LARO77 Wild symbol Explained — What a Wild Does and Does Not

Few casino pages explain Wild symbol, though nearly all of them use the term.

Wild symbol — Any symbol that can replace others in order to finish a winning combination.

What Wild symbol actually means

A wild takes the place of regular symbols, with sharp differences between games in the specifics, as some wilds bring a multiplier, others expand across a reel, others are sticky and remain across spins, and others appear only during a feature round. Which behaviour applies is stated in the paytable, since the same word in two games can mean completely different behaviour.

Using it in practice

Read what the wild does in the specific game before assuming, since it is a category rather than a fixed mechanic and, on several popular titles, the one feature that separates them from near-identical siblings.

Game pages across this site lean on Wild symbol constantly, and when a studio leaves the number behind it unpublished, the page states that plainly rather than borrowing a figure off a comparison site. Blank cells in several of the spec tables below come down to exactly this.

The common misreading

There is a common assumption that a wild substitutes for everything. Substituting for scatters or bonus symbols is generally something they do not do, and that is why a near-miss on a feature trigger remains a miss. If a grid shows a wild alongside two scatters, the count of scatters is two, not three.

A wild is its own thing, separate from a bonus symbol and from a scatter. Nor does it guarantee a win, since a wild on a reel with no matching symbols beside it completes nothing, the most common reason a spin that looked promising paid nothing.

A worked example

A win completed by a 2x wild pays double on such a title, but any win without the wild in it pays at the normal rate. A multiplier tied to the combination that the wild joined, rather than to the spin, is why that distinction matters in a paytable, and why two separate wins on the same spin both receive it only when the wild is in both.

Checking Wild symbol at LARO77

1. Open a game at LARO77 and find its info or help screen.
2. Once you reach Wild symbol in the spot named above, the definition earlier on is your guide to reading it.
3. Compare it with the same entry on another title before you pick one to play at LARO77.
4. Write your stake and your stop point down before the first round at LARO77.