Polar Paws

Quickspin's Polar Paws reworks the studio's own Goldilocks and the Wild Bears from 2012 into a fresh Christmas-themed shell, keeping the same 5x3 grid and 25 paylines while swapping in a snowy backdrop with a family of polar bears at its centre. Card values from 10 through A fill out the low end of the paytable, and the bear family — a cub, a mother, and a top-paying father figure — carries the higher wins, worth up to 10x the stake for five matching symbols on a line.

Two wild symbols work the reels: a standard wild, and a Multiplier Wild that appears only on the three middle reels, in both the base game and the free spins round. Landing one Multiplier Wild doubles a win, two triples it, and three quadruples it, so the size of the multiplier depends entirely on how many land together on a given spin.

Free spins begin once three elf scatter symbols land across reels two, three, and four at the same time, awarding 10 spins to start. A meter tracks elf scatters collected during the round itself: three more turn the father bear into a wild for the rest of the feature, a further five turn the mother bear wild and add two extra spins, and another five after that turn the cub wild too and add two more spins. Collecting the full set means every high-paying symbol plays as a wild for whatever spins remain.

Betting runs from 0.25 up to 100 per spin. RTP is 97.84%, volatility is rated medium at 3.5 out of 5, and the maximum win is 819x the stake. Between the progressive wild unlocks and the multiplier wild pairing, the free spins round carries almost all of the game's win potential.