Wild Gladiators

Pragmatic Play Online sends Wild Gladiators into a crowded Roman arena, with spectators filling the stands behind a 5-reel, 25-payline grid. The art is plain and a little dated, but it carries the gladiator setting clearly enough. Stakes run from 0.25 to 125 per spin, and the game adapts to desktop, tablet and phone screens.

The low end of the paytable is the standard run of card royals from 10 up to A. Above them sit shields, chariots and tigers, plus a female fighter holding a dagger. The emperor is the top payer: five of him along a payline return 16 times the stake.

What separates this slot from a plain five-reeler is the extra sixth reel standing beside the main set. It spins with every round and shows either a multiplier between 1x and 10x or a Super Wild symbol. When the multiplier lands, whatever it shows is applied to any win made on the main reels that spin. When the Super Wild lands, it starts a respin and five wilds are dropped onto random positions.

The gladiator wild has its own trick. If it lands on the middle row of a reel, it stretches to fill that whole reel. Five of these wilds appearing together with the 10x on the sixth reel produces the 4,000x stake maximum win.

Free spins come from the Colosseum symbol. It has to show on reels 1, 3 and 5 on the same spin, which awards 10 free spins. Further triggers during the round add more spins, and no cap on retriggers is set. The round plays just like the base game, with no additional modifiers layered over it, so the sixth reel and the expanding wild carry on as normal.

The RTP is 96.17%, and a second configuration at 94.07% also exists, so the figure depends on how an operator has set the game up. Volatility is low to medium, which points to fairly regular payouts of modest size, with the larger outcomes coming from a high multiplier meeting a full-reel wild.