Shark Wash

Relax Gaming gives its cascading-reel format an aquatic makeover in Shark Wash, setting a cartoon shark car-wash across a 5-reel, 4-row grid with 1,024 ways to land a win. Card-suit symbols make up the low-paying end of the pay table, while four shark characters carry the top values, with a five-of-a-kind low symbol worth 1.2x the stake and the best shark reaching 15x.

Wins tumble rather than sitting still: matching symbols clear from the grid and new ones drop in to chase further combinations on the same spin. A wild appears throughout this process and substitutes for every symbol except the bonus icon.

The wild carries its own mechanic here. Each one lands sticky with a counter set between 1 and 5, losing a point every time a cascade occurs until it hits zero and is cleared from the reels. That starting counter value then feeds a separate wild meter, and once enough has built up, a win multiplier switches on and applies to every winning cascade for the rest of that spin.

Three or more bonus symbols open the free spins round, with the exact count deciding the total: three awards 7 spins, four awards 10, and five awards 15. Extra bonus symbols landing during the round add another spin each, and the countdown wild's multiplier meter keeps running throughout, so a well-built free spins session can carry a sizeable multiplier into its later spins. A buy option skips straight to a guaranteed free spins round for 80 times the stake, and the RTP shifts from 96.06% on ordinary play to 96.5% when the round is bought this way.

Shark Wash carries the maximum 5-out-of-5 volatility rating, betting from 0.10 to 200 per spin, a 22.69% hit frequency and a ceiling of 5,000x the stake, all pointing toward a game built for long droughts broken by cascades that snowball once the wild meter's multiplier is live. It released in June 2023.