of its position.

Bear Cottage acts as Regular Wild, replacing all other game symbols with the exception of Free Spin Scatter and Free Spin Progress Scatter to complete wins where possible. Meanwhile, Bowl of Porridge is Multiplier Wild, with this particular symbol adding multipliers of x2, x3 or x4 to each win.

When it comes to bet selection process, players need to choose the preferred number of paylines before selecting the size of their total wager, which can be anywhere from $0.01 to $125. Press Spin to start the game or select between 10 and 25 spins using the Autoplay option. Fast Play feature can also be activated.

Judging by the base line payouts, we can safely say this is a low variance slot, which is not such a bad thing seeing as players will be in a position to land decent prizes even for three or four matching icons. Maximum coin jackpot stands at 1,000 and it is awarded when five Regular Wild symbols are found on any active payline.

While the Goldilocks is the face of both Scatter icons, papa bear, mama bear and baby bear act as medium win symbols, together with teddy bear. Playing cards Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten are the low win icons, whilst Bowl of Porridge and Bear Cottage serve as Regular Wild and Multiplier Wild respectively.

Three Free Spin Scatters appearing in any position award entry into the Free Spins round. A total of 10 free games are played by default, but additional free spins can be won subsequently. Collect the Goldilocks Progress Scatter icons to win extra free games and make the three bear symbols transform into Wilds. A x2, x3 and x4 multiplier will be applied to all wins when one, two or three Multiplier Wilds occur on the game screen during base play or Free Spins.